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Cistern at 53/ΝΕ, bottle-shaped, stucco-lined, in the east aisle of the peristyle of Roman House H (courtyard of Greek House G, just west of andron).
Lower diameter 2.73m.
Homogenous fill all apparently ... Into early 2nd century B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), pp. 73, 100, nn. 15, 116 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), p. 174 ... Agora XXII, p. 106. |
North of Eleusinion: Loose fill in pit outside Roman Building. 14 inventoried items, 22 objects, 325 sherds.
Objects : terracottas; handmade object; large figurine; lamps.
Early ware : Gray Minyan; Mycenaean; ... 6th c. B.C. and earlier ... Agora |
| Pyre in north central room of house, measuring 0.50m east-west by 0.35m north-south. Pottery, bone, and burnt material in pit dug into layer IIb (crushed bedrock floor: lot Ω 464, 4th c.) and covered by ... 350-325 B.C ... Agora |
Diameter of top of well 0.80m.
An early well east of Roman Building, north of Temple of Ares and thus in the region of the Mycenaean cemetery. Sherds almost entirely Mycenaean with nothing later and a ... Mycenaean ... Hesperia 92 (2023), pp. 115, 173, 174, n. 257, fig. 1 ... Agora XIII, pp. 253-254, 274, pl. 61. |
Destruction fill in octagonal room of Gymnasium and Rooms to North; also basement room F of late Roman Gymnasium ... Late Roman ... Agora XXXIV, pp. 14-15, 184. |
Filling on original floor of Primitive Bouleuterion = Building D.
Metroon pit η. H 10:2 is also contemporary with the construction of the building ... Third quarter 6th c. B.C ... Agora |
A well in room A of the Archaic House. Well with very irregular outline, cut down in the bedrock some 10m NE of the Tholos. Its filling yielded a handful of plain potsherds and the oinochoe P 13256 of ... Sub-Mycenaean(?) ... Hesperia 92 (2023), pp. 115, 120, 173, 174, n. 46, fig. 1 ... Agora XIII, pp. 254-255, 274, pl. 61. |
Well under Poros Building Drain at 62/ΛΣΤ, west of the Areopagus. Digging abandoned at 6.10m due to a collapse of the soft bedrock at the west. Small amount of supplementary filling was added in the upper ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 174 ... Agora IV, p. 237 ... Agora X, p. 67. |
Well 8: Archaic. On the northwest slope of the Acropolis.
Depth from surface of rock, -16.10m.
Diameter top ca. 0.90; bottom ca 0.80m. Water level, ca. -9m ... Late 6th - early 5th c. B.C ... Agora |
| Pyre in layer "9d" in SW corner of Room 6 of Greek House δ. Ashes and fragments of small bones ... Ca. 225 B.C ... Agora |
| Well South of Soft Yellow Poros Foundation. Dumped filling of a collapsed well, that, due to hazardous conditions, could not be cleared below- 2.50m. The well was partly cut on the east side by a Byzantine ... Protogeometric-Early Geometric II, ca. 850 B.C ... Agora XXXI, pp. 107, 230, fig. 4 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 29, pp. 268-281, 542-543, figs. 2.174-2.178, 3.29, 3.30. |
Evidence of stratification into five layers, although joins between the layers. Layer VI added when the construction of the Roman building above required it. No subdivisions assigned.
Flask-shaped cistern ... Early 3rd-late 2nd c. B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), pp. 15, 17, 18, 71, 153, nn. 32, 7 ... Agora IV, p. 238 ... Agora XII, p. 389. |
| A flask-shaped storage pit or cellar, cut in the rock at the south edge of the levelled top of Kolonos Agoraios. Filled late in first quarter of 6th. c. B.C. (2.95m from east to west by 2.70m from north ... First quarter 6th. c. B.C ... Agora |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 5 in notebook.
