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Investigations in the Hellenistic Metroon, various levels. Stoa Pits A, B, C, D, E, F, H and I (various layers).
Locations include:
SW corner of Primitive Bouleuterion; from contemporary filling alongside ... 8th-6th c. B.C ... and 7th c. B.C.
- early 6th c. B.C. with much earlier ... c. B.C.
- first quarter of ... Coins:
20 April 1934 #1 (from Pit F, footing trench of Period IV, foundation |
| 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 ... Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F ... quarter to end of 1st c. B.C ... 10B.C. Much mixed with middle |
N-S Cut on 20m. 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 that bordered ... Protogeometric to Late Roman ... 1st c. A.D.
Layer V: ... c. B.C., with later (1st c. B.C.)
Layer VII: 4th c. |
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 ... E-F 2-3:2 ... E-F 2-3:2 |
Well shaft cut through a cistern channel which was then packed with three amphorae (P 3123, P 3125, P 4201) of 1st or at latest early 2nd c. A.D. (These three amphorae could be considered with F 15:2) ... 3rd-4th c. A.D ... 3rd-4th c. A.D. |
Also possibly object B 252 "scraping bedrock in south part; context too disturbed and uncertain to be trusted." ... 4th c. B.C ... 4th c. B.C ... F 11 |
Investigations within the Stoa of Zeus, the north part, various levels.
Notebook references: Stoa Trench E Layers IV and V, Stoa Pits A, B and C, and Layers I and II of area between back wall and retaining ... 5th c. B.C ... 5th c. B.C. |
Coins:
8 May 1935 #2 ... 4th-2nd c. B.C ... F-G 10-11.3 ... F-G 10-11.3 |
Martyr at Δ6. Top strosis (Byzantine-Turkish) discarded.
Strosis 2, late Hellenistic (Lot ΔΕ 21)
Strosis 3, early Hellenistic (Lot ΔΕ 22)
Strosis 4, to mid-4th c. B.C. (Lot ΔΕ 23)
Nothing catalogued from ... To mid-4th c. B.C ... mid-4th c. B.C. (Lot ΔΕ 23) |
Accumulated fillings in the Bouleutrion Plateia beginning in late 5th c. B.C. and continuing into the 3rd c. A.D., reaching a depth of 0.20-0.30m. (Hesp. 6 (1937), p. 168. Subdivisions:
.1=Layer I
.2=Layer ... 5th c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D ... beginning in late 5th c. B.C. and continuing into the 3rd c. A.D., |
Well in house R of industrial area west of the Areopagus. This well, originally tiled, was abandoned and filled at the time of the conversion of the house into a stone-cutters' workshop.
Tiled well but ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... C 19:9 ... C 19:9 |
1st-2nd c. A.D ... 1st-2nd c. A.D ... F 11 |
Child's burial in south wall of Marble Worker's House.
Bones examined 20 June 1975 and found to be an immature animal, not human (canid-puppy?).
Identified as pyre by SIR. Set into a shallow roughly ovoid ... Late 4th c ... F 16:7 ... F 16:7 |
| Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. Coins:
5 August 1968 #1-#6 (#5 and #6 disintegrated. Missing 19/7/1973)
6 August 1968 #1bis-#25 (#5 in Lot 503 not a coin but bronze bits of nail. #6 not a coin ... 325-275 B.C ... 325-275 B.C ... F/7,8-16/2,3 |
House A destruction debris over floors. All floors (rooms 1-7) dug in 1939. Re-examination of House A in 1967 (nbpp. 648 ff.). Coins:
27 February 1939 #5-#9
7 March 1939: #1
9 March 1939 #4-#6
11 March ... First half 3rd. c. A.D ... First half 3rd. c. A.D ... F-G 19-20 |
Water channel in scarp above Bouleuterion Plateia; north passage, from mouth ... Latest 2nd or early 1st c. B.C ... Latest 2nd or early 1st c. B.C ... F 10-11 |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Coin hoard of Athenian tetradrachms. Dug into fill under floor (floor level not preserved) on east side of Strategeion near the NE corner of room formed by the eastern poros block wall and an east-west ... Second half of 4th c. B.C ... Second half of 4th c. B.C ... F/12-13/14 |
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 ... 345). Hell. Group C.
