[Agora Deposit] Q 7:3: Trench Behind Stoa Stylobate

Soft Trench behind Stoa Stylobate, opposite Piers 21 and 22, along W face of Shop front wall. Herulian destruction debris at the north end of the Stoa of Attalos. Coins: 20 February 1954 #1-#2 22 February ... Late 3rd c. A.D ... Crosby, Agora X, p. 121, pl. (30), no. L 323. 1 of them ... 120-121, pl. (30), no. L 320, ... Coins: 20 February 1954 #1-#2 22 February 1954 #1-#5

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[Agora Deposit] D 6:3: Urn cremation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 25 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave I: SM). Bones discarded. In some records as Grve XIV (JP)? Notebook says (p. 947) contents: hard earth, no bones. Lisa's list says bones discarded. Negs. X-75, ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 38, pp. 294-298, figs. 2.199-2.201, pl. 1.

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[Agora Deposit] A 17:2: Well in Industrial Area of Areopagus

A well in the industrial area of the Areopagus, about 7.00m. west of the West Bath, to a depth of 14.60m. This well was the direct successor to A 17:1, replacing it when it collapsed. The use filling at ... Second quarter 6th. c ... Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 184, pl. 65, 1 ... Hesperia 18 (1949), p. 118, fig. 3, no. 8; p. 126, pl. 8.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:14: Inhumation, probably a female

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) ... Hesperia 10 (1941), pp. 1-2 and fig. 1.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:10: Urn burial of an infant

Grave XV in notebook = RSY Grave 1. Part of a burial jar with bones of 18-month-old child. Position of body not determinable. Foot of jar had been broken to insert body of child and stopped with stones ... Second half of 8th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 82-85 and pl. 35 c-d (Grave 1).

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[Agora Deposit] M 16-17:1: Pit Tomb, Adult Inhumation

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 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 1, pp. 45-49, figs. 2.5-2.7, 3.10, pl. 1.

[Agora Deposit] N 14:3: Burial in mouth of well

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 ... Agora XIII, p. 247, pl. 61 (Grave XLI) ... Hesperia 92 (2023), fig. 1.

[Agora Deposit] K 6:1: Well East of Roman Building

Diameter of top of well 0.80m. An early well east of Roman Building, north of Temple of Ares and thus in the region of the Mycenaean cemetery. Sherds almost entirely Mycenaean with nothing later and a ... Mycenaean ... K 6:1 ... K 6:1

[Agora Deposit] S 27:4: Late Neolithic Well V in ΟΑ

Well V: Late Neolithic, West of Klepsydra. Diameter at 2.00 (when first preserved), bottom ca. 0.75m. Water level ca -4.00m ... Late Neolithic ... Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 291, no. 1, pl. XLI.

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[Agora Deposit] I 5:2: Cist Τomb, Adult Female Inhumation in ΒΓ

Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 2. Adult female inhumation. Grave extending under the south retaining wall of the Temenos of the Royal Stoa. It is oriented ne-sw, with head at sw. Grave built of slabs of schist, with packing of ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... 2.303-2.308, pl. 1 ... Hesperia 87 (2018), pp. 215-277, figs. 1-24 ... Hesperia 44 (1975), pp. 370-374, pls. 83a, 84 a-f.

[Agora Deposit] R 20:1: Urn Cremation

John Travlos ... (Grave XXXII: EG) Urn cremation (trench-and-hole). Published as cremation burial of a warrior. The tomb was probably originally oriented north-south, with the urn-hole at the south end. The north side ... Transitional Early Geometric II-Middle Geometric I ... Hesperia 16 (1947), pp. 196-197, fig. 1, pl. 41.

[Agora Deposit] B 20:9: Pit

Pits at 95/ΚΑ and 97/ΚΑ, in bottom of Post Sullan drain. Sandy filling in two pits in the bedrock, about 2.00m. apart, at the bottom of the so-called Post-Sullan drain, which replaced the abandoned section ... To ca. 86 B.C ... Hesperia 45 (1976), pp. 19-22, pls. 1-4.

