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| Pyre in layer "9d" in SW corner of Room 6 of Greek House δ. Ashes and fragments of small bones ... Ca. 225 B.C ... Hesperia 42 (1973), p. 141 ... Agora XXIX, p. 467. |
Well at 19/ΚΔ, beneath the west colonnade of the Square Market Building in the northeast corner of the Agora. Diameter ca. 1.25m. Water level ca. -3.50m. The construction of the well was rather careless, ... Ca. 580-560 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 376 ... Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 212 ... Agora IV, p. 244. |
Archaic Well at 10/ΚΒ, directly west of the north end of the Stoa of Attalos.
Well, not cleared. a small amount of pottery gathered from the top of the shaft ... 600-550 B.C ... Agora XXIII, p. 335 ... Agora XXVII, p. 227. |
| Shaft oriented N to S (L. 1.30, W. 0.43 at bottom). Fill shot through with cinders and wood ash. Skeleton of a male about 50 years old.
Brann. PD 1065a ... 750-700 B.C ... old.
Brann. |
| Pit in Layer 9, lined on the sides and bottom with small stones ... Late 5th c. B.C ... Late 5th c. B.C ... K/3-5/15,5/16 |
Trial cut at 26/ΙΣΤ-ΙΖ, Layer I; Circular Building, 22m south of Eleusinion. P 30171, P 30172, L 5818 added on 7 May 1973 ... 4th c. B.C ... U 22:5 ... U 22:5 |
Northern Manhole to Water Channel [R 9-10], East of Shop 14 ... 2nd c. B.C ... P-R 6-12 |
Small Pit in bedrock (diameter 0.70m). " A handful of contemporary sherds found with it, discarded." p. 1238 ... July 1957 ... O 18:5 ... O 18:5 |
Patch of burned filling at 66-67/ΚΘ-Λ (or Λ-ΛΑ) Coin
18 May 1938 #10 P 34428 added from Lot Ω 102 ... Early 5 c. B.C. (?) ... O 20:5 ... O 20:5 |
Geometric Well East of Stoa Room 10 Pottery mended May 1950, in two tins. Nothing discarded. Slight disturbance throughout became of proximity of Roman well (p. 1252). Estimated Grid ... 725-700 B.C ... R 10:5 ... R 10:5 |
North and South Rectangular Stereo-cut Rubbish Pits. These two adjacent rock-cut pits, of uncertain original purpose, were filled with deposits of rubbish evidently contemporary and probably dumped simultaneously, ... Second half of 5th c. B.C ... since P 16426 is represented ... Coins:
9 May 1939 #11 (No coin p. 1120). |
Well at 74/Ι, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus.
Use fill from early 1st to 3rd c. A.D.
Dump fill from 4th c. A.D. Coins
9 April 1938 #2
9 May 1938 #1 Container 20 (lost) p. 1529 ... 1st c. to 3d c. A.D ... Agora IV, p. 243 ... Agora V, p. 126 ... Agora VI, p. 99. |
Well at 69/ΚΔ (Well G: PG, ELS).
Diameter 0.75m. Fairly but not perfectly evenly cut; no foot-holds in sides. Very little water gathered. The well produced a small amount of pottery, the bulk of it coming ... Protogeometric ... Lots 8-10 no longer exist p. 232. |
Unstratified pit below east part of Odeion Cavea (Trench K).
Brann Well or Pit O. Estimated Grid ... To ca. 725 B.C ... Agora VIII, p. 129. |
Well dug through N 18:1 (cistern at 79/ΜΗ) on the lower north slopes of Areopagus; the cistern was the northern chamber of a system; the southern chamber is at 84/ΝΣΤ (N 19:1).
A single dumped deposit ... 3rd-4th c. A.D ... Agora V, p. 126 ... Agora XXI, p. 99 ... Agora XXIII, p. 334. |
Digging abandoned at 17.10m.
Nbp. 2863: The fill in the mouth to -6.50 was a dump of mixed hellenistic and late roman sherds. From -6.50 to -11.00m. small stones with a few late roman sherds 4th-5th c ... 4th-5th c. A.D ... sherds 4th-5th c. From -11m ... 4th-5th c. A.D. pots and 4th c. |
Found in 13/06/1935.
Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup, perhaps in one of the public buildings near the SW corner of the square ... Ca. 520-490 B.C ... E 14:5 ... E 14:5 |
Cistern at 79/Γ (= 80/Δ) on lower north slope of the Areopagus. Filling of 2nd c. B.C. with some later intrusions (Turkish pottery indicates disturbance).
Single Knidian stamped amphora handle dates around ... Hellenistic-Turkish ... Agora IV, p. 242 ... Agora XXI, p. 98 ... Agora XXII, p. 103. |
A filling lying over a cobbled floor in a house-complex on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus.
Area in front of E-W retaining wall, just above cobble pavement, disturbed by coins and pottery as late ... 375-275 B.C ... Hesperia 24 (1955), p. 185, no. 25 ... Agora IV, p. 241 ... Agora XII, p. 393. |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 4 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave XLIV). No remains (not really a grave, note on p. 331).
Roughly rectangular patch of unworked fieldstones, measuring about 1.20x0.80m neatly laid on bedrock, ... 19-21 March 1932 ... F 16:5 ... F 16:5 |
| A flask-shaped storage pit or cellar, cut in the rock at the south edge of the levelled top of Kolonos Agoraios. Filled late in first quarter of 6th. c. B.C. (2.95m from east to west by 2.70m from north ... First quarter 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 159, n. 15 ... Agora IV, p. 234 ... Agora VIII, p. 125. |
| Phaidon Street Cistern: North Chamber
Sullan destruction debris. One of two chambers connected by tunnel.
Two latest coins date to 87/86. Gray ware lamp of first quarter of 1st c. A.D. indicates disturbance ... 2nd c. B.C ... O 17:5 ... O 17:5 |
Pits in area 96-100/ΝΕ-ΝΘ (lower east slopes of Hill of the Nymphs, near extreme west edge of excavated area).
Scanty debris filling in a pit. Many fills in areas A 19 and A 20 similar in character to ... 325-300 B.C ... A 19:5 ... A 19:5 |
Built against the south wall of the annex to the Poros Building
west of the Areopagus. At the west the upper layer of marble chips carried against it, the lowest were cut by it.
Part of same system as ... 225-100 B.C ... Hesperia 34 (1965), p. 50 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 182 ... Agora IV, p. 236. |
Patch of early fill, disturbed. 20/9/1962: Tin 145 is checked and is chiefly late archaic, but some of the coarse ware is late 5th with 4th c. B.C., and a few bits are 4th c. A.D ... Late 6th.-early 5th c. B.C ... Late 6th.-early 5th c. B.C. |
Dumped filling in the upper part of a well, to a depth of 6.65m. (the excavation could not be completed and the use filling was not reached). Homogeneous fill dumped from nearby. Coins:
1 June 1936 #1 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... B 13:5 ... B 13:5 |
Well at 20/ΙΔ.
No POU fill. Bottom packed with sherds, including roof-tile fragments. Above this, were six meters with a "fair quantity" of sherds; then the top meter and a half contained a great quantity ... Ca. 420-390 B.C ... Agora XII, p. 398 ... Agora XXX, p. 366. |
House R, fill under drain tiles and fillings associated with house K in industrial area, including what was C 19:15, plus C 19:16 and
C 19:17.
a) House built as dwelling in second half of 5th.c.
b) Used ... Ca. 5th and 4th c. B.C ... C 19:5 ... C 19:5 |
Unfinished well cut in bedrock to the southwest of the Tholos; dumped filling containing much material of the 7th c. B.C. but extending into the 6th ... 7th-ca. 570 B.C ... Agora IV, p. 238 ... Agora VIII, p. 126 ... Agora XII, p. 389. |
Cistern System #1e: Shaft at 11/ΞΑ.
Agora XXIX: "Well (not cistern shaft, as in Agora XII) ... Communicates with water system through small hole (see C 8:1) probably fortuitously. Single fill, mostly of ... 350-300 B.C ... Agora XII, p. 386 ... Agora XXIX, p. 440. |
A well on the NW slope of the Areopagus; unfinished well-shaft dug to a depth of only 3.05m., and refilled with broken pottery and other debris. The shaft clearly was begun with the intention of digging ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... F 19:5 ... F 19:5 |
Actually 1 meter into section Δ, the well lies under a filling of primarily Hellenistic date which had been thrown in as underpinning for the support of a 2nd c. A.D. Roman tile-mosaic floor.
