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Cistern shaft, part of cistern system in Η-Ι 16-17. Filling disturbed to bottom; general run of the pottery is to late Hellenistic, lamps as late as Knidos type. Finds from 60/ΙΘ-62/ΙΘ, 61/ΙΗ. "Some Arretine" ... 5 May 1932
18 June 1932 |
8/ΛΘ to 14/ΛΒ. Coins:
12 February 1932 #2-#3, #13-#14, #25-#28
13 February 1932 #8, #31-#33
15 February 1932 #7-#12, #13-#27, #28-#42
16 February 1932 #5-#10 ... Late Roman- Ca. A.D. 520-540 |
The data in the Deposit Notebook is presented by trench; an attempt is made here to accumulate data from similar layers across the trenches. Subdivisions:
.1=Post Hadrianic cleanup
.2=Marble working waste ... 2nd c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D. |
Fill to 6.50m., masses of stone, animal bones and coarse pottery with some unfinished poros sculpture at 6.50m. - a dump of early 3rd c. ... At 6.50m. begins use filling with numerous BHWJs and other water ... Late 1st c. to early 3rd cent. and of 4th and 5th cents |
Empty to 4.00m. From there to 9.20m. much coarse pottery, stucco fragments, animal bones, lead defixiones. ... The presence of fragments of stelae and architectural members near bottom point to dumped ... Late 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D. |
Above well at 48/ΙΕ (J 15:1) ... Early Roman |
Clay pit with clear light yellow clay thoroughly suitable for pottery making ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
| Upper mixed dumped fill (last quarter 3rd c.-4th c.) with Roman POU below 10.40m. Coins:
16 February 1937 #1 (disintegrated)
17 February 1937 #1 (disintegrated)
8 April 1937 #5-#10 (dump)
9 April 1937 ... 2nd half of 1st c.-first half of 3rd c. A.D. |
"Red Fill" (extending to bedrock or near, over most of area). Mainly first century after Christ with later disturbance. Coins:
17 April 1936 #10-#13
18 April 1936 #1
20 April 1936 #13-#17
21 April 1936 ... 1st-2nd c. A.D. |
Roman well re-used in Byzantine times. Subdivisions:
.1=0.00-13.80m.
.2=13.80-23.50m.
.3=23.50-25.00m ... Late 1st-early 2nd, 4th-5th, 11th centuries. |
| Dumped filling mostly of 3rd c. A.D., but dumped as late as 5th century. Nbp. 143: The fill in this cistern was of three kinds: to within .60m. of the floor plain broken bedrock with no sherds; then a ... 10-17 February 1937 |
Accumulated fillings in a system of underground drains at west end of section ΔΔ with northward continuation into and across Section Υ.
The filling in the "underground passages" in section ΔΔ appears to ... 3rd c. B.C.
2nd c A.D. |
Reused as part of a modern cistern; scanty remains of ancient fill towards bottom. No containers of pottery ... 1st c. A.D. |
| Use filling of middle of 1st to late 6th c. (Roman Group M); dumped filling of 9th and 10th c. Down to a depth of about 21.00m. the fill of the well contained very few objects, the latest of them being ... 1st-6th c. A.D. |
Filling of a well on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus, dug early in the 1st c. B.C. [construction fill]; in use into the the 2nd c. A.D.[well fill] (H Ms.) No apparent stratification.
Hellenistic ... 2nd c. A.D. |
Appears to be use filling from 3rd c. A.D., pre-Herulian into 4th c. or later. Lined with tiles. Coins:
6 May 1937 #1-#2 (disintegrated) ... Early 3rd-early 6th c. |
The cistern at 70/ΝΗ and the channel [65/ΞΑ] between chambers 70/ΝΗ and 63/ΞΒ seem to have a uniform dumped filling of first half 2nd c. A.D ... First half of 2nd c. A.D. |
Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
Chamber of water system with one blind tunnel and two cisterns connected by tunnel. Pottery consistent throughout, late Hellenistic. Late 2nd c. B.C.
Ten stamped amphora handles. Most of bowls long-petal ... 100-75 B.C. |
Well at 69/Ο Coins:
29 May 1935 #8
30 May 1935 #1-#2 11th c? ... Byzantine-Mid to late 2nd c. |
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