[Agora Deposit] S 27:7: Late Mycenaean Well 23 in ΟΑ

Well 23: Late Mycenaean (Well D:SM) ... Late Mycenaean ... Hesperia 92 (2023), pp. 115, 172, 173, fig. 1 ... Agora XIII, pp. 259-261, 275, pls. 63, 67.

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[Agora Deposit] I 5:1: Pit Τomb, Child Inhumation

Susan Rotroff ... Grave 1. Burial of a child perhaps 6 years old, covered by broken amphora. Skeleton lay extended on its back, oriented N-S, with head at south. No grave gifts. PD 2207 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 65, pp. 431-434, 551, figs. 2.290, 2.314-2.318, pl. 1 ... Hesperia 44 (1975), pp. 373-374, pl. 84, j.

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[Agora Deposit] J 7:1: Child Inhumation

E.D. Townsend Vermeule ... Protogeometric Grave no. 2 at North of Temple of Ares (Grave XXXVII). Rectangular stone-lined pit in filling of Mycenaean chamber tomb (J 7:2); the skeleton of a boy. Cf. P 21275 which is from the "preliminary ... Middle Protogeometric ... Hesperia 24 (1955), pp. 200-201, 218, fig. 1, pl. 77, nos. 37-38.

[Agora Deposit] H 11:2: Well in Tholos Trench Q

A well in room A of the Archaic House. Well with very irregular outline, cut down in the bedrock some 10m NE of the Tholos. Its filling yielded a handful of plain potsherds and the oinochoe P 13256 of ... Sub-Mycenaean(?) ... Agora XIII, pp. 254-255, 274, pl. 61 ... Hesperia 92 (2023), pp. 115, 120, 173, 174, n. 46, fig. 1.

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[Agora Deposit] I 5:4: Cist Τomb, Child Inhumation

Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 4 under Royal Stoa. Cist Grave cut into bedrock and lined with limestone and schist slabs. There were two layers of cover slabs with a layer of dirt between. Grave measured 0.98x0,25-0,32x0,25-0,30 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 64, pp. 428-431, 550, figs. 2.290-2.292, 2.309-2.313, pl. 1 ... Hesperia 44 (1975), p. 373, n. 102, pl. 84,h.

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:9: Inhumation of a Woman

Grave 8 in notebook. Inhumation in Tholos Cemetery. Length of shaft 1.75m; Width at upper end 0.95m; Depth from cover 0.70m. One end cut into sloping rock. Skeleton of a woman, with head southeast. Most ... 750-725 B.C ... Grave 8 in notebook. Inhumation in Tholos Cemetery. Length of shaft 1.75m; Width

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[Agora Deposit] I 18:1: Pit Tomb, Adolescent Inhumation

Eugene Vanderpool ... Rectangular pit, oriented east-west, cut party into filling of Early Protogeometric pit-well (I 18:4), to a preserved depth of about 0.30m. A late Byzantine wall founded below the floor of the grave destroyed ... Middle Geometric I ... Hesperia 17 (1948), pp. 158-159, pl. 41, 1 ... Hesperia 43 (1974), pp. 352-359, pls. 75b, 76, 77a.

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[Agora Deposit] E 19:3: Grave 3, Inhumation of 24-Year-Old Man

Shallow cutting into bedrock (L. 1.70m, W. 0.55m.) oriented north and south, head at south. Skeleton stretched out , with head on left side. Southern top edge of grave projects to form protective niche ... 750-725 B.C ... Shallow cutting into bedrock (L. 1.70m, W. 0.55m.) oriented north and south, head

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:15: Inhumation a Man

Grave 14 in notebook. Length of shaft 2.12m; width 0.46m; depth from cover 0.60m. Man's skeleton stretched NE-SW with head at NE. Offering at foot of shaft, with the skyphos in the mouth of the pitcher ... 750-725 B.C ... Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 304, no. 78, pl. LII (Grave XIV) ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 71-73, figs. 1, 22, 45-46 (Grave XIV).

