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Great Drain: fillings in south part of section; Martyrs I, II and III, all layers (essentially no difference in the layers).
Pottery sorted and recorded by H.A. Thompson 12 may 1950: "Having gone through ... Second half of 2nd c. B.C.-Early 1st c. B.C ... Agora |
West Road and Drain. (Road, drain and closely related cuts.) Packing in line of ancient road running along the northwest shoulder of the Areopagus. Includes excavation of 1957 titled "Road Area to North", ... Late 6th c. B.C. - Roman ... Agora XII, p. 388 ... Agora XXIII, p. 331. |
Flower Pot Pits. Coins:
10 March 1936 #2
11 March 1936 #9
12 March 1936 #1
13 March 1936 #1-#3, #7
14 March 1936 #1, #9
2 April 1936 #1
7 January 1937 #1-#2
8 January 1937 #1
12 January 1937 #1-#2 ... 9-18 March 1936
1-2 April 1936
7-12 January 1937 ... Agora |
It seems possible that the well ... was originally associated with the late Roman reconstruction of the Stoa, being later carried up to serve the Byz. houses. [Nbp. 364] Coins:
6 March 1939 #1-#9 ... Late 4th-early 5th century ... Agora VII, p. 225. |
Loose filling below earliest Byzantine Floor. Coins:
25 February 1939 #3-#5
27 February 1939 #2-#4 ... To 11th c. A.D ... Agora |
"Foundry Pit": N-S Cut on 50m. line (area of Stoa, Layer VII, with slag). A foundry pit in the courtyard of a small metalworking establishment outside the Agora to the northwest.
Both the courtyard and ... Ca. 375-350 B.C ... Agora |
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 ... Agora XII, p. 388. |
Coins:
6 May 1937 #2-#3
7 May 1937 #10
24 May 1937 #1 ... 13th-14th c. A.D ... Agora |
Hellenistic cistern, part of the same system as 94/ΝΣΤ (D 4:1) and connected with it by a passage. Later cleaned out for reuse and filled with destruction debris of the late 4th c. A.D. Coins:
23 March ... Second half 4th c. A.D ... Agora V, p. 125. |
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 ... Agora X, p. 67 ... Agora XII, p. 388 ... Agora XXII, p. 98. |
The following pieces from E 6:4 exhibit joins with pottery from this cistern and could be listed here as well: P 7836-P 7839.
Cf. Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 19, n. 51. Coins:
15 March 1937 #1
16 March ... Mid-Late Byz ... Agora |
Drain channel system along the line of an ancient north-south road, the channel in part at the surface and in part tunneled and accessible by shafts. Over a considerable part of this channel the hard water ... 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D ... Agora VI, p. 98 ... Agora VII, p. 225 ... Agora XXXII, p. 296. |
Pit at 79-83/ΜΒ-ΜΖ (or 81/ΜΣΤ=pit under floor of Room 11 in Roman Bldg. 2, 82/ΜΓ, 83/ΜΕ=well at 83/ΜΗ). Purpose of pit obscure. Evidently filled in Hellenistic times and disturbed in Roman times. Coins: ... 275-200 B.C. with later disturbance ... Agora |
Cistern System #3: East Chamber at 69/Λ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/ΛΣΤ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos ... 175-125 B.C ... Agora IV, p. 237 ... Agora XII, p. 388 ... Agora XIV, p. 80, n. 235. |
Cistern System #3: West Chamber at 69/ΛΣΤ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/Λ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos. Upper fill of early 1st ... 175-125 B.C ... Agora |
Within the precinct of the Hephaisteion, about 10m. north of the north stylobate of the temple.
Flask-shaped pit (W. (bottom) 3.14 x 2.73m) probably originally intended as a cistern; used for dumping ... Ca. 375-310 B.C.-Byzantine ... Agora X, p. 67 ... Agora XII, p. 388 ... Agora XXI, p. 97. |
Byzantine, 4th c. A.D ... Agora |
Coins:
27 May 1936 #1-#2 ... 25-27 May 1936 ... Agora |
Ca. 375-310 B.C ... Agora |
Joins occur between this pit and the cistern in section ΛΛ (87/ΛΕ)
(E 5:3). Coins:
16 May 1936 #6 ... Byzantine ... Agora |
Pit near SW corner of Hellenistic Bldg. The object catalogued is one of three TC molds found at the location ... 5th.-4th. c. B.C ... Agora |
Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LXVI in notebook.
Burned layer with bones, skulls. Coins:
13 March 1939 #25
14 March 1939 #9-#10 Neg. KK 394 ... Byzantine ... Agora |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LVIII in notebook. No mention of bones. Neg. KK 391 ... Byzantine ... Agora |
Same filling as Theseion Street Deposit D 7:2 but separate list.
Perhaps also P 7904. Area disturbed by Turkish (50-56/ΜΓ-ΜΣΤ).
