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Dumped fillings thrown in during second quarter of 1st c. B.C. containing mostly debris resulting from Sulla's sack in 86 B.C.
Agora XXIX, p. 464: Four fills distinguished during excavations ... but seemingly ... Late 2nd c. and early 1st c. B.C. POU; 110-75 B.C ... Sulla's sack in 86 B.C.
Agora ... but seemingly with no ... #6-#17
11 March 1938 #3-#12
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Investigations within the Stoa of Zeus, the north part, various levels.
Notebook references: Stoa Trench E Layers IV and V, Stoa Pits A, B and C, and Layers I and II of area between back wall and retaining ... 5th c. B.C ... Agora |
| Pyre in Room 2, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 12).
In courtyard. Artifacts, bone, ash, carbon, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The rectangular pit was cut into a white strosis with marble chips (ΠΠ ... 315-300 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 36, pp. 145, 146, figs. 4, 67, 74, 75 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 128-129, pl. 53 c (Pyre 12) ... Agora XII, p. 384. |
Found in 13/06/1935.
Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup, perhaps in one of the public buildings near the SW corner of the square ... Ca. 520-490 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 8, p. 399, no. 12a ... Hesperia 18 (1949), p. 345, no. 163 ... Agora IV, p. 237. |
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 Suppl. 10 (1956), p. 157, no. 154 ... Delos XXVII, pp. 311 (under no. E 29), p. 382 ... Hesperia 12 (1943), pp. 240-241. |
Well 19: Latest Mycenaean. Near Klepsydra. Diameter mouth 1.25-1.35m., narrowing about a third of the way down and becoming rectangular, 0.90-1.0 to a side. Muddy at m; water collecting rapidly at 8.m ... Late Mycenaean ... Agora |
Horos terrace trench Layer III, under line of tiles. Coins:
19 March 1953 #16-#17 ... 2nd c. A.D ... Agora |
No finds. Estimated Grid ... Agora |
| Grave 14 in notebook.
Length of shaft 2.12m; width 0.46m; depth from cover 0.60m. Man's skeleton stretched NE-SW with head at NE. Offering at foot of shaft, with the skyphos in the mouth of the pitcher ... 750-725 B.C ... Agora |
| Geometric Burial. Burial B in notebook.
Overlay E 14:13. Skeleton lay on smoothed bedrock, head southward, arms folded on chest, hands below chin. Legs, cut off by later disturbance, probably bent, with ... Late Geometric ... Agora |
Lined with small stones.
Difference noted between the pottery from the top and that from the bottom. Coins:
11 April 1933 #13 (disintegrated)
12 April 1933 #1-#6 (disintegrated) (Coin no. 1. N 18194 found ... Turkish ... Agora |
| Classical Pyre between floors in Room 2 of Classical Building II.
Below floor at 51.66 7masl. Broken pyre pots in fill of ash and carbon, from 51.541-51.513, resting on next floor at 51.513 masl, next ... Ca. 400-390 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 6, pp. 108, 109, figs. 22-24, 29, 30. |
Pit along house wall foundations to south = footing trench. Uncertain context, possibly no later than ca. 425 B.C ... 450-400 B.C ... possibly no later than ca. 425 |
Rodney S. Young ... Shallow round pit scraped out of bedrock. Grave 18 in notebook. The confusion here is that P 5347 found in the grave was catalogued in B' but the large bowl fragment (P 6482) was catalogued in B (see nb ... 700-650 B.C ... Agora |
| 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 ... Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 305, no. 82 (Grave XXXI) ... Agora VIII, pp. 126-127. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 4 in notebook. Amphora, no other pots but carbonized remains of food offerings. Over urn two stone slabs, on top, mass of small stones containing Late Geometric sherd ... Late Geometric ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 24-26, figs. 1, 12-13 (Grave IV) ... Agora VIII, p. 127. |
Well in Stoa Terrace opposite Pier 2.
Diameter 1.10m. Well cut with steps on both sides. No water. was probably not much used, although part of a well head was found at 4.50m Estimated Grid ... Into 600-575 B.C ... sides. No water. was probably |
Well near west edge of level area south of the Hephaisteion. Dumped filling thrown in near end of 4th. c. but by far the greater part belonging to the 30 years before 350 B.C.
Diameter of shaft 0.98m ... Ca. 380-350 B.C ... Hesperia 24 (1955), pp. 179-180, under no. 7 ... Agora IV, p. 234 ... Agora XII, p. 384. |
| Grave 21 in notebook. Grave twice disturbed. Of the skeleton only the thigh bones were found. No offerings.
Objects listed in nb. as from Grave 21 are taken to be with grave 20 (probably pyre objects) ... Late Geometric ... Agora |
| Grave 20 in notebook. Objects recorded in nb. from Grave 21 (earlier and disturbed by Grave 20) are included here. A pyre [using pieces of pots from Grave 21] was probably burned beside grave 20 and some ... Late Geometric ... G 12:24 ... G 12:24 |
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