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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. |
Well-shaft abandoned before use because of crumbling of rock.
From top to 15.00m. a dumped fill predominantly early Roman but containing material of late 1st c. B.C. to mid-1st c. A.D. A rock filled shaft ... 1st c. B.C. to mid-1st c. A.D. |
Cistern 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 off the ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C.-86 B.C. |
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. |
Diameter 0.83m. Water level -4.20m. Tiled well; height of tiles 0.60m. Heavy deposit of pottery throughout; stamped amphora handles, five Knidian; one Rhodian; one Parian. Semi-coarse stamnos; funnel-mouthed ... Ca. 120 B.C. |
| Fragments from lip, handle and side missing. Restored in plaster. Low ring foot; steep body with angular shoulder; tall straight neck; rounded downturned lip; grooved strap handle. Line scratched around ... 9-12 February 1937 |
| Fragments of body and lip, and most of handle missing. Ring foot and round body. Narrow neck, tapering upward, and flat projecting round lip, grooved inside. Grooved band handle from below lip to shoulder, ... 12 June 1937 |
| Fragments are missing from the handle and side wall. Restored in plaster. Shallow body; the side wall and shoulder meeting in an acute angle; the neck is tall and tapering, the lip thickened; twisted handle ... 3, 5 March 1934 |
| Partially restored in plaster. Mouth and handle missing. Ring foot. Convex upper and lower bodies meet at an acute angle; narrow neck.
Pink clay with white grits; thin cream slip; wide band of dull streaky ... March-April 1936 |
Fragmentary. Restored in plaster. Rounded body on ring foot; narrow straight neck with raised ridges above and below, and rounded lip. Grooved vertical band handle with a round clay disk at each side of ... March-April 1936 |
| Floor, most of handle and many pieces missing. Base ring; globular body; widely flaring lip with flat surface on top; double-grooved strap handle.
Thin pinkish-buff clay. Light yellow slip, very smooth ... 4 February 1937 |
| Neck, handle and part of shoulder preserved. Restored in plaster. Fragments from base, with ring, may not belong. Rounded body, straight neck and grooved handle. Covered with pinky cream slip with shiny ... 23 May 1935 |
| a) Two joining fragments preserve section from shoulder to base with one handle attachment. Wide red band at join of upper and lower walls, between thinner ones. Wide band on lower wall and base.
b) Non-joining ... 11 May 1957 |
The handle and small fragments missing. Low ring foot; broad shoulder; rounded flaring rim.
Grayish clay with coarse white grits, unglazed; traces of glaze bands at edge of shoulder and on rim. Well, ... 11 July 1947 |
| Three non-joining fragments from the side of a closed pot. Decorated with bands of shallow vertical grooves.
Hard buff clay, pinkish on inner surface; outside, cream-colored glaze, lustrous, like the ... 3 April 1949 |
Two fragments preserving part of lower wall and base of a small pot apparently closed: the inside rough. Flat bottom, vertical wall. A light groove around the bottom of the wall; above, groups of broad ... 14 April, 2 May 1949 |
| 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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