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[Agora Deposit] M 17:2: Damaged urn cremation

Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XVI: PG). Bones discarded. Only the lower portion of the urn-hole was preserved in bedrock, roughly oval in outline, with a maximum preserved width at the top of 0.70m narrowing ... Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I ... Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 325 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 7, pp. 62-65, fig. 2.18, 2.19, pl. V.

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[Agora Deposit] M 16-17:1: Pit Tomb, Adult Inhumation

Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave II: SM). Unlined trench, roughly the size of the deceased, cut into bedrock to a depth of just over 1.50m. Oriented north-south, the tomb pit measured 1.69m in length (length ... Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric ... Hesperia XIV, 1945, p. 301, no. 54 (AA 9) ... Hesperia VII, 1938, pp. 324-325 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 1, pp. 45-49, figs. 2.5-2.7, 3.10, pl. 1.

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[Agora Deposit] M 17:3: Damaged Urn Cremation

Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (adult female). (In some records as Grave XXXI). The tomb was partly destroyed in antiquity; there are sherds of all periods down to Late Roman (and later) note din the fill immediately above it ... Middle Geometric I ... Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 325.

[Agora Deposit] J 18:8: Well

Well on the north slope of the Areopagus. Unfinished, probably because of hardness of rock, and refilled at once, perhaps with sanctuary dump and with collapsed rock from the shaft itself. Diameter 1.15m ... 3rd quarter of the 7th c. B.C ... 3rd quarter of the 7th c. B.C.

[Agora Deposit] M 18:3: Late Roman Tomb

Tomb at 53-54/ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ-ΛΗ (Late Roman), on the lower north slope of the Areopagus Nb. says ΛΕ-ΛΗ. Deposit list and deposit DB say: ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ ... 350-400 A.D ... Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 353-355, fig. 41 ... Agora VI, p. 99 ... Agora VII, p. 226.

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[Agora Deposit] N 16:1: Pit Tomb, Infant Inhumation

Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave III: SM). The close proximity and similarity of this tomb and tomb M 16-17:1 strongly suggests that they were intentionally laid out in relation to one another and were contemporary ... Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric ... Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 325 ... Hesperia 73 (2004), p. 26, n. 72.

[Agora Deposit] M 17:4: Well

Big well at 61/ΙΖ. A well on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus. Diameter 2m ... Ca. 520-475 and shortly after ... Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 242-243, figs. 24-25 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375 ... Agora IV, p. 242.

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[Agora Deposit] F 5:2: Sacrificial Pyre under Room 18 in House 3

Grave V, under room 18 in House 3, plus burned deposit at 94/IΘ. Identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR on Agoraios Kolonos: In southeast corner of house 3. 35 artifacts, bone and charred material in pit, ... Ca. 300-275 B.C ... Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 354-355 ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 17, n. 39 ... Agora IV, p. 238.

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[Agora Deposit] G 6:3: Rectangular Rock-Cut Shaft

A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several ... Ca. 575-480 B.C ... G/3,4-6/7,8

[Agora Deposit] T 27:1: Fill in Antechamber

Klepsydra: Filling in antechamber, behind the parapet of the Klepsydra. Dated to the time of the rebuilding of the springhouse after the Sullan sack, but containing earlier material. Coins: 31 May 1938 ... Second quarter of 5th c. to middle of 1st c. B.C ... Hesperia 44 (1975), p. 384 ... Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 225 ... Hesperia Suppl. 10 (1956), p. 157, no. 154.

[Agora Deposit] N 18:7: Well Not Completely Dug at 32/ΣΤ

Well at 32/ΣΤ ... Late 6th c. B.C ... N 18:7 ... N 18:7

[Agora Deposit] P 7:2: Well at 8/IA-IB

Well at 8/ΙΑ-ΙΒ, beneath the north colonnade of the Square Peristyle, just west of the north end of the Stoa of Attalos. Quite uniform fill. Diameter 1.15m. No P.O.U. Coins: 4 April 1938 #39 ... 650-600 B.C. 5th c. B.C ... -7.2m.

[Agora Deposit] N 20:7: Cistern at 67/ΙΗ

At 67/ΙΗ, at the northeast slope of the Areopagus. Cistern with drawshaft, 4.60m deep. The drawshaft had been cleared to bottom in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, and some of the fill in the main ... Most second half of 3rd c. B.C ... N 20:7 ... N 20:7

[Agora Deposit] H 7:4: Construction Filling

Filling inside N room of Temple of Apollo, including directly under the foundations of the N room ... Ca. 350 B.C. and earlier ... Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 102 ... Agora IV, p. 240 ... Agora XII, p. 392.

[Agora Deposit] P 8:5: Well

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 8 (1939), p. 212 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 376 ... Agora IV, p. 244.

[Agora Deposit] H 12:17: "Furnace" in House

From kiln in house of 7th c. B.C. (=Building A), to southeast of Tholos. Tholos Trench U, furnace ... 675-625 B.C ... From kiln in house of 7th c. B.C. (=Building A), to southeast of Tholos.

[Agora Deposit] G 12:20: Pits in Floor of Tholos

From disturbances in original floor of Tholos with ash and burning. Probably reflects the military and political conditions of 307 B.C. The broken pottery, both that left lying on the floor of the building ... Ca. 340-295 B.C ... Agora XII, p. 391 ... Agora XXIX, p. 453 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 59-60, 135.

[Agora Deposit] Q 18:1: Well at 19/ΝΒ

Well at 19/ΝΒ, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus ... 550-525 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 376 ... Agora IV, p. 244 ... Agora XII, p. 398.

[Agora Deposit] H 10:2: Pit in NE Corner of Metroon Pit Η

A pit, perhaps a well, extending beneath the foundations of [Building D, the Primitive Bouleuterion] the Hellenistic Metroon. Not completely dug due to its position. A dumped filling so far as dug, apparently ... Ca. 575-525 B.C ... H/6,7-10/16,17 ... -3.7m.

[Agora Deposit] H 12:8: Strosis

A strosis into which were set the foundations of house of 7th c. B.C. to SE of Tholos (=Building A and Trench W, layers h + i) ... 8th-7th c. B.C ... A strosis into which were set the foundations of house of 7th c. B.C. to SE of