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[Agora Deposit] J 9:2: Pit Tomb, Adult Inhumation

Evelyn L. Smithson ... Submycenaean grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXIV). The skeleton of a 30 year's old female ... Submycenaean ... Hesperia 22 (1953), pp. 41-42 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 68, pp. 438-441, figs. 2.324-2.327.

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[Agora Deposit] J 8:1: Disturbed Chamber Tomb (?)

Rebecca Wood Robinson ... Mycenaean Grave C. Lisa's list mentions also Grave D ... Myc. IIIA 1:2 ... Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 41 ... Agora XIII, pp. 193-194, 274, pls. 41, 84 (Tomb IX).

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[Agora Deposit] J 8:2: Disturbed Chamber Tomb (?)

Mycenaean Grave F. It seemed to be more as a collection of bones and offerings, presumably swept aside to make room for later burials; they are east of and slightly higher than children's graves A and ... Myc. IIIA ... Mycenaean Grave F. It seemed to be more as a collection of bones and offerings,

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[Agora Deposit] J 8:3: Double Pit Grave

Mycenaean Double Grave (Graves A and B). Grave A was in Layer II. We laid a skull and a few other bones, three vases and a stone bead. We have dug to a maximum of about 0.06m below the top of Layer II ... Myc. IIIA/B ... to the north, and a F

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:6: Inhumation of a female

Grave VII in notebook = RSY Grave 21. PD 731-k ... Date uncertain, presumably 7th. or 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 102-103, fig. 15 and pl. 46 e-f (Grave 21).

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[Agora Deposit] J 10:1: Unfinished Chamber Tomb

Plundered Chamber Tomb. (Tomb XII). A few meters SE of the great white marble altar. The chamber is an irregular rectangle, oriented roughly N-S, with dromos leading in at a very gentle slope from the ... LH III A ... Hesperia 44 (1975), pp. 375-378 ... Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 41 ... Agora XIII, pp. 196-199, 274, pls. 43, 75, 85 (Tomb XII).

[Agora Deposit] N 11:4: Well

Well (diameter 1.10m). Neatly cut. Footholds on east and west at intervals of ca. 0.50m. Plentiful water ... Late 8th - Early 7th c. B.C ... Hesperia 30 (1961), pp. 141-143 (Well Q) ... Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 39, pl. 16a (marked D).

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[Agora Deposit] O 7:2: Small Chamber Tomb

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.) ... Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 47, pl. 17 a,b ... Agora XIII, pp. 204-205, 274, pls. 46, 65, 79, 85 (Tomb XV) ... Hesperia Suppl. 43 (2009), p. 103, tables 6.1, 6.2 (AA 132)

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:15: Inhumation a Man

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 ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 71-73, figs. 1, 22, 45-46 (Grave XIV) ... Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 304, no. 78, pl. LII (Grave XIV).

[Agora Deposit] G 11:3: Well

Well (stone-curbed shaft) near middle of Tholos which served the prior building. Period of Use dated to ca. 500-480(?) B.C., Upper fill dated to ca. 480-470 B.C. or soon after in Agora XXX (a gradual ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 449, 451 ... Hesperia 8 (1939), pp. 229-232 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4, pp. 30-33 (the second well of Building F).

[Agora Deposit] N 7:3: Skytha Well

Well at 45/Θ (Skytha Well) near the north side of the market square. No period of use was distinguished, since it was impossible to clear the well to the bottom. The considerable quantity of dumped filling ... Ca. 460-440 B.C ... Hesperia 22 (1953), pp. 59-115, pls. 21-41 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 376 ... Archaeology 10 (1957), pp. 191-197.

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[Agora Deposit] O 12:1: Well at 89-90/ΙΗ-ΙΘ

Well at 89-90/ΙΗ-ΙΘ (diameter at top 1.10m), between the southeast corner over the mouth of of the Odeion and the Panathenaic Way. the well lay a thin layer of dug bedrock containing a few Hellenistic ... 650-625 B.C ... Hesperia 30 (1961), pp. 322-346 ... Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 39.