The grave had been somewhat disturbed by the digging of Well B. The hydria lay on its side; in it was found the skeleton of a small child lying on its side with the knees drawn up ... Late 8th-early 7th c. B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 26-28, figs. 1, 14-15 (Grave V) ... Agora VIII, p. 127. |
A very homogeneous dumped filling and no period of use. Apparently a failure as a well.
T 263-T 289 resorted and reduced August 1967. Cf. BI 157 "from behind the curbing of the well by Stoa pier 3." Estimated ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 15-17 ... Agora XII, p. 392 ... Agora XXI, p. 98. |
| Pyre in layer 8a in SW corner of Room 7 of Greek House δ.
Oval pyre; 0.60 (n-s)x 0.35 (e-w).
The pyre was covered by the surface of layer 8 and extended slightly into layer 9 below it. Small bone fragments, ... 325-300 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 1, pp. 98-100, figs. 6, 7, 15-18 ... Agora XXIX, p. 467. |
| Stucco-lined bottle-shaped cistern, with tunnel and subsidiary manhole, in SW Baths, Room Α 10. Homogeneous dumped fill, mostly of mold-made bowls and and molds for terracotta figurines. Sixteen stamped ... 225-190 B.C ... Coins:
13 May 1969 #1-#11
14 May 1969 #1-#9
15 May 1969 #1-#11
16 May 1969 |
| Grave XVII in notebook = RSY Grave 15.
Only lower half of skeleton preserved. Bones discarded? ... Last quarter of the 6th. c. B.C ... Grave XVII in notebook = RSY Grave 15.
Only lower half of skeleton preserved. |
| Mycenaean Grave.
One of the first Mycenaean burials found in the Agora. It consisted of a regular cist, carefully cut with vertical sides and a flat bottom, measuring 1.90m by 0.55m. There were apparently ... LH III (c. 1200) ... Agora |
Unfinished well cut in bedrock to the southwest of the Tholos; dumped filling containing much material of the 7th c. B.C. but extending into the 6th ... 7th-ca. 570 B.C ... Hesperia 15 (1946), pp. 125, 136, nos. 6, 34 ... Agora IV, p. 238 ... Agora VIII, p. 126. |
Investigations in the Hellenistic Metroon, various levels. Stoa Pits A, B, C, D, E, F, H and I (various layers).
Locations include:
SW corner of Primitive Bouleuterion; from contemporary filling alongside ... 8th-6th c. B.C ... Agora |
| Gerald V. Lalonde ... Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female with fetus/neonate. One box with burnt animal bones is stored with the skeleton AA 302 in drawer 97.
Objects also recorded frm Section ΣΤ. PD 1692, PD 1807 ... Early Geometric II, 850 B.C ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 15, pp. 124-176, figs. 2.70-2.100, 3.21-3.24, pls. VI, |
| Well A, early 5th c. B.C. Near the Agora Boundary Stone, northwest corner of Middle Stoa; diameter at top 0.92m, widening to 1.15m and more below. Shaft neatly faced with stones to a depth of 0.70m below ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... Agora |
Filling of Middle Drain (Tr. H+F in Section Ζ). Sand and gravel filling of the old course of the west branch of the Great Drain, a large (ca. 1.00m. deep and 1.30m. wide) underground channel in the area ... 150-100 B.C ... Agora |
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 ... Hesperia 45 (1976), pp. 15-19, pls. 1-4 ... Agora X, pp. 67, 135-136 ... Agora XII, p. 384. |
Square Peristyle (Square Building) Constructions fill + other (square peristyle area); fragmentary and with some earlier material but in the main, where undisturbed, a homogenous deposit. Coins:
26 May ... Βefore 300 B.C ... Agora |
| A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several ... Ca. 575-480 B.C ... Agora |
| 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 ... Agora |
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 ... Agora |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 2. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole). In some records as XXIII.
Variously labeled as grid 7/Δ, 7/Γ and 7/Γ-Δ.
