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Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
Baskets 22-53 (containers 21-47). Abandonment of cistern. Includes finds from NW channel leading out of 84/ΝΣΤ (containers 50-51). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from ... 125-86 B.C. |
| Mixed ... Margaret Crosby ... 1001 1197 ... 1938, 1946, 1947 |
Coarse wares, chiefly rims and bases except amphoras and cook-pots. Resorted 1997, SIR. |
a) White ground lagynoi (middle and bottom fill).
b) Megarian bowls (middle and bottom fill).
c) Fragments of coarse painted ware (middle fill).
d) Fragments of bronze, lead etc. (middle and bottom fill) ... |
| Fragment of medallion and adjoining lower wall. Dim rosette on medallion, which is encircled by two raised circles separated by grooves. On wall are parts of schematic large leaves, ornamented with jewelling ... 6-12 February 1937 |
Upper wall fragment mended from three. Lattice pattern on wall; upper zone consisting of raised band with small dependent leaves.
Red clay. Glaze red to brown on exterior; dull brown on interior. Deposit ... 22-29 March 1937 |
| Rolled handle mended from two pieces, probably from a wide-mouthed scoop-shaped pot; handle complete with lower attachment, and start of spread to mouth at upper attachment. Small hole pierced through ... 11 March-1 April 1937 |
| The seal is attached to the wall of a plain flat bottomed bowl, P 14431 (X 988), rivetted through the clay just below the rim.
A seated figure (Dionysos ?) facing right; a high back to throne, and apparently ... 9-12 February 1937 |
| Seal attached to pot.
Part of a wall and lower half of the vertical handle of a pitcher. Thin slightly gritty fabric; red brown at core, gray brown at surface.
A band of lead encircles the handle and the ... 1947 |
| Attached to handle of standard measure.
Band of lead wrapped around base of handle of scoop (?) (P 20,512), and stamped on the outside with magistrate 's seal, type of Dionysus of Alcamenes, seated right, ... 11 March-1 April 1937 |
| Margaret Crosby ... The area signified as Section Χ lays outside the Agora proper and no signs of any public buildings were found. The area seems to have been used for private houses from the end of the 6th c. B.C. Apart ... 25 Jan-18 May 1937 |
| Margaret Crosby ... This report is a summary of the excavations taken place in 1937 as well as in 1946.
Some pottery indicate habitation in the area from the Geometric period. Two shallow graves of the 6th and 5th centuries ... 27 May-21 Jun 1946 |
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