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Accumulated fillings in a system of underground drains at west end of section ΔΔ with northward continuation into and across Section Υ.
The filling in the "underground passages" in section ΔΔ appears to ... 3rd c. B.C.
2nd c A.D. |
Well at SE corner of Court of Late Roman Building (Trench C). Estimated Grid ... 12th c. A.D. |
Stratified well; very late Roman verging on Byzantine. Coins
19 April 1939 #1-#8
22 April 1939 #1-#2
25 April 1939 #1
15 May 1939 #1 Subdivisions:
.1=0.00-15.25m.
.2=15.25-21.00m.
.3=21.00-22.00m ... 3rd-5th c. A.D.
9th c A.D. |
Containers 1-11 ... 9th c. A.D. |
Includes a transitional layer 15.25-16.50m. Containers 12-42. Coins:
19 April 1939 #1-#8 (#2-#8 from dump) ... 4th-5th c. A.D. POU |
Containers 43-47. Coins:
22 April 1939 #1-#2
25 April 1939 #1
15 May 1939 #1 ... 3rd c. A.D. |
Modern fill to 21.00m. at which depth a human skeleton weighed down with iron. ER fill from 21.00-28.00m. (bottom). A POU fill with a possible break around 25.00m ... 1st to mid-2nd c. A.D. |
Use filling of first half of 1st c.; dumped filling of late 1st c.(?). This well, near its mouth, cuts off the end of the upper passage of the cistern at 53/Ε. Subdivisions:
.1=Dumped filling
.2=POU ... First half of 1st c. A.D. POU |
Containers 1-14. Very fragmentary pottery. Some material earlier than late 1st c. A.D. Coins:
10 May 1939 #4-#5
11 May 1939 #4-#9
12 May 1939 #5
15 May 1939 #7-#9
17 May 1939 #1-#2
23 May 1939 #1 ... Late 1st c. A.D. |
Containers 15-37. Masses of pots, largely water jars; fragments of Pergamene; Samian B; brittle ware; ER unguentaria.
The following finds on deposit list as bottom fill (.2) are from depths of level .1: ... First half of 1st c. A.D. |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb occupies a considerable part of the western half of section ΕΕ; lies about half way up the north slope of the Areopagus towards its eastern end, just below the highest point of the ... Myc. III A:1 |
Dumped filling of 6th c. A.D. Coins:
3 May 1939 #1-2 (red earth above well)
9 June 1939 #1
10 June 1939 #1
12 June 1939 #1-#5
13 June 1939 #1
19 June 1939 #1-#2, #3 (Dump)
7 May 1940 #1
9 May 1940 #1
27 ... Early 1st-5th c. A.D. POU |
Crescent-shaped cutting in bedrock at 47/ΙΓ; on the north slope of the Areopagus, slightly to the west of the dromos of the Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.
Dimensions of cutting : max. diameter ca. 2.50m.; depth ... Ca. 500-450 B.C.
400-350 B.C. |
Cistern (and passage) on the north slope of the Areopagus. Fill badly disturbed in modern and Turkish times. The few ancient sherds seem to be chiefly early Roman-1st c. B.C. (p. 256).
Some finds labeled ... 1st c. B.C. |
Cistern with two tunnels, the one entering its neck cut off by an early Roman well, the other, at the bottom not excavated.
Chamber conical in shape, with a depressed draw basin in the center of the floor ... Early Roman-3rd c. B.C. |
'Mouth and upper passage' on deposit list. Containers 1 and 2. Pottery in mouth of cistern in upper tunnel. Coins:
5 May 1939 #1
9 May 1939 #10-#11
12 May 1939 #4 ... 1st c. with earlier material |
| Mycenaean Small Chamber tomb.
The cist measures 1,90m E to W, 0.75-0.90m N to S, max. depth -1.30m. Nothing was found in it; cleaned in modern times and used as a cesspool. Some of the SW part of it had ... Myc. IIIA, early 14th c. |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave. Bones discarded.
