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| A well in the courtyard (Room 8) of a Byzantine House of Period II. The well was covered by a large squared poros wellhead and a marble puteal (apparently neither inventoried). Within the well shaft, the ... 14 July-9 August 1989
2-13 July 1990 ... J/3-3/3,4 |
Deposit in a cutting in bedrock on Kolonos Agoraios. Sherds in container Lot ΠΘ 4a ... Probably 4th c. B.C ... Probably 4th c. B.C. |
Figurine Deposit in Roman Building 4, Room 20, strosis 1. Coins:
13 April 1937 #1 ... To 4th c. A.D ... To 4th c. A.D. |
| Shallow pit in bedrock on the upper terrace, ca. 3m. southeast of the Rocky Outcrop. Uncatalogued material: 46 sherds, 61 terracotta figurines and 4 objects.
Early ware : Neolithic; Gray Minyan; Mycenaean; ... Archaic with intrusions ... T 20:4 ... T 20:4 |
Kernos Deposit (?): below floor of Building A, over and in cutting at 33/ΚΗ P 30162-P 30172 added on 4 May 1973 ... 4th c. B.C ... P 30162-P 30172 added on 4 May 1973. |
Well in north aisle of Stoa. Almost empty, either not used very long or well cleaned out. It contained plaster, roof tiles, pebble mosaic. The little pottery may be Hellenistic. No finds recorded ... 26-29 July 1972 ... H 4:4 ... H 4:4 |
Primarily late Roman material but some scrappy early Roman. Coins:
5 March 1934 #1-#4
6 March 1934 #1-#3
7 March 1934 #1-#2
8 March 1934 #1-#4
9 March 1934 #1-#4
10 March 1934 #1 ... Ca. A.D. 350 dumped fill ... Coins:
5 March 1934 #1-#4
6 March 1934 #1-#3
7 ... #1-#4
9 March 1934 #1-#4
10 |
Now G 13:9. Asterisk: G 14:4* ... G 14:4 ... G 14:4 |
(see T-U 19:1) Asterisk: T 19:4* ... T 19:4 ... T 19:4 |
Cancelled; see K-L 18-20:1. Asterisk: K 18:4* ... K 18:4 ... K 18:4 |
Well 1: 5th c.
Shallow irregular shaft, probably originally dug in the Neolithic or the Middle Helladic period,but cleaned out and refilled with a filling composed of loosely thrown in dug bedrock and ... 5th c. B.C ... -4.8m. |
| Disturbed Mycenaean chamber tomb.
It was the first Mycenaean burial found in the Agora. It is situated about 20m due south of Tomb VII, only a few meters beyond the south edge of the Augustan foundation ... Myc. IIIA (1st half of 14th c.) ... J 8:4 ... J 8:4 |
Lower filling mostly of second half of 4th c. B. C. and earlier, but perhaps dumped in 3rd c. B.C. Upper filling mixed to Roman (4th c. A.D.). Pottery in container (9-22-58) is mostly second half of 4th ... Ca. 375-325 B.C. with late-3rd-century disturbance ... D 15:4 ... D 15:4 |
| The pit consists of an unlined, circular shaft measuring 1.10m. in diameter and at least 2.23m. in depth. The sides of the shaft have roughly cut hand-/foot-holds at irregular intervals and locations ... Late Roman to end of 4th c. A.D ... Late Roman to end of 4th c. A.D. |
Well V: Late Neolithic, West of Klepsydra.
Diameter at 2.00 (when first preserved), bottom ca. 0.75m. Water level ca -4.00m ... Late Neolithic ... S 27:4 ... S 27:4 |
Well at 21/Ε (beneath Library of Pantainos).
The clearing of the well was abandoned because of a cave-in of the rock walls. Heavy dumped filling, the proportion of fine black table ware high ... Ca. 440-425 B.C ... Hesperia 4 (1935), pp. 477-523. |
Practically at surface. 17 Byzantine coins stuck together. One group of 11, one of 3, and 3 loose. Coins:
29 March 1934 #1-#17 Deposit created 4 October 2001 ... Byzantine ... Deposit created 4 October 2001. |
Appears to be use filling from 3rd c. A.D., pre-Herulian into 4th c. or later. Lined with tiles. Coins:
6 May 1937 #1-#2 (disintegrated) ... Early 3rd-early 6th c ... Appears to be use filling from 3rd c. A.D., pre-Herulian into 4th c. or later. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 4 in notebook. Amphora, no other pots but carbonized remains of food offerings. Over urn two stone slabs, on top, mass of small stones containing Late Geometric sherd ... Late Geometric ... Grave 4 in notebook. Amphora, no other pots but carbonized remains of food |
| Pyre 1 in Central House, Room XI, strosis 3. Sacrificial pyre with characteristic small vases amid carbonized twigs and bone.
