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Now H 13:4. Asterisk: G 13:5* ... Asterisk: G 13:5* |
Exploration over bedrock inside the Tholos; levels of 6th c. B.C ... 6th c. B.C ... G 11 |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 5 in notebook.
The grave had been somewhat disturbed by the digging of Well B. The hydria lay on its side; in it was found the skeleton of a small child lying on its side with the knees drawn up ... Late 8th-early 7th c. B.C ... Grave 5 in notebook.
The grave had been somewhat disturbed by the digging of Well |
Connected with G 14:3.
There was a layer of Late Roman fill. It rested over a layer of 2nd c. B.C Hellenistic and then another of 4th c. B.C Hellenistic; the passage between the two cisterns contained ... Late Hellenistic ... G 14:5 ... G 14:5 |
No description in Deposit folders ... Geometric ... G 15:5 ... G 15:5 |
Estimated Grid ... Mid-3rd c. A.D ... G/3,4-11/2,3 |
| Lucy Talcott ... Light-boned person. Bones discarded. No grave goods ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) ... G 15:5 BIS ... G 15:5 BIS |
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 ... G 5:2 ... G 5:2 |
The fill in this cistern is Byzantine with considerable admixture of Greek IV-III c. B.C. Coins:
7 March 1932 #9
9 March 1932 #1
10 March 1932 #1-#2
11 March 1932 #2
12 March 1932 #1 ... 11th-12th c. A.D ... G 5:1 ... G 5:1 |
| Second century B.C. fill with early 13th c. A.D. fill in mouth.
The Byzantine objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585.
Lower fill contained bones of many infants and dogs.
The bones from this ... Mid-2nd c. B.C ... G 5:3 ... G 5:3 |
Coin:
17 March 1936 #9 ... Dark Ages(?)-Byzantine ... G 4:2 ... G 4:2 |
Found in 13/06/1935.
Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup, perhaps in one of the public buildings near the SW corner of the square ... Ca. 520-490 B.C ... -5.5m. |
Called a Turkish pit, located under a Byzantine wall and filled with an upper level of Byzantine material under which a level of Roman material. Coins:
5 April 1932 #1-#3
6 April 1932 #1-#5
7 April 1932 ... 6-11 April 1932 ... Coins:
5 April 1932 #1-#3
6 April 1932 #1-#5
7 April 1932 #1-#2 |
| Located in Tholos Trench E, beneath floor, beneath layer III.
Diameter 1m. Cf. P 4952 with fragment from this deposit and E-F 12-14.2.
Similar the well filling, H 6:5 Originally called H 12:5
Ann Steiner ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... filling, H 6:5 ... Originally called H 12:5
Ann Steiner added Ζ 2238-Ζ 2246 |
| Hellenistic filling in N.W. corner of Section (39-46/ΙΘ-ΚΓ inclusive). Coins:
14 July 1931 #42, #64
15 July 1931 #6 but grid 42/ΚΔ, #34-#37
16 July 1931 #15-#16
17 July 1931 #4-#12
18 July 1931 #1-#5, ... 4th.-early 2nd. B.C ... G-H 5:1 ... G-H 5:1 |
| Grave 7 in notebook. Area disturbed in Roman times; outlines of the shaft had been obliterated.
The northwest end, however, was preserved in a cutting in the rock of the sloping hillside. This cutting, ... 750-700 B.C ... Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 29, fig. 27. |
Well at 16/Γ = Well at 15/Β.
Dug to 14.90m. and abandoned due to influx of water. Coins:
15 May 1936 #1
20 May 1936 #2-#5
18 June 1936 #1, dump ... 3rd c. B.C ... G 4:1 ... G 4:1 |
Cf. P 3736, from the original "packing behind poros benches". Not from the pit itself it is therefore not listed with this deposit ... 5th c. B.C ... G 7:1 ... G 7:1 |
(now G 12:22) Asterisk: H 12:5* ... (now G 12:22) ... Asterisk: H 12:5* |
House A destruction debris over floors. All floors (rooms 1-7) dug in 1939. Re-examination of House A in 1967 (nbpp. 648 ff.). Coins:
27 February 1939 #5-#9
7 March 1939: #1
9 March 1939 #4-#6
11 March ... First half 3rd. c. A.D ... F-G 19-20 |
| Grave 16 in notebook.