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[Agora Deposit] N 11:1: Cist Grave in Ο

N.A. Doenges Evelyn Lord Smithson ... "Near or in Grave" (width 0.50m) Grave to the east of the southeast corner of the great court of the Gymnasium. Shallow and superimposed on Well N 11:5. It is a simple cist oriented north and south, with ... 750-725 B.C ... Hesperia 29 (1960), pp. 413-414, pls. 88, 91-92 ... Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 39, noted. ... Hesperia Suppl. 31 (2003), pp. 112-113, fig. 2.53

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[Agora Deposit] F 16:4: Urn Cremation

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 ... Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 468-470 (with F 16:3) ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 9, pp. 67-69, 529-530, figs. 2.14, 2.21, 2.22, 3.15, 3.16, pl ... Hesperia 73 (2004), p. 26, n. 71.

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[Agora Deposit] R 12:4: Well in Stoa Shop 3

Well in Stoa Shop 3. Diameter at top 1.20m. The mouth o the well was overlaid by a large conglomerate block placed by the Stoa builders to seal it. Masses of pottery including many water-jars filled the ... Ca 520-480 B.C ... Hesperia 25 (1956), pp. 62-64, pls. 21-22 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 376.

[Agora Deposit] D 18:4: Casting pit on line of Poros Building S. wall.

The deposit notebook lists S 1439 here, but the following information on that card indicates that D 18:4 could be considered with D 18:3 and not as a separate deposit. "Excavation of pit, which partly ... 1030-1033. See also XVIII, nb. pp. ... Further, Hesperia 46 (1977), p ... deposit D 18:3[p.f. Oct 2006]

[Agora Deposit] H-K 12-14: Middle Stoa Building Fill

Middle Stoa Building Fill (with filling to S) (See also Κ: H-I-J 14-15 and Λ: K-M 13-14) This deposit is not definitive and must be considered with the above deposits before details are entered into database; ... To ca. 180 B.C ... April 1953 #7-#14 22 May 1953 ... 20 May 1933 #6 22 May 1933 ... K 19 February 1953 #1 24

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:22: Refuse Dump in Tholos Trench E

Located in Tholos Trench E, beneath floor, beneath layer III. Diameter 1m. Cf. P 4952 with fragment from this deposit and E-F 12-14.2. Similar the well filling, H 6:5 Originally called H 12:5 Ann Steiner ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... Cf. P 4952 with fragment from this deposit and E-F 12-14.2. Similar the well

[Agora Deposit] F 12:5: Well 1

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 ... F 12:5 ... F 12:5

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:4: Inhumation of a female

Grave V in notebook = RSY Grave 5. PD 731-c, Ptg. 244 ... Second quarter of the 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 88-89, fig. 7 and pls. 38 f, 39 a (Grave 5) ... Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 303, fig. 43.

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[Agora Deposit] F 19:4: Well

This filling is the largest deposit of its time found in the Agora. It may be compared with H 6:5 and with N 7:3. Dug in soft bedrock to a depth of 11.40m; footholds cut on opposite sides of the shaft ... Ca. 490-450 B.C ... ΓΓ:46/ΝΖ

[Agora Deposit] F 16:1: Demeter Cistern

Cistern at 9/Β (10/Β on plan), at the NW foot of the Areopagus, some 200m to the west of the Coroplast's Dump. It had evidently belonged to one of the small houses in that thickly populated residential ... Second half 4th c. B.C ... #18-#19, #22-#29 7 March 1932 #3

[Agora Deposit] G 3:1: Pit

Pit with burned debris north of the ancient road leading from the Agora to the Dipylon Gate, probably to be associated with the Persian sack [deposit notebook]. Also includes a similar filling lying over ... Ca. 500-470 B.C ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 444-445 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375 ... Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 300.

