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Dumped filling of 6th c. A.D. Coins:
3 May 1939 #1-2 (red earth above well)
9 June 1939 #1
10 June 1939 #1
12 June 1939 #1-#5
13 June 1939 #1
19 June 1939 #1-#2, #3 (Dump)
7 May 1940 #1
9 May 1940 #1
27 ... Early 1st-5th c. A.D. POU |
Containers 1-ca. 139. The well shaft broken out into a large hole so that no sequence could be observed ... Mixed post-Herulian |
Containers ca. 140-207. From containers ca. 170 to bottom, catalogued objects seem to represent a gradual accumulation from 1st c. A.D. to mid-3rd c. Divisions between are arbitrary and therefore combined ... Mixed post-pre-Herulian |
Crescent-shaped cutting in bedrock at 47/ΙΓ; on the north slope of the Areopagus, slightly to the west of the dromos of the Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.
Dimensions of cutting : max. diameter ca. 2.50m.; depth ... Ca. 500-450 B.C.
400-350 B.C. |
Cistern (and passage) on the north slope of the Areopagus. Fill badly disturbed in modern and Turkish times. The few ancient sherds seem to be chiefly early Roman-1st c. B.C. (p. 256).
Some finds labeled ... 1st c. B.C. |
Cistern with two tunnels, the one entering its neck cut off by an early Roman well, the other, at the bottom not excavated.
Chamber conical in shape, with a depressed draw basin in the center of the floor ... Early Roman-3rd c. B.C. |
'Mouth and upper passage' on deposit list. Containers 1 and 2. Pottery in mouth of cistern in upper tunnel. Coins:
5 May 1939 #1
9 May 1939 #10-#11
12 May 1939 #4 ... 1st c. with earlier material |
'Upper fill' on deposit list. Containers 3-8. Terminus post quem in 190s given by coins. Some mixing with upper fill. Coins:
9 May 1939 #4, #6, #8
10 May 1939 #2-#3(?)
11 May 1939 #3
12 May 1939 #3
13 ... Ca. 225-175 B.C. |
'Lower fill' on deposit list. Containers 8-33, (34 mouth of lower passage). Coins:
9 May 1939 #1-#3, #5, #7, #9
10 May 1939 #1
11 May 1939 #1-#2
12 May 1939 #1-#2
13 May 1939 #2-#3(?)
15 May 1939 #1-#6 ... Ca. 250-215 B.C. |
| Mycenaean Small Chamber tomb.
The cist measures 1,90m E to W, 0.75-0.90m N to S, max. depth -1.30m. Nothing was found in it; cleaned in modern times and used as a cesspool. Some of the SW part of it had ... Myc. IIIA, early 14th c. |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave. Bones discarded.
Burial lies over dromos of Mycenaean chamber tomb N 21-22:1. The roots of a tree had upturned the bones, but the head probably lay at the northeast ... Middle Geometric II |
Refuse pit at 51/Ζ; it had been partly cut away at the north by the late Roman retaining wall; the dumped filling a homogeneous deposit of figured, black and plain wares. Red figure oinochoe in the style ... Ca. 450-420 B.C. |
Pit in bedrock (disturbed child's grave?). No bones or ashes. No lots.
No coins listed. P 14520 was certainly from the north end, doubtless a grave offering; few sherds (first half of 5th century) came ... Late 6th - early 5th c. B.C. |
Mouth and upper part of chamber cut away in modern times; two short passages, one to SW, encroaching on Mycenaean chamber tomb; here the builders apparently found the fill too soft for tunneling, so they ... Early third quarter of 3rd c. B.C. |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb occupies a considerable part of the western half of section ΕΕ; lies about half way up the north slope of the Areopagus towards its eastern end, just below the highest point of the ... Myc. III A:1 |
Pit at 48/ΚΕ; circular cutting in bedrock (diameter ca. 1m) ... Ca. 500-470 B.C. (?) |
East-West Street (63-64/ΙΣΤ, etc.)
Packing in line of ancient east-west street along Areopagus north slopes.
Lower fills, predominantly late 6th-early 5th c. B.C.
Middle fills, last quarter of the 5th ... Various levels and dates |
Trench at O/7,8-6/1,5. Layer 5 of Trench A cut in Rooms 1 and 2 of Greek House γ. Soft green clay with bones, ash, much pottery. Probably leveling fill ... Archaic |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXV. Adult female inhumation. Deposit summary and notebook write at 31/Θ-I ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Early Protogeometric |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.
Only the bottom 0.10 to 0.20m of the chamber was preserved along with the partial skeletal remains of two or three occupants. The plan revealed a square chamber (1.80m by 1.80m), ... Myc. III A 1:2 (14th c.) |
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