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Brann, Eva ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia 30.2 2 93-146 10.2307_147205 ... 1961 ... Brann, Eva |
| A curving band of gold, shaped like the letter C.
Triangular in section and tapering toward a small round knob at each tip, is suspended from its center by a triple grooved loop, flat in section, the pointed ... 9 March 1932 ... c. B.C.
Cf. J 7 ... Leica, 2-205, 79-4-1, 78-7-28(27), 78-7-29, 79-3-18, 79-3-19 |
| Enclosure within Roman Circular Building. The finds apparently reflect the entire area inside the enclosure. Pottery lot ΒΓ 515 identifies the deposit as layer 10 and coin #895 from layer 11 says "layer ... 12-18 August 1971
9-10 May 1972 ... J 5:2 ... J 5:2 |
| 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 ... J/8-1/16,17 |
Above well at 48/ΙΕ (J 15:1) ... Early Roman ... Above well at 48/ΙΕ (J 15:1). |
| Classical Building II, Layer 7B ... 1st c. A.D ... J 2:2 ... J 2:2 |
| Sacrificial Pyre II, Classical Building II.
Found right beneath the stuccoed channel built for sluicing in the 1st c. A.D., and must have been partly disturbed when the channel was constructed. It may ... Ca. 250 B.C ... J 3:2 ... J 3:2 |
| Evelyn L. Smithson ... Submycenaean grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXIV). The skeleton of a 30 year's old female ... Submycenaean ... J 9:2 ... J 9:2 |
Empty to 4.00m. From there to 9.20m. much coarse pottery, stucco fragments, animal bones, lead defixiones. ... The presence of fragments of stelae and architectural members near bottom point to dumped ... Late 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D ... Late 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D. |
Located just north of the stepped retaining wall between the Great Drain and the Poros Monument (Propylon).
Short period of use; dumped filling above, mostly cemetery debris ... Early Protogeometric ... J 14:2 ... J 14:2 |
| 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 ... J 18:2 ... J 18:2 |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb under north side of Temple of Ares, towards its west end.(1951).
The tomb had a hasty and unfinished appearance oddly at variance with its long history and the quality of the pottery ... 1st: Myc IIB-IIA:1-2, 2nd: Myc. IIIC:1 (1450-1200 B.C.) ... J 7:2 ... J 7:2 |
Coins:
8 April 1936 #13
1 May 1936 #21 ... Byzantine-Turkish ... J 11:2 ... J 11:2 |
| 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 ... J 8:2 ... J 8:2 |
Estimated Grid ... Mid-3rd c. A.D ... J/2,3-18/10,11 |
Represents excavated levels II-III ... 275-150 B.C ... J 5:1.2 ... J 5:1.2 |
| Marcie Handler ... It was situated in the NW corner of Room 3 in the Classical Commercial Building, just S of Wall 11, the cross-wall that divides Room 3 from Room 4 to the north. The pyre pots were found surrounded by ... Late 4th c. B.C ... (J/13,14-2/7,8; 52.20 masl.).
The pyre |
| Handler ... Found in an area of disturbed fill north of a floor surface in Room 4 of the Classical Commercial Building. The floor surface (n. 3 on the west side of Room 4) was preserved at 52.503-52.544 masl., and ... 2nd half 4th c. B.C ... J 2:28 ... J 2:28 |
| Kevin Daly ... Grave in north room of Roman temple, west of well J 2:4; adult inhumation ... Late Helladic IIIC Late-Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... J/4,6-2/18,19 |
| David Scahill ... At northeast corner of Classical Building II; on south side of dromos of Tomb K 2:5, and separated from it by ca. 0.6m of bedrock. Chamber cut through bedrock. The northeast corner of chamber defined ... LHIII A:1 ... 2:5, and separated from it |
| Excavation of this pit began in 1995, tentatively identified as a pyre. This proved to be so with continued excavation in 1996. The deposits J 2:8 and J 2:9 were combined to become J 2:9. Miniature vessels ... Ca. 300 B.C ... J 2:9 ... J 2:9 |
| Marcie Handler ... Located in the south section of Room E in the Byzantine Building east of the North-South Road. The uppermost 1.5 meters of well lining was built of well-coursed stones (some reused marble blocks) and tiles ... 12th c. A.D ... J/14-2/2 ... J/13,15-1/2,3 |
| Coin hoard. Room 2: soft soil north of floor surface. Coins:
23 July 1999 #924-#944. Anonymous folles with the head of Christ on the obverse dating between 770-1059 ... 23 July 1999 ... J 2:15 ... J 2:15 |
| Marcie Handler ... Fill within the drain from the basin on the west side of Roman Room B through Wall A.
