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Grave XXVII in notebook = RSY Grave 8.
Possibly a child's grave ... Ca. middle of the 6th. c. B.C. |
RSY Fido's Grave ... Hellenistic |
| Burned deposit: Middle Terrace, south of Archaic cemetery.
RSY: Pyre 10.
Pottery, burnt bone, charred logs, and heavy burning, recovered by tunneling under the cement floor of a Late Hellenistic workshop, ... Ca. 325-300 B.C. |
Cistern with two fills. Lower fill in cone on floor, with dumped upper fill above. Coins:
27 April 1940 #3-#5
14 May 1940 #5-#6
15 May 1940 #3-#7
17 May 1940 #11-#13
20 May 1940 # 8-#9
21 May 1940 #1 ... Late Hellenistic |
Sullan destruction debris. Coins:
27 April 1940 #3-#5
14 May 1940 #5-#6
15 May 1940 #3-#7
17 May 1940 #11-#13 ... 3rd. to 1st. c. B.C. |
In use up to the time of Sulla? Coins:
20 May 1940 # 8-#9
21 May 1940 #1 ... 1st. c. B.C. |
Pit in east Terrace.
Cf. container ΝΝ 109 ... 1st. c. B.C. |
Cleaning over bedrock along west side of Kolonos Agoraios. Context Protogeometric-Geometric disturbed. Objects from ΠΘ 24-28/ΝΗ-ΞΔ are added because P 8141 is published in Hesp. Suppl. 20, p. 153 as this ... To 2nd. c. B.C. |
Hellenistic-Early Roman fill over bedrock, along west side of Kolonos Agoraios. Consistent dumped filling; occasionally there is a late Roman fragment intruded from the filling above, but this seems not ... 26-29 February 1936
2-12 March 1936 |
Well at west side of Theseion Plataea, partly cleared to a depth of ca. 5.30m. Dumped filling, apparently the debris from a sculptor's workshop, as indicated by both the quantity of marble chips in the ... Second quarter 4th. c. B.C. |
Cistern System #1a: Shaft (Manhole) at 10/ΞΗ (10-11/ΞΖ-ΞΗ). Filling consistently late Hellenistic in hole and in passage; probably 1st c.
B.C. Coins:
26 May 1936 #1 ... 110-75 B.C. |
Cistern System #1b: Shaft/manhole and gallery at 18-19/ΞΑ-ΞΓ.
Objects divided between the two features, shaft and gallery, according to deposit notebook list, not according to remarks on cards. 22 February ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
Coins:
22 February 1936 #4-#13
26 February 1935 #1-#2
27 February 1936 #1-#4
28 February 1936 #3-#5 |
Cistern System #1c: Shaft (well) at 25/ΞΑ. Began as a manhole but opened up by early-mid Byzantine as a well ... Late 12th c. A.D. |
Cistern System #1d: Manhole at 24/ΝΘ. Coins:
29 February 1936 #3
2 March 1936 #1 ... Byzantine with 4th c. to Hellenistic |
Cistern System #1e: Shaft at 11/ΞΑ.
Agora XXIX: "Well (not cistern shaft, as in Agora XII) ... Communicates with water system through small hole (see C 8:1) probably fortuitously. Single fill, mostly of ... 350-300 B.C. |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 14 in notebook. Cutting in bedrock. Cremation: bones in pit (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXIV: PG). Bones discarded.
[JP] Nb. says at 16-17/ΞΖ and 16/ΞΖ on cards and on deposit list.(SD) ... Early Geometric I |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 16 in notebook. Adult skeleton.
In some records as Grave XXXIII (JP) ... Middle Geometric I |
Listed in nb. as 15/ΞΤ. Pit with bronze casting debris ... To 3rd quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
Listed in nb. as 16-17/ΞΖ. Pit with furnace debris ... 5th c. B.C. - Hellenistic |
| Homer A. Thompson ... Grave XIII in notebook. Cutting in bedrock. One skeleton. Bones discarded. No offerings.
JP ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) |
A burnt deposit set down into Hellenistic fill in a shaft dug into bedrock. A consistent dumped fill [post AD 150, with Group G, layer III, JWH]. Coins:
27 January 1936 #1-#3
28 January 1936 #1-#7
29 January ... First half of A.D. 2nd c. |
Cistern System #1f: Shaft at 1/ΝΘ = Well A. Scanty dumped filling. Coins:
19 February 1936 #2-#3
20 February 1936 #16-#20
21 February 1936 #5-#7
22 February 1936 #1 ... Mid-4th to 3rd c. B.C. |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 10 in notebook *(E.L. Smithson : Grave VI: PG). Bones discarded. Multiple inhumation of two children in an unlined trench in bedrock. No offerings. Nb. says two skeletons.
