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"Fauvel Collection"
Collector's dump? Debris in the cellar of a modern house, probably once that of F.S. Fauvel.
The collection included vases of all periods, from Geometric to Turkish; a number of the ... Modern Context |
Crescent-shaped cutting in bedrock at 47/ΙΓ; on the north slope of the Areopagus, slightly to the west of the dromos of the Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.
Dimensions of cutting : max. diameter ca. 2.50m.; depth ... Ca. 500-450 B.C.
400-350 B.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. |
Refuse pit at 51/Ζ; it had been partly cut away at the north by the late Roman retaining wall; the dumped filling a homogeneous deposit of figured, black and plain wares. Red figure oinochoe in the style ... Ca. 450-420 B.C. |
Pit at 48/ΚΕ; circular cutting in bedrock (diameter ca. 1m) ... Ca. 500-470 B.C. (?) |
Unfinished cistern at 31/ΚΑ ... Ca. 360-325 B.C. |
Well at 19/ΝΒ, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus ... 550-525 B.C. |
Cistern at 43/ΙΣΤ, outside the southeast corner of the market square, slightly west of the Panathenaic way. A small neat plaster-lined cistern filled with material evidently all dumped at the same time ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Well at 30/ΛΒ; the shaft possibly never used as a well; dumped filling with a small amount of fragmentary pottery ... Ca 500 B.C. |
Cistern at 17-18/ΛΑ (Coroplasts' Dump) outside the market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way.
Upper and lower fill distinguished during excavation, but material from both appears to ... To ca. 330-320 B.C. |
Well at 19/Λ.
The bottom of this well contained a considerable quantity of dug bedrock which had fallen in before the well came into use; over this was a fill with oinochoae representing the POU. The presence ... 340-325 B.C. |
A well outside the market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way; Diameter 1.10m ... 600-550 B.C. |
Well at 37/Α, on the lower Acropolis slopes, west of the Panathenaic Way ... 600-550 B.C. |
Well at 40/Λ, in the "plataia" ca. 600m north of the terrace wall and ca. 10m east of the Valerian wall. Top diameter of 1.00m, bottomm diameter 0.95m
The shallowness of the shaft, and the fallen condition ... 550-500 B.C. |
Cistern with mixed dumped filling uniform throughout cistern and two short blind channels. Coins:
16 May 1939 #6-#7
17 May 1939 #1 ... 6th-1st c. B.C. |
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. |
Packing under cobblestones 7 or 8 meters west of the Temple of Hephaistos. A similar filling found in a small hole in bedrock three or four meters north of the Temple. The high quality of the pottery from ... Ca. 500-440 B.C. |
West Road and Drain. (Road, drain and closely related cuts.) Packing in line of ancient road running along the northwest shoulder of the Areopagus. Includes excavation of 1957 titled "Road Area to North", ... Late 6th c. B.C. - Roman |
"Foundry Pit": N-S Cut on 50m. line (area of Stoa, Layer VII, with slag). A foundry pit in the courtyard of a small metalworking establishment outside the Agora to the northwest.
Both the courtyard and ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Upper fill was early Roman dated by AWP to the 1st c. A transitional fill was later assigned to the upper level.
Nbp. 2913: The history may have been that the well was cleaned out at the time that it was ... 3rd-2nd century B.C and Roman date. |
| 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. |
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. |
Exploration of area of small early house walls on the NW slopes of Areopagus. Considerable deposits of late 6th-early 5th c. B.C., but some later (all periods) and some early levels, disturbed.
Objects ... Late 6th-Early 5th c. B.C. |
N-S Cut on 50m. line (area of Road, area of Stoa, area N of Stoa) various levels and dates over the three areas.
Investigations to the northwest of the market square in the area of the road running out ... Prehistoric to Roman |
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. |
| Sacrificial pyre, disturbed; a small pyxis (P 14864) is close to that from B 18:4. First half of 4th. c. B.C., perhaps first quarter.
West of House C. Pottery and cinders in pit in stratum. The pyre was ... First half 4th. c. B.C. |
Great Drain South (ca. 70-113, from SW edge of section as far north as the Roman Bath) Hellenistic Sand Fill. Silted-up filling of the southern branch of the Great Drain, abandoned due to some damage at ... 4th. c.-86 B.C. |
| Grave V in notebook = RSY Grave 5. PD 731-c, Ptg. 244 ... Second quarter of the 6th. c. B.C. |
| Grave VI in notebook = RSY Grave 10. PD 731-d Ptg. 251 ... Ca. 520-525 B.C. |
| Grave XVI in notebook = RSY Grave 3.
