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| Mended from two pieces; complete save for a small piece of the rim. Plain moulded rim; body nearly flat; heavy base ring. At the center of the interior, a small impressed circle; half way between the center ... 30 July 1931 |
| Complete save for a chip from rim. Heavy moulded rim; plate nearly flat; high base ring. In the center, an irregular six-pointed star, incised; six stamped palmettes and three bands of hatching.
Attic ... 4 August 1931 |
Mended from four pieces; a small bit of the rim missing. Restored in plaster. Low ring base; nearly flat sides with slight flare upward at outer edge (slightly angular profile on outside of lip). Incised ... 20 February 1932 |
| Mended from four pieces; a small part of the rim and the center missing. Low ring base; side with slight slope upward, thickened and offset on exterior and interior.
In the center, a stamped medallion ... 20 February 1932 |
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. |
| Mended from three pieces; small fragment missing. Interior, six palmettes enclosed by delicate hatched band.
Glaze mottled with much red. Cave, north chamber, lowest red deposit (lower fill). Leica, 78-2-22, ... 14 March 1932 |
| Pithos ay the bottom of the north slope of the Areopagus with single fill; Part of Hellenistic Group D.
One stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 146. Latest coin dates in first two decades of 2nd ... 160-130 B.C. |
| Four joining fragments preserve ca. one-fourth of rim. Deep plate. Broad groove well below rolled rim outside.
Metallic black glaze. Catalogued 7 March 1991. 92-3-34, 92-3-35 ... April 1932 |
| Less than half preserved with complete profile. Rolled rim; ring foot, relatively deep. No disturbance in box but Byz. in boxes from same area (169, 170). Middle Stoa, building fill, disturbed. Box 171 ... 4 March 1933 |
Complete profile with part of floor preserved. Ring foot; flat floor; low wall rounding into narrow rim. A partly scraped groove at junction of wall and floor outside; the resting surface, and a band on ... 10 March 1933 |
Mended from three pieces; fragmentary. A circle of rouletting at the center. Low rounded rim; low ring base.
Pink clay. Black glaze on exterior and on rim, shading to red inside. Well. Group A. Leica, ... 18 March 1933 |
| Fragments missing from the rim. Low ring base; rounded, slightly upturned lip; double ring of stamping around the center.
Hard reddish clay, blackened by fire. Thin black to purplish glaze, now almost ... 21 March 1933 |
Tiled well, ca. 30m south of the Tholos. Associated with Building D. Hellenistic Group A with Late Roman fill in upper 3.00m. Objects A 245 and P 4597 are from fill on floor around well-head, contemporary ... 325-260 B.C. |
Much of the side wall missing. High base ring, coarsely moulded; deep body; the rim thickened by being rolled inward.
Buff clay, covered with metallic black glaze which has fired red in the middle of ... 3-12 March 1934 |
Fragments are missing from the lip. Similar to P 3314 in shape and fabric. Traces of another vase stacked on its floor for firing.
ADDENDA P 3314: High base ring, coarsely moulded; deep body; the rim ... 3-12 March 1934 |
| Much of side wall missing. High base ring, coarsely moulded; deep body; the rim thickened by being rolled inward.
Buff clay. Metallic black glaze much flaked. Traces of stacking on the floor. Cistern ... 3-12 March 1934 |
| Fragments missing from the rim. High base ring, coarsely moulded; deep body; the rim thickened by being rolled inward.
Buff clay; flaky black glaze, fired red on bottom and on the floor where another ... 3-12 March 1934 |
| Only a small segment remains. High base ring, coarsely moulded; deep body; the rim thickened by being rolled inward.
Buff clay; flaky black glaze. Traces of stacking on the floor. Cistern. Group E. Leica, ... 3-12 March 1934 |
| Part of side wall and base broken away. Restored in plaster. High base ring; deep body; the rim flares and is flattened on top.
Coarse red clay, thin red glaze. Cistern. Group E. Leica, 80-83-4, 91-19-16, ... 3-12 March 1934 |
A cistern leading to the east of the road leading from the southwest corner of the market square. Filled all at one time, last quarter of 2nd. c. B.C. (nbp. 493).
Included are the Hellenistic finds from ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
| About one quarter preserved.
Very low rim which practically merges into the body; flat on top. Two grooves on exterior. Ring base.
Metallic glaze, red to black. Well, chamber group. Leica, 90-31-8, 91-19-11 ... April 1934 |
| Fragment of rim and body missing.
Low round-topped rim. Ring base. Interior: within circle of rouletting, five stamped palmettes about a central circle. Traces of interlacing stems.
Black glaze; fired ... 5 April 1934 |
Fragments of rim and body missing.
