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Pocket in Bedrock, martyr south of 29/ΜΕ (formerly O 8:6) ... 500-480 B.C ... Agora XII, p. 396 (referred to as O 8:6). |
Trench at O/7,8-6/1,5. Layer 5 of Trench A cut in Rooms 1 and 2 of Greek House γ. Soft green clay with bones, ash, much pottery. Probably leveling fill ... Archaic ... O 6:1 ... O 6:1 |
Early Roman, late 1st c. A.D. with some later fragments. Coins:
31 May 1938 #1-#12
1 June 1938 #1-#5
2 June 1938 #1-#2 ... Late 1st c. B.C ... Early Roman, late 1st c. A.D. with some later fragments ... Coins:
31 May 1938 #1-#12
1 June 1938 #1-#5
2 June 1938 #1-#2 |
Coins:
19 May 1938 #1 (illegible)
20 May 1938 #3-#5, #12-#20 (Dump) ... 4th-6th c. A.D ... Coins:
19 May 1938 #1 (illegible)
20 May 1938 #3-#5, #12-#20 (Dump) |
Well at NW corner of Church of Holy Apostles ... 6-14 July 1954 ... O 15:1 ... O 15:1 |
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 ... O 18:1 ... O 18:1 |
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 ... Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Lower fill |
| Well at 89-90/ΙΗ-ΙΘ (diameter at top 1.10m), between the southeast corner over the mouth of of the Odeion and the Panathenaic Way. the well lay a thin layer of dug bedrock containing a few Hellenistic ... 650-625 B.C ... O 12:1 ... O 12:1 |
Turkish Pit at 39/Ε Coins:
14 March 1935 #17
15 March 1935 #16 ... Turkish ... O 14:1 ... O 14:1 |
| Byzantine vaulted chamber at 94/ΚΕ, that overlay monument bases on the west side of the Panathenaic Way ... Byzantine ... O 11:1 ... O 11:1 |
Unfinished cistern at 31/ΚΑ ... Ca. 360-325 B.C ... O 22:1 ... O 22:1 |
Filling around rubble wall (35/ΚΕ). It contained a mass of pottery, most of it uninventoried ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... O 8:1 ... O 8:1 |
Pit at 23/ΚΣΤ Coins:
9 May 1935 #2-#17 "In addition to the catalogued pieces, it contained some coarse ware and a few glazed sherds, either painted or with simple sgraffito design" These all thrown. Hesperia ... 1100 A.D ... O 13:1 ... O 13:1 |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXV. Adult female inhumation. Deposit summary and notebook write at 31/Θ-I ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Early Protogeometric ... O 7:1 ... O 7:1 |
Roman Dump/Cesspool ... Second half 1st c.-1st half 2nd c. A.D ... Second half 1st c.-1st half 2nd c. A.D. |
The data in the Deposit Notebook is presented by trench; an attempt is made here to accumulate data from similar layers across the trenches. Subdivisions:
.1=Post Hadrianic cleanup
.2=Marble working waste ... 2nd c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D ... Subdivisions:
.1=Post Hadrianic cleanup
.2=Marble working waste
.3=Iron working |
Destruction fill in octagonal room of Gymnasium and Rooms to North; also basement room F of late Roman Gymnasium ... Late Roman ... O 13-14:1 ... O 13-14:1 |
South Stoa I: 75-76/ΚΗ-Λ South Shop Building Layer g (O 16:1) and South Stoa I: Stony Fill below floor level (O 16:2). (merged from O 16:1 and O 16:2) Coins:
11 May 1953 #29 (illegible) Merged from two ... Ca. 420-400 B.C. and earlier ... (O 16:1) and South Stoa I: ... (O 16:2). (merged from O 16:1 and O 16:2) ... Merged from two separate deposits: O 16:1 and O 16:2 |
300-195 B.C. POU ... O 20:1.2 ... O 20:1.2 |
Layer I.