The ... which is deposit F 6:3: A ... comparison with F 5:1 and G 5:3. |
| 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 |
| 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 ... Ca. 510-480 B.C. cf ... B.C. cf. Hesperia 7 (1938), ... jars; black glaze.
c) Cooking ware.
d), e), f) Roof tiles, |
Estimated Grid ... Ca. 300-275 B.C ... Ca. 300-275 B.C ... F/19,20-19/18,19 |
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 ... F 9:2 ... F 9:2 |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Ovoid pit cut into bedrock or sterile fill just north of preserved floor surfaces in the so-called Strategeion. Length (west-east) 2.6m; widens at 1.25m from the east scarp so that at west pit is 0.75m ... 4th B.C ... 4th B.C ... F/17,19-13/4,6 |
End of 4th.-3rd c. B.C ... F 17:3.2 ... F 17:3.2 |
Coins:
10 April 1937 #5 ... 4th-3rd c. B.C ... F 5:5 ... F 5:5 |
Pocket behind heavy Roman retaining wall ... 4th c. B.C ... F 10:1 ... F 10:1 |
Bits of broken molds and iron waste; no objects catalogued ... 4th-3rd c. B.C ... F 5:6 ... F 5:6 |
5th c. A.D ... F 16:2.1 ... F 16:2.1 |
It is a considerable deposit including both figured and plain wares, the red-figure consistently of the second quarter of the 4th c. Estimated Grid ... Ca 375-340 B.C ... Ca 375-340 B.C ... F/19,20-19/18,19 |
315-260 B.C ... 315-260 B.C. |
290-250 B.C ... 290-250 B.C. |
4th c. A.D ... F 13:2.1 ... F 13:2.1 |
Patch of undisturbed filling over bedrock (at east edge of Kolonos Agoraios) ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C ... F 11:3 ... F 11:3 |
Byzantine 13th-14th c. A.D ... Byzantine 13th-14th c. A.D. |
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. |
Coins:
4 May 1932 #1-#8 (#8 from dump) ... 4th c. A.D ... 4th c. A.D. |
Coins:
31 May 1935 #1 ... 1st c. A.D ... F 13:2.4 ... F 13:2.4 |
Cutting in stereo. Early 4th c. fill with some Hellenistic-Early Roman disturbance ... Ca. 400-375 B.C ... F 14:1 ... F 14:1 |
Bottom of well plus dump. Coins:
4 May 1932 #8
5 May 1932 #8-#42 'from mud', #42 uncertain ... 2nd. c. A.D ... F 16:2.4 ... F 16:2.4 |
Disturbed burial set into a cutting in hardpan. No lot ... 2nd half of 5th c. B.C ... 2nd half of 5th c. B.C. |
Well just outside the southwest corner of the market square ... Late 7th-early 6th c. B.C ... F 15:4 ... F 15:4 |
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 ... F 13:2 ... F 13:2 |
| 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 ... illegible) 4th c. A.D.
Foundation ... F until this season of ... Room F. 53.084-53.275m. |
Figurine Deposit in Roman Building 4, Room 20, strosis 1. Coins:
13 April 1937 #1 ... To 4th c. A.D ... F 5:4 ... F 5:4 |
Coins:
5 May 1932 #1-#7
Laughing faun found at this level with pottery similar to that of group K (miniature) ... 3rd c.-267 A.D ... F 16:2.3 ... F 16:2.3 |
It was impossible to return to the digging of this well either in 1939 or 1940 [due to collapse of stereo] (nbp. 1432).
HAT compares pottery to that of Square Building fill. Coins
26 May 1939 #1 ... Second half of 4th c. B.C ... Second half of 4th c. B.C. |
Fills associated with construction of New Bouleuterion, i.e. inside porch, unused foundation trenches on west side and south side ... Down to last quarter of 5th c. B.C ... Down to last quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
Scanty dumped filling in an abandoned well cutting ... Ca. 425-420 B.C ... F 6:2 ... F 6:2 |
Rectangular shaft at northwest foot of Areopagus; dumped filling of second half of 4th c. B.C. Pit at 16/Δ-Ε recorded one time as an extension of shaft 17/Δ-Ε (see L 506 and nb.p. 395), but items from ... Ca. 325-275 B.C ... Ca. 325-275 B.C. |
Coins:
25 May 1935 #2
28 May 1935 #1-#3
29 May 1935 #1-#3
30 May 1935 #1-#2 ... 2nd c. A.D ... 2nd c. A.D. |
Deposit of jewelry in hypocaust area (92/ΙΗ) of Bath to East of Poros Building. Coins:
8 April 1948 #12-#47 ... 2nd-3rd c A.D ... F 17:2 ... F 17:2 |
| Unfinished well-shaft with debris filling (apparently of the Sullan sack), on the lower NW slopes off the Areopagus. Abandoned due to poor quality of bedrock.
Three closely contemporary fills, considered ... End 2nd c. B.C.-second quarter 1st c. B.C ... F 19:6 ... F 19:6 |
| "Perhaps a cremation burial ... " nbp. 811. "Sacrificial pyre, disturbed," GRE, deposit nb.