POU is 15.80-16.35m ... First half of 1st c. A.D ... Coins:
19 March 1934 #8
20 March 1934 #1-#3
21 March 1934 #3-#5
23 March |
Well D: Archaic
Well on the northwest slope of the Acropolis. Debris filling with scanty pottery remains; most of the pottery is earlier than the lower limit. Diameter at top ca. 1.20m; bottom ca. 1.10m ... End of 6th c. B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 376 ... Agora IV, p. 245 ... Agora XII, p. 399. |
Well near west edge of level area south of the Hephaisteion. Dumped filling thrown in near end of 4th. c. but by far the greater part belonging to the 30 years before 350 B.C.
Diameter of shaft 0.98m ... Ca. 380-350 B.C ... Agora IV, p. 234 ... Agora XII, p. 384 ... Agora XXI, p. 96. |
Small deposit including red figured fragments ... Second and third quarters of 4th c. B.C ... Agora XII, p. 394 ... Agora XXX, p. 364. |
Pre-Stoa Pit beneath floor of Shop I ... 2nd c. B.C ... Agora XXVII, p. 232 ... Agora XXXIV, p. 185. |
Exploration over bedrock inside the Tholos; levels of 6th c. B.C ... 6th c. B.C ... G 11:5 ... G 11:5 |
Cistern shaft at 63/ΚΓ. Part of H-I 16-17 system. Contents of 3rd c. disturbed.
Part of extensive cistern system, of which one chamber, three drawshafts, and two blind tunnels were excavated (H 16:2, ... 3rd c., disturbed ... Agora XXIX, p. 457 ... Agora XXXIII, p. 362. |
Pit (Well?) under Building A, Room 2. Coins:
9 May 1949 #1-#2
11 May 1949 #4
12 May 1949 #3 (not a coin, bronze fragment in lotted metal tins ΠΠ 295). Estimated Grid
Remains of coloring matter found with ... Hellenistic-Early Roman ... C 17:5 ... C 17:5 |
Connected with G 14:3.
There was a layer of Late Roman fill. It rested over a layer of 2nd c. B.C Hellenistic and then another of 4th c. B.C Hellenistic; the passage between the two cisterns contained ... Late Hellenistic ... G 14:5 ... G 14:5 |
Pit at 79-83/ΜΒ-ΜΖ (or 81/ΜΣΤ=pit under floor of Room 11 in Roman Bldg. 2, 82/ΜΓ, 83/ΜΕ=well at 83/ΜΗ). Purpose of pit obscure. Evidently filled in Hellenistic times and disturbed in Roman times. Coins: ... 275-200 B.C. with later disturbance ... E 5:5 ... E 5:5 |
Well K: Late Neolithic. Near Klepsydra.
Diameter top ca. 1.00x0.80
at -1.50 ca. 0.75
at -2.25 ca 0.50
Water level ca. -2.00m ... Late Neolithic ... Hesperia 83 (2014), p. 201, table 2 ... Agora XIII, p. 275. |
| Well below Stoa Terrace Fountain.
Heavy dumped filling, including a great variety of figured and plain wares.
Never completed in antiquity because of hard bedrock. Estimated Grid ... 575-550 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 376 ... Agora VIII, p. 130 ... Agora XII, p. 397. |
| Disturbed pyre containing only a pyxis and a chytridion.
No notebook account of excavation exists. The pyre may have been located at the edge of an ancient road. There is no record of bone or burning ... 350-325 B.C. (?) ... Q 17:5 ... Q 17:5 |
| Julia Shear ... Burial. Roman Temple south half, in fill south of temple crosswall and norh of polygonal wall, layer 37a.
Small, roughly circular pit. The diameter of the pit appeared to be only slightly greater than ... Late Helladic IIIC Late-Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Hesperia 89 (2020), p. 596, n. 4 ... Hesperia 61 (1997), p. 514, n. 35. |
Pit at 18-20/Λ-ΛΓ.
The cistern S 19:3 and the well S 19:8, together with a Roman well, S 19:1, had collapsed to form a large pit S 19:5. The upper part of the pit was dug to a depth of ca. -8m as deposit ... 7-8 April 1938
28 April-26 May 1938 ... 19:5. The upper part of the ... ca. -8m as deposit S 19:5 ... Coins
3 March 1938 #7-#8
7 April 1938 #5-#6
9 April 1938 #1-#3
30 April |
Pit and well at eastern edge of Kolonos Agoraios with uniform fill.
