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Soft Trench behind Stoa Stylobate, opposite Piers 21 and 22, along W face of Shop front wall. Herulian destruction debris at the north end of the Stoa of Attalos. Coins:
20 February 1954 #1-#2
22 February ... Late 3rd c. A.D ... Agora X, p. 138. |
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 ... H 12:1 ... H 12:1 |
| 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 IV, p. 239 ... Agora X, p. 67 ... Hesperia 15 (1946), pp. 265-336, pls. 25-69. |
N-S Cut on 50m. line (area of Road, area of Stoa, area N of Stoa) various levels and dates over the three areas.
Investigations to the northwest of the market square in the area of the road running out ... Prehistoric to Roman ... 1st-2nd c. A.D.
Layer III-IV: 1st c. A.D.
Layer V-VI: 1 ... X: 6th-5th c. B.C., ... Coins:
8 March 1939 #1 (stoa, layer IV), #2 (stoa, |
Investigations in Room to N of Tholos, various layers and periods. ... 470 B.C.-post-Herulian reuse ...
Layer III and IV.5 Debris ...
Layer XI.1 Original ... VI-X.2 Repairs at the end of |
| Use filling of middle of 1st to late 6th c. (Roman Group M); dumped filling of 9th and 10th c. Down to a depth of about 21.00m. the fill of the well contained very few objects, the latest of them being ... 1st-6th c. A.D ... M 17:1 ... M 17:1 |
Stuccoed pit, 2m x 2.50 m, rock-cut. Coins:
26 March 1937 #1 (not a coin) ... Ca. 400-350 B.C ... Agora IV, p. 236 ... Agora X, p. 67. |
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 ... Hesperia 53 (1948), pp. 343-351, pl. 67:3, 10-16 (selection of pottery) ... Agora IV, p. 238 ... Agora X, pp. 67, 137. |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 23 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave IV: SM). Few bones: discarded. JP says 46/ΜΖ-MΗ
Negs. KK 99, KK 100, KK 101, X-61, X-62, X-63 PD 433 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... D 7:1 ... D 7:1 |
A well outside the market square to the southeast, 20m west of the Panathenaic Way; Modern fill in upper 1.65m. with Early Roman dumped fillings below. Coins:
9 May 1939 #37 (dirt pile)
10 May 1939 #53 ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D ... S 21:1 ... S 21:1 |
Dump, 4th c. Cut through a cistern which was probably constructed in the 4th c. B.C, near the southwest corner of the market square. Coins:
25 May 1935 #1 (with L 1809) (disintegrated) Subdivisions:
.1=Upper ... Second half 1st c.-end 2nd c ... Coins:
25 May 1935 #1 (with L 1809) (disintegrated) ... Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Transitional fill ...
.5=Earth |
Bottle-shaped cistern with dumped fillings on NW slopes of Areopagus; appears not to have been finished in antiquity: the walls and floor show no traces of stucco.
Lower filling, ca. 375-340 B.C.
Upper ... Ca. 375-275 B.C ... Coins:
5 May 1939 #10-#12 ... Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Lower fill
.3=Dump |
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Coins:
23 March 1936 #5-#6
31 March 1936 #3
30 April 1936 #1
1 May 1936 #6
2 May 1936 #2
5 May 1936 #8
6 May 1936 #15-#16
14 May 1936 #5-#8 (#6 N 51520 is from ... 50 B.C-3rd c. A.D ... #5-#6
31 March 1936 #3
30 April 1936 #1
1 May 1936 #6
2 May 1936 #2
5 May 1936 #8
6 ...
.1=0.00-13.50m.=Dump of 4th. c ... 1-3rd. c. A.D.
.3=22.20-23.25m.=POU Second half of 1st. c. |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ.
Objects with context as "cistern 44ΙΓ, mouth of 46/ΙΑ" are listed with D 12:2.
The following objects are from "earth", i.e. no context layer:
SS 5334, ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman ... Agora IV, p. 236 ... Agora X, p. 67. |
| Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 4 under Royal Stoa. Cist Grave cut into bedrock and lined with limestone and schist slabs. There were two layers of cover slabs with a layer of dirt between. Grave measured 0.98x0,25-0,32x0,25-0,30 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... 0.98x0,25-0,32x0,25-0,30 deep. Rock packing |
Well near southwest corner of market square; successive use fillings, and dumped filling.
