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| In area West of the Areopagus. Fills with many figurines and molds, possibly from a terracotta factory.
Twelve stamped amphora handles; no long-petal bowls; Type 54 A lamp Coins:
31 May 1939 #11
1 June ... Mostly 200-150 B.C ... Had wrong grid of: ΝΝ:71-85/ΜΘ-ΞΑ |
| Pyre in House C, Room 8 (RSY=Pyre 6).
Near east corner of room 8. Artifacts, burnt bone, burnt sticks, and large cinders in a shallow pit dug into surface of layer 3, and covered by layer 2. Some cinders ... 350-325 B.C.-end of 4th c. B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:85/ΛΑ |
Cistern in Room 12, House C=House N.
Simple flask-shaped chamber with draw shaft, in House M, Room 1; no tunnels. Excavated as single fill, but later analysis of material suggested two fills. Coins:
24 ... 4th. c. B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:69/ΜΖ |
| Rubbish Pit . Pit cut through a house floor. In courtyard, beside door to room 3. Artifacts, bone and scattering of large cinders in roughly rectangular pit dug through floor bedding and covered by red, ... 325-300 B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:77/Μ |
| Cistern in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Simple, flask-shaped chamber withdraw-shaft; no tunnels. Mouth cut away in Byzantine times. Lower filling, 3rd c. B.C. Coins:
25 ... 25-30 April 1947 ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:77/ΝΔ |
Coins:
31 May 1947 #1-#4 ... Post-Herulean, end 3rd c ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:83/Ι |
"Oinophorus Well".Tiled well in House H (diameter 0.80m, water level -4.70m). Height of tiles 0.64m Heavy well deposit; lamps,, type XXVII; many basket-handled water jars; oinophoros with labors of Herakles ... Use filling of early 2nd-mid.-3rd c. A.D ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:83/Ι |
Coins:
29 May 1947 #1
30 May 1947 #7-#9
31 May 1947 #1-#8
2 June 1947 #1-#3 ... Early 2nd c.-mid-3rd c ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:83/Ι |
Rodney Young ... Grave. RSY Grave 50. Outside archaic cemetery on the lower slopes of the Hill of the Nymphs, cremation burial. Roughly square pit (0.80x1.00m). This pit contained a heavy deposit of cinders and ash; its ... Beginning of the last quarter of the 6th century ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:74/ΝΗ |
Pit in House N, Room 2 (RSY, House C). Filling thrown in behind the west wall of the Great Drain South at the time of the building of the drain and the extension of House C.
Cf. Hesperia 20 (1951), pp ... Ca. 430-410 B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:73/ΛΒ-ΛΓ |
Small pit in bedrock; nothing later than 3rd qtr. 4th. c. B.C ... 3rd quarter 4th c. B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:70-73/ΚΑ-ΚΒ |
Nb page 5044: Great shapeless pit with a well (62/Ξ) at its bottom which we were unable to dig because it was too dangerous. Fill in the pit was of sand and white ash. The finds and pottery 4th. and perhaps ... Late 4th.-early 3rd. c ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:61-63/ΝΘ-Ξ |
RSY Grave 49. Outside Archaic Cemetery ... 550-525 B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:82/ΚΔ-ΚΕ |
| Mycenaean tomb: Myc. III A:1-2.
SAI
Small rectangular chamber, 2.30m wide by 1.80m deep,, entered from the east through a dromos 1.10m wide which contracted to a doorway 0.92m. wide. the doorway preserved ... 2nd half of 14th c ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:69-71/Ν-ΝΒ |
Diameter 0.80m. Water level -2m. Tiled well; height of tiles 0.67m. well in court (Room 3) of House N.
Late Hellenistic destruction fill (Pergamene etc) to -7m;
Sand without a well deposit (lamp Type ... 1st c. B.C. to 1st c. A.D ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:79/Μ |
| A well on the lower slope of the Hill of the Nymphs, (diam. 1.20m -water level -7m), to 7.90m. The scanty use filling at the bottom contained water jars and pitchers as well as the inventoried objects; ... Second quarter of 6th. c. B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:57-58/ΞΗ-ΞΘ |
Tiled well (diam. 0.78m); height of tiles 0.61m. Water level -5m. Well found at bottom of Byzantine pit, uppermost tiles cut down. Coins:
7 July 1947 #1-#2 ... Post-Herulian ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:74/ΜΕ |
Ca. 73-81/Drain. Fillings associated with the construction of the Great Drain South, especially the fill thrown in behind the east wall of the drain at the time of its building.
Cf. A 20-21:1 and B 19:7 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:73-81/ΚΗ-Λ |
Tiled well (diameter 0.78, water level -3.50m) at 65/Κ (64/Κ) with poros wellhead. Built as early as 2nd c. Post-Herulian filling.
