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Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
| Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter at bottom -3.20m Upper fill: Latest coins ... Second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. |
| 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. |
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. |
Cistern-shaft at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just ... Upper fill, Late Roman with some Hellenistic.
Middle fill, Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C.
Lower fill, 4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment |
A cistern leading to the east of the road leading from the southwest corner of the market square. Filled all at one time, last quarter of 2nd. c. B.C. (nbp. 493).
Included are the Hellenistic finds from ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
Well at 96/Ι in arm of cistern at 94/Θ (F 15:2). Probably the rebuilding of an earlier well.
P 3149, P 3150, P 3154 are jars from packing in cistern arm; construction fill - early Roman.
P 4588 is listed ... Second half of 3rd c. A.D.=POU |
| Foot, one-third of body, one handle as far up as arch, and part of upper neck and rim, preserved. Partly restored, with additional 6 non-joining fragments. Flaring foot with groove in outer edge; angular ... 1937 |
Moulded ring foot; flaring lip; twisted handles. On shoulder front and back, between incised lines, incised cross-hatching and checkerboard pattern. On neck front and back, incised palmettes. Traces of ... 9-15 May 1935 |
| Fragmentary; the base and one handle are missing; restored in plaster.
Thick neck with broadly flaring lip; twisted handles with short spurs at the lower point of attachment; on the shoulder on either ... 7 March 1934 |
| Mended from many pieces. About half of neck and shoulder, with one handle, missing. Very wide mouth; squat body with sharp angle; twisted handle with rudimentary mask at lower attachment. Decoration of ... 30 July 1947 |
| Mended from many fragments; one handle, much of lower wall and other fragments missing. Grooved base and rim; Satyr heads at lower handle attachments; neck heavy in proportion to body.
Decoration in added ... 1 August 1957 |
| Most of rim and both handles missing. High, grooved ring foot; wide body rounded sharply below the shoulder; tall flaring neck; projecting lip. Scratched grooves at level of handle attachments. On shoulder: ... 9-14 June 1939 |
| Upper part of amphora only preserved; about half of the rim missing, much of the shoulder and both handles. Shoulder decorated with alternate diminishing squares and checkerboards, all deeply incised ... 12 February 1937 |
| Rotroff, S ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The second of two volumes on the Hellenistic fine ware unearthed in excavations in the Athenian Agora, this book presents the Hellenistic wheelmade table ware and votive vessels found between 1931 and ... 1997 |
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