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The cistern at 70/ΝΗ and the channel [65/ΞΑ] between chambers 70/ΝΗ and 63/ΞΒ seem to have a uniform dumped filling of first half 2nd c. A.D ... First half of 2nd c. A.D. |
Channel to West of Cistern at 63/ΞΒ. Part of Cistern System A which includes the cistern 63/ΞΒ (M 19:2), this channel to the west, and the manhole at 57-58/ΞΔ-ΞΕ. Coins:
31 May 1946 #1
3 June 1946 #1
6 ... Early 3rd c. B.C. |
Grid notation in error as 99/ΚΑ sometimes.
A well (diameter 1.20m; diameter inside tiles at bottom 0.85m) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, at the bottom of the valley, about 10.00m. east of ... 3rd. c. B.C. |
Unstratified pit below east part of Odeion Cavea (Trench K).
Brann Well or Pit O. Estimated Grid ... To ca. 725 B.C. |
7th c. well below east part of Odeion Cavea Trench K). Use filling negligible; dumped filling of the second half of the 7th c. B.C.
Brann Well H. Diameter 1.10m. Cut into bedrock. During excavation seepage ... 650-600 B.C. |
Well a in west part of Odeion Cavea, probably unfinished. The dumped fill mostly potters' refuse including test pieces.
Well D. Diameter ca. 0.90m ... Early Protogeometric |
Early cutting beside Great Drain: 103-111/Λ-ΛΓ (= "Deep cutting" Pit at 107/ΛΑ).
Abandonment filling in channel for early drain; the fragment of a red figured bell krater, P 17000, probably to be dated ... Ca. 425-395 B.C. |
Roman use fill in lowest 6.70m; Byz upper fill (dump). Notebook lists eight fills; subdivisions based on shelf groupings.
Subdivisions:
.1=Dumped fills 1-2, Byzantine
.2=Fill 3 (baskets 18-37)
.3=Fill ... 50-150 A.D. to Early Byz. |
E.L. Smithson: Group H: Collapsed well west of the Great Drain.
First described as 105-107/Protogeometric Pit ... Protogeometric |
Coins:
9 May 1940 #1-#2 ... 1st. c. A.D. |
Early Roman well with four fills.
fill 1: well sealed 1st. c. A.D.
fill 2: more bones than pots.
fill 3: nothing later than 1st. c. B.C.=POU
fill 4: similar to fill 3, a little earlier? Coins:
7 May 1940 ... Early Roman |
| A compact group of four complete vases and a lamp, found on a house floor; possibly the remains of a sacrificial pyre but without evidence of burning or the characteristic votive vases.
Layer II, "nest ... 425-400 B.C. |
4th century sandy fill west of Peribolos of the Twelve Gods, with animal bones, metal waste and much pottery. Estimated Grid ... 350-325 B.C. |
Well in street leading to Roman Agora. Not excavated below 2.10m.
This has the same date as the latest pieces in R 13:1 (JWH). Coins:
6 August 1946 #1-#3 Estimated Grid ... Ca. 40-50 A.D. |
Shaft (= well + caves) at 116-118/ΚΕ-ΚΣΤ Coins:
6 May 1939 #16-#21
8 May 1939 #35-#37
9 May 1939 #1
24 April 1940 #6 ... 2nd. quarter - mid-5th. c. A.D. |
Fillings to either side of the Great Drain, in the southern part of the area west of the Areopagus; various levels, late 6th. and early 5th c. B.C. to Sullan destruction. Coins:
26 July 1946 #1-#2
30 July ... Late 6th. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D. |
Fills from construction and reconstruction of a house. "Brown House" = House A (RSY Hesp. 20) (and pit under Layer 4) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Under the original floor of this house ... Second half of the 5th. c. B.C. |
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