Tiled well, tiles 0.60m high ... 4th-5th c. A.D ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:65/Κ ... ΝΝ:64/Κ |
Diameter 0.83m. Water level -4.20m. Tiled well; height of tiles 0.60m. Heavy deposit of pottery throughout; stamped amphora handles, five Knidian; one Rhodian; one Parian. Semi-coarse stamnos; funnel-mouthed ... Ca. 120 B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:65/ΜΓ |
Byzantine pottery begins after 4.70m.; above that Roman.
Diameter 0.92m; water level -5m. Tiled well; height of tiles 0.62m ... Byzantine re-use of Roman well ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:61/ΚΓ |
First half of 5th c. B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:55/ΚΔ |
Near the Poros Enclosure. Diameter 0.76m. water level -1.20m. Plain shaft sunk in the stereo ... 14-22 July 1947 ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:46/ΚΕ |
Tiled basin at ΚΗ (66-67/ΚΖ). Finds grouped with and published with C 19:5. Asterisk: C 19:16* ... 22 July 1947 ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:66-67/ΚΖ |
| A well in the industrial area of the Areopagus, about 7.00m. west of the West Bath, to a depth of 14.60m. This well was the direct successor to A 17:1, replacing it when it collapsed. The use filling at ... Second quarter 6th. c ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:59-60/ΞΑ-ΞΒ |
A well in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, in part beneath one corner of the northwest room of the West Bath. A waterless shaft (diameter 1.05m) refilled with dug bedrock containing no pottery ... Early 6th. c ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:56/ΝΒ |
SS 10172 from fill behind well tiles (second half 4th. c. B.C.)=subdivision .2 ... 3rd c. B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:72/ΙΑ |
Great Drain South (ca. 70-113, from SW edge of section as far north as the Roman Bath) Hellenistic Sand Fill. Silted-up filling of the southern branch of the Great Drain, abandoned due to some damage at ... 4th. c.-86 B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:70/Λ-ΛΑ |
Debris filling in a pit cut in bedrock at W side of House H, Room 10 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... ΝΝ |
Dug bedrock filling in a well of unusually large diameter (1.35m.), possibly the original source of water for a factory for making terracotta figurines (water for the workshop with waterproofed floor and ... 4th. c. B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:76/ΚΕ |
Fillings in a stone-curbed well in the industrial area west of the Areopagus. Diameter (shaft)1.45m. Water level -5.20m. Drain at mouth 0.58m., increasing to a regular 74m. Coin:
24 July 1947 #5 Subdivisions: ... 350-325 B.C./3rd c. B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:61/ΜΗ |
Great Drain north end, filling under tiles (55-58).
Only the finds from 55-58/* are recorded here (as found in the notebooks) although the deposit notebook shows additional finds from the entire sand fill ... 3rd-2nd c. B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:55-58/Λ-ΛΑ |
RSY Grave A.
Under the Roman House with three rooms floored with mosaic near the southwest side of the area. The burial consisted of a pot laid on its side over the bedrock, presumably containing a child ... 7 August 1947 ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:86/ΛΘ |
Well (diameter 0.91m, water level -7m) in House H, Room 10 (and pit over). Plain shaft cut in stereo; pit at mouth of well,reused as drainage pit at start of tile drain running west.
Scanty use filling ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:72/ΙΑ |
Includes fill behind well tiles ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:72/ΙΑ |
Coins:
30 July 1947 #3-#11
31 July 1947 #4-#19
1 August 1947 #1-#9
4 August 1947 #1-#20
5 August 1947 #3-#20
6 August 1947 #1-#38
7 August 1947 #1-#21
8 August 1947 #1-#41
9 August 1947 #3-#6
57-59/*
66-67/* ... 28-31 July 1947
6-9 August 1947 ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:68-70/Λ-ΛΑ ... ΝΝ:67-68/Λ-ΛΑ |
Pit in floor of House S ... Geometric to mid-5th c ... ΝΝ |
Great Drain sand fill under Roman bath including small area at north end under tiles that was excavated separately.
See also A-B 19-20:1 for additional Great Drain sand fill at ca. 70-113/* Subdivisions: ... 30 July-11 August 1947 ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:68-70/Λ-ΛΑ |
Well at 63/ΙΒ (in House H, Room 15). Upper fill mixed Hellenistic to 2nd c. or later. Probably thrown in in Early Roman times when House H was built. Contained many figurines; probably part of Koukla factory ... 12 August 1947 ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:63/ΙΒ |
| RSY Grave 51.
The grave lay on the slope of the Areopagus in Roman house O, just east of the line where the hillside is scarped for the foundation of the west wall of the house.
Cutting:the pit cut in ... Archaic period/6th or 7th c ... ΝΝ ... ΝΝ:63/ΙΣΤ |
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