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Top slightly broken by 19th century disturbance. Built of soft mortar and stones, lined with stucco. Diameter at bottom (inside) 1.05m; at (maximum) center 1.18m.
Fill soft and green with consistency of ... 16th-17th century A.D ... Q/14,15-6/7 |
Rubble and mortar pithos built over and into line of zig-zag drain. Excavated upside-down. Loose fill. No coins ... 18 A.D with mostly 16 A.D. c ... Turkish Pithos at Q/4,5-5/14,15. |
Mycenaean Well at Q/8-9;23/2-3.
Small pieces, few joins. From the lowest levels a few somewhat larger pieces, from jars suited to drawing and transporting water, but no characteristic POU fill.
Proportion ... LH IIIC ... Q/8,9-23/10,11 |
Dumped fill in a shaft which served as means of access leading to a water channel south of the Stoa of Attalos. Coins:
29 June 1933 #1 (disintegrated)
29 April 1936 #1-#3
4 May 1936 #1 ... Early 1st c. A.D ... Q 13:1 ... Q 13:1 |
Great Drain and Pit at 55-56/ΙΗ-ΙΖ (Roman Group K). Coins
8 June 1933 #4
9 June 1933 #5-#6
10 June 1933 #1-#12, #13-#16
13 June 1933 #1-#25, #26-#29
14 June 1933 #3-#4
15 June 1933 #1-#5, #6-#8
17 June ... Mid 3rd century ... #1-#12, #13-#16
13 June 1933 #1-#25, #26-#29
14 June 1933 #3-#4
15 June 1933 #1 |
Well in Stoa Terrace opposite Shop 5.; small amount of pottery. Estimated Grid ... 6th c. B.C ... Q/9,10-11/3,4 |
Mycenaean burial, disturbed (Piers 12-13 east). Plan unclear.
Bones discarded.
It was found in the trench for the east stylobate of the Square Building. It was so badly disturbed by the Classical builders ... Myc. IIIA:2 ... Q 9:1 ... Q 9:1 |
Well at 19/ΝΒ, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus ... 550-525 B.C ... Q 18:1 ... Q 18:1 |
Filling of S outer foundation of Square Building.
310-275 B.C., with substantial amount of residual early material. Coins:
25 August 1953 #1-#3 ... 325-300 B.C. (?) ... Q 10:1 ... Q 10:1 |
East (service) courtyard. A break ca. 540 was followed by an accumulation of nearly a meter of snail shells, and on top a small amount of pottery running down to the end of the 6th century. Coins(?): cf ... POU mid 3rd to late 6th c ... Q/15,16-19/13,14 |
Pit at 52/ΞΕ ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... Q 20:1 ... Q 20:1 |
Cistern chamber in the area of the southeast Temple, the mouth cut back in antiquity ... Late 4th - early 3rd c. B.C ... Q 16:1 ... Q 16:1 |
Pit in bedrock at SE corner of cut at N end of Stoa Terrace.
Small irregular pit, extending under Stoa foundations, containing a number of black-figured pieces ... Late 6th c. B.C ... Q 7:1 ... Q 7:1 |
Narrow trench in bedrock. Cf. Section Σ, p. 4358 (nb. XXII) same trench, same filling.
EV notes that the cutting probably.. to the "narrow cutting in bedrock". The filling seemed to be ca. 425-420 B.C ... Third Quarter to Last Quarter of 5th c. B.C ... Q 8:1 ... Q 8:1 |
Pit under floor of "Storeroom" south of fish mosaic in Roman House H.
Small peanut-shaped pit ca. 0.50x0.90. No association with architecture. Small group of votive miniatures ... 4th c. B.C. ? ... Q 21:1 ... Q 21:1 |
Just east of Building II near its south end. The tiles were in place.
Upper filling (to 3.00m.) of Hellenistic-Byzantine dump all discarded.
POU fill a gradual accumulation of typical Justinianian ware ... 6th c. A.D. POU-7th c. A.D ... Q 17:1 ... Q 17:1 |
Well by Stoa Pier 3.
Mouth was discovered in 1950 (p. 2273). Between first and second POU; no joins between the groups, which were separated by nearly sterile fill. No apparent chronological difference ... Mid-2nd c. B.C ... Q 12:1 ... Q 12:1 |
Filling over Floor of Square Peristyle (beneath Stoa).
122 stamped amphora handles. Many parallels with handles from cistern M 21:1. Latest coin dates ca. 200. latest lamp types 33 A and 34 A. Fragment ... 200 B.C ... Q 8-9:1 ... Q 8-9:1 |
Cistern System: Stoa Terrace at Piers 11-12. Probably abandoned at the time of the construction of the Square Peristyle ... 350-325 B.C (?) ... Q 9-10:1 ... Q 9-10:1 |
Cistern at 21/ΙΗ
Period of use fill dated to ca. 375-350 B.C., Upper fill dated to mostly first half of 6th c. B.C. in Agora XXX ... Ca. 375-350 B.C ... Q 13-14:1 ... Q 13-14:1 |
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