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| 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. |
Cistern at 72/ΛΘ. Under NW corner of Roman House H. Stucco-lined, bottle-shaped cistern, poor condition. Diameter at bottom -2m.
Two tunnels, one leading east, one west, ca. 1.65m high and 0.80m across ... 150-110 B.C. with a few earlier pieces |
Cistern System #3: East Chamber at 69/Λ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/ΛΣΤ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos ... 175-125 B.C. |
| Cistern in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Simple, flask-shaped chamber withdraw-shaft; no tunnels. Mouth cut away in Byzantine times. Lower filling, 3rd c. B.C. Coins:
25 ... 25-30 April 1947 |
Pit (= collapsed cistern). Fill mixed, late Hellenistic to early Roman. The cistern floor has an E-W channel, no doubt running from the pit at 107/Ζ to the well at 107/ΙΓ (B 21:24). Coins:
10 June 1939 ... 150-100 B.C. |
| 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. |
| Mended from many fragments; one handle, and parts of rim, neck and body, missing; restored in plaster. Ring base; long neck, flaring at rim; twisted rising handles.
Elaborate ornamentation. Shoulder pattern ... 22 April 1932 |
| Mended from many fragments; complete, save for part of rim and a few pieces from body. Closely resembles Pfuhl (1923), fig. 753, in shape and decoration. The principle differences lie in the twisted handles ... 22 April 1932 |
One handle and chips from rim missing; mended and restored in plaster. Flaring ring foot with scraped groove on outside; squat body; high neck; groove at base of neck; overhanging rim; twisted handles ... 11 August 1970 |
Mended from many fragments. Rim, wall and base fragments missing. Grooved base; wide flaring rim.
Decoration in added clay and white with incision. On shoulder, checkerboard panel between diminishing ... 1 August 1957 |
About half preserved, to the shoulder, with most of one handle; restored in plaster. Twisted handles, with a relief mask at the base, and a raised lump to each side of the upper attachment. Decoration ... 7-9 June 1939 |
All of the rim, one handle, and fragments of the body restored. Ring foot; very squat, slightly angular body; twisted handles. Decoration in thinned clay paint and white. On the neck, bands and ivy tendrils; ... 28-30 April 1947 |
Upper part of neck, one handle, and fragments from wall missing. Restored in plaster. Twisted handles with masks at the lower attachments. On the neck, jewelled festoon; leaf above; on the shoulder alternating ... 12 June 1936 |
| Rotroff, S ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The second of two volumes on the Hellenistic fine ware unearthed in excavations in the Athenian Agora, this book presents the Hellenistic wheelmade table ware and votive vessels found between 1931 and ... 1997 |
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