Rounded, slightly in-turned rim. Ring base.
Metallic black glaze, much flaked, fired brown on part of exterior.
Restored in plaster. top to 6.50m. Well. Leica, LIII-34 ... 5 April 1934 |
| Mended from five pieces; nearly half the rim missing. Small rolled rim; low ring foot. At center, within rouletting, interlaced palmettes.
Glaze fired red to light brown. Well. Leica, 90-31-9 PD 2445-127 ... 10 April 1934 |
| About half the rim broken away; minor fractures; otherwise intact.
Low ring base; rounded rim. At center, within a circle of rouletting, six palmettes, their alternate bases connected by lines.
Cf. Agora ... 12 April 1934 |
| About two-thirds of rim missing. A large plate with flat floor, and low sides with rim rounded on top, and ring base. Interior: within a circle of rouletting, six stamped palmettes with interlacing stems ... 13 April 1934 |
| About two-thirds of rim missing; restored. A plate with flat floor, low round-topped rim and ring foot. Interior: within a circle of rouletting, stamped palmettes with interlacing stems.
Good black glaze, ... 13 April 1934 |
| About one-half of body and three-quarters of rim missing.
A flat plate with flat floor, low round-topped rim and ring foot. Rim flatter than
P 4454 on top.
Thin glaze, black to brownish, rather worn ... 13 April 1934 |
1.00m. of fill at bottom of cistern chamber ... sealed in by 6.00m. of sterile bedrock. Coins:
20 April 1934 #1 ... 310-275 B.C. |
| About two-thirds of the rim missing. Plate with flat floor, low rounded rim and low ring base. At center, within circles of rouletting, six stamped palmettes with interlacing stems.
Good black glaze ... 4 May 1934 |
| About half preserved, including non-joining fragment.
Shape and decoration as P 4420, but the glaze not as good and stamping not as careful.
Restored in plaster.
ADDENDA P 4420: flat floor, low rounded ... 4 May 1934 |
Well associated with the Tholos, with scanty use fill but primarily dumped filling. Coins:
5 April 1934 #1-#4
10 April 1934 #1-#2
11 April 1934 #1
12 April 1934 #1
18 April 1934 #1-#2
19 April 1934 #1-#5 ... Ca. 350-294 B.C. |
| About one-quarter of the body and rim missing. Restored in plaster. A heavy plate with a large ring foot and rounded rim. Within quadruple circle of rouletting, stamped palmettes, with interlacing stems ... 9 May 1934 |
Associated with the Tholos.
Originally a well but after it had been in use for a short time the shaft was partially filled in and the upper part widened to form a large cistern.
The pottery falls into ... 335-250 B.C. |
Small amount of fill accumulated at bottom of well during use sealed by deposit of some 7.00m. of dug bedrock, thrown in to fill well to level of bottom of new cistern. Pottery closely similar to that ... 335-294 B.C. |
Cistern-system west of the Stoa of Zeus. Two chambers connected by a tunnel, each with two fills. Lower fill in south chamber contemporary with upper fill in north chamber, at the end of the 4th c. B.C ... Ca. 375-160 B.C. |
About one-quarter of plate preserved giving profile except for center. Ring foot; rolled rim.
Black glaze fired red underneath and around center of interior. Well, box 78. 1101 Leica, LIII-34 PD 641 ... 1934 |
Similar in shape and fabric to P 5988 (Γ 1589). Outside entirely glazed.
Glaze black to purplish; somewhat pitted.
ADDENDA P 5988: Similar to P 5987 (Γ 1588) but much smaller. P 5987: Ring foot; flattened ... 9-15 May 1935 |
| Similar to P 5989 (Γ 1590) in shape and fabric. Groove around inner edge of rolled rim. Traces of stacking. Outside glazed to foot which is reserved.
Dull black glaze.
ADDENDA P 5989: Similar in shape ... 9-15 May 1935 |
About one-third preserved, center missing. Ring foot, deep groove around. Cistern, middle fill, abandonment fill(?) 1940-1944 Leica PD 901-311 ... 9-15 May 1935 |
Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C. |
4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment |
| About half preserved. Similar to P 6234, but very crudely made.
Incised on floor:
The metallic black glaze was put on with a brush after the plate had been taken off the wheel.
ADDENDA P 6234: Large ... card: ca. 200 B.C. |
| Restored in plaster. Similar to P 6234; slightly deeper and the rim more rounded. Large triangular stamped palmettes surrounded by rouletting at center of floor. Traces of stacking. Restored in plaster ... 22 May-6 June 1935 |
| Restored in plaster. Deepish body; rolled rim. Outside a groove and two incised lines.