Bones of a young child found inside. Discarded? ... 6th. c. B.C. |
Sacrificial Pit V in notebook = RSY Grave 19 ... Last quarter 6th. c. B.C. |
Sacrificial Pit VI in notebook = RSY Grave 18 See also B 21:23 ... Ca. 525-500 B.C. |
Ostrakon deposit, sand fill in a shallow channel in bedrock at the bottom of the Great Drain in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of Nymphs.
This group of ostraka may well come from a single ... Ca. 490-480 B.C. |
Bottle-shaped cistern with dumped fillings on NW slopes of Areopagus; appears not to have been finished in antiquity: the walls and floor show no traces of stucco.
Lower filling, ca. 375-340 B.C.
Upper ... Ca. 375-275 B.C. |
| 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. |
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. |
| Identified as Pyre by SIR.
Debris filling of the middle of the 4th c. B.C. including the remains of a sacrificial pyre.
Objects dispersed in red-clay fill uncovered in removal of modern staircase. A broken ... 4th c. B.C. disturbed |
Pit with burned debris north of the ancient road leading from the Agora to the Dipylon Gate, probably to be associated with the Persian sack [deposit notebook]. Also includes a similar filling lying over ... Ca. 500-470 B.C. |
Dumped filling in a well on the west slope of the Areopagus (apparently separate, no mends between them, but differing little in date) the bottom filling apparently thrown in towards the beginning of the ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. and earlier |
A well about 2.00m. SE of the Tholos precinct wall. The presence of the water-clock strengthens the probability, suggested by its location, that the well served one of the public buildings in the neared ... Ca. 410-390 B.C. |
| Grave 4 in notebook: urn burial. Lower part of a storage jar (P 15407) containing the bones of a small child along with a black glazed kantharos (P 15409) and a banded pelike (P 15408) ... 325-300 B.C. |
Well on the north slope of the Areopagus; depth at 9.65m; scanty dumped fillings. From about 3.20m to the bottom, little but tile fragments appeared; in the fillings above, the lower is characterized by ... Ca. 350-290 B.C. |
Dimensions 2.86x1.50x0.70m in depth; stratified fill in rockcut pit (three rockcut steps leading down at one end) which apparently served as a rubbish dump (pottery fragments with carbon and ash). Coins: ... Ca. 410-250 B.C. |
Broken all around; fragment from rounded shoulder of closed pot. Around the shoulder, a broad band of added white, bordered at top and bottom by a narrow red band; traces of decoration in red over the ... 27 May 1939 |
| Complete except for fragment from one side. High type, the body narrowing toward the slightly projecting flat base; shoulder profile rounded; top slopes in toward hollow vertical tube. Spout nearly vertical ... 30 May 1939 |
| Broken but complete except for fragment from rim. Wall gently rounded to plain rim; bottom recessed.
Good black glaze; bottom reserved and decorated with central dot and two narrow glaze bands. Well, ... 31 May 1939 |
| Broken at top and bottom. Parts of two zones preserved, separated by raised band with concave surface. On upper zone, four standing draped filleted women, separated by lines of dots. On lower zone, four ... 9 June 1939 |
| Much of lip missing; hole chipped through bottom.
Plump rounded body on flat base slightly flaring. Wide neck, forming continuous curve with shoulder, broad open mouth; lip flares slightly but is turned ... 9 June 1939 |
Wall fragment; large ribs or tongues outlined by small raised ridges. Below the tips of the tongues, two shallow grooves; then plain.
Good black glaze inside and out. Cistern. Leica ... 10 June 1938 |
| Two non-contiguous fragments, one from the thickened and slightly projecting rim. Deep, rather narrow body, perhaps rounded at the bottom; horizontal rolled handles below the rim with lugs beside their ... 10 June 1938 |
| About half the wall and rim missing and most of one handle; restored in plaster. Rounded ring foot with groove on underside, and two lightly scraped grooves above the foot outside. Plain rim. Four stamped ... April-May 1938 |
| About half preserved; rather small. Ring foot and hanging rim. Scraped groove around edge and around depression at center. Grooved resting surface, reserved.
Good black glaze. Cistern, upper fill A. Leica ... April 1938 |
Profile complete; strengthened with plaster. Ring foot and projecting rim with a double groove on top; the rim projects very slightly toward the inside. At one point on the rim, two small round holes were ... April 1938 |
About half the body and neck and one handle missing; restored in plaster. High flaring ring foot, plump body, narrow neck and neat thickened collar-lip. Vertical band handles, from below lip.
Pinkish ... 26-27 May 1938 |
About one-third preserved with the beginning of the handle; probably had a spout opposite the handle. Low flat base, shallow body and straight collar rim, thickened.
Coarse buff clay with grits; traces ... 26 May-5 June 1938 |
Part of the upper wall and rim from beside the opening. Inward-projecting rim; a vent-hole below it.
