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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 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 178-179. |
Filling associated with construction of Poros Building. A small amount of fragmentary pottery found in the clay filling of the original floor; perhaps deposited as late as ca. 425-400 B.C. Cf. 18:4 and ... Ca. 475-450 B.C. or later ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 179. |
Drain in corridor of Poros Building. Deposit is from the period of use of the drain. Cf. also containers 140 and 602 ... Late 5th-early 4th c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 174-175. |
An unfinished well in the northwest room of the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus. Dumped filling. Chips from marble-working, variety of plain and figured wares ... Ca. 400-385 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 179-180 ... Hesperia 83 (2014), pp. 200, 232, n. 74, table 2. |
| Sacrificial Pit I in notebook = RSY Grave 20 ... Ca. 510-490 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 101-102, pl. 46 c-d (Grave 20). |
Pit in House N, Room 2 (RSY, House C). Filling thrown in behind the west wall of the Great Drain South at the time of the building of the drain and the extension of House C.
Cf. Hesperia 20 (1951), pp ... Ca. 430-410 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 211-212, |
House C, Room 4 (Pottery dump of stamnos wall and fill below floor). Coins:
1 July 1947 #13
2 July 1947 #1
Coins from House IV:
14 May 1947 #1-#2
19 May 1947 #6-#7
20 May 1947 #32 ... First half 3rd c. B.C ...
19 May 1947 #6-#7
20 May |
Ca. 73-81/Drain. Fillings associated with the construction of the Great Drain South, especially the fill thrown in behind the east wall of the drain at the time of its building.
Cf. A 20-21:1 and B 19:7 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... 20-21:1 and B 19:7.
Cf. Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 247, |
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 ... (RSY Hesp. 20) (and pit |
West Road and Drain. (Road, drain and closely related cuts.) Packing in line of ancient road running along the northwest shoulder of the Areopagus. Includes excavation of 1957 titled "Road Area to North", ... Late 6th c. B.C. - Roman ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 145-149. |
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 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), 250 ff ... Agora XXXIV, p. 178. |
| Herulian Debris in a house on the lower slopes of the Hill of the Nymphs: House P = South House; Room 2 = Dining Room; Room 3 = Kitchen; Room 18; Room 23; Room 24. Coins:
9 August 1947 #1-#37, #47-#49 ... Mid 3rd c. A.D ... Hesperia 26 (1957), pp. 100-101 ... Hesperia 18 (1949), pp. 217-218, pl. 41 ... Hesperia 17 (1948), pp. 149-196, 178, 192. |
Pithos in NW corner (room) of Poros Building. Marble chips ... Mid-4th c.? ... Hesperia 20 (1951) pp. 180-181, fig. 6, pl. 64b. |
| Grave VII in notebook = RSY Grave 21. PD 731-k ... Date uncertain, presumably 7th. or 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 102-103, fig. 15 and pl. 46 e-f (Grave 21). |
| Excavation of this pit began in 1995, tentatively identified as a pyre. This proved to be so with continued excavation in 1996. The deposits J 2:8 and J 2:9 were combined to become J 2:9. Miniature vessels ... Ca. 300 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 67-134 ... Hesperia 68 (1999), pp. 278-281 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 12, pp. 113, 114, figs. 22-24, 37, 38. |
| Grave XV in notebook = RSY Grave 1.
Part of a burial jar with bones of 18-month-old child. Position of body not determinable. Foot of jar had been broken to insert body of child and stopped with stones ... Second half of 8th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 82-85 and pl. 35 c-d (Grave 1). |
| Grave XIV in notebook = RSY Grave 13. PD 731-f ... Late 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 95-96, fig. 10 and pl. 43 a (Grave 13). |
| Pyre in House T (= House D), Room 2 (5th c.) and fill east of pyre.
Earlier than the other pyres of this house.
Pottery, slivers of burnt bone, and heavy deposit of carbonized material and cinders in ... Ca. 420-410 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 218-221, pl. 73 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 38, pp. 149, 150, figs. 78, 79. |
| Grave XX in notebook = RSY Grave 16. PD 731-i ... Late 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 97-98, fig. 13 and pl. 44 c-d (Grave 16). |
| Grave XXI in notebook = RSY Grave 11. Pottery discarded; late Roman, mostly coarse. PD 731-e ... Ca. 530 B.C ... B 20:4 ... B 20:4 |
| Grave XXV in notebook = RSY Grave 4. PD 731-b ... 750-725 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 87-88, fig. 6 and pl. 38 a-c (Grave 4). |
| Grave II in notebook = RSY Grave 17. PD 731-j ... Ca. 510-490 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 98-99, fig. 14 and pl. 45 a-b (Grave 17). |
| Grave XVII in notebook = RSY Grave 15.
