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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. |
| 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. |
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. |
| Black Glaze Plate with Rouletting ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black Glaze Plate with Rouletting ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black Glaze Plate ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Plate ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
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. |
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. |
| Pithos ay the bottom of the north slope of the Areopagus with single fill; Part of Hellenistic Group D.
One stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 146. Latest coin dates in first two decades of 2nd ... 160-130 B.C. |
| Hellenistic pots ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Hellenistic pots ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
About one-third of rim and part of floor restored.
Foot has square profile; faint groove in resting surface; pointed underside. Offset of rim very pronounced on inside and outside; rim deeply concave ... Ca. 150 |
Half of foot and small section of rim and wall preserved.
Flaring foot; grooved resting surface. Angle in inner face of foot.
Rim double curved, with slightly raised lip. Rouletting. Shiny black glaze, ... 140-110 |
Half of rim and part of wall restored.
Flaring foot; beveled resting surface; irregular, nearly flat underside. Rim strongly offset on inside but not on outside; nearly flat, with plain lip. Rouletting ... 140-110 |
Half of foot and one-fourth of wall and rim preserved.
Flaring foot with angle at top; lightly grooved resting surface; convex underside. Rim weakly offset, concave on top, with plain lip.
Rouletting ... 140-110 |
Half of rim and parts of floor restored.
Foot with square profile; grooved resting surface; flat underside. Rim not strongly offset, concave on top with slightly raised lip. Rouletting.
Metallic black ... 110-86 |
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