Household ware; burned inside. From tins. Well 1. Leica, 81-600 PD 1098-c ... 22-28 February 1935 |
Handle and spout from shallow-type askos. The spout has a broad flaring rim.
Fair black glaze somewhat worn. Well, upper fill. Leica, 82-170 ... 18 May 1933 |
| Mended from many fragments; much of body missing; restored in plaster. Low ring foot; roundish body; broad trefoil mouth; single vertical handle.
The buff slip on the surface, inside and out, has been ... 2 May 1938 |
Center of floor of a large bowl. Two stamped rings each, of egg pattern and of linked palmettes. Two grooves on underside.
Black glaze inside good, worn; brownish and thin beneath. Surface, modern fill ... 9-14 January 1939 |
Part of a deeply ribbed small bowl or phiale(?), with out-turned rim. Stamped palmettes at top and bottom of ridges between ribs on inside.
Glaze metallic. Surface, modern fill. Leica ... 9-14 January 1939 |
Nearly half the rim missing; one-handler(?). High flat-bottomed base and deepish body with inturned rim. Stumps of horizontal handle at rim.
Dull black glaze, over all. Well H, lower fill, 3rd. c. B.C ... 23 May-5 June 1936 |
Round, slightly flaring mouth. Pointed bottom, no foot.
Buff clay and slip. Well, upper fill. Leica, 82-529 ... 21 March 1936 |
Missing pieces, including one rim piece, part of wall, and center of floor in plaster; no trace of handle. Neatly profiled ring foot. Wall rounded below, straight above, with a narrow projecting rim, and ... 16-19 March 1935 |
Full profile preserved; missing pieces filled out in plaster. Plain phiale with low boss. Outside reserved, except for band around rim; poor black glaze on inside very badly flaked.
Soft buff clay. Pottery ... 16-19 March 1935 |
Fragment from lower wall, with part of neatly moulded ring foot preserved; the foot unglazed, except for a band around its inner surface. Shallow ribs on the wall; below them, a band of stamped maeander ... February -March 1935 |
| Small fragment, preserving profile to edge of floor. Ring foot; elaborate profile; narrow upturned rim with a single groove around its top surface. On the broad inner rim, a scratched zigzag, apparently ... 1932 |
| Two joining fragments from the rim. Flat rim with mouldings beneath: ovolo, cyma reversa, astragal.
Pale yellow clay; brown grit tempering; white paint on outside. Layer II, filling beneath south building ... 27 February 1939 |
| Small chip missing and one side dented in making. Slightly incurved rim; heavy wall. A reserved band at junction of wall and base ring and the grooved resting surface reserved.
Flaky black glaze. N-S ... 10 March 1939 |
| Stem and disk foot intact, except for chips; trace of floor preserved. Around top of stem, a ridge, glazed; below it a reserved band.
Resting surface reserved; incised near inner edge: Χ Δ
Good glaze, ... 16 March 1939 |
| Fragmentary but semi-profile complete. Hemispherical in shape; rim below sharply incurved, a hole in the top, the edge around the hole flat.
Dull black glaze on the outside only; hard brownish-buff clay, ... 10 March 1939 |
Part of lip and much of walls missing; profile complete; restored in plaster. Small broad-shouldered globular jug on ring foot; narrow neck with handle-ridge; wide round bell mouth. Band handle, neck to ... 10 March 1939 |
| A single fragment preserves the broad round doubled-over lip, with narrow opening, of a small top-heavy jug.
Excellent blue-black glaze. "Foundary Pit", N-S cut on 50m. line, area of Stoa, layer VII, ... 10 March 1939 |
About one-third of rim missing and chips. High slightly flaring ring foot; wall rounded below, nearly vertical above, with rounded lip, slightly projecting.