Only lower half of skeleton preserved. Bones discarded? ... Last quarter of the 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 96-97, fig. 12 and pl. 44 a-b (Grave 15). |
| Grave I in notebook = RSY Grave 2.
Inhumation burial in Cemetery on West Slope of Areopagus. Outline of grave disturbed by later cutting. Outstretched skeleton, probably of adult female. PD 731-a ... Late 8th century B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 85-87, fig. 5 and pl. 37 a-b (Grave 2). |
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 ... B 20:1 ... B 20:1 |
Sacrificial Pit V in notebook = RSY Grave 19 ... Last quarter 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 100-101, pl. 46 a-b (Grave 19). |
| Sacrificial Pit II in notebook = RSY Grave 7 ... Ca. 540 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 89-90, pls. 40 b (Grave 7) ... Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 304 and fig. 44. |
| Grave XXVI in notebook = RSY Grave 12 ... Ca. 525-500 B.C. or sightly later ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 93-95, pl. 42 a-c (Grave 12) ... Hesperia 10 (1941), pp. 1-2 and fig. 1. |
| Sacrificial pyre in Poros Building, NW Room (RSY= Pyre 1).
Against east wall of room 5 west. artifacts, bone, carbon and ash in pit in floor sequence. the pyre lay below a floor covered with marble dust, ... Middle of 4th c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 114-115, pl. 50 a (Pyre I) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 32, pp. 142, 143, figs. 7, 67, 69, 70. |
Cistern in Room 12, House C=House N.
Simple flask-shaped chamber with draw shaft, in House M, Room 1; no tunnels. Excavated as single fill, but later analysis of material suggested two fills. Coins:
24 ... 4th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 207, 216, 225-226 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), pp. 154, 160 ... Hesperia 75 (2006), p. 366. |
A well in House T, Room 2W (Publ. House D), industrial area west of the Areopagus. Lower filling of dug bedrock including a small amount of pottery of the Geometric period. Gravelly filling in collapsed ... 3rd. quarter of 8th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951) pp. 144-145, 218 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375. |
"Oinophorus Well".Tiled well in House H (diameter 0.80m, water level -4.70m). Height of tiles 0.64m Heavy well deposit; lamps,, type XXVII; many basket-handled water jars; oinophoros with labors of Herakles ... Use filling of early 2nd-mid.-3rd c. A.D ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 275-276 ... Hesperia 24 (1955), p. 284, no. 20. |
| Grave V in notebook = RSY Grave 5. PD 731-c, Ptg. 244 ... Second quarter of the 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 88-89, fig. 7 and pls. 38 f, 39 a (Grave 5) ... Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 303, fig. 43. |
Well in house R of industrial area west of the Areopagus. This well, originally tiled, was abandoned and filled at the time of the conversion of the house into a stone-cutters' workshop.
Tiled well but ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 242-243 ... Hesperia 84 (2015), p. 476. |
Cistern in valley west of the Areopagus. Dumped filling of late 1st. to early 2nd. c. and of 5th to 6th century. Coins:
7 June 1939 #12
8 June 1939 #18-#19
9 June 1936 #26 ... 1st.-2nd. c. A.D ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 263, n. 130 ... Agora XXXIV, p. 179. |
Unfinished well, south of the annex to the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus. The shaft was apparently never used as a well. The lower dumped filling contained a quantity of clean red clay, as if from ... Ca. 350-325 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 182 ... Agora XXXVII, pp. 219-220. |
| Grave VI in notebook = RSY Grave 10. PD 731-d Ptg. 251 ... Ca. 520-525 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 91-92, fig. 8 and pls. 40 a, 41 a (Grave 10) ... Hesperia 9 (1940), pp. 301-303, and figs. 41-42 ... A.J.A. 43 (1939), p. 588 and fig. 20. |
| Pyre in House T, Room 1, Layer 5-6 (RSY=Pyre 3) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
First quarter 4th. c. B.C.
Artifacts, bone, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The pyre was found in digging ... 400-375 B.C.(?) ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 116-117, pl. 50 c (Pyre 3) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 39, pp. 150, 151, figs. 78, 80. |
| Pyre in House N, room 2, layer 5 (RSY=Pyre 8).
Near northern corner of room 6. Artifacts, bone, burnt logs, and cinders in square pit dug from level of layer 5, through layers 5 and 6; thin clay floor ... 325-300 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 124-125, pl. 52 b (Pyre 8) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 44, pp. 156, 157, figs. 1, 4, 6, 78, 87-89. |
| Dog's Grave, the bones carefully disposed. It contained a small amount of contemporary pottery in the fill, of which some deposited nearby, may have been intended as offerings ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 52 ... AgoraPicBk 28 (2022), pp. 35, 36, fig. 44 ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 58, n. 5. |
| Located in House H, Room 13 on the lower northwest slope of the Areopagus ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... Hesperia 46 (1977), pp. 366-367 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 136, fig. 1 and p. 269 ... Hesperia 17 (1948), pp. 170-171, fig. 7. |
| Pyre in House D, Room 4 (RSY=Pyre 4) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Notebook refers to House N.