In room on east side of building. Concentration of artifacts, fragments of bone, and abundant cinders in stratum, ... Early 3rd c. B.C.-Ca. 250 B.C ... Early 3rd c. B.C.-Ca. 250 B.C. |
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 ... 7th-ca. 570 B.C. |
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 ... 310-275 B.C. |
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. |
Accumulated filling over Bouleuterion Plateia, Layer II. Coins:
8 May 1935 #1 ... 1st or 2nd c. A.D ... F-G 10-11.2 ... F-G 10-11.2 |
| Although separated by a sterile rocky fill the two use fillings are apparently one continuous accumulation (GRE).
Packing around well includes SS 14261, P 25943-P 25953. These are not given a subdivision ... 350-300 B.C. to ca. 225 B.C ... 350-300 B.C. to ca. 225 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 ... to that of
F 11:2. |
| Identified as Pyre by SIR.
Debris filling of the middle of the 4th c. B.C. including the remains of a sacrificial pyre.
Objects dispersed in red-clay fill uncovered in removal of modern staircase. A broken ... 4th c. B.C. disturbed ... middle of the 4th c. B.C ... c. but also later |
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 ... 375-340 B.C.
Upper filling, ca. 300-275 B.C. |
Cistern System #1f: Shaft at 1/ΝΘ = Well A. Scanty dumped filling. Coins:
19 February 1936 #2-#3
20 February 1936 #16-#20
21 February 1936 #5-#7
22 February 1936 #1 ... Mid-4th to 3rd c. B.C ... Mid-4th to 3rd c. B.C. |
Pit on north slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Traces of burning in the dirt fill; mixed in with this many fragments of fine pottery ... Ca. 450-420 B.C ... Ca. 450-420 B.C. |
Nbp. 661: Dug in 1st c. Cleaned out almost to bottom shortly after the middle of the 3rd c. and used for a few years. During Herulian invasion of 267, Laughing Faun broken up and thrown in. Thereafter ... 1st-5th c. A.D., 2nd c. A.D.=POU ... 1st-5th c. A.D., 2nd c. A.D.=POU |
| Above bedrock in N.W. corner of room S, House of Greek Mosaic. Contents suggest "saucer-pyre" ... Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 55, pp. 167, 168, figs. 103, 104. |
Red sandy earth at inner corner of heavy late wall at 12/ΛΖ.
A. Walker coin deposit. Coins:
27 March 1934 #1-#12
28 March 1934 #1-#2 ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D. |
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 ... Late 6th-ca. 480 B.C. |
See cistern system wells F 11:2 and F 12:3, part of Tholos water system. Estimated Grid ... Ca. 350-294 B.C ... See cistern system wells F 11:2 and F 12:3, part of Tholos water system. |
Furnace Dump from N. Hypocaust in Bath to East of Poros Building. Coins:
26 March 1948 #4-#8
27 March 1948 #1-#3
29 March 1948 #2-#7
1 April 1948 #2-#3
3 April 1948 #14-#15
7 April 1948 #16-#27
8 April ... Second half 3rd c.-first half 4th c. A.D ... F 17:1 ... F 17:1 |
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 ... F 19:3 ... F 19:3 |
North of court F, around well head only. Deposit created by A.W. and first appears in his thesis (Biblio. below).
Cf. nbpp. 2204 and 2234 and lot 350 for court F and p. 2127 for north of court. Coins: ... 1st-2nd c. A.D ... A. Walker Coin Deposit North of Court F in ΟΟ |
Possibly a short period of use but chiefly a debris filling including a number of fragments from disturbed early burials. Two pot fragments, believed to be from lower body of P 18525, added from Well 3 ... Ca. 575-550 B.C ... Ca. 575-550 B.C. |
Roman Group L.
Layer I (cont. 59-64) Pre-Herulian second half of 3rd c. (bottom, 15.95-13.90).
Layer II (cont. 42-58) 4th c.-first quarter of 4th c. (11.90-13.90).
Layer III (cont. 17-41) -4th c. (10.00 ... Second half 3rd c.-early 5th c. A.D ... Second half 3rd c.-early 5th 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 ... Second half of 3rd c. A.D.=POU |
| Pit (f) in bedrock used for casting archaic bronze statue for the first Temple of Apollo Patroos (Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 82-84) ... 6th c. B.C ... Pit (f) in bedrock used for casting archaic bronze statue for the first Temple of |
Dug as Tholos Trench V, Room E, burnt filling of plundered wall trench of S wall of court. See also lot Ζ 484 ... Late 6th c. B.C ... Pillaging Fill of Building F |
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 ... quarter of 2nd. c. B.C. (nbp. |
Filling of early N-S road and related fills, in the area of the Geometric Cemetery south of the Tholos; various levels including plundered foundation trench.