Dull black glaze. Cistern. Lower, Hellenistic fill. Leica, 80-82-33, 90-36-4 ... 22 May-6 June 1935 |
| Ring foot. Rounded rim. Rouletting, triple band, around center of floor.
Incised inside: Ι Ν and Ι Φ
Joins P 5932. Cistern, lower Hellenistic fill. Leica, 81-1-9 ... 30 May 1935 |
Large shallow bowl with ring foot and rolled rim. Glazed black to red; the center of the floor red from stacking in the kiln. An unusually large example of a common type. Cistern. Leica ... 30 May 1935 |
Cistern-shaft 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 ... Upper fill, Late Roman with some Hellenistic.
Middle fill, Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C.
Lower fill, 4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment |
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 ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C.-86 B.C. |
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. |
| Small bits missing. Restored in plaster. Heavy fabric, thickened lip. On floor, seven stamped palmettes joined by loops, centered with a small circle and surrounded with rouletting. Well to west of Tholos ... 310-295 |
See cistern system wells F 11:2 and F 12:3, part of Tholos water system. Estimated Grid ... Ca. 350-294 B.C. |
| Piece missing from one side; restored in plaster. Flat with a thick rolled rim and ring foot; the exterior wall lightly moulded. On the floor, interlaced palmettes within rouletting. Scraped line on resting ... February 1936 |
Two chambers connected by a tunnel, all filled at the same time, but with slight Hellenistic disturbance. Chamber A, to west at 14/ΛΗ, B to east at 14-15/ΛΒ on grid for section RR.
Cistern system ca. 20.00m ... Ca. 325-275 B.C. |
| Profile preserved. Restored in plaster. Plain slightly spreading ring foot; narrow flat rim undercut on inner edge.
Buff clay. Only traces of black glaze. Cf. lists, Nb. p. 618 ff. Trial Trench I, Extension, ... 25-26 February 1936 |
| Chip missing from lip. Restored in plaster. Massive profile. Torus lip. On floor double circle of rouletting with a small incised circle in the middle.
Glaze firm, mottled black and red. Cistern. Leica, ... 3-6 April 1936 |
| Fragments missing from rim and floor. Profiled side wall. Sharply raised rim. On floor, four free-standing palmettes within a rouletted ring.
Glaze dull, mottled red and black. Mark of stacking on floor ... 3-6 April 1936 |
| Broken but complete save for large chips from rim; restored in plaster. Flat floor, five palmettes joined by arcs and surrounded by rouletted circle.
Splotchy black glaze, peeled in part. Cistern, main ... 8 April 1936 |
| Fragment of lip missing. Massive profile; thickened lip. On floor, four stamped palmettes, unjoined, surrounded by a circle of rouletting. Cistern, main chamber, bottom. Leica, 78-2-31, 80-82-18, 90-35-16 ... 15 April 1936 |
Cistern with considerable dumped fill at the north foot of Kolonos Agoraios. It may have been abandoned ca. 295-295 B.C.; it will have been filled by 280 B.C.
Multiple vessels share same stamps, and painted ... Ca. 325-250 B.C. |
| Small fragments of rim and floor restored in plaster. Ring foot and raised rolled rim; grooves around the outside below the rim.
Dull black glaze, much peeled. Shaft. Leica, 90-32-15(14), 91-19-29 ... 27-18 June 1935, 26-27 May 1936 |
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. |
| As P 8574 (ΚΚ 938), but the rolled rim is thicker and deeper and the glaze of better quality; reddened inside the stacking line. Cistern system 3, west chamber, stroses 2-3, hard red and black earth. Leica, ... 10-11 June 1936 |
Cistern System #3: West Chamber at 69/ΛΣΤ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/Λ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos. Upper fill of early 1st ... 175-125 B.C. |
Baskets 1-21 (containers 1-20). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from level .1, are from depths within the .2 range:
MC 318, MC 433-MC 437, T 1309, T 1394, T 1396, IL ... 110 to early 1st c. A.D. |
Dump, Sullen clean-up. Coins:
9 February 1937 #6-#10
10 February 1937 #11-#13
11 February 1937 #16-#20 ... First quarter 1st c. B.C. |
Full profile preserved; much of rim missing. Restored in plaster. Rather deep plate on ring foot; thickened lip, offset inside.
Inferior glaze, mostly brown; exterior only partly glazed. Cistern, middle ... 9-12 February 1937 |
Full profile preserved; much of sides missing. Restored in plaster. Thickened lip, slightly undercut at inner edge; ring foot.
Metallic red glaze, black on center of floor from stacking; outside unglazed ... 9-12 February 1937 |
Full profile preserved; most of side missing. As P 14405 (Χ 962) in shape.
