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| Disturbed Mycenaean chamber tomb.
It was the first Mycenaean burial found in the Agora. It is situated about 20m due south of Tomb VII, only a few meters beyond the south edge of the Augustan foundation ... Myc. IIIA (1st half of 14th c.) ... Myc. IIIA (1st half of 14th c.) |
Byzantine 13th-14th c. A.D ... Byzantine 13th-14th c. A.D. |
Well at 96/Ι in arm of cistern at 94/Θ (F 15:2). Probably the rebuilding of an earlier well.
P 3149, P 3150, P 3154 are jars from packing in cistern arm; construction fill - early Roman.
P 4588 is listed ... Second half of 3rd c. A.D.=POU ... Coins:
27 February 1934 #14-#15
28 February 1934 #15
1 March 1934 #21-#30
2 March |
| 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 ... Ca 520-480 B.C ... R/2,3-12/14,15 |
Modern fill to 21.00m. at which depth a human skeleton weighed down with iron. ER fill from 21.00-28.00m. (bottom). A POU fill with a possible break around 25.00m ... 1st to mid-2nd c. A.D ... 1st to mid-2nd c. A.D ... Ψ:14/Β |
| 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 ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... H/14,15-12/10,11 |
Cistern system West of Bouleuterion: (see also B: cistern system to West of Tholos). First Chamber from North.
Part of three-chamber cistern system, including also G 11:1, with Byzantine and modern disturbance ... 150-ca. 75 B.C., with Byz. disturbance ... 150-ca. 75 B.C., with Byz. disturbance ... F/14,15-9/8,9 |
| 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 ... extensive oval-shaped pit, c. ... 6th-late 5th c. B.C)
Component ...
C. 400: Kitchen Dump used |
Well in Coletti Garden.
Diameter 1m. There were no traces of hand holes in its walls. At 5.2m depth below datum on the S-E side of the shaft, a small underground stream emptied into the well. The stratigraphy ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... S/16,17-16/13,14 |
(Roman Group J). The upper fill to a depth of ca. 16.00m. was of earth scooped up elsewhere and thrown in ... The latest piece noted from this fill was a TC fragment dated late 4th to 5th(?) c. BC. From ... 2nd.-3rd. c. A.D ... C 12:1 ... C 12:1 |
Rubble and mortar pithos built over and into line of zig-zag drain. Excavated upside-down. Loose fill. No coins ... 18 A.D with mostly 16 A.D. c ... Turkish Pithos at Q/4,5-5/14,15. |
| 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 ... Ca. 300 B.C ... J/15,16-2/12,14 |
Filling over bedrock. Coins:
14 March 1934 #44-#48 ... Early 5th c. B.C. and earlier ... Early 5th c. B.C. Fill over Bedrock |
| Terracotta deposit in SW corner of Room K and E of Roman Wall L. Roman layer of red, compact earth.
Baskets 50,52,54. Coins:
18 July 2002 #1282
19 July 2003 #1295 ... 4th c. A.D ... 4th c. A.D ... J/17,18-1/13,14 |
| In NE corner of Room D. In a Byzantine vessel=P 34464.
The position of the vessel in the corner of the room suggests that the burial was made after the construction of Byzantine Walls G and E. This type ... 10th-11th c. A.D ... 10th-11th c. A.D ... J/14-1/15 |
| Deposit of terracottas, molds and pottery in a shallow pit sloping downward from north to south. This deposit was located beneath a layer of fill under a Late Roman plaster floor (Lots ΒΕ 2093-2095). The ... 1st c. A.D ... 1st c. A.D ... J/19,20-1/14,15 |
Pocket in bedrock behind stepped retaining wall ... 7th c. B.C ... 7th c. B.C. |
4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment ... E 14:3.3 ... E 14:3.3 |
Late 4th to early 3rd c. B.C ... Late 4th to early 3rd c. B.C. |
"baskets" 11-12 Coins:
29 April 1937 #1-#2
6 May 1937 #1 d5.20m.-Bottomd.
ADDENDA Bottom-see 1970 Hayes's list ... 1st. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D ... 1st. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D. |
Laura Gawlinski ... Pebble floors of Roman date covered the northern half of a 6x6m square trench in ΕΛ, bounded to the west by the post-Herulian Wall and to the east by a wall from Byzantine Building D (Wall A) to the east ... Hellenistic/ 220-150 B.C ... Hellenistic/ 220-150 B.C ... T/14,19-21/20,22/5 |
Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C ... Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C. |
Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C ... Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C. |
Cumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C ... E 14:1.2 ... E 14:1.2 |
Gravel above cobbled street surface ... Second half 2nd c. B.C ... H 14:3 ... H 14:3 |
Well at U/10-14/4, in Byzantine Room I.