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[Agora Deposit] E 7:13: Vaulted Tomb

Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XX in notebook. This deposit includes also an infant grave at the corner of Grave XX (cf. pp. 1714, 2141 and catalogued objects B 673 and B 674). Many bones, skulls ... 22 February 1939 ... corner of Grave XX (cf. pp. ... Neg. XV-46

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[Agora Deposit] H 12:15: Well

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 ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 453-455 ... Hesperia 23 (1954), pp. 51-54, pl. 15 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375.

[Agora Deposit] H 12:1: Fill of Early West Branch of Great Drain=Middle Drain

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 ... Filling of Middle Drain (Tr. H+F in Section Ζ). Sand and gravel filling of the ... 22 February 1938 #1 25 May

[Agora Deposit] F 19:5: Unfinished Well Shaft

A well on the NW slope of the Areopagus; unfinished well-shaft dug to a depth of only 3.05m., and refilled with broken pottery and other debris. The shaft clearly was begun with the intention of digging ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... neighboring shaft, F 19:4, would

[Agora Deposit] G 11:8: Well 8

Well 8 (in Tholos), put out of use by a fall of the rock walls and replaced by well G 11:3. Scanty use filling at and near the bottom, separated by a mass of fallen rock from a debris filling in the upper ... Ca. 550-500 B.C. and 480 B.C ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 451-453 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 25, 28-30.

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[Agora Deposit] G 6:3: Rectangular Rock-Cut Shaft

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 ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 445-449 ... Hesperia 15 (1946), pp. 265-336, pls. 25-69 ... Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 363-411, figs. 1-49.

[Agora Deposit] B 13:7: Well on South Slope of Kolonos Agoraios

Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Stratified deposit. Coins: 8 May 1937 #3 14 May 1937 #1 Coins from dump: 27 May 1937 #2-#9 28 May 1937 #3-#11 Subdivisions: .1=16.00-17.00m. .2=17.00-18.00m. .3=18.00-19.00m ... 3rd. c. B.C.-3rd. c. A.D ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375 ... Delos XXVII, pp. 294, 302-303 under E1 and E5.

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[Agora Deposit] J 1:2: Coin Hoard in BZ

Marcie Handler ... Continued from 2000 season, 10-12 July 2000; BZ XXIII p. 4472. The hoard was originally excavated during the 2000 season (Lot BZ 1049, 5th-6th centuries AD), from a higher elevation through a gap in the ... 10-12 July 2000 21-22 July 2003 ... Road | Room F | Coin Hoard J

[Agora Deposit] E 15:6: Well F

A well (diameter 1.10m) at the east edge of the valley road leading from the SW corner of the Agora, about 90m SW of the Tholos. The mouth of the well was subsequently covered by the east wall of the Great ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 440, 442 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375 ... Agora XXX, pp. 361-362.

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[Agora Deposit] N 18:3: Cistern at 77/M

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 ... Coins 22 February 1937 #3-#9 23 February 1937 #15-#18 25 February 1937 #8-#9 ... Bowls and plates share stamps with vessels from N 21:4, E 14:1, F 17:4, G 14:2.

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[Agora Deposit] C 11:4: Pit tomb, inhumation of two children

James H. Oliver ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave IX: PG). Two children's skeletons one on top of the other. Cf. PD 329 for PD 430 for second skeleton, same deposit. PG grave about 25m. SW of Cistern A at 46/ΜΔ. [In some records, ... Developed Protogeometric ... Hesperia 14 (1945), pp. 303-304, 350-351, no. 75 (AA 29) pl. LI (read ΠΘ where KK on ... Hesperia 5 (1936), pp. 23-24, figs. 21-22 (PD 429) ... Desborough (1952), pp. 71-74, 85 ("an early tomb"), pp. 99-100.

[Agora Deposit] E 14:1: Cistern

Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C. Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C. Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D ... Nbpp 3082-3083). 22 May 1935