JP *Note in nb.: we continue ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 11 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XII: PG). Bones discarded. Burned deposit in a rectangular trench in bedrock.
JP ... Late Protogeometric |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 12 in notebook. Cut in bedrock. (E.L. Smithson: Grave VII: PG) Few bones (discarded). Rectangular cutting in bedrock.
JP ... Early Protogeometric |
Square pit in bedrock southwest of the Hephaisteion. Many marble chips from the construction of the temple of Hephaestus were found here together with a large quantity of pottery and other objects ... Ca. 450 B.C.
Ca. 390-380 B.C. |
A large chamber cistern filled in the second c. BC when a well (C 9:16) was dug through its floor. Well tiles were run up from the floor of the cistern to just below its neck; a double layer of complete ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
| Grave 1 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXV: PG). No remains. Probable trench-and-hole.
JP
Roughly circular pit measuring 0.39m in diameter cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.72m. Pyre refuse-described ... Late PG/EG I |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 2 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XV: PG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female.
JP
It consists of a roughly rectangular pit or trench cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.35m., measuring ... Late Protogeometric |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 3 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XIII: PG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female.
JP
Rectangular trench, measuring approximately 1.10x0.45m, but which may have been larger, cut through ... Late Protogeometric |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 4 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XX: PG). Bones discarded. Grave of older child.
JP
Rectangular pit, cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.26m, approximately 0.97m long and 0.36m wide. Tomb oriented ... Late Protogeometric |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 6 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXII: PG). Bones discarded. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole).
JP
Roughly rectangular trench cut through hard earth into bedrock to a depth of about 0.35m, approximately ... Late Protogeometric |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 7 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXI: PG). Bones discarded. Disturbed and damaged cremation (originally trench-and-hole), the east end cut away, probably contained the burial urn.
JP
It consisted ... Late Protogeometric |
Irregular pit in bedrock; deposit chiefly of terracotta figurines, with a small amount of pottery ... 6th c. B.C. |
Well cut through cistern at 6/ΝΕ (C 9:7).
The stele I 3244 in position in the cistern over the mouth of the well is listed with the cistern deposit C 9:7. Coins:
26 February 1936 #2-#4
27 February 1936 ... A.D. 1st |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 8 in notebook. Bones discarded. Fragments of an iron pin found on the chest and a fragment of a Protogeometric krater base found beside the body were not inventoried.
JP
Unlined roughly rectangular ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) |
| Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Destroyed urn cremation. No remains. Originally assigned as part of Tomb C 9:14 (Grave 7)
JP
"Large fragments of an urn were found in the packing of a Hellenistic water channel which cut through a LPG ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean |
Water channel in north part of section, giving access to water system. Channel Mouth 1. Six stamped amphora handles; two-thirds of bowls long-petal ... Late 2nd century-Early 1st c. B.C. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 9 (E.L. Smithson: Grave XVIII: PG). Bones discarded.
JP
Roughly circular pit, about 0.59m in diameter, cut into soft bedrock to a depth of 0.42m. Tomb encountered only about 0.12-0.15m below the ... Protogeometric |
Well with 4th. c. fill, no well deposit at the bottom. Coins:
2 April 1936 #1
3 April 1936 #8-#19
4 April 1936 #11
8 April 1936 #3-#4
22 May 1936 #5
25 May 1936 #2
27 May 1936 #2
28 May 1936 #2-#5
29 May ... Second half A.D. 4th. c. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 19 (In some records as Grave VIII). No remains, no burned matter or traces of burning.
JP
A small cutting with a single offering. The pit may have been for a simple child/infant inhumation, with ... Early Protogeometric |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 20 (E.L. Smithson: Grave X: PG). Bones discarded. Pit tomb, inhumation (on bier or in coffin?), perhaps of a child. Little ash and carbon in the filling, but the grave offerings were unburned.
JP ... Developed Protogeometric |
Perhaps originally a grave cutting ... Ca. 390-380 B.C. |
| James H. Oliver ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave IX: PG). Two children's skeletons one on top of the other. Cf. PD 329 for PD 430 for second skeleton, same deposit.