This is 3-4 m. west of Hephaisteion, and the hole was probably filled at ... Ca. 500-470 B.C ... Agora XII, p. 388 ... Agora XXV, p. 164 ... Agora XXX, p. 361. |
Grave in north peristyle of Temple of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXI in notebook. No mention of bones. Coins:
25 February 1939 #4
27 February 1939 #5-#11
6 March 1939 #1 Negs. KK 376, KK 379 ... 25-27 February 1939
6 March 1939 ... Agora |
| Grave in opisthodomos of Hephaisteion. Grave LI in notebook.
No mention of bones. Neg. KK 363, XIX-8 (dismantling of the walls of the graves( ... 10 March 1939
16 March 1939 ... Agora |
| Grave in opisthodomos of Hephaisteion. Grave XLIX in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
9 March 1939 #8-#13 Neg. KK 365 ... 9 March 1939
16 March 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LVII in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
10 March 1939 #2 Neg. KK 389 ... 9-11 March 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LXI in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
11 March 1939 #12-#14
13 March 1939 #4
14 March 1939 #2-#4 Neg. KK 393 ... 11-13 March 1939
18 March 1939 ... Agora |
| Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LXVII in notebook.
Crammed with bones (13 skulls): osteotheke. Coins:
13 March 1939 #26-#27 Neg. XV-86 ... 13-14 March 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXII in notebook.
Loose earth and bones filling. Coins:
25 February 1939 #5-#6
6 March 1939 #2-#4
15 March 1939 #1 Neg. 378 ... 25 February 1939
6 March 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LIX in notebook.
No mention of bones. Containers 473 and 474 represent filling between graves. Coins:
11 March 1939 #16 Neg. KK 391 ... Byzantine ... Agora |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LX in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
11 March 1939 #9-#11 Neg. 397 ... Byzantine ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XVIII in notebook. At least three skeletons ... 21 February 1939 ... Agora |
| Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XX in notebook. This deposit includes also an infant grave at the corner of Grave XX (cf. pp. 1714, 2141 and catalogued objects B 673 and B 674).
Many bones, skulls ... 22 February 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXI in notebook. Disintegrated bones. Coins:
22 February 1939 #2-#3 ... 22 February 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XVII in notebook. Many tumbled bones. Neg. KK 347 ... 22 February 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Temple of Hephaisteion. Grave XLVII in notebook. Rotted bones, head to west (adult). Neg. KK 352 ... 9 March 1939 ... Agora |
| Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XIX in notebook. One skeleton. Nails and wood. Two skeletons are mentioned by Angel, AA 82 and AA 83 ... 21 February 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XLVI in notebook. No mention of bones. Coins:
9 March 1939 #1-#4 ... 8 March 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXV in notebook.
Filling: loose earth and confused bones. Coins:
6 March 1939 #11-#13 ... 8 March 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion with cover slab with inscription (I 5885). Grave XXXIV in notebook. One skeleton and two leg bones. The remains of G. Watson were replaced in his original position.
Pottery ... 15 August 1810 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXII in notebook.
One skull with messy disintegrated bones ... 22 February 1939 ... Agora |
| Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XLV in notebook.
One skeleton. Pottery discarded? Coin
8 March 1939 #22 Neg. XV-69 ... 7 March 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXIII in notebook. Disintegrated bones, grave disturbed to bottom. Coins:
23 February 1939 #5 ... 23 February 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXIV in notebook. Two skeletons. No sherds. Coins:
23 February 1939 #4 Neg. KK 375 ... 23 February 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXIX in notebook. No mention of bones. Coins:
25 February 1939 #1 ... 23 February 1939
8 March 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXV in notebook. Smashed bones ... 23-24 February 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXVI in notebook. Loose earth with bones. Coins:
14 March 1939 #1 ... 25 February 1939
18 March 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXX in notebook.
Filling: loose earth. No mention of bones. Lot 401b ... 8 March 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXA in notebook.
No mention of bones ... 13 March 1939
18 March 1939 ... Agora |
| Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXVII in notebook.
Two skulls and messy bones. Coins:
8 March 1939 #2 Neg. XV-74 (left) ... 8 March 1939
13 March 1939 ... Agora |
| Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXVIII in notebook. No mention of bones. Negs. XV-74 , KK 357 ... 25 February 1939 ... Agora |
Grave north of Hephaisteion. Grave IX in notebook.
Bundle of bones. A bronze ring, not inventoried ... 18 May 1936 ... Agora |
Grave north of Hephaisteion. Grave XIII in notebook. One damaged skeleton. No pottery, no coins ... 20 May 1936 ... Agora |
Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LXV in notebook. Coins:
13 March 1939 #24
14 March 1939 #8 (Vandal, not kept?) Notebook says: wall of LXIV rests on bones.
Neg. KK 396 ... 13-14 March 1939
16 March 1939 ... Agora |
Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LXIV in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
13 March 1939 #21-#23
14 March 1939 #7 Neg. KK 395 ... 13-15 March 1939 ... Agora |
Grave south of Hephaisteion, in Byzantine cistern. Grave III in notebook. Disturbed. One skeleton ... 30 March 1936 ... Agora |
| Grave south of Hephaisteion. Grave II in notebook. One skeleton. No objects. Pottery in container 201 from filling around grave II ... 12 March 1936 ... Agora |
Water channel in north part of Section: Channel Mouth 4. Coins:
22 February 1936 #16-#18
24 February 1936 #1-#2
Twenty stamped amphora handles; type 38 lamp; type 56 A lamp; over half of bowls long-petal ... 120-86 B.C ... Agora |
Original filling completely removed by construction of well dug through it. Filling eliminated by digging of E 11:2. Dumped filling. Coins:
28 March 1936 #1
31 March 1936 # 4-#5
2 April 1936 #2-#6
3 April ... 4th c. A.D ... Agora |
Well cut through cistern at 40/Θ on Kolonos Agoraios (E 11:1). Two use periods plus an upper dumped fill from which the following objects: B 319, I 3994, SS 5745, T 1235. Coins:
6 April 1936 #18-#21
7 ... First half of 1st c. A.D.
