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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. |
Well at 73/Μ on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter of 0.90m. It seems to have been abandoned because of the very soft stereo that kept falling in from all sides. Many pieces of terracotta ... Ca. 430-420 B.C. |
Well at 73/ΜΓ.
The upper walls were of small stones but changed to tiles at a depth of ca. 12m which suggests that it perhaps was originally built in Late Roman times ... Byzantine |
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 at 63/ΞΒ and channel leading west from cistern to west edge of section; also manhole at 57-58/ΞΔ-ΞΕ.
Possible further connection with other cisterns, e. g. at east edge of section Υ and/or cistern ... |
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. |
Well at 69/ΟΒ (Late 5th c.)
Lower fill dated to 420-400 B.C. in Agora XXX.
There were no use filling and the well was apparently not a success as a water-supply: there was no concentration of water-jars ... 420-400 B.C. |
| Cistern at 75/ΜΓ connected with cistern N 18:3 by tunnel.
Only coin is Bioiotian dating between 220 and 197. Only indications of date are 1st c. lamps, two long-petal bowls, and fragments of early Roman ... 1st. c. B.C. |
| Cistern at 79/ΜΗ.
A well dug through at a later date destroyed all cistern filling.
No filling preserved. No typed list ... Probably 3rd cent. B.C. |
| Cistern at 77/Μ on lower north slopes of the Areopagus. Bottom diameter of 2m connected by tunnel to cistern M-N 18:1.
Only stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 240. Latest coin dates about 200 ... 3rd c. B.C.-196/190 B.C. |
Well dug through N 18:1 (cistern at 79/ΜΗ) on the lower north slopes of Areopagus; the cistern was the northern chamber of a system; the southern chamber is at 84/ΝΣΤ (N 19:1).
A single dumped deposit ... 3rd-4th c. A.D. |
| Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter at bottom -3.20m Upper fill: Latest coins ... Second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. |
Baskets 22-53 (containers 21-47). Abandonment of cistern. Includes finds from NW channel leading out of 84/ΝΣΤ (containers 50-51). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from ... 125-86 B.C. |
Baskets 54-56 (containers 48-49). Construction of cistern ... Early 3rd c. B.C. |
Hermione ... Grandjean, Groups I, II.
[Grandjean, p. 43 (emission 11).(N 19:1)] fragment Head of Demeter l., wearing wheat wreath. E-P Torch; all in wheat wreath ... second quarter 4th century B.C. |
| Patrai ... BMC 7--13.
[(BMC 8--11)] Head of bearded Herakles r. ΜΗΤΠΟΔΡΟC ΜΟC ΠΑΤΡ l. of Athena, advancing r., with shield and lowered spear; at r., owl. C 103, 85-2-23 ... ca. 146--14 B.C. |
Thouria ... Pierced with 4 mm. hole
Heavily damaged.
Cf. BMC Pelopon., nos. 5-6. [- - - - - - - -] Bust of Caracalla(?) r. [θOYPIAθΩN] λ-A l. and r. of Athena stg. l., with phiale and spear ... 198-217 A.D. |
Sardis ... BMC 10--21 Head of Apollo r., laur. ςAPδI|ANωN Club; [monogram] below; all in oak wreath ... after 133 B.C. |
| View of strosis, from west ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Well head at 61/ΝΑ ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Room 3, House A, looking southwest ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Inside of well at -5.20 meters, looking east ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| South wall of House with downspout ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Downspout ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| 55/ΝΗ-ΝΘ, looking west ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| General ground level west of House A, looking west, showing wall trench for west wall ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Southwest corner of Room 3, Stroseis 1 and 2 ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Wall trench, looking east ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| End of east channel, looking southeast ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bedrock along ΝΖ line. a = piece of fallen bedrock removed. Looking east ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Turkish strosis at 55-56/ΝΕ-Ξ ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Drain 3, looking south ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Drain 3, from above, showing last cover tile against socle ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
a) Top fill to -4m, ca. 375 B.C. Black glaze fragments and miscellaneous. None thrown out.
b) -4m to -6m. Partly mended; pots mostly black glaze including stamped and some figured.
c) Lamps and loom weights ... |
a) -4m to -6m Selected black glaze and some finer sherds, including stamped and some figured. Some discarded.
b) -6m to -6.60m.
c) -6.60m to -6.80m. |
a) Selected sherds; black glaze; stamped; figured and a few coarse. Levels -7.30m το -8.15m.
b) Selected sherds; black glaze; stamped; figured and a few coarse. Levels -8.15m to -8.60m.
c) Selected sherds; ... |
Storage amphora fragments ... March 1937 |
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