Agora Deposit: G 5:3
Title:   "Bone Well"
Category:   Well
Description:   Second century B.C. fill with early 13th c. A.D. fill in mouth.
The Byzantine objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585.
Lower fill contained bones of many infants and dogs.
The bones from this well are all in very good condition. Mostly green coloured (bronze). A few fragments of pigs, goats and sheep are smashed and were probably eaten. The following animals have been found: dogs, horses, pigs, goats, cattle, cat, birds, turtles.
Lower fill contained bones of 100-200 infants and 85 dogs; Byzantine upper fill. Stamped amphora handles; Type 33A and 45C lamps. Most of figured bowls are of M Monogram Class. No long-petal bowls.
Contents:   Coins:
14 June 1937 #4
15 June 1937 #1
24 June 1938 #1-#2
Notes:   Well dug to -21.45m: June 17, 1938 (Nb. p. 1582); not finished.
Bibliography:   AgoraPicBk 28 (2022), p. 37, fig. 45.
    Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), pp. 1-157.
    Hesperia 83 (2014), pp. 190, 221, nn. 3, 54.
    Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 311.
    Hesperia 8 (1939), pp. 238-239.
    Agora XI, pp. 168-169.
    Agora XII, p. 390.
    Agora XXII, p. 100.
    Agora XXIX, p. 452.
    Agora XXXIII, p. 358.
Chronology:   Mid-2nd c. B.C.
Date:   14-23 June 1937
6-24 June 1938
Section:   ΛΛ
Grid:   ΛΛ:97/Γ
Elevation:   -21.45m.
Masl:   -21.45m.
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