Burial lies over dromos of Mycenaean chamber tomb N 21-22:1. The roots of a tree had upturned the bones, but the head probably lay at the northeast ... Middle Geometric II |
Refuse pit at 51/Ζ; it had been partly cut away at the north by the late Roman retaining wall; the dumped filling a homogeneous deposit of figured, black and plain wares. Red figure oinochoe in the style ... Ca. 450-420 B.C. |
Pit in bedrock (disturbed child's grave?). No bones or ashes. No lots.
No coins listed. P 14520 was certainly from the north end, doubtless a grave offering; few sherds (first half of 5th century) came ... Late 6th - early 5th c. B.C. |
Pit at 48/ΚΕ; circular cutting in bedrock (diameter ca. 1m) ... Ca. 500-470 B.C. (?) |
Roman Water Mill: Destruction fill on floor and in pit. Includes also fill from mill drain and in manhole at 14/ΛΣΤ, plus gravel fill of gully formed after construction and probably after destruction of ... Second half 6th c. A.D. |
First trial east Stoa colonnade, N. of S. wall III, layer 12.
Note quantities of cattle bones, the knuckles sawn off and many worked bits. Evidently a bone implement factory near by. [nbp. 2139] Coins: ... Late 3rd c.-earliest 4th c. A.D. |
Filling in the footing trench of the late Roman Fortification.
Includes Layer 1 and Layer 2 of Library Colonnade opposite Room 2. "Note: both these layers are fill thrown into V.W. footing trench." (nb.p ... End 3rd. c. A.D. |
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. |
Well at 34/ΚΔ.
a) Depth 13.60m. Little pottery (14 tins) and some of that made useless by loss of tickets during war.
b) Top to 13.00m (upper and transitional fills) 4th century. LRP ware and a 4th century ... Late 2nd to middle of 3rd cent; 4th century |
Well at 30/ΛΒ; the shaft possibly never used as a well; dumped filling with a small amount of fragmentary pottery ... Ca 500 B.C. |
A well outside the market square to the southeast, 20m west of the Panathenaic Way; Modern fill in upper 1.65m. with Early Roman dumped fillings below. Coins:
9 May 1939 #37 (dirt pile)
10 May 1939 #53 ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
A well outside the market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way; Diameter 1.10m ... 600-550 B.C. |
Well outside market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way. Accumulated use filling from first half of 1st c. A.D. to early 3rd c. Top to 14.65m. 4th c. dump; nothing significant catalogued ... POU First half of 1st c.-early 3rd c. A.D. |
Well at 37/Α, on the lower Acropolis slopes, west of the Panathenaic Way ... 600-550 B.C. |
Well at the southeast corner, almost on the line of the east-west street. Upper Fill: Late Roman dumped fill.
Lower Fill: Dark Age: ca. 7th c. A.D.
Coin
30 March 1939 #34 ... 7th-Late 6th century |
Well at 73/Δ Coins:
24 April 1939 #1 (stuck to sherd in bottom container) A box (4B) and three tins of pottery have been kept (T5-T7). The rest discarded ... Byzantine |
Well L: Early Byzantine ... Early Byzantine |
Well 23: Late Mycenaean (Well D:SM) ... Late Mycenaean |
Depth: original at least 3.70m, depth preserved ca. 2.00m.
Diameter: top ca. 0.80x1.15, bottom ca. 0.75m.
Water level ca. -1.50m ... 8-9 March 1939 |
Well 14: Turkish Coins
17 March 1939 #4-#5 Pottery not sorted (March 1940) ... Early Turkish |
Well 12: Archaic.
It lies on a rocky ledge about thirty meters north of the Klepsydra, just east of the Panathenaic street. In spite of its depth, it produced little pottery and its contents were of slight ... 6th c. B.C.? |
Well 17: Neolithic ... Neolithic |
Well 20: Neolithic ... 14-15 April 1939 |
Well 21: Neolithic ... 17-19 April 1939 |
Well C - Passage, belongs with II - Brick Shaft. All dumped fills. No objects catalogued from Well C of section ΟΑ. One object (I 5422) catalogued from modern fill in shaft, one from dump (I 5545). Coins: ... 2nd c. A.D.- Byzantine |
Well 9: Neolithic
Diameter, 1.00-1.10m. Water level ca. -6.90m ... Neolithic |
Well 10: Neolithic.