PG grave about 25m. SW of Cistern A at 46/ΜΔ.
[In some records, ... Developed Protogeometric |
(Roman Group J). The upper fill to a depth of ca. 16.00m. was of earth scooped up elsewhere and thrown in ... The latest piece noted from this fill was a TC fragment dated late 4th to 5th(?) c. BC. From ... 2nd.-3rd. c. A.D. |
Except for A 2355 and I 3871, the other finds of 'upper fill' are actually from the 'change of fill' recorded on 24 April 1936, nbp. 1500. Coins:
19 March 1936 #1-#4
21 March 1936 #1-#2
24 April 1936 #5-#6 ... 16 March-24 April 1936 |
Second half-early 3rd. c. A.D. |
A well on Kolonos Agoraios. The upper dumped filling, a heavy deposit of pottery, was separated from the lower filling of similar character by several meters of plain mud. No use filling. Coins:
8 April ... Ca. 375-325 B.C. with disturbance of 250-225 B.C. |
Fillings in an irregular cutting, the context at one end is of the early 5th. c. and at the other end of the second half of the 5th. c ... Early 5th c. B.C. |
Late Roman mixed destruction fill.
The fill in both the staircase and the cistern chamber was the same mixed destruction fill containing a large quantity of Hellenistic pottery mixed in with late 3rd-early ... 4th. c. A.D. |
Roman well, stratified.
Finds from the earth (not recorded in a subdivision):
P 7995, P 8036, P 21834, SS 6338, IL 483, IL 486, BI 309, BI 310,
BI 314.
According to the excavator the shaft had been cleaned ... 2nd-4th c. A.D. |
Turkish sherds from this level. No tins of pottery ... August 1951 |
Tins 1-5.
"D" ware; a medallion plate; the jar with flaring mouth and purplish glaze and gouged decoration, a 28 lamp fragment and one fragment of combed ware ... 4th. c. A.D. |
Tins 6-7.
The mending of pottery revealed a break at about 19.60, although the nature of the pottery seems about the same: "A" and "D" ware, gouged ware, flaring-mouthed jars, micaceous water jars and ... Late 3rd.-early 4th. c. A.D. |
Tins 8-12.
27 lamp fragments, a "D" ware plate and an early (?) gouged jug, micaceous water jars and amphorae. Some joins were noted between fills III and IV, but in general the fills are distinct ... Mid-3rd. c. A.D. |
Coins:
26 May 1936 #2-#3
Fragments of "A" ware and of micaceous water jars; no basket-handled water jars; and a lead seal with the name and portrait of Hadrian ... Late 2nd.-early 3rd. c. A.D. |
One fragment of "A" ware; no "D" ware or gouged ware; several basket-handled water jars and two amphorae ... 2nd. c. A.D. |
Chamber cistern at 95/Κ and Cistern shaft at 95/ΚΕ plus the passage between. System heavily disturbed throughout in Turkish times except for a small amount of red fill on floor of shaft. Coins:
4 May 1936 ... Hellenistic |
Lower red fill with mixed Hellenistic pottery running into the 2nd. c. Coins:
4 May 1936 #1 ... 1-5 May 1936 |
Turkish fill. Coins:
7 May 1936 #1-#4 ... 5-14 May 1936 |
According to the excavator " a pre-herulian filling dumped in to fill the cistern some few years after the Herulian destruction". Coins:
10 June 1936 #2-#6
11 June 1936 #1-#19
12 June 1936 #23-#27 P 11936 ... A.D. 267 to mid 3rd c. |
| Artifacts, burnt bone, ash, cinders and charcoal in pit in bedrock. The pyre lay directly under mosaic floor A. the deposit is not badly disturbed, however, and it is possible that it was laid immediately ... Early second quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
Well in the bottom of chamber cistern at 106/ΛΓ, stratified. A soft spot in the bedrock at the west side of the well caved in and was packed with typical coarse Roman first century amphoras; the well was ... A.D. 200-150 |
Dumped fill in mouth of well. Coins:
16 May 1937 #1 ... Early 5th c. |
Coins:
17 May 1937 #1 ... Second half 4th. c. |
Late 3rd-first half 4th c. |
Coins:
28 May 1937 #30
29 May 1937 #1
31 May 1937 #1-#3 ... 2nd c. |
Patch of early fill, disturbed. 20/9/1962: Tin 145 is checked and is chiefly late archaic, but some of the coarse ware is late 5th with 4th c. B.C., and a few bits are 4th c. A.D ... Late 6th.-early 5th c. B.C. |
Cistern through which well G 14:4 was dug. Filling in cistern, early Byzantine, but with various objects resembling those from the upper dumped filling in the well, below the cistern floor (5th c. A.D.) ... Early Byzantine |
Small deposit in bedrock. Coins:
20 April 1936 #2-#3 ... 4th c. B.C. to early 3rd c. B.C. |
16 March 1957 pottery discarded nb.p. 122 ... 20-21 June 1947 |
Filling over and in manhole of South West Drain. Coins:
27 April 1948 # 73-#76 ΠΠ-706 and ΠΠ-707 from the environs of the "manhole" down to west Great Drain packing ... To mid-3rd c. A.D. |
Great Drain fills, including "packing over elliptical tiles" and "gravel fills". The central drain area covered by the sections below; other sections are with other deposits. Coins:
9 May 1947 #2-#5
16 ... 1st c. A.D. |
| North of House G (RSY=Pyre 13).
