Agora Deposit: M 18:8
Title:   Well
Category:   Well
Description:   Well at 73/Μ on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter of 0.90m. It seems to have been abandoned because of the very soft stereo that kept falling in from all sides.
Contents:   Many pieces of terracotta doves. Handmade birds with outstretched neck and wings ranging in length from 0.056 to 0.046m. each is pierced with a hole through which a string for suspension must have passed.
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), p. 21, n. 30.
    Hesperia 18 (1949), p. 344, no. 156.
    Agora IV, p. 242.
    Agora XII, p. 395.
    Agora XXIII, p. 334.
    Agora XXX, p. 365.
Chronology:   Ca. 430-420 B.C.
Date:   March-April 1937
Section:   Χ
Grid:   Χ:73/Μ
Elevation:   -18.1m.
Masl:   -18.1m.
References:   Publications (6)
Publication Pages (17)
Report: 1946 Χ
Report: 1937 Χ
Report Page: 1937 Χ, s. 3
Report Page: 1946 Χ, s. 2
Objects (18)
Lot: Χ 77
Lot: Χ 78
Notebooks (7)
Notebook Pages (51)