Diameter, ca. 0.80-0.90m. No water ... Neolithic |
Well 13: Neolithic ... 15 March 1939 |
Washed-in filling at the base of the Acropolis cliffs, some 7m. east of the Klepsydra; the fill was characterized by teh fragments of a series of red-figured oinochoai of special shape, of the late 5th ... Late 3rd c. B.C. |
Pit in bedrock below Balanos' road = gully Coin
20 June 1939 #1
12 April 1939 #2-#4
14 April 1939 #4-#5
20 April 1939 #1-#2 ... Hellenistic |
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 |
Well 22: Neolithic ... Neolithic |
Well 15: Mycenaean. It was situated about 35 meters down the slope northwest of the exit of the Mycenaean Fountain.
Well circular or roughly oval in section.
Diameter max. width to -4.0: ca. 1.50, below ... Late Mycenaean |
| 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. |
Cistern with mixed dumped filling uniform throughout cistern and two short blind channels. Coins:
16 May 1939 #6-#7
17 May 1939 #1 ... 6th-1st c. B.C. |
Grave in west peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XLIII in notebook. No mention of bones; pottery Turkish. Coins:
8 March 1939 #21 ... 11 March 1939 |
| Grave in west peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XLI in notebook. No mention of bones. Coins:
8 March 1939 #6-#20 Neg. XVI-19 ... 10 March 1939 |
| Grave in west peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXIX in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
7 March 1939 #12-#13
8 March 1939 #4-#5
10 March 1939 #3-#9 Neg. KK 367 ... 7-10 March 1939 |
| Grave in west peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXVIII in notebook. Layer VI over rock. Coins:
7 March 1939 #11 Neg. KK 353 ... 7-10 March 1939 |
Grave in west peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXVII in notebook. No mention of bones.
Orlandos Grave A. Coins:
7 March 1939 #7-#10 Neg. KK 354 ... 7-10 March 1939 |
Grave in west peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXVI in notebook. No mention of bones. Coins:
7 March 1939 #1-#6 Neg. KK 355 ... 7-19 March 1939 |
Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LIV in notebook. No bones mentioned in description. Photo on p. 1847 (KK 369) is probably Grave LVI and photo on p. 1851 (KK 388) is probably Grave LIV ... 9-11 March 1939 |
Late Roman, perhaps as late as 7th c., but excavator noted small amount of material made close dating impossible throughout. Nbpp. 2448-2449: The fill of this well throughout is mixed and there are numerous ... Early to Late Roman |
Well on the lower west slope of the Areopagus. Tiled well. The tiles were carefully made and clamped together with lead, two clamps at each joint.
Several fills but apparently all 2nd c. Material in lowest ... Late 2nd to early 1st c. B.C. |
| Grave in opisthodomos of Hephaisteion. Grave LIII in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coin
9 March 1939 #16 Neg. KK 361 ... Turkish |
| Grave in opisthodomos of Hephaisteion. Grave LII in notebook.
No mention of bones. Neg. KK 362 ... 16 March 1939 |
| Grave in opisthodomos of Hephaisteion. Grave L in notebook. Coin
9 March 1939 #14-#15 Neg. KK 364
Cf. container K 464 (under Grave L) ... 16 March 1939 |
Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LVI in notebook.
Three skeletons. Photo on p. 1847 (KK 369) is probably Grave LVI and photo on p. 1851 (KK 388) is probably Grave LIV ... 11 March 1939 |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXIII in notebook.
Filling: loose earth and bones. Lot 404 (a) Neg. KK 377 ... 6 March 1939 |
Great Drain: fillings in south part of section; Martyrs I, II and III, all layers (essentially no difference in the layers).
Pottery sorted and recorded by H.A. Thompson 12 may 1950: "Having gone through ... Second half of 2nd c. B.C.-Early 1st c. B.C. |
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 |
It seems possible that the well ... was originally associated with the late Roman reconstruction of the Stoa, being later carried up to serve the Byz. houses. [Nbp. 364] Coins:
6 March 1939 #1-#9 ... Late 4th-early 5th century |
Loose filling below earliest Byzantine Floor. Coins:
25 February 1939 #3-#5
27 February 1939 #2-#4 ... To 11th c. A.D. |
"Foundry Pit": N-S Cut on 50m. line (area of Stoa, Layer VII, with slag). A foundry pit in the courtyard of a small metalworking establishment outside the Agora to the northwest.