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa.
c) 46.60-48-60m. from East End of Stoa.
d) 51.00-53.00m. from East End of Stoa.
e) 79.00-81.00m ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D ... I-O 15:1.1 ... I-O 15:1.1 |
Well in Marble-Saw Shed. No distinct use filling. Estimated Grid ... Submycenaean ... Hesperia 92 (2023), pp. 115, 176, fig. 1. |
Filling over bedrock. Coins:
26 May 1938 #7-#10
27 May 1938 #1
28 May 1938 #1 ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa ... 1st c. A.D ... I-O 15:1.3 ... I-O 15:1.3 |
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa ... 2nd c. A.D ... I-O 15:1.2 ... I-O 15:1.2 |
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa, with some disturbed fill including 1st c. A.D. material.
c) 46.60-48-60m. from East End of Stoa.
d) ... 2nd c. B.C ... Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East ... including 1st c. A.D. material ... Coins:
22 July 1960 #1
ΜΣ: 9 July 1965 #5-#6 |
Material from trenches:
c) 46.60-48-60m. from East End of Stoa.
d) 51.00-53.00m. from East End of Stoa.
e) 79.00-81.00m. from East End of Stoa. Coins:
12 July 1960 #1-#2 (illegible)
9 July 1965 #4 ... 2nd c. B.C.-2nd c. A.D ... I-O 15:1.4 ... I-O 15:1.4 |
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa.
c) 46.60-48-60m. from East End of Stoa.
d) 51.00-53.00m. from East End of Stoa.
e) 79.00-81.00m. from ... 2nd c. B.C ... I-O 15:1.6 ... I-O 15:1.6 |
(now O 9:1) Asterisk: O 8:6* ... O 8:6 ... O 8:6 |
| Phaidon Street Cistern: North Chamber
Sullan destruction debris. One of two chambers connected by tunnel.
Two latest coins date to 87/86. Gray ware lamp of first quarter of 1st c. A.D. indicates disturbance ... 2nd c. B.C ... O/2,3-17/16,17 |
| Phaidon Street Cistern: South Chamber.
Connected by tunnel to O 17:5.
Knidian stamped amphora handle; fragments of five long-petal bowls, one made in worn mold. Type 35 A lamp. Coins
9 August 1957 #1-#3 ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... O 17:6 ... O 17:6 |
Deposit of late unguentaria at ca. 37/ΛΖ plus black fill below deposit (cf. p. 945). Coins:
5 June 1935 #1 and cf. #2-#3 ... Mid-6th c. A.D ... Coins:
5 June 1935 #1 and cf. #2-#3 |
Dealer's Dump at 10/Θ.
Debris filling beneath a modern house floor, apparently from the shop of an antiquities' dealer; otherwise unrelated to the Agora area. Compare similar dumps, K 14:1 and N 10:1 ... Modern context ... O 17:2 ... O 17:2 |
Mycenaean Chamber Tomb W. of Circular Building (at Σ:30/ΛΕ?)
It had been badly disturbed by a fourth-century B.C. pit which cut into the northeast part of the chamber (rectangular, ca. 1.80m by 1.30m) ... Myc. III A 2 ... Hesperia Suppl. 43 (2009), pp. 103-108, figs. tables, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 (AA |
Well at 55/ΚΕ
Period of Use dated to the last quarter of 5th c. B.C., Upper fill dated to the same (deposited later) in Agora XXX. Coins
1 April 1938 #10 ... Last quarter of 5th c. B.C ... O 19:4 ... O 19:4 |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.
Only the bottom 0.10 to 0.20m of the chamber was preserved along with the partial skeletal remains of two or three occupants. The plan revealed a square chamber (1.80m by 1.80m), ... Myc. III A 1:2 (14th c.) ... Hesperia Suppl. 43 (2009), p. 103, tables 6.1, 6.2 (AA 132) |
| Mycenaean Burial.
The cutting was roughly rectangular (1.60 by 0.50m) and was once covered with rough stone slabs, two of which were found over the body. The skeleton, presumably that of a man, lay in ... Myc. III A-B ... O 7:3 ... O 7:3 |
Well at 67/ΛΓ on the northeast slope of the Areopagus. Connected with the same cistern system as O 20:2.
Dug as several fills but probably a continuous accumulation Coin
28 May 1938 #1 (?) Illegible N ... 300-250 B.C ... system as O 20:2.
Dug as ... Coin
28 May 1938 #1 (?) Illegible |
Small Pit in bedrock (diameter 0.70m). " A handful of contemporary sherds found with it, discarded." p. 1238 ... July 1957 ... O 18:5 ... O 18:5 |
Well at 81/ΝΑ ... Byzantine ... O 17:3 ... O 17:3 |
Pit at 57/ΚΑ; small pit on the lower north slope of the Areopagus, measuring 1.05x0.80mx0.80m deep. There were traces of burning and a few bones in it, since none of them are recognizably human it is probably ... 480 - 470 B.C ... measuring 1.05x0.80mx0.80m deep. |
Mycenaean Deposit (Gully) in front of NE Stoa (corrected from P 7:1).
