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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 ... 1939 #1-#2, #3-#5
27 May ... 1939 # 8-#14
2 June 1939 # 3-#19
5 June 1939 #5-#8
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| Grave 7 in notebook. Area disturbed in Roman times; outlines of the shaft had been obliterated.
The northwest end, however, was preserved in a cutting in the rock of the sloping hillside. This cutting, ... 750-700 B.C ... Hesperia 14 (1945), pp. 306, no. 86, figs. 7, 8, pl. LIII (Grave XIX) ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 93-94, figs. 1, 64, 73 (Grave XIX). ... Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 29, fig. 27. |
Well (stone-curbed shaft) near middle of Tholos which served the prior building.
Period of Use dated to ca. 500-480(?) B.C., Upper fill dated to ca. 480-470 B.C. or soon after in Agora XXX (a gradual ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... Hesperia 8 (1939), pp. 229-232 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375 ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 449, 451. |
| Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXVII in notebook.
Two skulls and messy bones. Coins:
8 March 1939 #2 Neg. XV-74 (left) ... 8 March 1939
13 March 1939 ... Hesperia Suppl. 5 (1941), p. 5, fig. 1 (Grave 52). |
Accumulated debris on the west side of the market square.
Related layers added 1999/2000 (JWH), e.g. "Gravelly layer above burning", "Clearing Classical floor", "Lowest level above bedrock", "Below burning", ... First half of 5th c. A.D ... Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 209 ... #1-#4
8 March 1933 #1-#2
9 ... #4-#7 and #8
14 March 1933 |
| Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LXVII in notebook.
Crammed with bones (13 skulls): osteotheke. Coins:
13 March 1939 #26-#27 Neg. XV-86 ... 13-14 March 1939 ... D-F 7-8 |
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 ... Well at 30/ΛΒ |
| In area West of the Areopagus. Fills with many figurines and molds, possibly from a terracotta factory.
Twelve stamped amphora handles; no long-petal bowls; Type 54 A lamp Coins:
31 May 1939 #11
1 June ... Mostly 200-150 B.C ... Hesperia 83 (2014), p. 156, n. 51 ... Hesperia Suppl. 23 (1989), p. 69 ... Hesperia 34 (1965), p. 50. |
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 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 145-149. |
Well at 30/ΛΣΤ Coins (none useful)
25 May 1938 #3-#6
26 May 1938 #3-#4 ... Early 3rd cent and of 4th-6th cent. A.D ... Well at 30/ΛΣΤ |
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 8 (1939), p. 225 ... Hesperia 75 (2006) ... Hesperia 44 (1975), p. 384. |
Mycenaean Chamber Tomb W. of Circular Building (at Σ:30/ΛΕ?)
It had been badly disturbed by a fourth-century B.C. pit which cut into the northeast part of the chamber (rectangular, ca. 1.80m by 1.30m) ... Myc. III A 2 ... Hesperia Suppl. 43 (2009), pp. 103-108, figs. tables, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 (AA |
Roman Water Mill: construction fill in footing trench of mill race wall Coins:
24 April 1933 #2-#30, #39-#40, #43-#44, #46-#67, #69-#76, #82-#95
25 April 1933 #30, #32-#35, #37-#40, #42-#43, #45, #47 ... 450-475 A.D ... Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 88. |
Middle Stoa Building Fill (with filling to S) (See also Κ: H-I-J 14-15 and Λ: K-M 13-14)
This deposit is not definitive and must be considered with the above deposits before details are entered into database; ... To ca. 180 B.C ... Θ:24-30/Ζ-Ι ... Θ:8/Ζ ... Θ:27/Θ |
| Grave 19 in notebook. Bones only AA 3.
Length 2.15m; width 0.63m; depth 0.52m.
Woman' skeleton with head at north. Cover slabs piled at foot of grave, probably by the diggers of Well J 18:8, who rifled ... Late Geometric ... J 18:8, who rifled grave. |
Well at 67/ΛΓ on the northeast slope of the Areopagus. Connected with the same cistern system as O 20:2.
Dug as several fills but probably a continuous accumulation Coin
28 May 1938 #1 (?) Illegible N ... 300-250 B.C ... I. -14.30m to -15.30m. No independently datable material, but none of the pottery ... II. -11.00m to -14.30m. Drinking cups advanced over those in level I, but absence |
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 ... -8.4m. |
Hellenistic cistern, part of the same system as 94/ΝΣΤ (D 4:1) and connected with it by a passage. Later cleaned out for reuse and filled with destruction debris of the late 4th c. A.D. Coins:
23 March ... Second half 4th c. A.D ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), pp. 19, 153, n. 47. |
Well in Coletti Garden.
Diameter 1m. There were no traces of hand holes in its walls. At 5.2m depth below datum on the S-E side of the shaft, a small underground stream emptied into the well. The stratigraphy ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... to 8.30m, gray mud with ... through it. From 8.3m to 9m the |
Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.
Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C.
Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D ...
25 May 1935 #5-#10
27 May ...
29 May 1935 #1-#4
30 May ... earth)
5 June 1935 #1-#8 (from |
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