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Well at 67/ΛΓ on the northeast slope of the Areopagus. Connected with the same cistern system as O 20:2.
Dug as several fills but probably a continuous accumulation Coin
28 May 1938 #1 (?) Illegible N ... 300-250 B.C ... Lawall (2004), pp. 447-448 ... Agora XXIX, pp. 466-467 ... Agora IV, p. 243. |
| 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 ... Upper mixed dumped fill (last quarter 3rd c.-4th c.) with Roman POU below 10.40m ... (dump)
14 April 1937 #3 |
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 ... Hesperia 75 (2006), pp. 364-365 ... Rotroff (1987a), pp. 185-186 ... Hesperia 32 (1963), pp. 325-326. |
May be of Hellenistic origin when cistern system went out of use.
For a general note on the cistern see Nb. ΟΕ III, pp. 246 ff.
Objects from B 586 various depths (no subdivision): S 2324-S 2330,
P 34894, ... Late 2nd-early 6th c. A.D ... Nb. ΟΕ III, pp. 246 ff ... cistern ... lies 3.55m. below ...
.3=Layer VI
.4=Layer V
.5=Layer |
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