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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. |
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. |
| Tiled Well at S edge of E-W Road, 73/ΜΗ. Contemporary upper and lower fills separated by layer of sterile mud.
Latest coin dates ca. 200. Koan amphora handle with stamped handle dates slightly after 200 ... 210-160 |
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. |
| Moldmade Guttus Fragment ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black Glaze Guttus Fragment ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Moldmade Guttus Fragment ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black Glaze Pitcher Fragment with Strainer ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black Glaze Pitcher Fragment with Strainer ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
Water channel in north part of Section: Channel Mouth 4. Coins:
22 February 1936 #16-#18
24 February 1936 #1-#2
Twenty stamped amphora handles; type 38 lamp; type 56 A lamp; over half of bowls long-petal ... 120-86 B.C. |
Cistern system West of Bouleuterion: (see also B: cistern system to West of Tholos). First Chamber from North.
Part of three-chamber cistern system, including also G 11:1, with Byzantine and modern disturbance ... 150-ca. 75 B.C., with Byz. disturbance. |
Fillings to either side of the Great Drain, in the southern part of the area west of the Areopagus; various levels, late 6th. and early 5th c. B.C. to Sullan destruction. Coins:
26 July 1946 #1-#2
30 July ... Late 6th. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D. |
A well behind the Stoa of Zeus. Noted as the finding place of the bronze head of Nike, B 30.
Two Rhodian stamped amphora handles. Fragments of only two bowls ... 260-210 B.C. |
Sigillata; rilled-rim fragments; early Roman lamp fragments XXV; brown stucco; red and white ... 4th - 1st B.C. |
Part of mouth, strainer, and shoulder.
Broad mouth with low, incurved rim. Wide convex strainer with many holes. Trace of spout attached below bulge of rim. Dull black glaze, shiny inside ... Mid-3rd century? |
Over half of wall and most of mouth restored, including all of rim; end of spout missing.
Low, flaring foot; slightly beveled resting surface; convex underside.
Incurved rim. Convex strainer with eight ... 250-200 |
P 25440 a, b
Most of mouth and upper body, with spout and handle (a); nonjoining fragment of foot (b).
Two shallow glazed grooves on upper shoulder. Incurved rim; strainer with five holes around outside ... 200-175 |
Handle, rim, and end of spout missing.
Rounded resting surface, worn; convex underside. Two grooves on upper shoulder. Strainer with four holes around edge and one in center.
Shiny black glaze.
Body ... 200-175 |
Rim, end of spout, and chips of handle missing.
Rounded resting surface; pointed underside. Groove on shoulder.
Strainer with five holes around sides and one in center. Strap handle concave to outside ... 200-175? |
Spout, strainer, and part of mouth.
Two grooves on neck and two below lip. Sharply incurved rim, flat on top. Strainer with five holes around edge and one in center. Metallic black glaze.
Pattern of ... 175-150 |
Half of mouth, end of spout, and handle missing.
Heavy, widely flaring foot; curved resting surface; pointed underside.
Two grooves on upper body. Incurved rim nearly flat on top, with groove at edge ... 150-100 |
Lower body and strainer missing; one-third of upper body, part of rim, and spout restored.
Two grooves on shoulder. Flaring, straight-walled mouth with groove below lip on inside. Double-grooved strap ... 100-86 |
Three-fourths of foot, end of spout, and all of rim restored; one fragment of wall missing.
Foot curves out strongly, almost horizontal at bottom; curved resting surface; flat underside. Lower third of ... 100-86 |
Strainer and part of shoulder and lower neck.
Two ridges below neck. Flat strainer with four holes around sides and one in center. Moldmade body with imbricate small leaves or ferns.
Shiny brown glaze ... 100-86 |
Foot and part of lower body.
Low foot with two grooves on outer face; beveled resting surface, irregularly concave underside. Wheelmade lower body runs smoothly into moldmade upper body, with groove and ... 100-86 |
Non-joining fragment of foot preserved.
Ring foot; deep pear-shaped body; broad flaring bell mouth with inturned rim; strainer in throat; long tubular spout attached at top of wall; band handle on upper ... June 1955 |
Much of the upper part, except for chip of mouth, preserved; restored in plaster. Spherical body from which rises a high straight-sided flaring mouth. Breaks on inside show that originally there was a ... 9-12 February 1937 |
Parts of the lip and of the strainer are missing.
Heavy base ring; ovoid body drawn into a slender neck above. Bell-shaped mouth with inverted lip and strainer in the neck. A short spout projects, with ... 3 March 1934 |
| Restored in plaster.
High concave ring foot; squat body, upper part moulded with elongated round-ended leaves alternating with rows of jewels, upside down; narrow neck and wide flaring mouth; none of rim ... 14 June 1935 |
| Part of the shoulder and neck of a pitcher broken off above and below.
The neck is divided from the interior of the pitcher by a partition pierced by five holes, to serve as a strainer. Two moulded rings ... 1934 |
Mended from several fragments. A good part of body walls and rim missing. Body like that of small amphora with greatest diameter below center. Low ring base. Mouth closed by strainer (eight holes around ... 17 February 1932 |
| Base and part of lower wall of a closed pot with roughly moulded ring foot. The tips of moldmade long petals above with darts separating the tips, as if from a moldmade bowl mold used upside down. Lower ... 21-24 February 1936 |
Complete save for tip of spout and chips from foot, rim and handle. Small round hole in wall near spout. Ring foot and squat pear-shaped body; flaring round mouth with strainer in neck. Vertical band handle ... 22 May 1940 |
Handle, edges of rim, and tip of spout missing. Ring foot; squat body with narrow neck and flaring round mouth; strainer in mouth; vertical band handle missing at side.
Pinkish-buff clay; dull black ... 26 July 1946 |
| There remain parts of shoulder and mouth with sharply incurved rim, strap handle and spout. Throat pierced with six round holes.
Metallic black glaze much flaked. Stoa Shop XIV; south Stoa construction ... August 1952 |
Two joining fragments preserve about one-third of rim, bit of strainer and of side wall. Sharply inturned rim. Note edge of break for spout just below rim.
Pinkish-buff clay. Dull black glaze. South Terrace, ... 13 April 1953 |
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