Length of shaft 1.81m; width 0.64m; depth from cover 0.54m.
Skeleton of a woman , head at northwest end. Most of pots piled over feet and legs of skeleton at southeast end.
An iron ... 750 B.C ... G 12:17 ... G 12:17 |
Investigations in Room to N of Tholos, various layers and periods. ... 470 B.C.-post-Herulian reuse ... 5th c. or early 4th c. B.C ...
Layer III and IV.5 Debris |
From disturbances in original floor of Tholos with ash and burning. Probably reflects the military and political conditions of 307 B.C.
The broken pottery, both that left lying on the floor of the building ... Ca. 340-295 B.C ... G 12:20 ... G 12:20 |
The East Chamber of a double cistern lying between the northeast corner of the Theseion and the Annex to the Stoa of Zeus Eleftherios. ... Both chambers went out of use as water containers simultaneously ... Ca. 200 B.C ... Agora XXIX, pp. 452-453 under G 6:2. |
See cistern system wells F 11:2 and F 12:3, part of Tholos water system. Estimated Grid ... Ca. 350-294 B.C ... G 11:4 ... G 11:4 |
Well (stone-curbed shaft) near middle of Tholos which served the prior building.
Period of Use dated to ca. 500-480(?) B.C., Upper fill dated to ca. 480-470 B.C. or soon after in Agora XXX (a gradual ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... G/12,13-11/4,5 |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Circular pit uncovered in Early Building II, south of Room E latrine, adjacent to the preserved latrine floor surface. Continues beneath the latrine surface and the western scarp (unexcavated). Fill relatively ... Late 5th c. B.C ... Late 5th c. B.C ... G/12-13/8 |
Coins:
2 June 1937 #1 Estimated Grid ... 5th c. A.D ... 5th c. A.D ... G/3,4-11/2,3 ... -5--10.8m. |
Tiled well near the SW corner of the market square between the Southwest Fountain House and the Great Drain, three fills noted: lower fill of earth and stones with a few fragments only of coarse pottery ... 4th-2nd c. B.C.
100-70 B.C ... G 14:2 ... G 14:2 |
Well on Slopes of Kolonos, apparently with two periods of active service. The earlier dating from ca. the turn of the era well down into the 1st c. A.D. Probable that the well was never cleaned out in ... POU Early to second half 1st c. A.D ... G 8:1 ... G 8:1 |
May be of Hellenistic origin when cistern system went out of use.
For a general note on the cistern see Nb. ΟΕ III, pp. 246 ff.
Objects from B 586 various depths (no subdivision): S 2324-S 2330,
P 34894, ... Late 2nd-early 6th c. A.D ... G/3,4-11/2,3 ... -3.55--20.5m. |
Coins:
16 April 1932 #1 ... First quarter 4th. c.-2nd c. B.C ... -15.5--11.5m. |
| Not completely excavated due to instability of chamber walls and water. Sherds of all periods - Greek, Roman and Byzantine - were found in it [nbp. 424].