Rectangular pyre trench cut through earth into bedrock, with only the lowest 0.04m surviving ... Transitional Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 9, pp. 67-69, 529-530, figs. 2.14, 2.21, 2.22, 3.15, 3.16, pl. |
| 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 ... Hesperia 9 (1940), pp. 274-291, fig. 15 ... Agora VIII, p. 130 ... Agora XIII, pp. 158-169, 274, pls. 29-33, 65, 67, 75, 77, 80. |
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 ... Agora |
| Evelyn Lord Smithson ... Grave 3: (Grave XXVII: EG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult male. Carbonized figs and grapes included in inventoried objects (no number). [JP]
"Craftsman-Warrior" tomb: combination of weapons and ... Early Geometric I ... AgoraPicBk 24 (1998), pp. 10-11, figs. 14, 15 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 13, pp. 104-118, 531-533, figs. 2.55-2.64, 3.18-3.20, pl. V. |
Courtyard Well (R/15-13/20).
The well went out of use as a result of the Herulian sack of 267 A.D. in the upper part of the well the well-head itself was found, one of the finest in the Agora collection ... 27 June-15 July 1975 ... Courtyard Well (R/15-13/20).
The well went out of ... of the finest in the Agora |
| Homer A. Thompson ... PG grave to NW of Stoa Pier 19 (Tomb no. 5 in notebook). In some records as Grave XLII.
It consisted of a rectangular pit, oriented north-south, cut into bedrock. The sides of the pit were lined and the ... Earlier-Developed Protogeometric ... Agora |
Drain in corridor of Poros Building. Deposit is from the period of use of the drain. Cf. also containers 140 and 602 ... Late 5th-early 4th c. B.C ... Agora |
Now I-O 15:1. Asterisk: K 15:1* ... K 15:1 ... K 15:1 |
Estimated Grid ... H 12:15.4 ... H 12:15.4 |
Estimated Grid ... H 12:15.2 ... H 12:15.2 |
No finds. Estimated Grid ... H 12:15.3 ... H 12:15.3 |
Valerian Wall, undisturbed contents: Lower stretch.
Not on concordance, not on cardex neither. No info. Asterisk: R 15-16* ... Agora |
Marble Chip Fill at 67-69/ΚΑ-ΚΖ (now C 19:5). Asterisk: C 19:15* ... Agora |
Above well at 48/ΙΕ (J 15:1) ... Early Roman ... Agora XXXII, p. 300. |
Pottery discarded ... Mixed to Roman, 3rd c. A.D ... D 15:4.1 ... D 15:4.1 |
Green and sandy fill in foundation. Coins:
15 May 1936 #1-#5 ... 4th c. B.C ... Agora |
Hoard of coins of King Otho ... Agora |
Pithos at 15-17/ΠΕ-ΠΣΤ. Coins:
9 March 1937 #6-#8
16 March 1937 #15-#17 ... 8-16 March 1937 ... Pithos at 15-17/ΠΕ-ΠΣΤ |
Well N ... Middle Geometric ... Agora |
Late Roman fills on line of Dromos xx ... Late Roman ... Q-R 14-15 ... Q-R 14-15 |
No description in Deposit folders ... Geometric ... G 15:5 ... G 15:5 |
16 March 1957 pottery discarded nb.p. 122 ... 20-21 June 1947 ... Agora |
Foundry dumps north of Church of Holy Apostles. Coins
27 March 1952 #3-#6
28 March 1952 #1-#3
29 March 1952 #1-#7
14 April 1952 #15-#17
15 April 1952 #7
22 April 1952 #5-#6
29 April 1952 #1
9 May 1952 ... Agora |
Well at 15/ΝΒ Coin
18 April 1938 #1 ... 18-20 April 1938 ... Ψ:15/ΝΒ |
Coins:
20 February 1932 #1-#2 ... 4th c., with Roman intrusion ... Agora |
Dumped fill in shaft. Estimated Grid ... Byzantine ... Agora |
3rd. to mid-2nd. c. B.C ... B 15:1.1 ... B 15:1.1 |
Deposit of black glazed table ware found with a mass of bones, iron waste and burning. Coins (from above Hellenistic/associated floor):
7 April 1948 #10-#11 ... 375-325 B.C ... Agora |
Well at 96/Ι in arm of cistern at 94/Θ (F 15:2). Probably the rebuilding of an earlier well.
