Title: | Drawshaft, "Kybele Cistern" | |
Category: | Cistern | |
Description: | 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 off the course of the passage to the east and opening into it. A revised list of assigned objects prepared by GRE is followed here to sort objects found in the cistern system 88/ΛΔ - 95/ΚΘ - 100/ΚΘ. Cf. E 14:1 and E 15:3. Objects either from 95/ΚΘ (middle fill) or 88/ΛΔ (lower Hellenistic fill), but uncertain which (they are in the finds lists of both but not assigned to subdivisions PAF) are the following: P 5655, P 5656, P 5657, P 5659, BI 154, S 574, L 1788, IL 193, SS 4091. Only middle fill contained moldmade relief bowls. Twenty stamped amphora handles. Over two-thirds of bowls long-petal. | |
Contents: | Coins: 10 May 1935 #1-#10 11 May 1935 #1-#10 (-1.10-2.00) 13 May 1935 #1-#11 (-2.00-2.80) 14 May 1935 #1-#16 (2.80-3.50) 15 May 1935 #1-#8 (to 4.10) 16 May 1935 #1-#3 (passage) 17 May 1935 #30-#32 (passage) 18 May 1935 #1-#2 (passage-probably fill of 100/ΚΘ-p.1635) 22 May 1935 #1-#3 23 May 1935 #11-#12 | |
Notes: | Subdivisions: .1=Upper fill .2=Middle fill .3=Lower fill, POU | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 100, n. 116. | |
Hesperia 35 (1966), pp. 252-259. | ||
Delos XXVII, p. 335 (under no. E 103), 381. | ||
Agora IV, p. 237. | ||
Agora X, p. 67. | ||
Agora XXI, p. 97. | ||
Agora XXII, p. 99. | ||
Agora XXIX, p. 446. | ||
Agora XXVI, pp. 306-307. | ||
Agora XXXII, p. 297. | ||
Agora XXXIII, pp. 352-353. | ||
Agora XXXIV, p. 181. | ||
Chronology: | 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 | |
Date: | 9-22 May 1935 1 June 1935 | |
Section: | Γ | |
Grid: | Γ:95/ΚΘ | |
Elevation: | -4.8m. | |
Masl: | -4.8m. | |
References: | Publications (11) Publication Pages (78) Objects (137) Coins (18) Deposit: E 14:3.1 Deposit: E 14:3.2 Deposit: E 14:3.3 |