Near north side of courtyard. This pit was cut slightly into strosis 3 (lot ... 1st quarter 4th c. B.C ... the 4th c., so it could be |
Well at 72/ΟΔ.
Partially excavated to depth of 8m. Turkish fill in upper 3m. Hellenistic fill mostly of roof tiles and coarse pottery. Coin
12 February 1937 #4 (disintegrated) ... 3rd c. B.C ... M 20:4 ... M 20:4 |
Cistern System #1d: Manhole at 24/ΝΘ. Coins:
29 February 1936 #3
2 March 1936 #1 ... Byzantine with 4th c. to Hellenistic ... C 8:4 ... C 8:4 |
| "Koumanoudes' Well.
Tile-lined well (diam. 0.85m) at SE corner of courtyard of Roman House E, at top built wall of stones and mortar, bedrock at bottom. Coin
7 August 1971 #495-#500
13 August 1971 #507 ... 28 July-6 August 1971 ... Q 6:4 ... Q 6:4 |
Mycenaean Chamber Tomb W. of Circular Building (at Σ:30/ΛΕ?)
It had been badly disturbed by a fourth-century B.C. pit which cut into the northeast part of the chamber (rectangular, ca. 1.80m by 1.30m) ... Myc. III A 2 ... O 8:4 ... O 8:4 |
Coins:
20 February 1932 #1-#2 ... 4th c., with Roman intrusion ... 4th c., with Roman intrusion |
The deposit notebook lists S 1439 here, but the following information on that card indicates that D 18:4 could be considered with D 18:3 and not as a separate deposit.
"Excavation of pit, which partly ... card indicates that D 18:4 ... Poros Building. 4th. century |
| Well in Room 7 of Roman House H, partially covered by caldarium of added bath complex (Room 6). Stone well-head; 0.85m in diameter. Stpped because of danger of collapse. Cut through bedrock, water from ... 6th c. A.D ... Q 21:4 ... Q 21:4 |
This is associated with Building A. It had a circular marble well-head with a rectangular well slab beneath. The construction throughout was of well tiles. It produced little to a depth of -8.60m. Between ... 4th c. A.D ... 4th c. A.D. |
Filling over drain from East Room of Archaic Fountain House. Lot T 16, fill e.
Τ 1567 (SS 11587) and Τ 1734 (P 22538) from upper disturbed fill (p. 2448) ... Late 5th. into 4th c. B.C ... Late 5th. into 4th c. B.C. |
"Deep Pit" at 8/ΜΗ ... 6th-4th centuries B.C ... 6th-4th centuries B.C. |
Well in the bottom of chamber cistern at 106/ΛΓ, stratified. A soft spot in the bedrock at the west side of the well caved in and was packed with typical coarse Roman first century amphoras; the well was ... A.D. 200-150 ... 1937 #2
4 June 1937 #5-#9 ... Subdivisions:
.1=Fill in mouth
.2=10.00-13.00m.
.3=13.00-16.00m.
.4=16.00m.-bottom |
A well, apparently unfinished, with footholds in east and west sides ... 2nd c. A.D ... -4.5m. |
POU = 10.00-11.30m.
"The well is important because it gives us a terminus post quem for Building D." (nbp. 3346)
Shallow well, producing little water or trouble, but a great quantity of coarse late Roman ... Ca. A.D. 300-370 and Ca. A.D. 400 ... Coins:
19 May 1937 #11-#12
20 May 1937 #1
21 May 1937 #1-4
27 May 1937 #1
28 |
| Pithos ay the bottom of the north slope of the Areopagus with single fill; Part of Hellenistic Group D.
One stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 146. Latest coin dates in first two decades of 2nd ... 160-130 B.C ... #4 |
Stroses I, II, III, IV in Court J (below marble chip layer), House of Greek Mosaic.
No independently datable objects. Estimated Grid ... Early 3rd c. B.C ... G/13,14-29/4,5 |
Tiled well, ca. 30m south of the Tholos. Associated with Building D. Hellenistic Group A with Late Roman fill in upper 3.00m. Objects A 245 and P 4597 are from fill on floor around well-head, contemporary ... 325-260 B.C ... -4.45m. |
Well by Stoa Pier 8.