Poor black glaze, red on center of floor.
Fragments of many similar plates stored with pottery. Cistern, middle fill. Leica ... 9-12 February 1937 |
Full profile preserved; about half of floor and sides missing. Restored in plaster. Downturned rim, grooved around inner edge; ring foot.
Poor black glaze. Cistern, middle fill. Leica PD 901-192 ... 9-12 February 1937 |
Cistern connected by tunnel to another chamber filled in Byzantine period. Small Hellenistic deposit on floor. somewhat contaminated by Byzantine fill above
No stamped amphora handles later than 3rd c.; ... 250-190 B.C. |
| From a large plate with heavy rolled rim; ring foot. Stamped leaf pointing inward within rouletting.
Glaze somewhat worn. Cistern, hard earth at bottom, no stratification, early 3rd. c. B.C. 111 ff ... 13-27 February 1937 |
| From a plate with rolled rim and ring foot. Rouletted circle around linked stamped palmettes on the floor. Two grooves below rim outside.
Firm black glaze. Cistern, hard earth at bottom, no stratification, ... 13-27 February 1937 |
Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
| Much of floor and rim missing; full profile preserved. Restored in plaster. Hellenistic plate with high heavy base ring and rolled flattened rim. On the floor, well off center, a small round stamp, a bird ... 8 April 1937 |
| Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter at bottom -3.20m Upper fill: Latest coins ... Second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. |
| Less than half preserved; completed in plaster. Base ring. Two grooves about inner edge of thickened slightly out-turned rim.
Poor black glaze on inside with trace of kiln stacking; outside unglazed ... February-April 1937 |
Full profile preserved, more than three-quarters of rim missing. Base ring, flaring wall, out-turned rim thickened on top.
Yellow-buff clay. Black badly worn glaze on inside, except for red stacking circle ... 12 March 1938 |
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. |
Cistern at 17-18/ΛΑ (Coroplasts' Dump) outside the market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way.
Upper and lower fill distinguished during excavation, but material from both appears to ... To ca. 330-320 B.C. |
| Nearly half preserved. Small plate with very shallow floor and low rounded rim; grooved handles and grooves below rim outside. Ring foot. Stamped linked palmettes within a rouletted band on the floor ... April 1938 |
A small square well at 37/ΚΑ (about 0.60x0.70m), on the north slope of the Areopagus. Curbed with rough stones.
Filling of a small shallow well which contained nothing from the POU and since no water was ... Ca. 350-320 B.C. |
| Single fragment preserves complete profile. Rounded rim; fairly flat floor; rather heavy ring foot. At center of floor, stamped interlaced palmettes surrounded by rouletting.
Glaze black to red. Well ... 11-17 May 1938 |
Cistern at 70/ΛΣΤ in the northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Part of system with two chambers and well. Homogeneous fill.
13 stamped amphora handles. Latest lamp type 46 B. N 72206 (Ω-344), picked up near ... Second half of 3rd c. - Early 2nd c. B.C. |
25 May 1938 #1-#60
26 May 1938 #1-#17 ... Post Sullan |
Fragments missing from rim. A deep plate on high ring foot; rim thickened toward the inside, set off from floor by a groove.
Thin black glaze; red in middle of floor.
Scratched on underside: Middle ... 25 May 1938 |
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. |
| Full profile preserved; slightly less than half of floor and rim missing. High base ring; thickened rolled lip. Four small irregularly placed palmettes on floor, within a band of rouletting. Outside, a ... 1 June 1938 |
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. |
Glazed fragments; lamps; loom weights etc ... 25 May-9 June 1938 |
| Fragment preserving profile complete to center of floor. Rolled rim. On outside, groove around middle of wall.
Glaze worn, badly flaked.
ADDENDA Sample for petrographic analysis taken by Sarah Vaughan ... 25 May-9 June 1938 |
| Second century B.C. fill with early 13th c. A.D. fill in mouth.
The Byzantine objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585.
Lower fill contained bones of many infants and dogs.
The bones from this ... Mid-2nd c. B.C. |
Most of the foot, with the center of the floor preserved, and small parts of the rim; restored in plaster. Shallow plate on medium high ring foot; rolled rim; groove around wall outside.
Poor black glaze ... June 1937
June 1938 |
Unfinished well, all one fill; solid bedrock at a depth of -2.47m.
It contained masses of broken rooftiles and probably was used as a refuse pit after the sack of Athens by Sulla.
Twenty-three stamped ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
| About half of plate and foot missing; restored in plaster. Narrow ring foot, flaring straight wall with plain horizontal lip set off from wall on interior by a slight groove.
Reddish-brown clay; dull ... 28 April-2 May 1939 |
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