Well is ca. 1.20m in diameter, dug into bedrock. Excavated to depth of roughly -8.00m; sides started collapsing and thus did not dig to full depth. Some stone-lining, ... June 15-16, 17-31 July 1972 ... U 14:1 ... U 14:1 |
Coins:
23 April 1937 #1-#16 d22.80m. (bottom)-22.25m.d ... 2nd. c. B.C. POU ... A 14:1.1 ... A 14:1.1 |
East (service) courtyard. A break ca. 540 was followed by an accumulation of nearly a meter of snail shells, and on top a small amount of pottery running down to the end of the 6th century. Coins(?): cf ... POU mid 3rd to late 6th c ... POU mid 3rd to late 6th c. ... Q/15,16-19/13,14 |
3rd. c ... B 14:1.2 ... B 14:1.2 |
Coins:
26 April 1937 #1-#7
27 April 1937 #2-#5
28 April 1937 #1 ... 1st. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D ... A 14:2.2 ... A 14:2.2 |
Both in cistern and in passage 88/ΛΔ-95/ΚΘ-100/ΚΘ.
Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.; accumulative fillings of 3rd c. and of late 1st c. B.C.; dumped filling of 4th.c. A.D ... Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D., but with earlier material ... c. B.C.; accumulative fillings of 3rd c. and of late 1st c. B.C.; dumped filling |
Trench at 11/ΚΕ cut into the stereo (length 1.40m, width 0.50m). Coins:
5 April 1932 #5 (illegible).
Red figure pottery; coarse ware ... Mid-5th c. B.C ... Mid-5th c. B.C. |
9-10 c. A.D ... M 17:1.14 ... M 17:1.14 |
The almost complete red figure hydria set into this cutting suggests the possibility of a 5th c. burial put into a much earlier grave cutting; however, the remainder of the filling appears thoroughly disturbed ... 450-425 B.C- Late Roman disturbance ... possibility of a 5th c. burial put |
Coins perhaps Hadrian 117-138 A.C.
No XXVII lamps and no XX catalogued (but excavator notes their presence in fill) ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D ... E 14:7.2 ... E 14:7.2 |
Cutting in stereo. Early 4th c. fill with some Hellenistic-Early Roman disturbance ... Ca. 400-375 B.C ... F 14:1 ... F 14:1 |
Rectangular Pit under House L, Room 2. Rubbish pit belonging to second phase of house ... 4th. c. B.C ... 4th. c. B.C. |
Late Roman (3rd c. A.D) with some Hellenistic ... E 14:3.1 ... E 14:3.1 |
Pit in deep depression in bedrock. Also includes containers from early fill under late Roman floors down to bedrock at 81-83/ΚΗ-ΛΒ. Notebook cites early fill, ca. 6th. c., with some obviously late disturbance ... 7th c. to ca. 575 B.C ... E 14:8 ... E 14:8 |
| 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 ... 12th c. A.D ... J/14-2/2 |
Fillings associated with reuse of walls in north part of area.
Red fill under and in North Building ... 5th c. B.C. with Hellenistic/ Roman disturbance as late as 3rd c. A.D ... 5th c. B.C. with Hellenistic/ Roman disturbance as late as 3rd c. A.D. |
Fillings behind retaining wall and in road.