Mouth of well discovered in 1950 (p. 2287).
Dumped filling in the 4th c. B.C. but the bulk of the material of the 5th c. B.C. Fill contained much wood, bones, Mycenaean, Geometric, ... 5th c. B.C ... Q 10:4 ... Q 10:4 |
| Crevice in Rock (Grave?) at 70/ΝΣΤ (below modern surface accumulation).
Identified as a sacrificial pyre, with characteristic banded plates and saucers, by SIR ... 4th c. B.C./300-250 B.C ... 4th c. B.C./300-250 B.C. |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ.
Objects with context as "cistern 44ΙΓ, mouth of 46/ΙΑ" are listed with D 12:2.
The following objects are from "earth", i.e. no context layer:
SS 5334, ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman ... March 1936 #4-#5
6 March 1936 #1-#3
7 March 1936 #1-#4
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| Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 4 under Royal Stoa. Cist Grave cut into bedrock and lined with limestone and schist slabs. There were two layers of cover slabs with a layer of dirt between. Grave measured 0.98x0,25-0,32x0,25-0,30 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... I 5:4 ... I 5:4 |
See cistern system wells F 11:2 and F 12:3, part of Tholos water system. Estimated Grid ... Ca. 350-294 B.C ... -4.5m. |
| This filling is the largest deposit of its time found in the Agora. It may be compared with H 6:5 and with N 7:3.
Dug in soft bedrock to a depth of 11.40m; footholds cut on opposite sides of the shaft ... Ca. 490-450 B.C ... -11.4m. |
Fill around the upper block of the southwest corner of the early (Archaic) peribolos wall, south of the Propylon, and hard fill at the side of a trench for a modern wall.
Uncatalogued material: 181 sherds ... 2nd c. B.C ... T 21:4 ... T 21:4 |
| In NE corner of Room D. In a Byzantine vessel=P 34464.
The position of the vessel in the corner of the room suggests that the burial was made after the construction of Byzantine Walls G and E. This type ... 10th-11th c. A.D ... J 1:4 ... J 1:4 |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Coin hoard of Athenian tetradrachms. Dug into fill under floor (floor level not preserved) on east side of Strategeion near the NE corner of room formed by the eastern poros block wall and an east-west ... Second half of 4th c. B.C ... F 13:4 ... F 13:4 |
| Stucco-lined bottle-shaped cistern, with tunnel and subsidiary manhole, in SW Baths, Room Α 10. Homogeneous dumped fill, mostly of mold-made bowls and and molds for terracotta figurines. Sixteen stamped ... 225-190 B.C ... F 17:4 ... F 17:4 |
Pits in area 96-100/ΝΕ-ΝΘ (lower east slopes of Hill of the Nymphs, near extreme west edge of excavated area).
Pit with bones. Many fills in areas A 19 and A 20 similar in character to the fills in these ... 350-300 B.C ... A 19:4 ... A 19:4 |
| Pyre in Room 1, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 11).
Early in the third quarter of the 4th. c. B.C.
In courtyard. Artifacts, bone, and cinders in irregular pit in floor sequence. The pit had been dug into ... 350-330 B.C ... B 17:4 ... B 17:4 |
| Pyre in House T, Room 1, Layer 5-6 (RSY=Pyre 3) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
First quarter 4th. c. B.C.
Artifacts, bone, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The pyre was found in digging ... 400-375 B.C.(?) ... B 18:4 ... B 18:4 |
Drain channel system along the line of an ancient north-south road, the channel in part at the surface and in part tunneled and accessible by shafts. Over a considerable part of this channel the hard water ... 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D ... Coins:
13 February 1937 #4-#10
5 March 1937 #1
18 March 1937 #1-#3 |
| A compact group of four complete vases and a lamp, found on a house floor; possibly the remains of a sacrificial pyre but without evidence of burning or the characteristic votive vases.
Layer II, "nest ... 425-400 B.C ... before the early-4th c. |
Cistern with two tunnels, the one entering its neck cut off by an early Roman well, the other, at the bottom not excavated.
Chamber conical in shape, with a depressed draw basin in the center of the floor ... Early Roman-3rd c. B.C ... Bion. N 21:4 and m 21:1 are |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 2. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole). In some records as XXIII.
Variously labeled as grid 7/Δ, 7/Γ and 7/Γ-Δ.