P 3149, P 3150, P 3154 are jars from packing in cistern arm; construction fill - early Roman.
P 4588 is listed ... Second half of 3rd c. A.D.=POU ... Well at 96/Ι in arm of cistern at 94/Θ (F 15 ... 15:2 ... Coins:
27 February 1934 #14-#15
28 February 1934 #15
1 March 1934 #21-#30
2 March |
| Coins:
22 May 1937 #1 ... 425-400 B.C ... B 15:1.2 ... B 15:1.2 |
Called a Middle Helladic Well in the notebook ... Middle Helladic ... Agora |
Coins:
15 March 1934 #6 ... 6th-7th c. A.D ... Agora XXI, p. 99. |
| Margaret Crosby ... Grave 1 (Grave XXVI: EG) Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult male?
[JP]
Boots or Booties Grave. Near the west branch of the Great Drain, about 100m to the southwest of the Agora horos inscription ... Early Geometric I ... Agora |
Hellenistic Fills South of Middle Stoa (1954) (cf. K-M 13-14, etc) (unsolved)
This deposit is not definitive and must be considered with the above deposits before details are entered into database; left ... Agora |
Well at NW corner of Church of Holy Apostles ... 6-14 July 1954 ... Agora |
Sandy Intrusion. Coins:
15 May 1933 #1-#25 A. Walker coin deposit ... 2nd c. A.D ... Ζ:15/ΙΗ |
Pocket in cobble paving in road west of Fountain House ... 1st c. A.D ... Agora |
Coins:
16 April 1934 #2
17 April 1934 #1 ... Late Roman- Ca. A.D. 400 ... Agora XXI, p. 98 ... Agora XXXII, p. 299. |
Irregular Pit in Bedrock, ca. 35/ΙΕ Coins:
28 May 1951 #4 ... 600-550 B.C ... Agora |
Clay pit with clear light yellow clay thoroughly suitable for pottery making ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D ... Agora XXXII, p. 300. |
Irregular pit in bedrock; deposit chiefly of terracotta figurines, with a small amount of pottery ... 6th c. B.C ... Agora XXIII, p. 330. |
Diameter 0.95m; water level -9.10m.
Plais shaft cut in stereo from bottom of slender flask-shaped cistern. Scanty fill from house destruction in 5th c. A.D.; Christian lamps; unfinished statuette of Castor ... Late Roman ... Agora |
Grave 15 ... Dark Ages - Byzantine ... Agora |
Catch Basin in Building P, Room 7. Coins:
26 April 1948 #20-26 ... 3rd. c. A.D. to pre-Herulian ... B 15:3 ... B 15:3 |
Slag pit in front of South Stoa II. The filling consisted ... of a very miscellaneous lot of stone and marble. ... In among the stones was a loose filling of ash and charcoal and iron slag ... (nbpp. 6510, ... Second half 1st c. A.D ... Agora |
Brown fill (Lebes fill) over bedrock, (28)30-32/Δ-Ε. Some later disturbances. Coins:
1 March 1932 #9-#10 ... Early 6th c. B.C ... Agora XXIII, p. 332. |
Well E (diameter 1.10-1.20m) just outside the northwest corner of the southwest Fountain House.