Lower use filling, second half of 4th century B.C.
Main use filling, second quarter of 2nd century B.C. to shortly ... 10 April-31 May 1935 ... Agora IV, p. 238 ... Agora X, p. 67. |
West Terrace, South End, Layers IV and V. Heavy dumped filling associated with terrace walls at the extreme south end of the excavations in the Areopagus industrial area. The proportion of figured and ... Ca. 420-390 B.C ... Layers IV and V. Heavy dumped ... of the 5th. c. but with ... the 5th. c. and a little |
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 ... Agora IV, p. 237 ... Agora X, p. 67. |
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 ... Agora IV, p. 240 ... Agora X, p. 137. |
| Well cut into bedrock under late Roman building in ΕΛ. 1.2m in diameter with small cutting of unclear function at south edge about 0.2m wide. Walls cut straight down, tapering near bottom to 0.8m. Footholds ... Late Archaic ... ΕΛ. 1.2m in diameter with ... associated with Deposit T-U 21:1 ... from the late 6th/early 5 |
A well toward the south end of Kolonos Agoraios. Period of use fill dated to ca. 325-260 B.C. and upper fill dated to ca. 250-225 B.C. in Agora XXX.
Diameter 1.10m, water level 6.90m.
Kernoi and many lead ... Ca. 325-260 B.C ... #29
5 June 1937 #1-#2
8 ... 1.10m, water level 6.90m ... Coins:
30 March 1937 #1
31 March 1937 #1-#4
1 |
Stratified well with POU first half of 1st c. - mid 3rd c. A.D. and dumped fills of 4th and 5th-6th c. A.D.
Finds from upper fills "earth": BI 315, L 2549.
Finds from lower fills "earth": BI 302, BI 316, ... 1st to 3rd century and late 3rd to 6th century ... Agora IV, p. 236 ... Agora X, p. 137. |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ. The filling of the 46/ΙΑ cistern shaft, with the exception of a little Roman at the top, was the same as the bottom fill of 44/ΙΓ - late Hellenistic, running ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C ... #1
5 March 1936 #3 ... down to the end of the 1 ... the 1st c. A.D. (p. 3149). |
| 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 ... M-N 18:1.
Only stamped ... Bowls and plates share stamps with vessels from N 21:4, E 14:1, F 17:4, G 14:2. |
Built against the south wall of the annex to the Poros Building
west of the Areopagus. At the west the upper layer of marble chips carried against it, the lowest were cut by it.
Part of same system as ... 225-100 B.C ... D 17:5 ... D 17:5 |
| Report on sorting of pottery, August 1951, by H.S. Robinson [nb p. 3666].
Cistern discovered and dug to 1.60m., vi/10/36; dug to bottom iv/22/37-v/6/37. Diam. At mouth 0.26m.; neck begins to widen out ... 1st. c. B.C. to post-Herulian ... -5.2--1.6m ... 1st. c. B.C. to post-Herulian |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 4 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave XLIV). No remains (not really a grave, note on p. 331).
Roughly rectangular patch of unworked fieldstones, measuring about 1.20x0.80m neatly laid on bedrock, ... 19-21 March 1932 ... about 1.20x0.80m neatly laid |
A well about 2.00m. SE of the Tholos precinct wall. The presence of the water-clock strengthens the probability, suggested by its location, that the well served one of the public buildings in the neared ... Ca. 410-390 B.C ... the "canonical" late 5th c ... Coins
17 May 1933 #1-#10
18 May 1933 #1-#2
20 May 1933 #1
23 May 1933 #1 ... Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Lower fill |
| Pit (6x10) in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Large cutting in bedrock with 540 ostraka, mainly of the late eighties of the 5th. c. B. C. Much pottery, principally of the early ... Ca. 500-450 B.C ... A 18-19:1 ... A 18-19:1 |
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 ... mid-5th century B.C. in Agora |
| 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 23 (1954), pp. 51-54, pl. 15 ... Agora IV, p. 241. |
The East Chamber of a double cistern lying between the northeast corner of the Theseion and the Annex to the Stoa of Zeus Eleftherios. ... Both chambers went out of use as water containers simultaneously ... Ca. 200 B.C ... Agora IV, p. 239 ... Agora X, p. 67. |
| Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 5. Adult (female?) inhumation.
