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| 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 ... Hesperia VII, 1938, pp. 324-325 ... Hesperia XIV, 1945, p. 301, no. 54 (AA 9). |
Tomb at 53-54/ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ-ΛΗ (Late Roman), on the lower north slope of the Areopagus Nb. says ΛΕ-ΛΗ. Deposit list and deposit DB say: ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ ... 350-400 A.D ... Agora VII, p. 226 ... Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 353-355, fig. 41 ... Agora VI, p. 99. |
Construction and upper fills. Well at 116/ΣΤ, cut less than one meter from a shallower and older well at 115/ΣΤ [D 15:1]. ... a fall of loose fill occurred from the earlier into the later well ...
Filling ... 2nd c. A.D. plus 6th c. A.D ... Hesperia 29 (1955), p. 284, no. 22 ... Agora VII, p. 225 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375. |
The pottery of the first six meters (containers 1-3 of 117 containers total) contains a good deal of unglazed early Byzantine along with very late Roman. Below this begins a great mass of Roman pottery ... 4th-6th c. A.D. POU ... Agora VII, p. 227 ... Hesperia 87 (2018), p. 586 ... Agora V, p. 126. |
Well at 30/ΛΣΤ Coins (none useful)
25 May 1938 #3-#6
26 May 1938 #3-#4 ... Early 3rd cent and of 4th-6th cent. A.D ... Agora VII, p. 227 ... Agora V, p. 126 ... Agora VI, p. 100. |
Essentially uniform fill of III-IV c. A.D. with a Byzantine upper fill. Coins:
14 June 1937 #1-#3
15 June 1937 #2
16 June 1937 #1
17 June 1937 #1-#2
18 June 1937 #1-#4
19 June 1937 #1-#4
9 June 1938 #1-#3 ... Late 3rd-mid-4th c. A.D ... Agora VII, p. 225 ... Agora VI, p. 99 ... Agora XXXII, p. 298. |
Klepsydra: Filling in antechamber, behind the parapet of the Klepsydra. Dated to the time of the rebuilding of the springhouse after the Sullan sack, but containing earlier material. Coins:
31 May 1938 ... Second quarter of 5th c. to middle of 1st c. B.C ... Hesperia 44 (1975), p. 384 ... Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 225 ... Delos XXVII, pp. 311 (under no. E 29), p. 382. |
Cistern at 63/ΛΑ (part of cistern system 63/ΛΑ-65/ΜΑ-70/ΛΣΤ, consisting of two chambers and a well). Roman upper fill with modern cesspool fill above. Channel finds: MC 517, SS 8078.
Only datable object ... 300-195 B.C ... Agora VII, p. 227 ... Hesperia 24 (1955), p. 283. no. 6 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), p. 173. |
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