After we removed the fill within the basin on the west side of Roman Room B (BZ XXVII p. 5325), we began excavating ... Late Roman ... J 2:21 ... J 2:21 |
Well West of N-S Street. Coin
2 August 1982 #704 ... Ca. 115-75 ... J/9-2/19,20 |
| Pyre against north face of polygonal wall, Room 2, Classical Building II. No floor preserved above, but the pyre is below floor level 51.820masl, preserved just to the east and above patchy floor with ... Ca. 275-260 B.C ... J 2:16 ... J 2:16 |
| Marcie Handler ... This pyre was found in the fill under Pyre J 2:23. Unfortunately, no floor surface was found between the two pyres. There were no complete vessels in this pyre. The sherds of the pyre vessels were mixed ... 275-250 B.C ... J 2:24 ... J 2:24 |
| Initially uncovered with a diameter of c. 1.05m. Its south side extends under the south wall of the Classical structure and so clearly predates it. The highest preserved portion of the well shaft (at the ... 22 July-9 August 1994
26 June 1995
3-7 July 1995 ... J/6,7-2/20, we attempted to leave ... Human bones associated with Grave J 2:11 |
| Mike Laughy ... This pyre was found within an otherwise mostly sterile fill directly under a white floor surface in the southern section of Area IV. It was located ca. 0.50m. east of a similar deposit, Pyre J 2:25. The ... 4th c. B.C ... J 2:25. The pots were ... fill associated with Pyre J 2:25, located just to West ... AS 1380.1 in Study Collections-Case No. 99C-2 box V, while the other bone bags are |
| Marcie Handler ... Pyre under floor no. 9 in the center of Room 4. It was adjacent to the southern face of Wall 4, but at lower elevation than the lowest course of the wall foundation (which was found at 52.250 masl.), suggesting ... 375-350 B.C ... J 2:30 was cut into Floor ... that predates Wall 4. Pyre J 2:30 was located |
| David Scahill ... Roman temple north. Adult male inhumation. Pit tomb, partially stone-lined ... Late Mycenaean or Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... J/4,6-2/18 |
| John Camp ... Burial north of Roman temple, E. of polygonal wall.
The tomb, as preserved, consisted of the cinerary urn, which stood in an upright position, its upper part damaged by later disturbance. It contained ... Late Helladic IIIC Late-Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... J/14-2/14,15 |
| Coins:
19 July 1995 #1254
20 July 1995 #1252
21 July 1995 #1268 Three additional finds, A 4916, IL 1909, T 4387, are from outside the well proper and not in the finds list but cf. pp. 7243, 7245 and section ... 4th-12th c. A.D ... J 2:6 ... J 2:6 |
| Marcie Handler ... The pyre was revealed under a layer of mixed fill with pottery dating from the 3rd century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. Five pots were immediately visible (BZ 1318-1321, 1333) in a shallow pit surrounded ... 23 June-4 July 2006 ... J 2:23 ... J 2:23 |
| Hellenistic Pyre below packed clay floors of Room 2; west of Late Roman wall extension, below tile platform terracotta drain installation, bordered on the north by bedding foundation stones of crosswall ... Ca. 300 B.C ... J 2:13 ... J 2:13 |
| Classical Pyre between floors in Room 2 of Classical Building II.