Cist grave lined and covered with slabs of limestone, sandstone and schist. Cut into virgin soil under Royal Stoa at I/12,13-5/3,4. Grave measures 1.79x0.39-0.49x ca ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Hesperia 44 (1975), pp. 372-373, pls. 83,d, 84,g. |
| Pyre in House T, Room 1, Layer 5-6 (RSY=Pyre 3) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
First quarter 4th. c. B.C.
Artifacts, bone, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The pyre was found in digging ... 400-375 B.C.(?) ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 116-117, pl. 50 c (Pyre 3) ... Agora IV, p. 235. |
| Extract from notebook ΠΘ XIX, pp. 3644-3646. Well at 105/ΝΗ (report on sorting of pottery, July 19, 1951 - H.S. Robinson).
"Not a useful well" HSR.
Well dug to 1.50m., vi/9/36; dug from 1.50m. to bottom ... Early Roman; use fillings of 2nd. c. B.C. and 1st. and 4th. c. A.D.; dumped filling of late 4th. c. (HSR)
Fill I: 2nd. c. B.C.
Fill II-V: to second half of 4th. c. A.D.
Fill VI: mixed to Byzantine ... Early Roman; use fillings of 2nd. c. B.C. and 1st. and 4th. c. A.D.; |
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. |
| Pyre in House N, room 4 (RSY=Pyre 7), in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Pottery, mall pieces of calcined bone, log, wood cinders, and charcoal in diamond-shaped pit in floor sequence. The pyre ... Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 122-123, pl. 49 b, pl. 52 a (Pyre 7) ... Agora IV, p. 235 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 46, pp. 158, 159, figs. 1, 4, 78, 91. |
| A well on the lower slope of the Hill of the Nymphs, (diam. 1.20m -water level -7m), to 7.90m. The scanty use filling at the bottom contained water jars and pitchers as well as the inventoried objects; ... Second quarter of 6th. c. B.C ... Nymphs, (diam. 1.20m -water ... about 5.00m. of collapsed ... Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill (fill 1), dumped filling
.2=Bottom fill (fill |
Cistern-chamber on the northwest side of Kolonos Agoraios, 10 to 12m west of the end of the Hellenistic Building. Dimensions at bottom 2.50m x 2.75m.
The west chamber of a cistern system composed of two ... Use filling early 1st-2nd c. B.C ... 5:1) retained little or no ... 2.50m x 2.75m.
The west ...
.1=Bottom. Dumped filling of early 1st/2nd c. B.C.
.2=Dumped filling second half 1st c. A.D. |
Tiled well near the SW corner of the market square between the Southwest Fountain House and the Great Drain, three fills noted: lower fill of earth and stones with a few fragments only of coarse pottery ... 4th-2nd c. B.C.
100-70 B.C ... Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill.
.2=Middle fill.
.3=Lower fill (no finds |
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 ... 21:1, 20 meters to southwest, ... Bion. N 21:4 and m 21:1 are ... Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill (Mouth and upper |
| Mycenaean grave to west of House N, room 5, with the burial of two young children. Rough rectangular cutting in soft stereo (0.95x0.64x0.28), lying under the western wall of a Geometric house, contained ... Myc. III C:1 ... Myc. III C:1 |
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 ... E 14:1 ... E 14:1 |
| 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 ... Hesperia 23 (1954), p. 58, pl. 16a-c ... Agora XIV, p. 13, pl. 19a-c. |
| Rubbish Dump in mouth of abandoned well in Tholos Trench F, Kitchen. Filled with ash, charcoal, broken pottery, roof tiles.
Also from Trench L.
13 March 2014 by Ann Steiner
The deposit has four components ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... Agora IV, p. 241 ... Agora X, p. 67. |
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 ... Θ:5-6/Δ-Ζ |
| 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 ... Kerameikos IV, p. 20 and n. 18 (lekythoi) ... Hesperia 5 (1936), pp. 23-24, figs. 21-22 (PD 429) |
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