It consisted of a series of irregular pits, some gradually linked up with one another to form what seemed a natural gully. The largest ... Mycenaean IIIA-B ... O 7:14 ... O 7:14 |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb with niches.
One of the few tombs found in the Agora that has an almost architectural regularity with squares chamber (1.75m wide by 2.10m deep) and axially centered dromos (4m long ... Myc. III A 1:2 ... O 7:5 ... O 7:5 |
Archaic Pit at 25/ΙΓ, near the northeast corner of the market square. Filling in upper part of shaft, cleared only to a depth of 3.10m because of rock conditions ... 600-550 B.C ... O 7:9 ... O 7:9 |
Small Pit or Well at 25/ΚΑ with a small quantity of fine and coarse household pottery, much of it whole, or nearly so ... Ca. 450-425 B.C ... -1.6m. |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Infant grave near Phaidon street cistern. No offerings.
Roughly rectangular, almost elliptical cutting in bedrock, measuring 0.70m long, 0.35m wide, and 0.40m deep, oriented south-southwest to north-northeast ... Late Helladic III C/Early Protogeometric (date uncertain) ... O 17:8 ... O 17:8 |
Mycenaean Grave W. of Circular Building. Measuring 1.40m by 0.55m and it was covered with a few rough stone covering slabs, under which lay the skeleton of an adult with the head to the north and the knees ... Myc. III A2-B ... Mycenaean Grave W. of Circular Building. Measuring 1.40m by 0.55m and it was |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.
Although badly disturbed at various times in antiquity, it was clearly a chamber tomb with the chamber little more than a cubby-hole at the end of a steep dromos, entered at the ... Myc. III A-B ... 1.05m. |
| Cistern at 53/ΚΓ and channels. The pottery in the cistern and in the two channels was a thoroughly mixed lot of broken material from 5th c. B.C. to 4th c. A.D. and all seemed the same except the bottom ... 5th c. B.C.-4th c. A.D ... O 19:2 ... O 19:2 |
| Tiled Well at S edge of E-W Road, 73/ΜΗ. Contemporary upper and lower fills separated by layer of sterile mud.
Latest coin dates ca. 200. Koan amphora handle with stamped handle dates slightly after 200 ... 210-160 ... O 16:3 ... O 16:3 |
Unstratified pit below east part of Odeion Cavea (Trench K).
Brann Well or Pit O. Estimated Grid ... To ca. 725 B.C ... (Trench K).
Brann Well or Pit O. |
Area I; layer I. Soft, loose destruction fill of Street Drain in front of Greek House δ. Represents closing of drain in preparation for construction of Basilica. Top elevation 55.40m at west, 55.96m at ... 1st c. A.D ... O-P 6:1 ... O-P 6:1 |
Foundry dumps north of Church of Holy Apostles. Coins
27 March 1952 #3-#6
28 March 1952 #1-#3
29 March 1952 #1-#7
14 April 1952 #15-#17
15 April 1952 #7
22 April 1952 #5-#6
29 April 1952 #1
9 May 1952 ... O-P 15:1 ... O-P 15:1 |
Exploratory Pits to West of Bema Coins:
31 July 1958 #1-#5 ... To early 2nd century ... O-P 10:1 ... O-P 10:1 |
Destruction debris in Late Roman Buildings on Lower N slope of Areopagus (see summaries under M-Q 17-21).
Over 130 coins came from this filling, of which some 51 survived in a condition to permit accurate ... 6th c. A.D ... O-Q 18-19 ... O-Q 18-19 |
Square Peristyle (Square Building) Constructions fill + other (square peristyle area); fragmentary and with some earlier material but in the main, where undisturbed, a homogenous deposit. Coins:
26 May ... Βefore 300 B.C ... Coins:
26 May 1954 #1-#3
29 May 1954 #1-#7
3 June 1054 #1-#10 |
Late Roman Fills: SE Building, Conglomerate Wall. (see O-Q 18-19)Deposit list under O-Q 18-19 Coins
21 May 1938 #14
23 May 1938 #1-#2
24 May 1938 #2, #3-#4
25 May 1938 #3 Asterisk: O-P 20-21* ... O-Q 18-19)Deposit list under O-Q 18-19 ... Coins
21 May 1938 #14
23 May 1938 #1-#2
24 May 1938 #2, #3-#4
25 May 1938 #3 ... Asterisk: O-P 20-21* |
| 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 ... Shaft oriented N to S (L. 1.30, W. 0.43 at ... old.