Pottery belongs late in third quarter of the 4th. c. BC. Pyre burned near beginning of last ... 350-300 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 117-119, pl. 51 a (Pyre 4). ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 41, pp. 151, 152, figs. 4, 78, 82, 83. |
Well East of Stoa Room 6 (well with Siana Cup); scanty dumped filling.
No water. Well never used. Estimated Grid ... 600-550 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 61-63, pls. 31-32 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 376. |
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 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 182 ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), pp. 77, 100, nn. 32, 117. |
| (RSY=Pyre 2). Pyre in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, in House B. In northern corner of room. No pit discerned. A deposit of small stones (a marker/) lay 0.30m above the level of the pyre, ... Third quarter of the 4th. century ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 115-116, pl. 49 a, 50 b (Pyre 2) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 49, pp. 162, 163, figs. 78, 96, 97. |
| Pit (6x10) in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Large cutting in bedrock with 540 ostraka, mainly of the late eighties of the 5th. c. B. C. Much pottery, principally of the early ... Ca. 500-450 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 253 ... Agora XXV, pp. 20-22, 163 ... Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 193. |
House R, fill under drain tiles and fillings associated with house K in industrial area, including what was C 19:15, plus C 19:16 and
C 19:17.
a) House built as dwelling in second half of 5th.c.
b) Used ... Ca. 5th and 4th c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 238-246 ... Agora XXXVII, pp. 218-219. |
| Pyre in House C, Room 12 (RSY=Pyre 9) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Notebook refers to House N.
Beside west wall of room 12. Pottery, burnt bone, and cinders in a roughly round pit; disturbed ... Ca. 250 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 125-126, pl. 52 c (Pyre 9) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 47, p. 159, 160, figs. 78, 92, 93. |
| Rodney S. Young ... RSY/JP Disturbed Geometric burial over "Sacrificial Pit VI" (Grave B 21:22). Grave IX in notebook. Bones discarded?
Pottery found in the upper filling of a sixth century cremation pit, which had perhaps ... Middle Geometric II/Transitional to Late Geometric ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 83-85, 100 (cf. Grave 18) and pl. 36 B-I and p. 103 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 25, pp. 237-245, figs. 2.146-2.155. |
| Pyre in Room 2, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 12).
In courtyard. Artifacts, bone, ash, carbon, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The rectangular pit was cut into a white strosis with marble chips (ΠΠ ... 315-300 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 128-129, pl. 53 c (Pyre 12) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 36, pp. 145, 146, figs. 4, 67, 74, 75. |
| North of House G (RSY=Pyre 13).
Concentration of artifacts, small pieces of bone, and burnt material in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre is cut by the trench of a wall of a Roman house to north. It ... 290-250 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 129-130, pl. 54 a (Pyre 13) ... Hesperia 17 (1948), pp. 166-167 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 37, pp. 146, 147, figs. 4, 6, 67, 76, 77. |
| Pyre in House T, Room 2 through floor of second period (RSY=Pyre 5) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
4th. c. BC.
Concentration of artifacts, burnt bone, and charcoal in floor makeup consisting ... 375-350 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 119-120, pl. 51 b (Pyre 5) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 40, p. 151, figs. 78, 81. |
Well under Poros Building Drain at 62/ΛΣΤ, west of the Areopagus. Digging abandoned at 6.10m due to a collapse of the soft bedrock at the west. Small amount of supplementary filling was added in the upper ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 436-438 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 174 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375. |
Built against the south wall of the annex to the Poros Building
west of the Areopagus. At the west the upper layer of marble chips carried against it, the lowest were cut by it.
Part of same system as ... 225-100 B.C ... Coins:
8 April 1949 #17-#20
9 April 1949 #1-#6 |
| Pyre in House C, Room 8 (RSY=Pyre 6).