Diameter 1.90m; straight round shaft ... Late 8th-first half 7th c. B.C ... D'Onofrio (2007), p. 91 ... Agora VIII, p. 125 ... Agora XII, p. 387. |
Well at 53/ΛΖ ... Byzantine ... Agora XXXI, p. 230. |
Upper part collapsed (diameter 1.25m). Uniform fill with water jars. Sorted June 1956. 4 tins thrown out. Joins from all boxes, but pithos fragments and water jars mostly from boxes 6-16 ... 750-700 B.C ... Agora VIII, p. 129. |
Pit with marble chips (disturbed); working chips of the Hephaisteion construction. A few vases apparently contemporary with the building of the temple ... 5th c. B.C. to ca. 450 but disturbed ... Agora XII, p. 387. |
A very homogeneous dumped filling and no period of use. Apparently a failure as a well.
T 263-T 289 resorted and reduced August 1967. Cf. BI 157 "from behind the curbing of the well by Stoa pier 3." Estimated ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... H 6:5 ... H 6:5 |
Well 20: Neolithic ... 14-15 April 1939 ... T 26:5 ... T 26:5 |
Well 22: Neolithic ... Neolithic ... Agora XIII, p. 275. |
Well in Court J, House of Greek Mosaic ... Early 4th c. A.D ... Agora XXI, p. 97. |
Drain Trench at 62/ΜΗ.
The presence of a number of fairly well preserved vases of good quality suggested to the excavator the possibility that the cutting might once have contained a burial. No skeletal ... 325-300 B.C ... Agora XXIX, p. 461 ... Agora XXXIII, p. 365. |
Clay pit with clear light yellow clay thoroughly suitable for pottery making ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D ... J 15:5 ... J 15:5 |
Layer 7 in South Peristyle of court of Roman House Ε. Irregular cutting in bedrock with sand, gravel, fallen bedrock. Some burning ... 275-250 B.C ... Agora XXIX, p. 469. |
South House, Room 12, over pebble mosaic floor. Herulian destruction debris in a house. Coins:
29 April 1956 #1-#7
2 May 1956 #1-#3
9 May 1956 #1
26 May 1956 #1-#4
2 June 1956 #1-#4 PD 1350 ... 9 May 1956 ... B 15:5 ... B 15:5 |
Well A
Mostly uniform dumped fill. use level probably late. The well head (A 2753) had evidently been broken up and thrown in as soon as the well went out of use. Dumped filling, second quarter of 7th ... 7th century B.C ... R 17:5 ... R 17:5 |
| Pyre 2 in Central House, Room X, under strosis 9. Signs of burning, carbonized food, animal bone.
In room south of courtyard. concentration of artifacts, bone, and charred material in floor makeup, no ... 290-275 B.C ... L 17:5 ... L 17:5 |
(now G 12:22) Asterisk: H 12:5* ... H 12:5 ... H 12:5 |
This cutting was filled in at the time Road 6 was laid. Homogeneous dumped fill.
This deposit represents fill which was brought in at the time Road 6 at the west end of the Middle Stoa was laid to fill ... Ca. 480 B.C ... H 13:5 ... H 13:5 |
Deposit alongside Greek House I, perhaps giving the construction date of the second phase. Deposit list title it as : outside of east wall of Roman House H ... Last quarter of the 4th c. B.C ... Q 20:5 ... Q 20:5 |
| Pyre in Room 2, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 12).
In courtyard. Artifacts, bone, ash, carbon, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The rectangular pit was cut into a white strosis with marble chips (ΠΠ ... 315-300 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 128-129, pl. 53 c (Pyre 12) ... Agora XII, p. 384 ... Agora XXIX, p. 436. |
| Grave in opisthodomos of Hephaisteion. Grave XLIX in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
9 March 1939 #8-#13 Neg. KK 365 ... 9 March 1939
16 March 1939 ... Hesperia Suppl. 5 (1941), p. 5, fig. 1 (Grave 14). |
| Tom Milbank ... An unlined and relatively narrow (ca. 0.82m. in diameter) well cut through hard-pack and bedrock. Although three periods of use can be discerned in the stratigraphy of the well below a depth of ca. 5.47m., ... Middle Geometric I ... K 1:5 ... K 1:5 |
E.L. Smithson: Group H: Collapsed well west of the Great Drain.