Below floor at 51.66 7masl. Broken pyre pots in fill of ash and carbon, from 51.541-51.513, resting on next floor at 51.513 masl, next ... Ca. 400-390 B.C ... J/19,20-2/12,13 |
Small pit north of Wall C (appr. 0.50 E-W x 0.35m N-S). Coins:
11 August 1994 #1125-#1127 ... 3rd c. B.C ... J/18-2/6 |
| A closely compacted group of 431 bronze coins found at ca. 52.50m., against the east brick wall. No sign of a container. Others dribbled down against the channel wall in a restricted area to as deep as ... Late Roman ... J/1-2/17 |
Filling under North-South Road surface, apparently to raise the level of the road as thickness of fill varies depending on height of road. Fill sits on earliest, cobbled road layer. The road surface set ... Mid-6th c. B.C ... J 2:22 ... J 2:22 |
Classical commercial building, room 3, against south wall. Small fragments of pottery dispersed in fill overlying two floor levels (at 51.897 and 51.941 masl). Five objects of pyre type: ribbon-handled ... 4th c. B.C ... J/15-2/12,13 |
| Marcie Handler ... Cist grave for two infants. The grave was cut into a sterile rocky layer on its southern and western sides, and a sterile fill layer on its northern and eastern sides. No obvious grave marker was present, ... Early Iron Age ... J 2:31 ... J 2:31 |
| Matt McCallum ... The pyre was uncovered in a small, triangular area between the BZ Building foundations (but at a lower level) and the northern scarp of the current excavation area. It rested in a patch of orange-brown ... 1-7 August 2006 ... J/3,4-2/3,4 |
| Matt McCallum ... Plaster lined cistern. The cistern seems to have been bottle shaped; the walls are narrower at the preserved top, which is broken along its entire circuit, and gradually widen until about a third of the ... 12th c. AD ... J/3,5-2/4,6 |
| Sacrificial Pyre I, Classical Building II.
The pyre was set through the original floor level of the northern room of the Classical Building and apparently is the remainder of a ritual conducted when the ... Ca. 375-350 B.C ... J 2:3 ... J 2:3 |
| A well at the northeast corner of Classical Building, behind back wall. Dumped fill appears to have occurred as a single event as there are joining sherds throughout.
POU date ca. first half 5th c. B.C.; ... 5th c. B.C ... J/19,20-2/5,6 |
A total of 79 ostraka was recovered from Room 5 of the Classical Building.
More of this deposit was excavated in the 2021 season on the opposite side of the scarp of Wall R, up against the face of Wall ... 500-475 B.C ... J/11,15-1/19,2/1 ... J/13,16-1/19,2/2 ... J/10,15-1/18,2/1 |
| David Scahill ... Below packed clay floors in Room 2 of Classical Building II; bordered on east and south sides by polygonal cross wall and back wall extension for Classical Building. Late Roman wall and drain installation ... LHIII A:1 ... J-K 2:2 ... J-K 2:2 |
| Amygdaloid bead.
Surface chipped.
Pierced lengthwise.
Polished stone variegated in color, orange to dark reddish brown. Roman Temple, south half; fill south of Temple crosswall and north of Polygonal ... 6 August 1993 ... Agora XXXVI, no. T80-2, p. 489, fig. 2.376. |
| Destruction Fill in channel of Apsidal Building.
Cf. nb.p. 989 for continued digging in this channel. Coins:
24 July 1990 #202, #204, #208
27 July 1990 #219-#222
30 July 1990 #226
31 July 1009 #236
1 August ... 14 June-3 August 1990 ... I-J 2-3:1 ... I-J 2-3:1 |
| Rebecca Wood Robinson ... Damaged Protogeometric grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XL).
Small corner only preserved, cut in part into the filling of the Submycenaean Grave J 9:2. In this corner, and spilling into the disturbed upper ... Late Protogeometric ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 77, pp. 470-475, 554-555, figs. 2.358-2.362. |
| Julia Shear ... Burial. Roman Temple south half, in fill south of temple crosswall and norh of polygonal wall, layer 37a.
Small, roughly circular pit. The diameter of the pit appeared to be only slightly greater than ... Late Helladic IIIC Late-Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... J/5,6-3/1 |
| David Scahill ... Burial in Geometric well (J 3:8), in Classical Building II, Room I, next to south ashlar wall. "No grave goods!"
ADDENDA: J. Papadopoulos later associated P 34449 and P 34450 to that grave. (Cf. Agora ... Geometric ... Burial in Geometric well (J 3:8), in Classical Building II, Room I, next to ... "No grave goods!"
ADDENDA: J. Papadopoulos later associated P 34449 and P 34450 to |
| Coins:
16 June 1981 #89
17 June 1981 #94-#95, #100 (not a coin).
19 June 1981 #103-#104, #335-#336
23 June 1981 #111-#112 ... 9th-13th c. A.D ... J/15,16-3/9,11 |
Complete; slightly squashed.
