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Investigations to the south of the Metroon, in the passageway between the Metroon and the Tholos; accumulated layers, from the Geometric and earlier periods to the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.
Cf. Hesperia ... Geometric to second c. B.C ... G 10-11 |
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 ... follows:
Area of Road:
Layer I- IV and pit below Layer I ... B.C.
Area of Stoa:
Layer I |
| Well cut into bedrock, associated with late Roman building G in ΕΛ 1.2m in diameter, narrows to 0.5m at bottom. Disturbed by later pits at top. Excavated from 85.77-79.25m (6.52m), but bedrock at 85.91m ... Late 4th/early 5th AD ... T/18,19-22/1,2 |
The data in the Deposit Notebook is presented by trench; an attempt is made here to accumulate data from similar layers across the trenches. Subdivisions:
.1=Post Hadrianic cleanup
.2=Marble working waste ... 2nd c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D ... I-O 15:1 ... I-O 15:1 |
| 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 ... G 12:8 ... G 12:8 |
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa, with some disturbed fill including 1st c. A.D. material.
c) 46.60-48-60m. from East End of Stoa.
d) ... 2nd c. B.C ... I-O 15:1.5 ... I-O 15:1.5 |
| Well cut into bedrock under late Roman building in ΕΛ. 1.2m in diameter with small cutting of unclear function at south edge about 0.2m wide. Walls cut straight down, tapering near bottom to 0.8m. Footholds ... Late Archaic ... ΕΛ. 1.2m in diameter with ... 0.2m wide. Walls cut ...
I.(86.34-85.93m) rubble |
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 I: red earth in the central depression, probably the accumulation of the ... Layer II: dug bedrock with no objects. May reflect the cutting of wall ... after Layer II, and having |
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 ... Martyrs I, II and III, all ... in last quarter of 2nd 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 ... Roman Group L.
Layer I (cont. 59-64) Pre-Herulian ... 15.95-13.90).
Layer II (cont. 42-58) ... #2-#3(found 8 & 9 June 1939)
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| Extract from notebook ΠΘ XIX, pp. 3644-3646. Well at 105/ΝΗ (report on sorting of pottery, July 19, 1951 - H.S. Robinson).
"Not a useful well" HSR.
Well dug to 1.50m., vi/9/36; dug from 1.50m. to bottom ... Early Roman; use fillings of 2nd. c. B.C. and 1st. and 4th. c. A.D.; dumped filling of late 4th. c. (HSR)
Fill I: 2nd. c. B.C.
Fill II-V: to second half of 4th. c. A.D.
Fill VI: mixed to Byzantine ... (HSR)
Fill I: 2nd. c. B.C.
Fill II-V: to second half of ... fillings of 2nd. c. B.C. and |
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 ... H-I 7-8:1 ... H-I 7-8:1 |
Well dug through cistern at 64/Γ. Seems to have been stratified; four fills recorded but here treated as one as divisions are rather "arbitrary".
Agora V, p. 126: Constructed in late 1st c.; use filling ... 3rd c. A.D. POU (before 267 A.D.) ... cistern is at -2.90m. When the |
| 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 ... 32.00-32.50m.
.2=Layer II, 32.50-34.20m.
.1=Layer I ... April 1937 #1-#2
13 April |
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 ... H-I 14:1 ... H-I 14:1 |
| 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 ... 2.6m; widens at 1.25m from ...
Layer I: 57.59-56.99m.
Layer II: 56.99-56.78m.
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