Concentration of artifacts, small pieces of bone, and burnt material in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre is cut by the trench of a wall of a Roman house to north. It ... 290-250 B.C. |
A tiled well with POU from 9.30-10.80m. and dumped fill above 9.30m. The dumped fill differs from lower fill only in the less frequent appearance of fragments of micaceous water jars and the occurrence ... 3rd c. A.D. with destruction at 267 A.D. |
This is associated with Building A. It had a circular marble well-head with a rectangular well slab beneath. The construction throughout was of well tiles. It produced little to a depth of -8.60m. Between ... 4th c. A.D. |
Pit (Well?) under Building A, Room 2. Coins:
9 May 1949 #1-#2
11 May 1949 #4
12 May 1949 #3 (not a coin, bronze fragment in lotted metal tins ΠΠ 295). Estimated Grid
Remains of coloring matter found with ... Hellenistic-Early Roman |
No objects catalogued ... Late 4th c. B.C. |
Pocket of pottery to south of grave at 36/ΛΔ; uncertain context. Terracotta figurines resembling those from the Coroplast's Dump (S 19:3) No containers (cf. O 18:2).
T 2468, T 2476, ST 412 from Hellenistic ... 350-320 B.C. |
Rectangular pit (in Trench IX); dumped filling of late 5th. c. B.C. with some disturbance as late as Early Roman. P 18559 and P 18510 from above this pit ... 5th c. B.C. |
POU 3.50-10.30m. dumped filling of 5th or 6th century. Coins:
10 May 1949 #1
16 May 1949 #1
17 May 1949 #1-#2
19 May 1949 #1-#2
20 May 1949 #1-#12
21 May 1949 #1-#4 from dump
23 May 1949 #1-#3 from dump ... 3rd-5th c. A.D. |
Stratified well. Coins:
22 July 1947 #1 Subdivisions:
.1=top to -5.20m.
.2=5.20-7.80m.
.3=7.80-10.30m ... Second half 1st-early 3rd c. A.D. |
Deposit in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, underlying a Roman bath. Pottery examined in June 1955; latest pieces noted: one fragment Pergamene and one fragment brittle ware; no certainly post-Sullan ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
Fillings below the courtyard floor of the Poros Enclosure west of the Areopagus. The lowest layer, over bedrock, is of the archaic period and may have accumulated on the spot before the start of building ... First half of 5th c. B.C. |
Surface layer ... First half of 5th c. B.C. |
First half of 5th c. B.C. |
Near the Poros Enclosure. Diameter 0.76m. water level -1.20m. Plain shaft sunk in the stereo ... 14-22 July 1947 |
Well M: EG, under the south court of the Poros Building.
Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 144 (noted) ... Middle Geometric |
Construction filling of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Patch of stony fill beneath the courtyard. Accumulation of the second quarter of the 5th c., deposited in the last quarter ... Ca. 475-450 B.C. and later |
Well, neatly stone-curbed to bottom. Diameter 0.70m. The use filling, from about 3.50m to bottom, consisted chiefly of water-jars with a few small vases and some black-figured fragments.
Upper filling, ... Use filling of ca. 575-550 B.C. |
Second half of 6th c. B.C. |
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