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| Located at the bifurcation of the Panathenaic Way and West Road.Byzantine fill (9th-10th century) in upper 5.70m. with a series of Classical to Hellenistic accumulations below. Coins:
10 July 1971 #861 ... 14 June-27 July 1971 |
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. |
Flask-shaped cistern (1959) (Cistern under Room 4 in NE corner of Section). Upper filling soft silt with a little pottery. Lower filling hard silt, almost no pottery.
1.35m in diameter at the floor with ... End of the 4th c. B.C. |
Cistern (diameter 0.90m) with two channels; the fill of the cistern proper, below the scant upper (Byzantine) deposit, appears to have been dumped all at the same time, to 325-275 B.C. Notebook says "all ... 325-275 B.C. |
Well associated with the Tholos, with scanty use fill but primarily dumped filling. Coins:
5 April 1934 #1-#4
10 April 1934 #1-#2
11 April 1934 #1
12 April 1934 #1
18 April 1934 #1-#2
19 April 1934 #1-#5 ... Ca. 350-294 B.C. |
Associated with the Tholos.
Originally a well but after it had been in use for a short time the shaft was partially filled in and the upper part widened to form a large cistern.
The pottery falls into ... 335-250 B.C. |
| Pyre in House N, room 2, layer 5 (RSY=Pyre 8).
Near northern corner of room 6. Artifacts, bone, burnt logs, and cinders in square pit dug from level of layer 5, through layers 5 and 6; thin clay floor ... 325-300 B.C. |
| Burned deposit: Middle Terrace, south of Archaic cemetery.
RSY: Pyre 10.
Pottery, burnt bone, charred logs, and heavy burning, recovered by tunneling under the cement floor of a Late Hellenistic workshop, ... Ca. 325-300 B.C. |
No independently datable objects. Coins:
17 February 1932 #29
18 February 1932 #4 ... 325-300 B.C. |
| Fragments missing from lip, wall and one handle. Strap handles with ivy leaves. Wreath in thinned clay around upper wall.
Black glaze fired red around lower wall and base outside and over lower wall inside ... 10 August 1959 |
Mended and restored. Moulded foot, scraped groove on resting surface. Plain rim. Ivy leaf-shaped thumb-rests on handles.
Brown clay. Dull black glaze, partly reddish-brown. Well. 1339 Leica PD 2610-11 ... 5 July 1971 |
Mended. Double rope handles knotted near rim with shouldering. Moulded foot, scraped groove in resting surface. Plain rim.
Dull black glaze, partly fired reddish-brown, peeling. Pink clay. Well. 1337 ... 3 July 1971 |
Mended. Part of wall and one handle missing. Moulded foot, scraped groove at junction of mouldings. Concave underneath. Lower wall ribbed. Tall neck. Plain rim. Handles have knot for thumb-rest.
Buff ... 3 July 1971 |
| Missing are handles and much of rim. Moulded high foot, with scraped groove on resting surface and at junction of mouldings. Plain rim with garland of leaves on thinned clay on upper wall.
Black to red ... 5 July 1971 |
One handle and about half of body missing. Restored in plaster. A squat kantharos with short thick stem, concave underneath. Vertical handles, double, with a lug on either side at point of attachment to ... 4 May 1934 |
Part of base broken away; minor fractures; otherwise intact. Vertical flutings on lower half of body. Flat topped, spurred handles. Stocky conical foot.
Unevenly fired, red through brown to black, the ... 11 May 1934 |
| Parts of rim with one handle and part of foot broken away. Profiled foot (0.018 high); flaring rim; from just below its edge to the widest part of the swelling body below, vertical ribbon handles, with ... 16 February 1932 |
Wall fragment, broken all around. Above a band of two ridges separated by a grooves, incised verticals (pseudo-ribbing), to the left of which a black zone (under handle?) with incised X.
Clay pink-buff ... 13 September 1954 |
| Foot and one-fourth of lower body preserved. Moulded foot with grooved resting surface. Two scraped grooves on body with vertical gouged decoration under glaze above. Shiny mottled brown to orange glaze, ... May-June 1954 |
| The base and small fragments from the body missing. Rounded lower wall; upper wall straight, with plain rim, outcurved. Double rolled vertical handles, each with a reefknot near the top, and shouldering ... 22 May 1940 |
A single fragment preserves a handle and the immediately adjacent parts of rim and body. Double vertical handle with reef-knot tied in its upper part. Upper part of body concave; lower part ribbed vertically ... 17-20 May 1939 |
| About half of rim and upper wall, and fragments of lower wall and parts of handles missing. Restored in plaster. Concave upper wall, inset; medium high stem; inverted echinus foot, grooved on the resting ... 7-8 April 1948 |
| Mended from many pieces; fragment missing from one side and chips. Moulded ring base; rounded lower body; nearly vertical upper wall, turning out slightly to form a plain rim. Doubled rolled vertical handles, ... 19 September 1947 |
| Rotroff, S ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The second of two volumes on the Hellenistic fine ware unearthed in excavations in the Athenian Agora, this book presents the Hellenistic wheelmade table ware and votive vessels found between 1931 and ... 1997 |
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