Re-examined in 2010. Photos and notes on NB pages ... 10th c. A.D ... G 14:3 ... G 14:3 |
Accumulated fillings in the Bouleutrion Plateia beginning in late 5th c. B.C. and continuing into the 3rd c. A.D., reaching a depth of 0.20-0.30m. (Hesp. 6 (1937), p. 168. Subdivisions:
.1=Layer I
.2=Layer ... 5th c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D ... F-G 10-11 ... F-G 10-11 |
Estimated Grid ... G/4,5-8/10,11 |
Estimated Grid ... G/4,5-8/10,11 |
Estimated Grid ... 275-150 B.C ... G 13:4.1 ... G 13:4.1 |
Estimated Grid ... Ca. 510-480 B.C ... G/7,8-6/4,5 |
Fills associated with construction of New Bouleuterion, i.e. inside porch, unused foundation trenches on west side and south side ... Down to last quarter of 5th c. B.C ... Down to last quarter of 5th c. B.C ... G-H 10 |
Estimated Grid ... 325-260 B.C ... G 13:4.2 ... G 13:4.2 |
Estimated Grid ... Early 6th c. A.D ... G/3,4-11/2,3 ... -5m. |
Containers Lot Α 306-Lot Α 340. Estimated Grid ... Ca. 575-535 B.C ... G 6:3.2 ... G 6:3.2 |
Grave 12 in notebook. Probably an adult burial ... Late Geometric ... G 12:13 ... G 12:13 |
Grave 11 in notebook. Grave disturbed by diggers of pit A.
Only skull and left arm of man's skeleton remained in position, head toward N.E. Cover slabs were piled near head ... Late Geometric ... G 12:12 ... G 12:12 |
Circular well cut through the old road after it had gone out of use, and filled probably at the time of the building of the drain and building A, and the throwing of fill over the road ... Ca. 430-400 B.C ... G 12:21 ... G 12:21 |
Estimated Grid ... Late 2nd c. A.D ... G/3,4-11/2,3 ... -25.5--24.1m. |
Cistern system West of Bouleuterion: (see also B: cistern system to West of Tholos). Third Chamber from North. A well was dug through the bottom in Byz. times. Cf. deposit F 9:2. Coins:
3 May 1934 #1 ... 160-140 B.C., with Byz. disturbance
Early 3rd to late 2nd c. B.C. POU ... G 11:1 ... G 11:1 |
Rodney S. Young ... Grave 1 in notebook. Slightly disturbed by the digging of Pit A.
A large oil jar/amphora lay on its side with a flat stone stopping its mouth. The three small vases offered at the burial were found, together ... Ca. 600 B.C ... G 12:1 ... G 12:1 |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 10 in notebook. No remains. Probably grave of a woman.
Only a small portion of the inhumation pit was preserved at the northeast edge of pit A, a large oval cutting of modern date dug for the construction ... Middle Geometric II ... G 12:11 ... G 12:11 |
| Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 5. Adult (female?) inhumation.
Cist grave lined and covered with slabs of limestone, sandstone and schist. Cut into virgin soil under Royal Stoa at I/12,13-5/3,4. Grave measures 1.79x0.39-0.49x ca ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Hesperia 44 (1975), pp. 372-373, pls. 83,d, 84,g. |
Area of early road and Geometric Cemetery: late, disturbed or uncertain levels. Includes Geometric/Proto Attic material thrown in the Turkish well at 35/Δ. Includes between road and bedrock in Β'. Four ... 5 May 1934
19-23 March 1935
2 April 1935 ... F-G 12:2 ... F-G 12:2 |
Well at 69/ΚΔ (Well G: PG, ELS).
Diameter 0.75m. Fairly but not perfectly evenly cut; no foot-holds in sides. Very little water gathered. The well produced a small amount of pottery, the bulk of it coming ... Protogeometric ... M 17:5 ... M 17:5 |
| Shaft oriented N to S (L. 1.30, W. 0.43 at bottom). Fill shot through with cinders and wood ash. Skeleton of a male about 50 years old.
Brann. PD 1065a ... 750-700 B.C ... old.
Brann. |
Unstratified pit below east part of Odeion Cavea (Trench K).