SW Building, rooms 3, north, south. Coins:
13 March 1934 #1, #2
14 March 1934 #37
15 March 1934 #37-#38
24 March 1934 #31 ... 6th c. B.C. and earlier ... E 14:11.2 ... E 14:11.2 |
Coins:
15 March 1934 #6 ... 6th-7th c. A.D ... 6th-7th c. A.D. |
Coins:
19 May 1936 #1-#2 ... 1st c. A.D ... 1st c. A.D. |
Coins:
22 April 1937 #1-#5 Containers 7-5 ... Second half of 1st. c. A.D. POU ... Second half of 1st. c. A.D. POU |
| Grave XXVI in notebook = RSY Grave 12 ... Ca. 525-500 B.C. or sightly later ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 93-95, pl. 42 a-c (Grave 12). |
Well at 19/ΚΔ, beneath the west colonnade of the Square Market Building in the northeast corner of the Agora. Diameter ca. 1.25m. Water level ca. -3.50m. The construction of the well was rather careless, ... Ca. 580-560 B.C ... Ca. 580-560 B.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 ... handles; many late 2nd c. lamps ... #6
13 March 1936 #1-#2
14 |
Cistern at 21/ΙΗ
Period of use fill dated to ca. 375-350 B.C., Upper fill dated to mostly first half of 6th c. B.C. in Agora XXX ... Ca. 375-350 B.C ... Q 13-14:1 ... Q 13-14:1 |
Sullan destruction debris. Coins:
27 April 1940 #3-#5
14 May 1940 #5-#6
15 May 1940 #3-#7
17 May 1940 #11-#13 ... 3rd. to 1st. c. B.C ... 3rd. to 1st. c. B.C. |
Top to 13.15m. called Byzantine by excavator; 13.15m.-18.10m., 6th c. 18.00-19.00 period of disuse, brick and tile fragments ... 5th-6th and 9th-10th c. A.D ... Top to 13.15m. called Byzantine by excavator; 13.15m.-18.10m., 6th c. 18.00-19.00 |
To ca. 410 B.C ... To ca. 410 B.C. |
Containers 100-105. Coins:
14 April 1937 #11-#14 ... Late 1st-1st half of 2nd c. A.D ... Coins:
14 April 1937 #11-#14 |
| Marcie Handler ... The remnants of a disturbed pyre in a layer of dumped Hellenistic fill. The fill was found in the area on top of and east of the eastern wall of the Classical Commercial Building at its north end. Fragmentary ... Ca. 225 B.C ... Ca. 225 B.C ... J/13,17-1/10,14 |
Coins:
13 May 1937 #1-#6
25 May 1937 #1-#5 (from the dump, probably belonging to bottom deposit) ... 2nd. c ... 2nd. c. |
Coins:
9 April 1937 #1-#2
10 April 1937 #1-#2
12 April 1937 #1 Fill III (ca. 21.30m., cont. 4) period of disuse, to end 3rd. c. A.D.
Fill IV (20.20-21.00m., cont. 1-3) another period of use, 4th. c.
Fill ... To second half of 4th. c. A.D ... A 14:1.3 ... A 14:1.3 |
North of east branch of Great Drain. Coins:
21 June 1973 #1 ... 4th c. A.D ... 4th c. A.D. |
Coins:
27 April 1937 #6-#12
28 April 1937 #2
29 April 1937 #2
8 May 1937 #1-#2 15.40-19.50m. produced nothing ... 4th. c. A.D ... 4th. c. A.D. |
Two narrow trenches at right angles to each other.
Small deposit in bedrock cutting Good black glaze ware ... 430-420 B.C ... G 14:6 ... G 14:6 |
| A flask-shaped storage pit or cellar, cut in the rock at the south edge of the levelled top of Kolonos Agoraios. Filled late in first quarter of 6th. c. B.C. (2.95m from east to west by 2.70m from north ... First quarter 6th. c. B.C ... quarter of 6th. c. B.C. (2.95m |
Fill against back wall foundations of Royal Stoa I/6,9-4/8,14. Dug separately, these many fills contain material which joined horizontally and vertically all along back wall of Royal Stoa. Fill seems to ... 2nd/3rd quarters of 5th c.-420s ... Fill against back wall foundations of Royal Stoa I/6,9-4/8,14. Dug separately, these |
Well at 53/ΙΗ, east of the east Stoa Plateia. Diameter 1.40-1.50m. Shaft worked with chisel, tapers toward bottom. Plentiful water. Uniform fill with field-stones, perhaps including period of use ... 775-725 B.C ... 775-725 B.C. |