Elliptical seed-like head, pierced lengthwise. Lengthwise ridges. Mycenaean Grave C. 1388-1399 Leica PD 1200-24 ... 31 March 1952 ... J 8:1 |
| Complete, except for chips at both ends.
Small brown glass bead, resembling olive seed; slightly broader at one end, tapering toward the other. Melon grooving running lengthways. Small perforation. Removed ... August 2000 ... Agora XXXVI, no. T17-7, p. 185, fig. 2.106. |
| Intact.
Small oval carved ring bezel of translucent green stone.
Convex front and back meeting at a sharp edge. Helmeted, draped seating female figure holding a Nike in outstreched left hand, the rim ... 17 June 1999 ... Study Collections-Case No. 19-1, Box 2 |
Coins:
12 April 1933 #1-#2 ... Early 12th c. A.D ... J 8:5 ... J 8:5 |
| Brann P 22. Hesperia, XXIX. Brann P 21. Burial. Brann P 18. Brann P 26. Brann M 8. Brann P 2. Brann M 10. Brann P 8. Brann R 16. Hesperia, XIX, pl. 104, b. Brann P 36. Brann R, p. 3. Brann P 7. Brann R ... Agora 8 121 P 18532 P 21426 P 22414 P 19207 P 21427 P 19233 P 21428 P 22415 P 19290 P 21429 P 19292 P 21430 P 22422 P 19799 P 21431 P 22423 P 19842 P 21432 P 22424 P 19843 P 21433 P 22425 P 19990 P 21434 ... Brann J 2 ... Brann P 2 ... Brann J 5 |
| Intact finger ring.
Profile like J 142, except that top and bottom are more rounded. On angle of "V", row of fine neat dots.
Virtually identical in scheme with J 143.
Early Geometric.
1.3gr Πρώιμο Γεωμετρικό, ... 15 June 1967 ... J 144 ... J 144 |
| E.D. Townsend Vermeule ... Protogeometric Grave no. 2 at North of Temple of Ares (Grave XXXVII). Rectangular stone-lined pit in filling of Mycenaean chamber tomb (J 7:2); the skeleton of a boy. Cf. P 21275 which is from the "preliminary ... Middle Protogeometric ... tomb (J 7:2); the skeleton ... Protogeometric Grave no. 2 at North of Temple of ... belonging to J 7:1 BIS. |
| Round with round hole in center.
Original surface not preserved.
Extant surface now pitted, and showing horizontal striations.
Grayish-white glass. Roman Temple, south half; fill south of Temple crosswall ... 6 August 1993 ... J 213 ... J 213 |
| Round with round hole in center. Diameter slightly greater than height.
Flaking surface originally light yellow, but now only preserved on ca. half of bead. Remaining surface light brown. Roman Temple, ... 6 August 1993 ... J 212 ... J 212 |
| 68 beads, 67 of them are small and round, and one is larger.
All pierced, thin-walled, and approximately spherical. Roman Temple, south half; fill south of Temple crosswall and north of Polygonal wall, ... 6 August 1993 ... J 215 ... J 215 |
| Two crumpled bits of thin gold, perhaps with some trace of relief decoration. The smaler has piercing which may be original. Συλλογή από χρυσά κοσμήματα ενδύματος. Αποτελείται από 19,1/2 κισσόσχημα κοσμήματα ... 29 May 1939 ... από 19,1/2 κισσόσχημα κοσμήματα και 43,1/2 ρόδακες από ... & 2 μισά τμήματα) ... depth 2.35m. below highest preserved point of bedrock on the north side of |
| Intact broad finger ring.
Bent, but easily opened.
Simple circle; sides not profiled. Repousse. Top and bottom, row of dots. One side five superimposed zigzags.
Shape as J 145.
Early Geometric.
1.4gr ... 15 June 1967 ... Agora XXXVI, no. T15-76, p. 170, figs. 2.95, 2.97. |
| Intact broad finger ring.
Bent flat when found, but easily opened.
Simple circle; sides not profiled. Repousse. Top and bottom, row of dots. Around side, chain of four receding lozenges (straight line, ... 15 June 1967 ... J 146 ... J 146 |
| Intact broad finger ring.