4th-early 5th c. A.D ... Agora IV, p. 237 ... Agora V, p. 125 ... Agora XXI, p. 97. |
4th-early 5th c. A.D ... Agora |
Coins:
6 June 1936 #3 ... First half 1st c. A.D ... Agora |
Eugene Vanderpool ... Disturbed burial: Pocket in bedrock (Grave 11: PG). In some records as Grave XI. No remains. No cutting or traces of burning nearby
The coin listed here was found "cleaning bedrock", presumably at the ... Developed to Late Protogeometric ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 46, pp. 328-331, figs. 2.228, 2.229, pl. III. |
A circular cutting in bedrock ... Late 6th-early 5th c. B.C ... Agora |
Carefully cut in bedrock with firm footholds on either side. The use filling is represented by a few fragments of water jars (uninventoried), indicating a short period of use. The dumped filling, below ... Ca. 470-425 B.C ... Agora |
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 ... Agora IV, p. 237 ... Agora V, p. 125 ... Agora VI, p. 98 (upper fill). |
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 ... Agora |
Cumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C ... Agora |
Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C ... Agora |
Well at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Use filling of 1st c. A.D.; dumped fillings of 3rd c. and of early Byz. times. Coins:
15 June 1937 #1-#2 (earth)
16 June 1937 #14-#20 (earth)
17 June 1937 ... 1st c. A.D.=POU ... Agora IV, p. 237 ... Agora V, p. 125 ... Agora VI, p. 98. |
Coins:
24 May 1937 #1
27 May 1937 #1
31 May 1937 #1
2 June 1937 #1 ... Byzantine ... Agora |
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 ... Agora |
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 ... Agora |
Cistern-shaft 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 ... Upper fill, Late Roman with some Hellenistic.
Middle fill, Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C.
Lower fill, 4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment ... Agora IV, p. 237 ... Agora X, p. 67 ... Agora XXI, p. 97. |
Late Roman (3rd c. A.D) with some Hellenistic ... Agora |
Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C ... Agora |
4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment ... Agora |
Rectangular shaft cut in rock with NE-SW orientation. Upper part of grave cut into fill over bedrock; this fill later swept away. Paving of small stones. Few human teeth and ribs.
(Dimensions: L. 1.62m, ... 725-200 B.C ... Agora |
Found in 13/06/1935.
Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup, perhaps in one of the public buildings near the SW corner of the square ... Ca. 520-490 B.C ... Agora |
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 ... Agora XII, p. 388 ... Agora XXII, p. 99 ... Agora XXIX, pp. 446-447. |
Coins:
19 May 1936 #1-#2 ... 1st c. A.D ... Agora |
Late 4th to early 3rd c. B.C ... Agora |
Two periods of use.
Outside the SW corner of the market square, to the west of the north-south road; lower use of filling, of 1st to early 2nd c. A.D. Coins:
26 May 1937 #1 [to 8.30m.]
9 June 1937 #2-#4 ... 10 -11 June 1935
20 May-20 June 1937 ... Agora |
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 ... Agora |
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 ... Agora |
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 ... Agora |
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 ?) ... Agora |
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 ... Agora |
Fillings associated with Southwest and North Buildings (78-99/ΙΣΤ-ΚΘ) and early walls to west of Great Drain.
pottery p. 1189, vol VII ... Subdivisions:
.1=Filling over bedrock.
.2=Fillings behind retaining ... Various levels and dates ... Agora XII, pp. 388-389 ... Agora XXIII, p. 331 ... Agora XXX, p. 361. |
Filling over bedrock. Coins:
14 March 1934 #44-#48 ... Early 5th c. B.C. and earlier ... Agora |
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 ... Agora |
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 ... Agora |
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 ... Agora |
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 ... Agora |
| Geometric Burial. Burial B in notebook.
Overlay E 14:13. Skeleton lay on smoothed bedrock, head southward, arms folded on chest, hands below chin. Legs, cut off by later disturbance, probably bent, with ... Late Geometric ... Agora VIII, p. 126. |
| Geometric burial. Burial A in notebook.
Shaft in bedrock dug to 0.30m, oriented NE to SW. Upper part was disturbed by Grave XXIV. Skeleton of youth. L. as it lay 1.34m. Pots laid across grave at feet of ... 750-725 B.C ... Agora VIII, p. 126. |
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 ... Agora XII, p. 389 ... Agora XXX, p. 361. |
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