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Accumulated debris on the west side of the market square.
Related layers added 1999/2000 (JWH), e.g. "Gravelly layer above burning", "Clearing Classical floor", "Lowest level above bedrock", "Below burning", ... First half of 5th c. A.D ... Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 115 ... Agora VI, p. 99 ... Agora XXI, p. 98. |
Burnt Layer inside retaining wall of Middle Stoa Terrace (Θ) and NW Corner of Middle Stoa, burnt debris inside terrace retaining wall (Ζ). Coins Ζ: Coins Θ:
1 June 1951 ... Mid-3rd c. A.D ... Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 115 ... Agora VI, p. 99 ... Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 110. |
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 ... Agora VI, p. 98 ... Hesperia 42 (1973), p. 325, no. 6 ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 19, n. 47. |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 15 in notebook. Burial of child (E.L. Smithson: Grave XIV: PG). Single bone. Nb. says: few bones.
Skull fragment, few ribs and fingers (bones discarded). Negs. KK 24 and KK 30 431 ... Developed to Late Protogeometric ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 364-365, 367, figs. 29-30 ... Kerameikos V, 1, p. 47 as a "spätprotogeometrischen Grab" ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 45, pp. 322-328, figs. 2.224-2.227, pl. III. |
Sacrificial Pit VI in notebook = RSY Grave 18 See also B 21:23 ... Ca. 525-500 B.C ... Sacrificial Pit VI in notebook = RSY Grave 18 |
| 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 ... Coins:
16 February 1937 ... February 1937 #1 (disintegrated)
8 April 1937 #5-#10 |
Essentially uniform fill of III-IV c. A.D. with a Byzantine upper fill. Coins:
14 June 1937 #1-#3
15 June 1937 #2
16 June 1937 #1
17 June 1937 #1-#2
18 June 1937 #1-#4
19 June 1937 #1-#4
9 June 1938 #1-#3 ... Late 3rd-mid-4th c. A.D ... Agora VI, p. 99 ... Agora VII, p. 225 ... Agora XXXII, p. 298. |
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Stratified deposit. Coins:
8 May 1937 #3
14 May 1937 #1
Coins from dump:
27 May 1937 #2-#9
28 May 1937 #3-#11 Subdivisions:
.1=16.00-17.00m.
.2=17.00-18.00m.
.3=18.00-19.00m ... 3rd. c. B.C.-3rd. c. A.D ... Agora VI, p. 98 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375 ... Agora IV, p. 234. |
| 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 ... 29.00-30.40m.
.6=Layer VI, ...
5 April 1937 #1-#3
6 April 1937 #1-#7
7 April 1937 #1-#32
8 April |
Tomb at 53-54/ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ-ΛΗ (Late Roman), on the lower north slope of the Areopagus Nb. says ΛΕ-ΛΗ. Deposit list and deposit DB say: ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ ... 350-400 A.D ... Agora VI, p. 99 ... Agora VII, p. 226 ... Agora XXIX, p. 461. |
| 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 ... Well dug to -21.45m: June 17, 1938 (Nb. p. 1582); not finished ... objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585.
Lower ... handles; Type 33A and 45C lamps. |
May be of Hellenistic origin when cistern system went out of use.
For a general note on the cistern see Nb. ΟΕ III, pp. 246 ff.
Objects from B 586 various depths (no subdivision): S 2324-S 2330,
P 34894, ... Late 2nd-early 6th c. A.D ... Agora VI, p. 99 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4, p. 101 ... Agora V, p. 125. |
Lower fill:
See Deposit G-I 11-12, where the finds are again listed.
Dug as Tholos Trench A, Layer VI, no finds.
Dug as Tholos Trench C, Layer IV+Va, A 756, A 757, P 10507.
Dug as Tholos Trench N, Layer ... 6th c. B.C ... Tholos Trench A, Layer VI, no ... Layer IV+Va, A 756, A 757, P ... (Section Β), P 5878, L 1866. |
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 ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 19 ... Agora X, p. 67 ... Agora XII, p. 388. |
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 ... Hesperia 45 (1976), pp. 11-15, pls. 1-4. Pillaging fill of Building F ... Agora IV, p. 241 ... Agora XXIX, p. 455. |
Evidence of stratification into five layers, although joins between the layers. Layer VI added when the construction of the Roman building above required it. No subdivisions assigned.
Flask-shaped cistern ... Early 3rd-late 2nd c. B.C ... Layer VI: Supplemental filling prior to construction of Roman house |
Deposits containing much ash and charcoal, probably to be associated with the Persian sack. Layers IV-VI of trial pit between Stoa piers IV and V ... 1st quarter 5th c. B.C ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 12-14, fig. 6 ... Agora XXI, p. 98. |
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 ... Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 339 ... Agora XII, p. 389 ... Agora XIII, p. 274. |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave II: SM).
Unlined trench, roughly the size of the deceased, cut into bedrock to a depth of just over 1.50m. Oriented north-south, the tomb pit measured 1.69m in length (length ... Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric ... Hesperia XIV, 1945, p. 301, no. 54 (AA 9) ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 1, pp. 45-49, figs. 2.5-2.7, 3.10, pl. 1 ... Hesperia VII, 1938, pp. 324-325. |
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