Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C.
Chamber of water system with one blind tunnel and two cisterns connected by tunnel. Pottery consistent throughout, late Hellenistic. Late 2nd c. B.C.
Ten stamped amphora handles. Most of bowls long-petal ... 100-75 B.C.
Cistern chamber at 52/Θ (53/Θ). Part of the H-I 16-17 system.
Cf. S.E. Tunnel (container 147) and west and north passages (container 156).
Upper fill: (packing for LR mosaic floor)
Lower fill: Hellenistic ... Hellenistic-Late Roman