Rectangular pyre trench cut through earth into bedrock, with only the lowest 0.04m surviving ... Transitional Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I ... 16:4". |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb below Middle Stoa Terrace.
The tomb was entered from the west by a stepped dromos, at least 4.20m long by 1.10 to 1.50m. wide, splaying slightly toward the doorway, which was 1.26m ... Myc. IIIA:1 ... dromos, at least 4.20m long by |
Grave 10 ... Dark Ages - Byzantine ... M 23:4 ... M 23:4 |
Modern Pithos containing coins ... 23 March 1937 ... P 10:4 ... P 10:4 |
Pit below floor at 69/ΛΗ ... Early Byzantine ... E 18:4 ... E 18:4 |
Well 13: Neolithic ... 15 March 1939 ... U 24:4 ... U 24:4 |
Turkish well at 78/ΚΖ Turkish bowl ... Turkish ... N 17:4 ... N 17:4 |
Byzantine Building: Room XV (loose black filling). Coins:
12 April 1933 #5-#15
13 April 1933 #1 ... Byzantine ... J 7:4 ... J 7:4 |
Well 17: Neolithic ... Neolithic ... T 26:4 ... T 26:4 |
Disturbed pit with a skull. Pottery discarded. Late context; more likely Turkish than Geometric.
See Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 303 for skull description ... 4 May 1936 ... D 7:4 ... D 7:4 |
Found while cleaning wall running east-west over 57. Contained late glazed pottery ... Byzantine ... K 6:4 ... K 6:4 |
Pit at 36/ΙΖ ... Late Hellenistic to Early Roman ... O 18:4 ... O 18:4 |
Byzantine Well in Stoa Shop 15 Estimated Grid ... Byzantine ... R 9:4 ... R 9:4 |
Hole at 65/ΚΔ; small cutting in bedrock with scanty pottery ... 450-400 B.C ... O 20:4 ... O 20:4 |
Pit at 18/ΚΔ-ΚΕ Coins:
22 April 1936 #67-#73
24 April 1936 #2-#3 ... 22-24 April 1936 ... P 8:4 ... P 8:4 |
Joins occur between this pit and the cistern in section ΛΛ (87/ΛΕ)
(E 5:3). Coins:
16 May 1936 #6 ... Byzantine ... E 6:4 ... E 6:4 |
Tiled well in Stoa Terrace opposite Shop 2 Estimated Grid ... Byzantine ... Q 12:4 ... Q 12:4 |
Pocket of late Geometric pottery in bedrock behind Stoa Shop V; apparently a household deposit ... 750-700 B.C ... R 11:4 ... R 11:4 |
Debris filling in a pit cut in bedrock at W side of House H, Room 10 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... C 19:4 ... C 19:4 |
Stone-curbed well at NE corner of 18/ΞΓ ... 2nd c., at least as late as ca. 140 B.C ... Q 18:4 ... Q 18:4 |
Tile-curbed well; it drew water from Poros Aqueduct. Coins
8 June 1938 #1
14 June 1938 #2 (where is this coin? 30 July 1976 p. 1137). First mentioned as Well at 46/ΙΗ ... 8-14 June 1938 ... R 17:4 ... R 17:4 |
Middle Helladic Gully ... Middle Helladic ... R 21:4 ... R 21:4 |
Trench at 11/ΚΕ cut into the stereo (length 1.40m, width 0.50m). Coins:
5 April 1932 #5 (illegible).
Red figure pottery; coarse ware ... Mid-5th c. B.C ... F 14:4 ... F 14:4 |
Cistern at 78/ΜΑ and shaft at 85/Ν. Coins:
18 May 1936 #2-#3 ... Ca. 320-340 A.D ... B 13:4 ... B 13:4 |
Deposit of late unguentaria at ca. 37/ΛΖ plus black fill below deposit (cf. p. 945). Coins:
5 June 1935 #1 and cf. #2-#3 ... Mid-6th c. A.D ... O 13:4 ... O 13:4 |
Well in branch of Aqueduct (ca. 13/ΚΔ) 3rd c. A.D. - 5th c. A.D ... 3rd c. A.D ... O 17:4 ... O 17:4 |
Trench for foundation of south stylobate of Square Building (between Piers 12-13) ... Late 3rd-early 2nd c. B.C ... Q 9:4 ... Q 9:4 |
Grave 2.