First described as 105-107/Protogeometric Pit ... Protogeometric ... A 20:5 ... A 20:5 |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 26. In some records as Grave I ter. Bones discarded.
Notebook says: child bones (no skull), no offerings.
Circular cutting in bedrock, about 3m south of D 6:3. Neg. KK 234 ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) ... D 7:5 ... D 7:5 |
| David Scahill ... Behind northeast corner of Classical Building; east wall C. Below Hellenistic levels and early Classical pit. Chamber cut through bedrock, depth ca. 0.90m., diameter ca. 2m., roughly square in shape, angling ... LH III A:1 ... K/1,3-2/5,6 |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb with niches.
One of the few tombs found in the Agora that has an almost architectural regularity with squares chamber (1.75m wide by 2.10m deep) and axially centered dromos (4m long ... Myc. III A 1:2 ... AJA LVI, 1952, p. 178 ... Agora XXVII, p. 226 ... BCH LXXVI, 1952, p. 212. |
Well in Marble-Saw Shed. No distinct use filling. Estimated Grid ... Submycenaean ... Agora XXVII, p. 227. |
| Grave VI in notebook = RSY Grave 10. PD 731-d Ptg. 251 ... Ca. 520-525 B.C ... A.J.A. 43 (1939), p. 588 and fig. 20 ... Agora XII, p. 385 ... Agora XXIII, p. 330. |
| Homer A. Thompson ... PG grave to NW of Pier 19 (Grave 4).
It consisted of a rectangular pit, oriented north-south, cut into bedrock. Only the lowest part of the tomb pit was preserved; the upper part was cut away in the Classical ... Earlier-Developed Protogeometric ... Q 8:5 ... Q 8:5 |
| Pyre in House N, room 2, layer 5 (RSY=Pyre 8).
Near northern corner of room 6. Artifacts, bone, burnt logs, and cinders in square pit dug from level of layer 5, through layers 5 and 6; thin clay floor ... 325-300 B.C ... Pyre in House N, Room 2, Layer 5 |
Note of 20-III-52 (deposit nb): Have looked up notebook pp. 1101 ff. The fill of this well was certainly Roman, also some part of the fill behind the tiles - but is that only a part tunneled as a passage ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D ... A 18:5 ... A 18:5 |
Mycenaean Grave inside NW corner of N extension of Stoa.
It was set deeply down, ca. 1.50m below the surface. Excavation revealed a single skeleton, extended, with head to east, and legs bent up at the ... Myc. III B ... Agora XXVII, p. 229. |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb SE of Stoa Pier 12 (Burial 8).
Roughly rectangular, measuring 1.70m by 1.40m, and was cut down to within 0.65m. by the construction of the Square Building. A rectangular cutting ... Early Myc. IIIA ... Q 10:5 ... Q 10:5 |
Well at 69/ΛΕ (diameter 0.95m).
Narrows at bottom. Footholds on east and west. Uniform fill. Bones found in the well make it likely that it had cut through a grave, as it was itself overlain by one ... Late 8th c. B.C ... Agora VIII, p. 130. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 5 in notebook.
The grave had been somewhat disturbed by the digging of Well B. The hydria lay on its side; in it was found the skeleton of a small child lying on its side with the knees drawn up ... Late 8th-early 7th c. B.C ... Agora VIII, p. 127. |
| Mycenaean Small Chamber tomb.
The cist measures 1,90m E to W, 0.75-0.90m N to S, max. depth -1.30m. Nothing was found in it; cleaned in modern times and used as a cesspool. Some of the SW part of it had ... Myc. IIIA, early 14th c ... Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 291. |
| Grave XXV in notebook = RSY Grave 4. PD 731-b ... 750-725 B.C ... B 20:5 ... B 20:5 |
| Shallow pit below layer I in Stoa Shop VI (Pyre)
Diameter 0.90; D. 0.15m Under shop VI of the Stoa of Attalos Pottery, ash, burning and packing of small stones in pit in stratum. The pyre was covered by ... Ca. 350 or 325 B.C. ? ... R 11:5 ... R 11:5 |
| Pyre in House T (= House D), Room 2 (5th c.) and fill east of pyre.
Earlier than the other pyres of this house.