Brann Well or Pit O. Estimated Grid ... To ca. 725 B.C ... M/5,6-11/16,17 |
Manhole-square pit providing access to aqueduct; the dumped filling includes many fragments of coarse pottery, including 5 stamped amphora handles ... Late 2nd-1st c. B.C ... Manhole South of Well G |
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 ... those on bowls in G 5:3 and ... Coins:
3 June 1937 #1-#4
4 June 1937 #5-#9
7 June 1937 #1-#4 |
Well G: Archaic (lower fill) on the northwest slope of the Acropolis. Diameter top to bottom ca 1.0. Coins
22 April 1937 #1-#2 Top fill, to 3.50m; dark Age: nothing catalogued ... 500 - 490 B.C ... -5.95m. |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion with cover slab with inscription (I 5885). Grave XXXIV in notebook. One skeleton and two leg bones. The remains of G. Watson were replaced in his original position.
Pottery ... 15 August 1810 ... Hesperia Suppl. 5 (1941), p. 5, fig. 1 (Grave 40) also pp. 24-26, fig. 10. |
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 ... Coins:
9 May 1947 #2-#5
16 May 1947 #26
27 May 1947 #5
15 July 1947 #1-#28 ... G 401, G 402, L 4674, P 17883 from lot ΟΟ 736 , and G 286 from lot ΟΟ 738 but not |
Well in Room 5 of Roman House H.
Under cement border of andron of Greek House G. Diameter 1.10m, cut through bedrock. water at ca. 3.55m. Hand or foot holes along one side.
0-7.25m crushed bedrock fill ... 5th c. B.C ... Well in Room 5 of Roman House H |
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 ... Cistern through which well G 14:4 was dug. Filling ... floor (5th c. A.D.). |
Various layers and dates, primarily from Tholos Tr. L (area of early road drain), Q (area of road) and V (area of road).
Also Room G of Trench V listed with G-H 11-12 probably has road layers (no finds, ... 8th c.-ca. 480 B.C ... G-I 11-13 |
N-S Cut on 50m. 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 running out ... Prehistoric to Roman ... E-G 2-4 |
Exploration in the area between the east front of the Hellenistic Metroon and the Great Drain, from accumulated road metal of early north-south road.
For levels in the same road further south, see F-G ... 575-525 B.C ... F-G 12:1 and H 12:9 ... Coins:
4 April 1934 #2
5 April 1934 #1
6 April 1934 #2 |
Well in Stoa Shop 2. Diameter at top 1.20m. P 2527, P 25280 and P 25281 found at the bottom indicated a short period of use. The dumped filling above consisted in large part of clay of different colors, ... Ca. 525-500 B.C ... Hesperia 25 (1956), p. 61, pl. 19 c-g. |
Formerly G 13:5.
Cleared to a depth of 8.50m. where further collapse made work impossible. Use filling not reached. Lower dumped fill dated to ca. 425-400 B.C., with objects P 24209, P 24210, 24211. Upper ... Ca. 425-375 B.C ... -8.5m. |
Stroses I, II, III, IV in Court J (below marble chip layer), House of Greek Mosaic.
No independently datable objects. Estimated Grid ... Early 3rd c. B.C ... G/13,14-29/4,5 |
Archaic house with Distyle Porch (= Building J) in southeast of section: packing beneath floors (Layers a and b of Tholos Trench S.Layer b=Beneath original floor dated to ca. 500 B.C.
Layer a=Between original ... 6th-early 5th c. B.C ... 6th-early 5th c. B.C ... G-I 11-13 |
Cistern system West of Bouleuterion: (see also B: cistern system to West of Tholos). First Chamber from North.
Part of three-chamber cistern system, including also G 11:1, with Byzantine and modern disturbance ... 150-ca. 75 B.C., with Byz. disturbance ... G 11:1, with Byzantine ... Coins:
1 March 1934 #1
2 March 1934 #1-#5
10 March 1934 #1
12 March 1934 |
A total of 79 ostraka was recovered from Room 5 of the Classical Building.
More of this deposit was excavated in the 2021 season on the opposite side of the scarp of Wall R, up against the face of Wall ... 500-475 B.C ... was recovered from Room 5 ... Room 5.