Shallow cutting, 1.00x0.47m, in bedrock; possibly a child's burial, but no skeletal remains preserved ... Late 5th c. B.C ... N 18:4 ... N 18:4 |
Pit in ancient road, ca. 73/ΜΣΤ The filling of this pit contained quantities of coarse pottery, principally fragmentary amphoras, but including also some glazed and semi-glazed pieces and fragments of ... Ca. 350-325 B.C ... O 16:4 ... O 16:4 |
Deposit of fine table ware and lekythoi, both black-figured and red; the plain wares closely resemble those from the well H 6:5 ... 470-450 B.C ... D 12:4 ... D 12:4 |
| Grave in opisthodomos of Hephaisteion. Grave LI in notebook.
No mention of bones. Neg. KK 363, XIX-8 (dismantling of the walls of the graves( ... 10 March 1939
16 March 1939 ... E 7:4 ... E 7:4 |
| Grave south of Hephaisteion. Grave II in notebook. One skeleton. No objects. Pottery in container 201 from filling around grave II ... 12 March 1936 ... E 8:4 ... E 8:4 |
Well just outside the southwest corner of the market square ... Late 7th-early 6th c. B.C ... F 15:4 ... F 15:4 |
Filling in a sizeable pit. The objects, along with the dimensions of the cutting from which they came, might suggest offerings in a disturbed grave but there was no evidence of skeletal remains ... Ca. 430-415 B.C ... B 12:4 ... B 12:4 |
| Grave XXI in notebook = RSY Grave 11. Pottery discarded; late Roman, mostly coarse. PD 731-e ... Ca. 530 B.C ... B 20:4 ... B 20:4 |
Filling inside N room of Temple of Apollo, including directly under the foundations of the N room ... Ca. 350 B.C. and earlier ... H 7:4 ... H 7:4 |
Cistern shaft, part of cistern system in Η-Ι 16-17. Filling disturbed to bottom; general run of the pottery is to late Hellenistic, lamps as late as Knidos type. Finds from 60/ΙΘ-62/ΙΘ, 61/ΙΗ. "Some Arretine" ... 5 May 1932
18 June 1932 ... I 17:4 ... I 17:4 |
Depth: original at least 3.70m, depth preserved ca. 2.00m.
Diameter: top ca. 0.80x1.15, bottom ca. 0.75m.
Water level ca. -1.50m ... 8-9 March 1939 ... T 24:4 ... T 24:4 |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 11 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XII: PG). Bones discarded. Burned deposit in a rectangular trench in bedrock.
JP ... Late Protogeometric ... C 9:4 ... C 9:4 |
Well east of Geometric Grave. The upper part collapsed into a pit, cut into by Middle Geometric grave I 18:1 and by a Byzantine wall. Some evidence for period of use; little pottery. At the top a few Geometric ... Early Protogeometric ... I 18:4 ... I 18:4 |
One of two late wells [the other at 59/ΙΗ] cutting the line of the east wall of the peribolos and the line of the Byzantine enclosure. The shafts of the two were close together and in their upper parts ... Turkish ... J 14:4 ... J 14:4 |
Pyre at N/9-6/1,2, layer 11a.
No formal limits, apparent limits about 0.30-0.40m N-S; 0.50-0.60 E-W (cut into by trench at east) ... Late 575-550 B.C ... N 6:4 ... N 6:4 |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 28 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave V: SM). No remains, probable child inhumation. Just one cup for offering (P 7693). Negs. X-77, X-78 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean/Early Protogeometric ... D 6:4 ... D 6:4 |
Diameter 0.95m; water level -9.10m.
Plais shaft cut in stereo from bottom of slender flask-shaped cistern. Scanty fill from house destruction in 5th c. A.D.; Christian lamps; unfinished statuette of Castor ... Late Roman ... B 15:4 ... B 15:4 |
| Grave V in notebook = RSY Grave 5. PD 731-c, Ptg. 244 ... Second quarter of the 6th. c. B.C ... B 21:4 ... B 21:4 |
Big well at 61/ΙΖ.
A well on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus. Diameter 2m ... Ca. 520-475 and shortly after ... M 17:4 ... M 17:4 |
Well (diameter 1.10m).
Neatly cut. Footholds on east and west at intervals of ca. 0.50m. Plentiful water ... Late 8th - Early 7th c. B.C ... N 11:4 ... N 11:4 |
Mycenaean Grave, disturbed, in scarp E of Stoa, a little to the south of the group of tombs clustered around Pier 12. No remains (perhaps a child's grave whose bones had completely disintegrated).
Small ... Myc. IIIA:2-B ... R 10:4 ... R 10:4 |
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