Thick black glaze, worn on exterior. Reserved ... 10 March 1939 |
| Piece of side missing and chips; restored in plaster. High straight ring foot; wall rounded below, vertical above, with rounded lip slightly projecting. Stamped at center of floor, a cluster of ovules, ... 10 March 1939 |
Fragments of rim missing and chips from foot; restored in plaster. Small plate on wide slightly rounded ring foot. Floor flat, surrounded by slightly raised rolled rim; profiled outer wall. On the floor, ... 10 March 1939 |
| Fragments of rim missing; restored in plaster. Low wide ring foot, grooved beneath. Flat floor, its underside profiled, surrounded by a slightly raised rounded rim with two lightly run grooves, under the ... 10 March 1939 |
| Four fragments, three from the rim and one from the floor with part of the foot, from a large elaborately moulded plate. Flat floor; broad ring foot with a ridge around its inner edge; low convex rim, ... 10 March 1939 |
About half preserved with one handle; made up in plaster. Angular ring foot, gently rounded wall, broad projecting rim, not quite flat on top. Horizontal handles, with turned up ends. Inside, top of rim ... 10 March 1939 |
Much missing; no join between neck and body fragments, but profile can be restored. Made up in plaster, without foot. Plump eggy body on ring foot, the wall forming an angle with the shoulder; continuous ... 10 March 1939 |
Fragmentary; most of the wall, bottom and rim missing with much of the vertical handle and one of the horizontal handles (one attachment preserved). Restored in plaster. Round-bodied pot with very short ... 10 March 1939 |
| Casserole: rather less than half missing, with one handle; restored in plaster. Rounded bottom, short angular shoulder, high slightly flaring rim, turned out at upper edge, and flanged inside, for a lid ... 10 March 1939 |
Most of the bottom missing, and small bits of rim and wall; restored in plaster. Rounded bottom, short rounded shoulder; high flaring rim, flanged for lid. Horizontal handles set on edge of rim and flaring ... 10 March 1939 |
| A single fragment preserves profile to floor and one handle. Low heavy torus ring foot; bulging wall, concave rim with slightly thickened lip; stout uptilted handle. Reserved: handle space and inside of ... March 1939 |
| Part of an amphora neck, short and with thick rounded lip.
Incised below rim inside:
Micaceous pinkish-buff clay with grits; lip and shoulder only glazed. Early Roman fill over strosis. Leica PD 1111-p ... 31 March 1939 |
| Part of a kylix base and stem. Sloping foot with rounded edge; rising to a hollow cone beneath. Ring around base of stem, with a scraped line around it. Reserved, line at junction of foot and stem; edge ... 31 March 1939 |
Most of rim and neck preserved with part of shoulder; wide flat rim with ridge at edge. High wide neck forming continuous curve to rounded shoulder. Three notched ridges around top of shoulder.
Coarse ... 15 April 1939 |
Mended from many pieces; one handle and two small pieces of wall missing; restored in plaster. Flat bottom, rounded wall drawn in slightly below; slightly projecting lip; two horizontal strap handles ... 15 April 1939 |
| Small piece of rim and part of floor missing. Nearly flat plate on low raised base; plain rim. Two horizontal band handles attached at edge of rim and tilted above it. A broad glaze band around outer edge ... 12 April 1939 |
Mended from two pieces; small bits missing. Low ring foot and plain rim, sloping slightly in; handle set at rim.
Fair black glaze; a ring and dot on the reserved bottom; the resting surface reserved, ... 4 April 1939 |
From the bottom of a cup-kotyle; moulded ring foot. Four palmettes at the center of the floor; two grooves around them, with smaller palmettes stamped between them lengthwise.
Good black glaze; resting ... 4 April 1939 |
Straight projecting rolled handle with a loop at the end. Probably from ladle or frying pan The shallow round concave bowl broken off. Small impressed rings at base of handle and in bowl.
Fine cooking ... 13 April 1939 |
Appears to preserve full height of the slightly flaring high mouth and plain lip of a jar. Incised oblique lines on outside.
Coarse gritty brown clay, largely fired black. Well 9, Neolithic, upper fill ... 6-13 March 1939 |
Intact save minor chips. Squat lekythos.
Dull flaky black glaze; bottom rough, reserved. Unfinished cistern, container 14. Leica, 82-25 ... March 1939 |
Mended from many pieces. Considerable portions of rim, body and one of handles missing, but profile complete. Restored in plaster. Slightly in-turned rim. Body tapers toward bottom; flaring foot.
Black ... March 1939 |
| Intact. Broad ring foot, steep slightly rounded walls thickened at the top to form rounded incurving lip.
Very heavy fabric. Good black glaze over all, except for scraped grooves at junction of foot ... 17 April 1939 |
Shallow rounded saucer, flattened at the bottom, and with plain rim rounded on top.
Good black glaze inside and on the outside to above the flat bottom. The floor much scraped. Round pit in rock. 816 ... 20 April 1939 |
| Preserved is part of the plain broad flat projecting rim with about half of a large semicircular spout set into the rim and projecting slightly beyond its edge. Three grooves around underside of spout ... 26 April 1939 |
| Part of rim and wall of pyxis missing; and part of the top of the lid, with about two-thirds of its downturned rim. Small hemispherical bowl on rather high heavy ring foot; high slightly in-sloping flange, ... 22 April 1939 |
Handle missing. Low squat body, trefoil lip; slightly indicated base, left rough from wheel.
Dull black glaze on outside and on interior of mouth; badly worn. Flaky buff clay. Cistern, lower fill. Leica, ... 6 May 1939 |
| About a third of the foot missing, with part of the floor and all of the rim. High moulded ring foot. In the medallion, which covers the entire floor, a cloaked youth, right, holding a thyrsos(?) in his ... 6 May 1939 |
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