Dug initially as a pit (J 15:2) partially covered by an early Roman wall ... Early 7th c. B.C ... Agora VIII, p. 129. |
Well at 115/ΣΤ (all the 5th c. fills of 116/ΣΤ). The lower part of the shaft contained a heavy deposit of pottery and other objects of the late archaic period, both coarse and finer wares; probably a post-Persian ... Ca. 500-480 B.C.-Roman ... Agora X, p. 67 ... Agora XII, p. 387 ... Agora XXIII, p. 330. |
House N, Room 4: Fillings in and over floors (Layers 7 and 8). Lower level probably antedating the building of the Great Drain in this area; the upper level apparently contemporary with remodeling of the ... 425-400 B.C ... B 19:15 ... B 19:15 |
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa ... 1st c. A.D ... O 15 |
Part of cistern system at 94/Θ. Coins:
12 March 1934 #7-#9
14 March 1934 #38-#41 ... 275-200 B.C ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XVII in notebook. Many tumbled bones. Neg. KK 347 ... 22 February 1939 ... E 7:15 ... E 7:15 |
Coins:
15 June 1939 #1 ... 15 June 1939 ... Coins:
15 June 1939 #1 |
| Lucy Talcott ... Light-boned person. Bones discarded. No grave goods ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 4, pp. 53-56, figs. 2.11, 3.12. |
Turkish well at 14-15/ΛΓ Marbles from walls not included ... April 1936 ... Turkish well at 14-15/ΛΓ |
Greek Deposit at 42/ΙΖ Lot Ι 164a: fish plates, rouletting etc ... 4th c. B.C. and possibly into 3rd c. B.C ... Agora |
Great Drain and Pit at 55-56/ΙΗ-ΙΖ (Roman Group K). Coins
8 June 1933 #4
9 June 1933 #5-#6
10 June 1933 #1-#12, #13-#16
13 June 1933 #1-#25, #26-#29
14 June 1933 #3-#4
15 June 1933 #1-#5, #6-#8
17 June ... Mid 3rd century ... Agora |
Well just outside the southwest corner of the market square ... Late 7th-early 6th c. B.C ... F 15:4 ... F 15:4 |
South House, Room 12, over pebble mosaic floor. Herulian destruction debris in a house. Coins:
29 April 1956 #1-#7
2 May 1956 #1-#3
9 May 1956 #1
26 May 1956 #1-#4
2 June 1956 #1-#4 PD 1350 ... 9 May 1956 ... B 15:5 ... B 15:5 |
Filling on bedrock.; accumulation extending to about the middle of the 6th c. with earlier material. Some later intrusions to late Roman (?) ... Ca. 600-550 B.C ... Agora |
Includes a transitional layer 15.25-16.50m. Containers 12-42. Coins:
19 April 1939 #1-#8 (#2-#8 from dump) ... 4th-5th c. A.D. POU ... Includes a transitional layer 15.25-16.50m. Containers 12-42. |
P.H. 1.98m; greatest diameter 1.70; wall thickness 0.20. The walls are of rubble set in clay, and the bottom is flat. Pottery was coarse Byzantine sherds but discarded except for one graffito ... 25 May 1956 ... B 15:6 ... B 15:6 |
Well in front of Shop 15: Turkish (in line of Valerian Wall) Opened the well again in 1951, without realizing that it was finished. Found nothing in it. (p. 1468) ... 15th-16th c. A.D ... Agora |
Well (Hole) at 19/Ι(ΙΑ). Collapsed well creating a hole above; mixed fill in hole, early Byzantine in well proper. Coins:
26 April 1934 #12
27 April 1934 #28
28 April 1934 #38
1 May 1934 #3 ... Early Byz ... Agora |
Cistern shaft southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Unstratified fill.
Ten stamped amphora handles; Type 34A lamp; many fragments of long-petal b suggesting material deposited ca. 140 or later. Cf. Pireus ... Ca. 200-125 B.C ... -5.7--.15m. |
House N, room 6=House T: Pit with Kalikia in Room 2W. Roughly rectangular pit, length 7.10m., possibly dug to obtain clay for flooring in nearby houses ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... B 18:15 ... B 18:15 |
Wells at 24/ΙΓ at 26/ΙΑ near the SW corner of the market square, about 10m west of the Southwest Fountain House (the party wall between them broken through in antiquity). ... Ca. 500 B.C ... G 15:1 ... G 15:1 |
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