Abandoned digging at 12.85m. due to collapse of side walls. Well H contents probably thrown in to Well I during cleaning in early Roman times; the pottery from the two wells is similar. Cf. E 14:6 ... 350-250 B.C ... E 14:10 ... E 14:10 |
Upper part collapsed (diameter 1.25m). Uniform fill with water jars. Sorted June 1956. 4 tins thrown out. Joins from all boxes, but pithos fragments and water jars mostly from boxes 6-16 ... 750-700 B.C ... 750-700 B.C. |
Well at 19/ΙΑ (corrected from O 13:2) Incised bowl
Graffito bowl
Water jug x2
Small amphora
Amphora x2
Canteen x2 Tins 132-138 (not found in notebook) ... 12th c. A.D ... N 14:2 ... N 14:2 |
Coins:
9 June 1937 #1
10 June 1937 #1-#11
11 June 1937 #1-#30
12 June 1937 #1-#13 (from earth of 11 June) ... 2nd c. A.D ... E 14:2.2 ... E 14:2.2 |
Small compact deposit. Cutting. High proportion of good black glaze; 21 loom weights (19 pyramidal, 2 lentoid); a very large red-figured skyphos somewhat recalls the style of earlier work of the Dinos ... Ca. 430-420 B.C ... Ca. 430-420 B.C. |
Coins:
19 May 1937 #1-#10
24 May 1937 #1
25 May 1937 #6
26 May 1937 #1-#2 ... Late 1st.-late 2nd. c. A.D ... B 14:2.2 ... B 14:2.2 |
Silt fill of early road drain to North of SW Fountain House. Coins:
10 August 1961 #5 ... 325-275 B.C ... 325-275 B.C. |
| 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 2:14 ... J 2:14 |
Containers 24-72.
Masses of pottery; including many BHWJ's; lamps XVIII and XXIV
Coins:
12 June 1937 #14-#53
13 June 1937 #1-#7 (from earth of 12 June)
13 June 1937 #8
14 June 1937 #1-#3
15 June 1937 ... First half 1st c. A.D ... E 14:2.3 ... E 14:2.3 |
A pit running E-W under Holy Apostle St., about 1.20m. square and 0.90m. deep. Built with stones about the size of a man's head. Coins:
24 April 1935 #12-#13 ... 18th c ... 18th c. |
This shaft in the NE corner of House A, Room III, depth of one tile, is perhaps connected with drain A. Coins:
13 May 1940 #1-#13
14 May 1940 #2-#101 ... Early 3rd. c. B.C ... Coins:
13 May 1940 #1-#13
14 May 1940 #2-#101 |
| Pocket, identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR. Possibly disturbed. Outside south wall of building. Concentration of pottery in a small pocket below a "Hellenistic" fill. There is no mention of bone or ... First quarter 4th c. B.C ... First quarter 4th c. B.C. |
| 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 ... c. B.C. Much earlier ... were 14 layers of fill from ... 6th/early 5th B.C dumped fills |
First trial east Stoa colonnade, N. of S. wall III, layer 12.
Note quantities of cattle bones, the knuckles sawn off and many worked bits. Evidently a bone implement factory near by. [nbp. 2139] Coins: ... Late 3rd c.-earliest 4th c. A.D ... Late 3rd c.-earliest 4th c. A.D. |
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Use filling of late 1st. to late 2nd. c. A.D.; dumped filling of 4th. c. A.D. Coins:
24 April 1937 #2
27 April 1937 #6-#12
28 April 1937 #2
29 April 1937 #2
8 May ... 1st.-4th c. A.D ... Opait (2022), pp. 199, 200, 201, 207, figs. 11, 14. |
Containers 87-99. Coins:
7 April 1937 #30-#31
8 April 1937 #41-#82
9 April 1937 #3-#4 (#4=Dump)
13 April 1937 #1
14 April 1937 #1-#10 ... Late 2nd c. A.D ... April 1937 #1
14 April 1937 |
Well East of Stoa Shop 14. Coins:
31 October 1949 #1-#2 ... 1st c. A.D ... Well East of Stoa Shop 14 |
| 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 ... A 14:1 ... A 14:1 |
| Kernos Pit #1 under Valerian Wall. P 30173-P 30174 added on May 7, 1973 ... 4th c. B.C ... 4th c. B.C. |
Near the Poros Enclosure. Diameter 0.76m. water level -1.20m. Plain shaft sunk in the stereo ... 14-22 July 1947 ... C 18:5 ... C 18:5 |
Upper fill was early Roman dated by AWP to the 1st c. A transitional fill was later assigned to the upper level.