Both the courtyard and ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Pit near SW corner of Hellenistic Bldg. The object catalogued is one of three TC molds found at the location ... 5th.-4th. c. B.C. |
Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LXVI in notebook.
Burned layer with bones, skulls. Coins:
13 March 1939 #25
14 March 1939 #9-#10 Neg. KK 394 ... Byzantine |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LVIII in notebook. No mention of bones. Neg. KK 391 ... Byzantine |
Grave in north peristyle of Temple of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXI in notebook. No mention of bones. Coins:
25 February 1939 #4
27 February 1939 #5-#11
6 March 1939 #1 Negs. KK 376, KK 379 ... 25-27 February 1939
6 March 1939 |
| Grave in opisthodomos of Hephaisteion. Grave LI in notebook.
No mention of bones. Neg. KK 363, XIX-8 (dismantling of the walls of the graves( ... 10 March 1939
16 March 1939 |
| Grave in opisthodomos of Hephaisteion. Grave XLIX in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
9 March 1939 #8-#13 Neg. KK 365 ... 9 March 1939
16 March 1939 |
Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LVII in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
10 March 1939 #2 Neg. KK 389 ... 9-11 March 1939 |
Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LXI in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
11 March 1939 #12-#14
13 March 1939 #4
14 March 1939 #2-#4 Neg. KK 393 ... 11-13 March 1939
18 March 1939 |
| 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 |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXII in notebook.
Loose earth and bones filling. Coins:
25 February 1939 #5-#6
6 March 1939 #2-#4
15 March 1939 #1 Neg. 378 ... 25 February 1939
6 March 1939 |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LIX in notebook.
No mention of bones. Containers 473 and 474 represent filling between graves. Coins:
11 March 1939 #16 Neg. KK 391 ... Byzantine |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LX in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
11 March 1939 #9-#11 Neg. 397 ... Byzantine |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XVIII in notebook. At least three skeletons ... 21 February 1939 |
| Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XX in notebook. This deposit includes also an infant grave at the corner of Grave XX (cf. pp. 1714, 2141 and catalogued objects B 673 and B 674).
Many bones, skulls ... 22 February 1939 |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXI in notebook. Disintegrated bones. Coins:
22 February 1939 #2-#3 ... 22 February 1939 |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XVII in notebook. Many tumbled bones. Neg. KK 347 ... 22 February 1939 |
Grave in cella of Temple of Hephaisteion. Grave XLVII in notebook. Rotted bones, head to west (adult). Neg. KK 352 ... 9 March 1939 |
| Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XIX in notebook. One skeleton. Nails and wood. Two skeletons are mentioned by Angel, AA 82 and AA 83 ... 21 February 1939 |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XLVI in notebook. No mention of bones. Coins:
9 March 1939 #1-#4 ... 8 March 1939 |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXV in notebook.
Filling: loose earth and confused bones. Coins:
6 March 1939 #11-#13 ... 8 March 1939 |
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 |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXII in notebook.
One skull with messy disintegrated bones ... 22 February 1939 |
| Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XLV in notebook.
One skeleton. Pottery discarded? Coin
8 March 1939 #22 Neg. XV-69 ... 7 March 1939 |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXIII in notebook. Disintegrated bones, grave disturbed to bottom. Coins:
23 February 1939 #5 ... 23 February 1939 |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXIV in notebook. Two skeletons. No sherds. Coins:
23 February 1939 #4 Neg. KK 375 ... 23 February 1939 |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXIX in notebook. No mention of bones. Coins:
25 February 1939 #1 ... 23 February 1939
8 March 1939 |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXV in notebook. Smashed bones ... 23-24 February 1939 |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXVI in notebook. Loose earth with bones. Coins:
14 March 1939 #1 ... 25 February 1939
18 March 1939. |
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