Addendum 2022. The collapse of Walls G’ and R |
Cistern at 63/ΞΒ and channel leading west from cistern to west edge of section; also manhole at 57-58/ΞΔ-ΞΕ.
Possible further connection with other cisterns, e. g. at east edge of section Υ and/or cistern ... g. at east edge of section ... fillings of 4th and 5th to 6th |
Sculptor's Workshop at 37-40/Β-ΣΤ Coins
20 April 1933 #1-#20
21 April 1933 #37-#41
24 April 1933 #97-#100
1 May 1933 #5-#8
4 May 1933 #2
12 May 1933 #8-#9
15 May 1933 #8
S 343, S 407-S 413, S 390: Fragments ... Ca. 267 A.D ... May 1933 #5-#8
4 May 1933 ... pumice in Lot Ι 203g and Lot Ι |
| Well at 99/ΜΕ.
Just outside of SE corner of Fountain House. This well was used in at least two periods; the marble well curb of the second period, certainly Byzantine, was found in place. The fill was ... 5 May 1952
5-14 July 1952 ... No coins.
Fills associated with the well see p.1268, Lot Τ 28g |
Stratified well with POU first half of 1st c. - mid 3rd c. A.D. and dumped fills of 4th and 5th-6th c. A.D.
Finds from upper fills "earth": BI 315, L 2549.
Finds from lower fills "earth": BI 302, BI 316, ... 1st to 3rd century and late 3rd to 6th century ... fills of 4th and 5th-6th c ... L2499,
L 2501, G 73, P 21113, ... 1936 #5-#18 [earth, lower |
Cistern at 70/ΚΕ and channels. Part of same system as D 17:3 and D 17:5. It was set against a corner of the lowest foundation block. Thus one is forced to assume that enough of the wall remained at least ... Ca. 200-150 B.C ... D 17:3 and D 17:5. It was ... subdivision:
G 397, S 1436, ST 470, |
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 ... First half of 5th c. A.D. |
| 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 ... building G in ΕΛ 1.2m in diameter, narrows to 0.5m at |
| Cistern at 77/Μ on lower north slopes of the Areopagus. Bottom diameter of 2m connected by tunnel to cistern M-N 18:1.
Only stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 240. Latest coin dates about 200 ... 3rd c. B.C.-196/190 B.C ... Bowls and plates share stamps with vessels from N 21:4, E 14:1, F 17:4, G 14:2. |
Cistern-chamber on the northwest side of Kolonos Agoraios, 10 to 12m west of the end of the Hellenistic Building. Dimensions at bottom 2.50m x 2.75m.
The west chamber of a cistern system composed of two ... Use filling early 1st-2nd c. B.C ... 5:1) retained little or no ... Hephaisteion. (Roman Group G). |
| The pit consists of an unlined, circular shaft measuring 1.10m. in diameter and at least 2.23m. in depth. The sides of the shaft have roughly cut hand-/foot-holds at irregular intervals and locations ... Late Roman to end of 4th c. A.D ... (e.g. bones with cut marks, ... Coins:
5 July 1996 #1412
25 July 1996 #1436-#1437, #1439, #1442, #1444, |
Fillings in and to the north of Building A/Poros Building/Greek Building ("Strategeion"), the accumulation mostly a late archaic dump, but not deposited till near the middle of the century. Most of the ... First half of 5th c. to ca. 460-450 B.C ... First half of 5th c. to ca. 460-450 B.C. |
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 ... Coins:
5 April 1954 #1-#4
6 April 1954 #1-#3 + N 31011
7 April 1954 #1-#9 + N ... (e.g. indicated on p. 3270 (4 |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Child's Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXVIII: G).
Cf. Container Lot ΣΤ 165 (fill over geometric grave).
Neat, rectangular, unlined trench, cut into bedrock to a preserved depth of 0.20m,below the level ... Early Geometric I ... Child's Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXVIII: G).
Cf ... by Angel and 3.5-4.5 years |
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