Nbp. 2913: The history may have been that the well was cleaned out at the time that it was ... 3rd-2nd century B.C and Roman date ... c. A transitional fill was ... that it was tiled (1st c. B.C.); the broken bedrock fell |
Mycenaean well and grave.
Single burial, that of a middle-aged man, had been made in the mouth of an unproductive well near the southeast corner of the South Square ... Myc. IIIB-C:1 ... Myc. IIIB-C:1 |
Dumped fillings probably to be associated with the construction of the Great Drain in this area.
Green fill under North Building ... Ca. 400 B.C ... E 14:11.3 ... E 14:11.3 |
Late fillings over early walls.
Tin 120 sherds put with those from the same fill dug 21 February 1934, just to the south. Coins:
21 February 1934 #3-#7
9 March 1934 #2 ... To 5th c. A.D ... E 14:11.5 ... E 14:11.5 |
Rectangular pit over bedrock in north part of E. Building. Broken jars and household basins with a few black glazed and black-figured fragments (uninventoried). The figured pieces indicate the lower limit ... Late 6th-ca. 480 B.C ... F 14:3 ... F 14:3 |
7th-8th c. A.D ... 7th-8th c. A.D. |
Part of cistern system at 94/Θ. Coins:
12 March 1934 #7-#9
14 March 1934 #38-#41 ... 275-200 B.C ... Coins:
12 March 1934 #7-#9
14 March 1934 #38-#41 |
Nbpp. 3104-3105: Represents well deposit; the [baskets] from this layer showed no stratification. Containers marked "earth" presumably represent primarily Layer II.
... it is presumed that the sherds of ... Late 6th-7th c ... Late 6th-7th c. |
Large pit in the bedrock over Wells H and I. Fill of the pit thrown in after filling of Well H, containing almost entirely coarse ware. First 4m of Well I, filling the same. Below that Well I fill similar ... Late Roman- 1st c. A.D. (mainly early ?) ... E 14:9 ... E 14:9 |
Located in front of west end of Stepped Retaining Wall, Heliaia. Filled in and covered in last stages of grading of area after construction of Middle Stoa.
Pottery from settling basin nondescript. Single ... 175-150 B.C ... I 14:2 ... I 14:2 |
| Disturbed Pyre at 59/ΚΗ (ΚΖ), in the area of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus.
Against east wall of room 5 west. concentration of artifacts, ash, carbon and a few bones in stratum, no pit discerned ... 3rd c. B.C ... D 17:14 ... D 17:14 |
| Grave XX in notebook = RSY Grave 16. PD 731-i ... Late 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 97-98, fig. 13 and pl. 44 c-d (Grave 16). |
Northern Manhole to Water Channel [R 9-10], East of Shop 14 ... 2nd c. B.C ... Northern Manhole to Water Channel [R 9-10], East of Shop 14 |
Investigations to the south of the Metroon, in the passageway between the Metroon and the Tholos; accumulated layers, from the Geometric and earlier periods to the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.
Cf. Hesperia ... Geometric to second c. B.C ... 2nd centuries B.C.
Cf ... Coins:
15 April 1935 #1
16 April 1935 #1
24 April 1935 #1
14 July 1954 #2-#4 |
Containers 14-16 ... 6th c. A.D ... 6th c. A.D. |
| Not completely excavated due to instability of chamber walls and water. Sherds of all periods - Greek, Roman and Byzantine - were found in it [nbp. 424].
Re-examined in 2010. Photos and notes on NB pages ... 10th c. A.D ...
Cistern G 14:3 is plaster lined ... cistern G 14:5 through an |
Water deposit in Polygonal Drain (43-44/Γ-Ζ and martyra)immediately south of the south foundations of the Middle Stoa. Early branch of the original course of Great Drain. P 2248 added to this deposit by ... Ca. 420-390 B.C ... J 13-14:1 ... J 13-14:1 |
Nbp. 3104: When dug, the fill of the well divided itself into 3 deposits.
Objects catalogued from the "earth" are: L 4838, P 21602, P 21603, P 21604. Dumped filling of Turkish times. Coins:
17 May 1937 ... Late 6th-7th c. A.D ... D 14:1 ... D 14:1 |
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