For late, disturbed or uncertain levels over ... 7th-6th c. B.C ... see F-G 12:2.
For |
Actually 1 meter into section Δ, the well lies under a filling of primarily Hellenistic date which had been thrown in as underpinning for the support of a 2nd c. A.D. Roman tile-mosaic floor.
POU is 15.80-16.35m ... First half of 1st c. A.D ... First half of 1st c. A.D. |
| Grave V in notebook = RSY Grave 5. PD 731-c, Ptg. 244 ... Second quarter of the 6th. c. B.C ... PD 731-c, Ptg. 244 |
| 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). |
House F, room 4 below floor at -2.00m., fill 4. Deposit created by A.W. and first appears in his thesis (Biblio. below). Coins;
19 May 1949 #1-#16 Cf. coins from 17 June 1949 #1-#4 listed with lot OO 490 ... First quarter 2nd c A.D ... A. Walker Coin Deposit in House F in ΟΟ |
Coins:
26 April 1932 #1
27 April 1932 #1-#2
Only the pottery from last 1.00m of fill retained. Finds recorded in both Δ and Δ'. See Δ nbp. 114 for division of Δ into two parts, northern (Δ) and southern ... 4th c. A.D ... F 15:1 ... F 15:1 |
Small pocket with R.F. sherds and terracottas, perhaps thrown up by the diggers of a modern well nearby ... Ca. 375-350 B.C ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Rodney S. Young ... Shallow round pit scraped out of bedrock. Grave 18 in notebook. The confusion here is that P 5347 found in the grave was catalogued in B' but the large bowl fragment (P 6482) was catalogued in B (see nb ... 700-650 B.C ... 700-650 B.C. |
Cistern system West of Bouleuterion: (see also B: cistern system to West of Tholos). Third Chamber from North. A well was dug through the bottom in Byz. times. Cf. deposit F 9:2. Coins:
3 May 1934 #1 ... 160-140 B.C., with Byz. disturbance
Early 3rd to late 2nd c. B.C. POU ... 160-140 B.C., with Byz. disturbance
Early 3rd to late 2nd c. B.C. POU |
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 ... F 12:3 ... F 12:3 |
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 ... F 13:3 ... F 13:3 |
| Stucco-lined bottle-shaped cistern, with tunnel and subsidiary manhole, in SW Baths, Room Α 10. Homogeneous dumped fill, mostly of mold-made bowls and and molds for terracotta figurines. Sixteen stamped ... 225-190 B.C ... 45C lamp. Large number of |
See I 870, a piece of which was found in disturbed red fill in Β' southeast of Tholos.
Although apparently from the same context as P 5339 (tins 24-26, undisturbed fill), P 5336-P 5338 are recorded from ... 27 February-8 April 1935 ... c) Building fill in disturbed places |
Well cut through the floor of a cistern. Apparently a dumped fill in an unused well. Coins:
16 March 1934 #15 (illegible)
17 March 1934 #2
19 March 1934 #1-#4
20 March 1934 #1-#3
22 March 1934 #1
23 March ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
Fillings in and to the north of Building A/Poros Building/Greek Building ("Strategeion"), the accumulation mostly a late archaic dump, but not deposited till near the middle of the century. Most of the ... First half of 5th c. to ca. 460-450 B.C ... E-F 12-14 ... E-F 12-14 |
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 ... filling, 490-480 B.C. and ... neighboring shaft, F 19:4, would |
| Grave XIV in notebook = RSY Grave 13. PD 731-f ... Late 6th. c. B.C ... PD 731-f |
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 ... F 11:2 ... F 11:2 |
| North of House G (RSY=Pyre 13).
Concentration of artifacts, small pieces of bone, and burnt material in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre is cut by the trench of a wall of a Roman house to north. It ... 290-250 B.C ... 290-250 B.C. |
Deposit in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, underlying a Roman bath. Pottery examined in June 1955; latest pieces noted: one fragment Pergamene and one fragment brittle ware; no certainly post-Sullan ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... as F 92. |
Nb page 5044: Great shapeless pit with a well (62/Ξ) at its bottom which we were unable to dig because it was too dangerous. Fill in the pit was of sand and white ash. The finds and pottery 4th. and perhaps ... Late 4th.-early 3rd. c ... Hesperia Suppl. 10, p. 167. |
| Grave V, under room 18 in House 3, plus burned deposit at 94/IΘ. Identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR on Agoraios Kolonos:
In southeast corner of house 3. 35 artifacts, bone and charred material in pit, ... Ca. 300-275 B.C ... F 5:2 ... F 5:2 |
The West 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 ... 225-165 B.C ... F 6:3 ... F 6:3 |
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