Bent flat, when found, but easily opened.
Simple circle; sides not profiled. Repousse. Top and bottom, row of dots. Around side, chain of four receding lozenges (straight line, ... 15 June 1967 ... J 145 ... J 145 |
Area IV, surface fill. Group of 5 bronze coins corroded into one lump. Coins:
20 July 1981 #302-#306
(Anonymous Byzantine Coins (Bronze) 976-1030/1035 A.D., Cf. DOC III, pt. 2, p. 649ff (Class A2) ... 976-1030/1035 A.D ... J 3:6 ... J 3:6 |
| Located at the bifurcation of the Panathenaic Way and West Road.Byzantine fill (9th-10th century) in upper 5.70m. with a series of Classical to Hellenistic accumulations below. Coins:
10 July 1971 #861 ... 14 June-27 July 1971 ... J/10-5/5 |
| There are 85 more or less complete leaves, and about 50 fair sized fragments.
The leaves range in length (from 0.03 to 0.066).
Made of thin gold foil, folded and cut in paper doll style, each having ... 17 March 1936 ... J 25 ... J 25 |
| A well in the courtyard (Room 8) of a Byzantine House of Period II. The well was covered by a large squared poros wellhead and a marble puteal (apparently neither inventoried). Within the well shaft, the ... 14 July-9 August 1989
2-13 July 1990 ... J/3-3/3,4 |
Broken in two.
Grooved head.
Silver over bronze core (caley). West of grave 2, in red earth, from mass of coarse sherds and tiles. Leica, 81-324 ... 14 March 1936 ... West of grave 2, in red earth, from mass of coarse sherds and tiles. |
E.D. Townsend Vermeule ... PG grave no. 1. Mycenaean Chamber tomb under Temple of Ares. No remains, but cf. P 21275. Cf. under J 7:2 (PG grave no. 1), Agora XIII, pp. 183-190 ... Protogeometric ... Cf. under J 7:2 (PG grave no. 1), Agora XIII, pp. 183-190. |
Irregular depression in bedrock (ca. 7x5m), ca. 2m deep; area south of E-W Late Roman wall. Dumped filling apparently intended to level off the area. Coins:
11 March 1952 #10
12 March 1952 #1-#5
13 March ... Ca. 400-325 B.C ... J 11:1 ... J 11:1 |
| Intact granulated earrings.
The shafts were bent double when found.
Each composed of three parts: shaft (slightly damaged near top of a); trapezoidal plaque; pomegranate finials, decoration in filigree ... 15 June 1967 ... 5.9gr, Right: 6.2gr |
| Obverse: Harpocrates seated left on lotus flower.
Right arm bent with finger to lips; scourge under left arm. Field completely filled with inscriptions. Edge bevelled smoothly, also covered with an inscription, ... 6 April 1932 ... J 3 ... J 3 |
| Identical originally; but one bent and partially fused by fire, and lacking one loop.
Double rings formed by looping fine wire around twice to make a double spiral, triple for about one third of the circumference ... 12 April 1948 ... D 16:2 |
| Bent and rather broken (about half preserved ?).
Thickness of disk like a paper.
Probably originally circular. At center a small rosette. Round about probably plain (?). Holes for attachment.
Cf. J 84 ... 31 May 1939 ... Holes for attachment.
Cf. J ... ca. 2.50m. from surface of bedrock to north ... top. Depth ca. 2.50m. from |
| Broken and melted on one side.
Profile like J 142, except that top and bottom are more rounded. On angle of "V", row of fine neat dots.
Early Geometric.
1.3gr Πρώιμο γεωμετρικό, χρυσό δακτυλίδι, λεπτής ... 15 June 1967 ... Broken and melted on one side.
Profile like J 142, except that top and bottom are |
Represents excavated level IV. Coins:
2 July 1971 #851-#856 ... 300-275 B.C ... J/10-5/5 |
| Ring with engraved gem.
Plain ring with slightly widened hollow place in its side, in which is set a piece of red carnelian, carved intaglio with a bearded head facing to left. Χρυσό δακτυλίδι με κορνηλίνη ... 28 May 1937 ... B 13:2.2 |
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