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[Agora Deposit] D 7:1: Pit tomb, child inhumation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 23 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave IV: SM). Few bones: discarded. JP says 46/ΜΖ-MΗ Negs. KK 99, KK 100, KK 101, X-61, X-62, X-63 PD 433 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... D 7:1 ... D 7:1

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[Agora Deposit] B 17:4: Pyre in Room 1

Pyre in Room 1, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 11). Early in the third quarter of the 4th. c. B.C. In courtyard. Artifacts, bone, and cinders in irregular pit in floor sequence. The pit had been dug into ... 350-330 B.C ... Pyre in Room 1, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 11). Early in the third

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:8: Inhumation of a Woman

Grave 7b in notebook. Inhumation in Tholos Cemetery; The skeleton positioned directly below the male in Grave 7, but with direction reversed, i.e., head at southeast end. Most grave offerings at lower ... 750-725 B.C ... Hesperia 14 (1945), pp. 305-307, no. 83, figs. 7, 8, pl. LIII (Grave XX) ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 94-97, figs. 1, 65-67 (Grave XX).

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[Agora Deposit] F 9:1: Pit tomb, child inhumation

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 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 45, pp. 322-328, figs. 2.224-2.227, pl. III ... Kerameikos V, 1, p. 47 as a "spätprotogeometrischen Grab".

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[Agora Deposit] O 7:2: Small Chamber Tomb

Mycenaean Chamber Tomb. Only the bottom 0.10 to 0.20m of the chamber was preserved along with the partial skeletal remains of two or three occupants. The plan revealed a square chamber (1.80m by 1.80m), ... Myc. III A 1:2 (14th c.) ... square chamber (1.80m by 1.80m), entered by a sloping

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[Agora Deposit] B 19:6: Pyre in House N, Room 4

Pyre in House N, room 4 (RSY=Pyre 7), in the industrial area west of the Areopagus. Pottery, mall pieces of calcined bone, log, wood cinders, and charcoal in diamond-shaped pit in floor sequence. The pyre ... Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 122-123, pl. 49 b, pl. 52 a (Pyre 7) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 46, pp. 158, 159, figs. 1, 4, 78, 91.

[Agora Deposit] H-I 14:1: Kleiner Coin Deposit III

Hellenistic fill South of Middle Stoa near NW corner of Heliaea. This fill contained material later in date than that which made up the middle Stoa Building Fill. Only the coins (and a few amphora handles ... To ca. 140 B.C ... Hesperia 57 (1988), pp. 89-90, fig. 1 ... Hesperia 44 (1975), pp. 311-313, pls. 75-76.

[Agora Deposit] A-B 21-22:1: Terrace fillings

West Terrace, South End, Layers IV and V. Heavy dumped filling associated with terrace walls at the extreme south end of the excavations in the Areopagus industrial area. The proportion of figured and ... Ca. 420-390 B.C ... Hesperia 16 (1947), p. 210, pl. 47, 1 and 3.

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[Agora Deposit] N 12:4: Tomb with coffins

Mycenaean Chamber Tomb below Middle Stoa Terrace. The tomb was entered from the west by a stepped dromos, at least 4.20m long by 1.10 to 1.50m. wide, splaying slightly toward the doorway, which was 1.26m ... Myc. IIIA:1 ... Hesperia Suppl. 43 (2009), pp. 103, 105, tables 6.1, 6.2 ... Hesperia 35 (1966), pp. 45, 55-78, pls. 19-24 ... Agora XIII, pp. 242-247, 274, pls. 59, 75, 90 (Tomb XL).

