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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 ... 8th-6th c. B.C. |
| 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 ... F-G 3:1 ... F-G 3:1 |
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 ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D.
Layer II: 1st-2nd c. A.D.
Layer III-IV: 1st c. A.D.
Layer V-VI: 1st |
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 ... Pits A, B and C, and Layers ... also trench F, layers III ... Post-Persian Pre-Stoa
.3=c) Stoa and |
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 ... To mid-4th c. B.C ... F 30 |
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 ... 5th c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D ... F 11 |
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 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
1st-2nd c. A.D ... F-G 10-11.1 ... F-G 10-11.1 |
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 ... Late 4th c. ... F/14,15-16/7,8 |
| 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 ... F 16:8 ... F 16:8 |
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 ... F 13:4 ... F 13:4 |
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 ... Ca. 200 B.C. |
| 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 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
| 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. 575-480 B.C. |
Estimated Grid ... Ca. 300-275 B.C ... F 19:2.1 ... F 19:2.1 |
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 ... End of 4th.-3rd c. B.C. |
Coins:
10 April 1937 #5 ... 4th-3rd c. B.C ... 4th-3rd c. B.C. |
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 ... Dump/Well in Δ - 5th c. A.D. |
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 ... F 17:3.3 ... F 17:3.3 |
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 ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
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 ... F 14:4 ... F 14:4 |
Coins:
4 May 1932 #1-#8 (#8 from dump) ... 4th c. A.D ... Dump/Well in Δ - 4th c. A.D. |
Coins:
31 May 1935 #1 ... 1st c. A.D ... 1st c. A.D. |
Cutting in stereo. Early 4th c. fill with some Hellenistic-Early Roman disturbance ... Ca. 400-375 B.C ... Cutting in stereo. Early 4th c. fill with some Hellenistic-Early Roman disturbance. |
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. |
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