Near east corner of room 8. Artifacts, burnt bone, burnt sticks, and large cinders in a shallow pit dug into surface of layer 3, and covered by layer 2. Some cinders ... 350-325 B.C.-end of 4th c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 120-121, pl. 51 c (Pyre 6) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 43, p. 155, figs. 78, 85, 86. |
| Pyre in House N, room 4 (RSY=Pyre 7), in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Pottery, mall pieces of calcined bone, log, wood cinders, and charcoal in diamond-shaped pit in floor sequence. The pyre ... Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 122-123, pl. 49 b, pl. 52 a (Pyre 7) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 46, pp. 158, 159, figs. 1, 4, 78, 91. |
Great Drain South (ca. 70-113, from SW edge of section as far north as the Roman Bath) Hellenistic Sand Fill. Silted-up filling of the southern branch of the Great Drain, abandoned due to some damage at ... 4th. c.-86 B.C ... #9-#20
24 July 1947 #1-#4
29 |
Well in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
A flask-shaped cistern in House H with a dumped fill of the late fifth century brought from elsewhere and evidently deposited sometime in the 3rd c. B.C ... Ca. 420-400 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 253, noted ... Lawall (2005), pp. 40-42. |
| In area West of the Areopagus. Fills with many figurines and molds, possibly from a terracotta factory.
Twelve stamped amphora handles; no long-petal bowls; Type 54 A lamp Coins:
31 May 1939 #11
1 June ... Mostly 200-150 B.C ... C 20:2 ... C 20:2 |
Thra (ΘΡΑ) Well (East of Stoa Room 2). Heavy dumped filling, including figured, black and plain wares, and also a quantity of animal bones, mostly skulls of oxen. On many of these the horns had been sawn ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 50-51 and cf. pl. 25a ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 469-471 ... Hesperia 83 (2014), p. 201, table 2. |
| Mycenaean Grave F.
It seemed to be more as a collection of bones and offerings, presumably swept aside to make room for later burials; they are east of and slightly higher than children's graves A and ... Myc. IIIA ... Agora XIII, pp. 194-195, 274, pls. 42, 67, 84 (Tomb X) ... Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 41. |
| Rebecca Wood Robinson ... Mycenaean Grave C. Lisa's list mentions also Grave D ... Myc. IIIA 1:2 ... Agora XIII, pp. 193-194, 274, pls. 41, 84 (Tomb IX) ... Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 41. |
| 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 ... 2.20m long with a width of ... May/June 1951 |
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 ... Coin
21 April 1951 #1 (disintegrated) |
| 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 ... Hesperia 21 (1952), pp. 105-106, fig. 4, pl. 25 b, c ... Agora XIII, pp. 201-203, 274, pls. 45-46, 65, 77, 79, 83 (Tomb XIV) ... AJA LVI, 1952, p. 178. |
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 ... A 20-21:1 ... A 20-21:1 |
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Coins:
23 March 1936 #5-#6
31 March 1936 #3
30 April 1936 #1
1 May 1936 #6
2 May 1936 #2
5 May 1936 #8
6 May 1936 #15-#16
14 May 1936 #5-#8 (#6 N 51520 is from ... 50 B.C-3rd c. A.D ...
.2=3.50-22.20m.=Original fill dumped back in; ...
.3=22.20-23.25m.=POU Second half of 1st. c. |
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Stratified deposit. Coins:
8 May 1937 #3
14 May 1937 #1
Coins from dump:
27 May 1937 #2-#9
28 May 1937 #3-#11 Subdivisions:
.1=16.00-17.00m.
.2=17.00-18.00m.
.3=18.00-19.00m ... 3rd. c. B.C.-3rd. c. A.D ... Delos XXVII, pp. 294, 302-303 under E1 and E5 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375 ... Agora XXXIV, p. 178. |
| Mycenaean Double Grave (Graves A and B).
Grave A was in Layer II. We laid a skull and a few other bones, three vases and a stone bead. We have dug to a maximum of about 0.06m below the top of Layer II ... Myc. IIIA/B ... Agora XIII, pp. 195-196, 274, pls. 42, 65, 84 (Grave XI) ... Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 41. |
| Well South of Soft Yellow Poros Foundation. Dumped filling of a collapsed well, that, due to hazardous conditions, could not be cleared below- 2.50m. The well was partly cut on the east side by a Byzantine ... Protogeometric-Early Geometric II, ca. 850 B.C ... Hesperia 67 (1998), pp. 375-404, figs. 4, 5, pls. 65-69 ... Agora XXXI, pp. 107, 230, fig. 4 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 29, pp. 268-281, 542-543, figs. 2.174-2.178, 3.29, 3.30. |
| Extract from notebook ΠΘ XIX, pp. 3644-3646. Well at 105/ΝΗ (report on sorting of pottery, July 19, 1951 - H.S. Robinson).
"Not a useful well" HSR.
Well dug to 1.50m., vi/9/36; dug from 1.50m. to bottom ... Early Roman; use fillings of 2nd. c. B.C. and 1st. and 4th. c. A.D.; dumped filling of late 4th. c. (HSR)
Fill I: 2nd. c. B.C.
Fill II-V: to second half of 4th. c. A.D.
Fill VI: mixed to Byzantine ... Agora XXXIV, p. 178. |
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