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[Agora Deposit] B 19:5: Pyre in House N, Room 2, Layer 5

Pyre in House N, room 2, layer 5 (RSY=Pyre 8). Near northern corner of room 6. Artifacts, bone, burnt logs, and cinders in square pit dug from level of layer 5, through layers 5 and 6; thin clay floor ... 325-300 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 124-125, pl. 52 b (Pyre 8) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 44, pp. 156, 157, figs. 1, 4, 6, 78, 87-89.

[Agora Deposit] V 24:1: Mycenaean Well in OA

Well 15: Mycenaean. It was situated about 35 meters down the slope northwest of the exit of the Mycenaean Fountain. Well circular or roughly oval in section. Diameter max. width to -4.0: ca. 1.50, below ... Late Mycenaean ... Hesperia 92 (2023), pp. 115, 172, 173, fig. 1 ... Agora XIII, pp. 255-259, 275, pls. 62-63, 77.

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[Agora Deposit] O 7:3: Cist Grave in Σ

Mycenaean Burial. The cutting was roughly rectangular (1.60 by 0.50m) and was once covered with rough stone slabs, two of which were found over the body. The skeleton, presumably that of a man, lay in ... Myc. III A-B ... Mycenaean Burial. The cutting was roughly rectangular (1.60 by 0.50m) and was once

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:7: Inhumation of a Man

Grave 7 in notebook. Area disturbed in Roman times; outlines of the shaft had been obliterated. The northwest end, however, was preserved in a cutting in the rock of the sloping hillside. This cutting, ... 750-700 B.C ... Hesperia 14 (1945), pp. 306, no. 86, figs. 7, 8, pl. LIII (Grave XIX) ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 93-94, figs. 1, 64, 73 (Grave XIX).

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[Agora Deposit] D 16:4: Urn cremation

Evelyn Lord Smithson ... Grave 3: (Grave XXVII: EG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult male. Carbonized figs and grapes included in inventoried objects (no number). [JP] "Craftsman-Warrior" tomb: combination of weapons and ... Early Geometric I ... Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 379-293, figs. 1-2, pls. 73-75 (Grave XXVII) ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 13, pp. 104-118, 531-533, figs. 2.55-2.64, 3.18-3.20, pl. V.

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[Agora Deposit] C 19:3: Bronze Casting Pit in House H, Room 13

Located in House H, Room 13 on the lower northwest slope of the Areopagus ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... Agora XIV, pp. 189-190, fig. 48, pl. 97c ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 136, fig. 1 and p. 269.

[Agora Deposit] O 8:4: Chamber Tomb West of Circular Building

Mycenaean Chamber Tomb W. of Circular Building (at Σ:30/ΛΕ?) It had been badly disturbed by a fourth-century B.C. pit which cut into the northeast part of the chamber (rectangular, ca. 1.80m by 1.30m) ... Myc. III A 2 ... Hesperia Suppl. 43 (2009), pp. 103-108, figs. tables, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 (AA ... Agora XIII, pp. 209-211, 274, pls. 48-49, 65, 67, 86 (Tomb XVIII).

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:17: Inhumation of a Woman

Grave 16 in notebook. Length of shaft 1.81m; width 0.64m; depth from cover 0.54m. Skeleton of a woman , head at northwest end. Most of pots piled over feet and legs of skeleton at southeast end. An iron ... 750 B.C ... Grave 16 in notebook. Length of shaft 1.81m; width 0.64m; depth from cover 0.54m.

[Agora Deposit] H 12:1: Fill of Early West Branch of Great Drain=Middle Drain

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 Deposit] A-B 19-20:1: Great Drain South

Great Drain South (ca. 70-113, from SW edge of section as far north as the Roman Bath) Hellenistic Sand Fill. Silted-up filling of the southern branch of the Great Drain, abandoned due to some damage at ... 4th. c.-86 B.C ... Hesperia 45 (1976), pp. 15-19, pls. 1-4.