Brann. |
| Grave cut into bedrock (L. 2m, W. 0.58m), head toward E; offerings at south end. Skeleton of a male about 40 years old, laid out with knees slightly bent.
Brann. PD 434, PD 1058 ... 750-725 B.C ... Grave 1 |
(now O 7:11) Asterisk: N 7:1* ... N 7:1 ... N 7:1 |
(now O 7:14) Asterisk: P 7:1* ... (now O 7:14) ... Asterisk: P 7:1* |
Now I-O 15:1. Asterisk: K 15:1* ... Now I-O 15:1 ... Asterisk: K 15:1* |
"Fauvel Collection"
Collector's dump? Debris in the cellar of a modern house, probably once that of F.S. Fauvel.
The collection included vases of all periods, from Geometric to Turkish; a number of the ... Modern Context ... the similar dumps, K 14:1 and O 17:2. |
Double Well by E. Entrance to Square Building (Well A) (formely a O 8:1) Coin
21 April 1951 #1 (disintegrated) Carefull there is two O 8:1, the actual one is a filling around rubble wall at 35/ KE.
Estimated ... 750 to early 7th century B.C ... Double Well by E. Entrance to Square Building (Well A) (formely a O 8:1) ... Coin
21 April 1951 #1 (disintegrated) ... Carefull there is two O 8:1, the actual one is a filling around rubble wall at |
| RSY Grave 51.
The grave lay on the slope of the Areopagus in Roman house O, just east of the line where the hillside is scarped for the foundation of the west wall of the house.
Cutting:the pit cut in ... Archaic period/6th or 7th c ... C 19:1 ... C 19:1 |
Exploration of packing below paving blocks of Panathenaic Way.
Uncatalogued material: 66 sherds, 2 objects (50A) and 43 sherds (50B). Coins:
26 April 1960 #1-#2
3 May 1960 #1-#4, #6-#9 Deposit created ... 1st c. A.D ... S-T 20:1 ... S-T 20:1 |
Water deposit in Polygonal Drain (43-44/Γ-Ζ and martyra)immediately south of the south foundations of the Middle Stoa. Early branch of the original course of Great Drain. P 2248 added to this deposit by ... Ca. 420-390 B.C ... J 13-14:1 ... J 13-14:1 |
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 ...
Brann Well H. Diameter 1 |
Well at 8/ΙΑ-ΙΒ, beneath the north colonnade of the Square Peristyle, just west of the north end of the Stoa of Attalos. Quite uniform fill. Diameter 1.15m. No P.O.U. Coins:
4 April 1938 #39 ... 650-600 B.C.
5th c. B.C ... fill. Diameter 1.15m. No P.O.U. |
| Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LXVII in notebook.
Crammed with bones (13 skulls): osteotheke. Coins:
13 March 1939 #26-#27 Neg. XV-86 ... 13-14 March 1939 ... Hesperia Suppl. 5 (1941), p. 5, fig. 1 (Grave 20). |
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 ... Coins:
27 February 1936 #1
6 March 1939 #10 |
| Well in Stoa Shop 3. Diameter at top 1.20m. The mouth o the well was overlaid by a large conglomerate block placed by the Stoa builders to seal it. Masses of pottery including many water-jars filled the ... Ca 520-480 B.C ... Well in Stoa Shop 3. Diameter at top 1.20m. The mouth o the well was overlaid |
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 ... No containers (cf. O 18:2).
T 2468, T 2476, ST 412 from Hellenistic fill nb.p. |
Well 19: Latest Mycenaean. Near Klepsydra. Diameter mouth 1.25-1.35m., narrowing about a third of the way down and becoming rectangular, 0.90-1.0 to a side. Muddy at m; water collecting rapidly at 8.m ... Late Mycenaean ... Diameter mouth 1.25-1 ... rectangular, 0.90-1.0 to a side ...
Contemporary Agora wells O 8:5; H |
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 ... Subdivisions:
.1=layer 1, surface
.2=layer 2
.3=layer 3 |
Located beneath line of Poros Gutter, from a square settling basin cut in bedrock at the north end of Trench II, South of Theseion, 1.30m below the modern road surface. The basin is lined with rough-picked ... Last quarter of 5th c. B.C.-early 4th c. B.C ... South of Theseion, 1 |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb opposite ΣΑ pier 15. It was discovered about 20m to the west of Pier 15 of the Stoa of Attalos and almost in a line and a few meters south of Tomb XX. although the entire upper part ... Myc. II-IIIA/B ... leaving only the lowest o.50 to ... length of 1.50m; a few stones |
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