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Middle Stoa Building Fill (with filling to S) (See also Κ: H-I-J 14-15 and Λ: K-M 13-14)
This deposit is not definitive and must be considered with the above deposits before details are entered into database; ... To ca. 180 B.C. |
Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
Dump, Sullen clean-up. Coins:
9 February 1937 #6-#10
10 February 1937 #11-#13
11 February 1937 #16-#20 ... First quarter 1st c. B.C. |
Dumped fillings thrown in during second quarter of 1st c. B.C. containing mostly debris resulting from Sulla's sack in 86 B.C.
Agora XXIX, p. 464: Four fills distinguished during excavations ... but seemingly ... Late 2nd c. and early 1st c. B.C. POU; 110-75 B.C. |
| Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter at bottom -3.20m Upper fill: Latest coins ... Second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. |
Cistern with considerable dumped fill at the north foot of Kolonos Agoraios. It may have been abandoned ca. 295-295 B.C.; it will have been filled by 280 B.C.
Multiple vessels share same stamps, and painted ... Ca. 325-250 B.C. |
Cistern-shaft at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just ... Upper fill, Late Roman with some Hellenistic.
Middle fill, Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C.
Lower fill, 4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment |
Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C. |
| Komos Cistern at 66/Κ, on the north slope of the Areopagus. Homogeneous fill.
Thirty-four stamped amphora handles. Eight Histiaian tetrobols, dating 170-160 at the earliest, found near top, possibly an ... Last quarter of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd century B.C. |
Baskets 1-21 (containers 1-20). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from level .1, are from depths within the .2 range:
MC 318, MC 433-MC 437, T 1309, T 1394, T 1396, IL ... 110 to early 1st c. A.D. |
Stoa Construction Fills (n.b. for all Stoa and pre-Stoa fills later than construction filling of Square Peristyle see P-R 6-12)
Over 100 stamped amphora handles in fill. No long-petal bowls, but one fragment ... Before ca. 150 B.C. |
| Pyxis Lids: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
Cistern at 65/ΚΗ (and Channel). Cistern in the northwest room of the annex to the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Part of the same system as D 17:4 and D 17:5, the chambers connected by long tunnels ... 300-250 B.C. |
Cistern System #3: West Chamber at 69/ΛΣΤ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/Λ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos. Upper fill of early 1st ... 175-125 B.C. |
Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.
Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C.
Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D. |
Cumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C. |
Evidence of stratification into five layers, although joins between the layers. Layer VI added when the construction of the Roman building above required it. No subdivisions assigned.
Flask-shaped cistern ... Early 3rd-late 2nd c. B.C. |
A cistern leading to the east of the road leading from the southwest corner of the market square. Filled all at one time, last quarter of 2nd. c. B.C. (nbp. 493).
Included are the Hellenistic finds from ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
Unfinished well, all one fill; solid bedrock at a depth of -2.47m.
It contained masses of broken rooftiles and probably was used as a refuse pit after the sack of Athens by Sulla.
Twenty-three stamped ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
P 8585 a
One-third of wall and rim missing.
Flaring foot; flat resting surface; pointed underside. Angular body.
Metallic brown glaze, mostly missing on outside.
Found with 1305, but the two are not ... 115-86 |
P 8585 b
Three-fourths of rim and lower wall missing.
Slightly incurved rim. Straight wall with groove at bottom and top.
Flaring knob, concave with ridge and nipple on top. Knob: white cross. Wall: ... 115-86 |
| a) A small deep bowl on a ring foot; the flanged inside to take a lid. About one-third of the wall missing. Thin black to brown glaze considerably worn.
b) A small lid, with moulded knob handle and down-turned ... 8 June 1936 |
Profiles (a-q) of Hellenistic and Roman vases for G.R. Edwards article ... Aliki Halepa-Bikaki ... 1956 |
Hellenistic pottery: profiles, wash drawings, etc ... Marian Welker ... Made for G.R. Edwards' publication ... 1956 |
Hellenistic pottery: profiles, wash drawings, etc ... Marian Welker ... Made for G.R. Edwards' publication ... 1956 |
Profiles of Roman pottery ... Aliki Halepa-Bikaki |
Profiles of Roman pottery ... Aliki Halepa-Bikaki |
Profiles of Roman pottery ... Aliki Halepa-Bikaki |
Accumulated fillings in a system of underground drains at west end of section ΔΔ with northward continuation into and across Section Υ.
The filling in the "underground passages" in section ΔΔ appears to ... 3rd c. B.C.
2nd c A.D. |
Hellenistic Fill at 70/ΛΣΤ.
Fill in irregular hollow. Pottery resembles Sullan debris, but lack of late duoviri handles suggests deposit slightly predates the sack. Coins
6 March 1937 #1-#4 ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
Tomb at 53-54/ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ-ΛΗ (Late Roman), on the lower north slope of the Areopagus Nb. says ΛΕ-ΛΗ. Deposit list and deposit DB say: ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ ... 350-400 A.D. |
Chamber of water system with one blind tunnel and two cisterns connected by tunnel. Pottery consistent throughout, late Hellenistic. Late 2nd c. B.C.
Ten stamped amphora handles. Most of bowls long-petal ... 100-75 B.C. |
South Stoa II Construction Fill.
About 85 stamped amphora handles, many with parallels in building fills of Middle Stoa and Stoa of Attalos. Fragments of long-petal bowls confirm date after mid-2nd c ... To ca. 140 B.C. |
Baskets 22-53 (containers 21-47). Abandonment of cistern. Includes finds from NW channel leading out of 84/ΝΣΤ (containers 50-51). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from ... 125-86 B.C. |
At 67/ΙΗ, at the northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Cistern with drawshaft, 4.60m deep. The drawshaft had been cleared to bottom in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, and some of the fill in the main ... Most second half of 3rd c. B.C. |
Cistern with two tunnels, the one entering its neck cut off by an early Roman well, the other, at the bottom not excavated.
Chamber conical in shape, with a depressed draw basin in the center of the floor ... Early Roman-3rd c. B.C. |
'Lower fill' on deposit list. Containers 8-33, (34 mouth of lower passage). Coins:
9 May 1939 #1-#3, #5, #7, #9
10 May 1939 #1
11 May 1939 #1-#2
12 May 1939 #1-#2
13 May 1939 #2-#3(?)
15 May 1939 #1-#6 ... Ca. 250-215 B.C. |
| Phaidon Street Cistern: North Chamber
Sullan destruction debris. One of two chambers connected by tunnel.
Two latest coins date to 87/86. Gray ware lamp of first quarter of 1st c. A.D. indicates disturbance ... 2nd c. B.C. |
Cistern at 72/ΛΘ. Under NW corner of Roman House H. Stucco-lined, bottle-shaped cistern, poor condition. Diameter at bottom -2m.
Two tunnels, one leading east, one west, ca. 1.65m high and 0.80m across ... 150-110 B.C. with a few earlier pieces |
Cistern at 53/ΝΕ, bottle-shaped, stucco-lined, in the east aisle of the peristyle of Roman House H (courtyard of Greek House G, just west of andron).
Lower diameter 2.73m.
Homogenous fill all apparently ... Into early 2nd century B.C. |
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