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[Agora Deposit] A 16:1: Bronze Casting Pit and Workshop

Debris filling in a bronze casting pit and workshop, characterized by mold fragments but including also a few plain vases and fragments of wine jars. Third quarter of 4th. c. BC. The pit was cut into the ... Ca. 350-325 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] A 17:1: Well on Lower Slope of Hill of the Nymphs

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.

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[Agora Deposit] A 17:2: Well in Industrial Area of Areopagus

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.

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[Agora Deposit] A 17:3: Pit

Pit, partly cleared; dumped filling of first half of 3rd. c. B.C., but with considerable material of the 4th. c. Hellenistic. Its rotten schist walls collapsed some time near then and it was filled up ... 4th-3rd c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] A 18:3: Sacrificial Pyre in NN

Sacrificial pyre, disturbed; a small pyxis (P 14864) is close to that from B 18:4. First half of 4th. c. B.C., perhaps first quarter. West of House C. Pottery and cinders in pit in stratum. The pyre was ... First half 4th. c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] A 18-19:1: Ostrakon Area

Pit (6x10) in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Large cutting in bedrock with 540 ostraka, mainly of the late eighties of the 5th. c. B. C. Much pottery, principally of the early ... Ca. 500-450 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] A 19:1: Sacrificial Pyre in House N

Pyre(?) in House N, S.W. Room. (=House C, Room 10) In room 10. Vessels from an earlier pyre were found dispersed in the makeup of the latest "floor" in the room, with tile fragments trodden into its surface ... First quarter of the 4th c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] A 19:5: Pit

Pits in area 96-100/ΝΕ-ΝΘ (lower east slopes of Hill of the Nymphs, near extreme west edge of excavated area). Scanty debris filling in a pit. Many fills in areas A 19 and A 20 similar in character to ... 325-300 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] A 19:6: Pit

Pits in area 96-100/ΝΕ-ΝΘ (lower east slopes of Hill of the Nymphs, near extreme west edge of excavated area). Shallow pit in bedrock against N. face of wall. dMax. depth 0.20m.d. Many fills in areas ... Ca. 325-300 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] A 20:3: Pyre

(RSY=Pyre 2). Pyre in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, in House B. In northern corner of room. No pit discerned. A deposit of small stones (a marker/) lay 0.30m above the level of the pyre, ... Third quarter of the 4th. century.

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[Agora Deposit] A 20:4: Pyre

A compact group of four complete vases and a lamp, found on a house floor; possibly the remains of a sacrificial pyre but without evidence of burning or the characteristic votive vases. Layer II, "nest ... 425-400 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] A 20:6: House fillings

Fills from construction and reconstruction of a house. "Brown House" = House A (RSY Hesp. 20) (and pit under Layer 4) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus. Under the original floor of this house ... Second half of the 5th. c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] A 20:7: Refuse Pit

Scanty debris filling in a pit. The wishbone-handled bowl (P 16753) is of the middle of the third quarter of the 5th. c. century, as are also two red figured fragments, P 25820 and P 25821; the deposit ... Ca. 450-400 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] A 20:9: Fillings

"South Triangle" abandonment filling over Brown House (House A) in the industrial area. Layers 1-3 and layer 4, to floor of second period. As late as the 3rd. c. B.C. but composed largely of earlier material ... 3rd c. B.C. and earlier

[Agora Deposit] C 19:5: House R Fillings

House R, fill under drain tiles and fillings associated with house K in industrial area, including what was C 19:15, plus C 19:16 and C 19:17. a) House built as dwelling in second half of 5th.c. b) Used ... Ca. 5th and 4th c. B.C.