Pottery, slivers of burnt bone, and heavy deposit of carbonized material and cinders in ... Ca. 420-410 B.C ... Agora XII, p. 385. |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Ovoid pit cut into bedrock or sterile fill just north of preserved floor surfaces in the so-called Strategeion. Length (west-east) 2.6m; widens at 1.25m from the east scarp so that at west pit is 0.75m ... 4th B.C ... F 13:5 ... F 13:5 |
1st.-2nd. c. A.D ... B 20:1.5 ... B 20:1.5 |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXIII in notebook.
Filling: loose earth and bones. Lot 404 (a) Neg. KK 377 ... 6 March 1939 ... Hesperia Suppl. V, 1941, p. 5, fig. 1 (Grave 25). |
The following pieces from E 6:4 exhibit joins with pottery from this cistern and could be listed here as well: P 7836-P 7839.
Cf. Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 19, n. 51. Coins:
15 March 1937 #1
16 March ... Mid-Late Byz ... E 5:3 ... E 5:3 |
Turkish bothros/unlined pit at P/1-6/5 (now Ο/20-6/4).
Fill: soft, moist greenish-yellow clay with distinctive/definitive odor. No containers. Grid correction: from P/1-6/5 to Ο/20-6/4 ... 17 April 1970 ... Turkish bothros/unlined pit at P/1-6/5 (now Ο/20-6/4).
Fill: soft, moist ... No containers. Grid correction: from P/1-6/5 to Ο/20-6/4 |
Exploratory Pits to West of Bema Coins:
31 July 1958 #1-#5 ... To early 2nd century ... Agora XXVII, p. 227. |
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 ... considerable area (E-F 5-6).
Objects ... (JH) and include P 7841, P 8530, P 8531, L 2404 ... Coins:
13 February 1937 #4-#10
5 March 1937 #1
18 March 1937 #1-#3 |
| 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 ... Mid-2nd c. B.C ... objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585.
Lower ... Well dug to -21.45m: June 17, 1938 (Nb. p. 1582); not finished. |
Fillings immediately antedating the building of the Stoa.
Cf. Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 20 and the debris of a pottery works behind the Stoa (H 7:1) ... p. 20 and the debris of a |
Mycenaean well under East Building Terrace steps (No catalogued pots). Rectangular in shape, 0.90x0.60m.
Abutting against the back of the East Building Terrace steps to the south. Yielded much thrown bedrock ... 14 July 1967 ... -2.5m. |
Cistern connected by tunnel to another chamber filled in Byzantine period. Small Hellenistic deposit on floor. somewhat contaminated by Byzantine fill above
No stamped amphora handles later than 3rd c.; ... 250-190 B.C ... E 5:2 ... E 5:2 |
Early Roman pit at P/7-6/4,6
layer Ia in Room 7 of Greek House δ. Black earth fill with much carbon.
Plaster, nails, glass, bones (also bones from deposit P 6:4).
Coin
5 June 1971 #395 ... Early Roman ... Agora XXIX, p. 467. |
| Well in East Colonnade of Roman House H. Diameter 0.80m, lined with field stones set in mortar. used as a cistern as well.
No useful pottery dates. Capital from colonnade A 3866 and part of shaft found ... 29 July 1970 ... -4.65m to -5.25m suggest |
| Hellenistic filling in N.W. corner of Section (39-46/ΙΘ-ΚΓ inclusive). Coins:
14 July 1931 #42, #64
15 July 1931 #6 but grid 42/ΚΔ, #34-#37
16 July 1931 #15-#16
17 July 1931 #4-#12
18 July 1931 #1-#5, ... 4th.-early 2nd. B.C ... G-H 5:1 ... G-H 5:1 |
Stuccoed pit, 2m x 2.50 m, rock-cut. Coins:
26 March 1937 #1 (not a coin) ... Ca. 400-350 B.C ... Agora IV, p. 236 ... Agora X, p. 67 ... Agora XII, p. 387. |
| Enclosure within Roman Circular Building. The finds apparently reflect the entire area inside the enclosure. Pottery lot ΒΓ 515 identifies the deposit as layer 10 and coin #895 from layer 11 says "layer ... 12-18 August 1971
9-10 May 1972 ... Hesperia 83 (2014), p. 200, table 2 ... Agora XXV, p. 164 ... Agora XXVI, p. 311. |
| Grave cut into bedrock (L. 2m, W. 0.58m), head toward E; offerings at south end. Skeleton of a male about 40 years old, laid out with knees slightly bent.
Brann. PD 434, PD 1058 ... 750-725 B.C ... Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 271, noted ... Agora VIII, p. 126. |
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