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Investigations in the Hellenistic Metroon, various levels. Stoa Pits A, B, C, D, E, F, H and I (various layers).
Locations include:
SW corner of Primitive Bouleuterion; from contemporary filling alongside ... 8th-6th c. B.C ... of Period IV, foundation ... Bouleuterion.
Levels include:
- 8 ... Metroon=footing trench of Period IV of |
Well (stone-curbed shaft) near middle of Tholos which served the prior building.
Period of Use dated to ca. 500-480(?) B.C., Upper fill dated to ca. 480-470 B.C. or soon after in Agora XXX (a gradual ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... G 11:3 ... G 11:3 |
A strosis into which were set the foundations of house of 7th c. B.C. to SE of Tholos (=Building A and Trench W, layers h + i) ... 8th-7th c. B.C ... H 12:8 ... H 12:8 |
Well at 40/Λ, in the "plataia" ca. 600m north of the terrace wall and ca. 10m east of the Valerian wall. Top diameter of 1.00m, bottomm diameter 0.95m
The shallowness of the shaft, and the fallen condition ... 550-500 B.C ... Hesperia 8 (1939), pp. 265-266, fig. 20 ... Agora IV, p. 245 ... Agora XXXI, pp. 163-168, 230, figs. 24 and 25. |
| 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 ... Agora IV, p. 235. |
Well at 19/ΝΒ, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus ... 550-525 B.C ... Hesperia 8 (1939), pp. 247-266, nos. 1-31 ... Agora IV, p. 244 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 376. |
The West Chamber of a double cistern lying between the northeast corner of the Theseion and the Annex to the Stoa of Zeus Eleftherios. ... Both chambers went out of use as water containers simultaneously ... 225-165 B.C ... Byzantine. [Hesperia 3 (1934), p ... Coins:
11 March 1932 #1 ( in nb. A V, p. 895)
15 March 1932 #3-#4 (in nb. A V, |
Filling of early N-S road and related fills, in the area of the Geometric Cemetery south of the Tholos; various levels including plundered foundation trench.
For late, disturbed or uncertain levels over ... 7th-6th c. B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 8-13, 105-138 ... Agora IV, p. 239 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4, p. 106. |
| 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 |
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 ... Hesperia 3 (1934), pp. 392-427 ... Hesperia 34 (1965), pp. 50-52 ... Agora IV, p. 238. |
| Gerald V. Lalonde ... Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female with fetus/neonate. One box with burnt animal bones is stored with the skeleton AA 302 in drawer 97.
Objects also recorded frm Section ΣΤ. PD 1692, PD 1807 ... Early Geometric II, 850 B.C ... Hesperia 73 (2004), pp. 7-38, figs. 2-13 ... Hesperia 37 (1968), pp. 58-59, fig. 8 ... Hesperia 37 (1968), pp. 77-116, pls. 18-33. |
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 ... Lawall (2004), pp. 447-448 ... Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 216 ... Agora IV, p. 243. |
A well behind the Stoa of Zeus. Noted as the finding place of the bronze head of Nike, B 30.
Two Rhodian stamped amphora handles. Fragments of only two bowls ... 260-210 B.C ... Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 453-454, fig. 2 (selection of pottery) ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), pp. 133-134 ... Rotroff (2006a), pp. 364-365. |
The East Chamber of a double cistern lying between the northeast corner of the Theseion and the Annex to the Stoa of Zeus Eleftherios. ... Both chambers went out of use as water containers simultaneously ... Ca. 200 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), pp. 18, 74, 100, nn. 19, 117 ... Hesperia 3 (1934), p. 345 ff ... Agora IV, p. 239. |
| An extensive cistern system on the lower north slope of the Areopagus, south chamber with blind tunnel extending further south (south tunnel); north chamber; drawshaft further north, extends to north tunnel ... Ca. 320-240 B.C ... H 16:3 ... H 16:3 |
Packing under cobblestones 7 or 8 meters west of the Temple of Hephaistos. A similar filling found in a small hole in bedrock three or four meters north of the Temple. The high quality of the pottery from ... Ca. 500-440 B.C ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 344-345 ... Agora IV, p. 236 ... Hesperia Suppl. 8, p. 397, under no. 7 c. |
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 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 247, ... Coins:
8 July 1947 #3 |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 1. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female 30-40 years old).
Mentioned as Grave XVII in Deposit list.
Consisted of a roughly circular pit, approximately 0.30-0.40m in diameter, cut into ... Late Protogeometric ... F 16:3 ... F 16:3 |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave III: SM).
The close proximity and similarity of this tomb and tomb M 16-17:1 strongly suggests that they were intentionally laid out in relation to one another and were contemporary ... Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 2, pp. 49-52, 527-528, figs. 2.8, 2.9, 3.11, 3.12 ... Hesperia 73 (2004), p. 26, n. 72 ... Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 325. |
Tiled well, ca. 30m south of the Tholos. Associated with Building D. Hellenistic Group A with Late Roman fill in upper 3.00m. Objects A 245 and P 4597 are from fill on floor around well-head, contemporary ... 325-260 B.C ... fill in upper 3 ... last quarter of 3rd c. No ... Coins:
13 March 1933 #1 at well head (#2-#3)
21 March 1933 #1 (dump) (not a |
A well about 2.00m. SE of the Tholos precinct wall. The presence of the water-clock strengthens the probability, suggested by its location, that the well served one of the public buildings in the neared ... Ca. 410-390 B.C ... Lawall (2005), pp. 43-47 ... Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 275, n. 4 ... Agora IV, p. 241. |
| David Scahill ... Below packed clay floors in Room 2 of Classical Building II; bordered on east and south sides by polygonal cross wall and back wall extension for Classical Building. Late Roman wall and drain installation ... LHIII A:1 ... Hesperia 72 (2003), pp. 254-262, figs. 8, 9, 16-27 ... Hesperia 89 (2020), p. 595, n. 3 ... Hesperia Suppl. 43 (2009), p. 101, n. 16. |
Investigations within the Stoa of Zeus, the north part, various levels.
Notebook references: Stoa Trench E Layers IV and V, Stoa Pits A, B and C, and Layers I and II of area between back wall and retaining ... 5th c. B.C ... E Layers IV and V, Stoa ... and IV ... Post-Persian Pre-Stoa
.3=c) Stoa and |
Essentially uniform fill of III-IV c. A.D. with a Byzantine upper fill. Coins:
14 June 1937 #1-#3
15 June 1937 #2
16 June 1937 #1
17 June 1937 #1-#2
18 June 1937 #1-#4
19 June 1937 #1-#4
9 June 1938 #1-#3 ... Late 3rd-mid-4th c. A.D ... Essentially uniform fill of III-IV c. A.D. with a Byzantine upper fill ... #1-#3
15 June 1937 #2
16 June ... 1937 #1-#4
9 June 1938 #1-#3 |
| Use filling of middle of 1st to late 6th c. (Roman Group M); dumped filling of 9th and 10th c. Down to a depth of about 21.00m. the fill of the well contained very few objects, the latest of them being ... 1st-6th c. A.D ... -35.3m. |
Cistern at 9/Β (10/Β on plan), at the NW foot of the Areopagus, some 200m to the west of the Coroplast's Dump. It had evidently belonged to one of the small houses in that thickly populated residential ... Second half 4th c. B.C ... 1932 #3-#8
2 March 1932 ...
8 March 1932 #3
11 March ... maximum depth of 3.80m.
Fourth |
| Pithos ay the bottom of the north slope of the Areopagus with single fill; Part of Hellenistic Group D.
One stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 146. Latest coin dates in first two decades of 2nd ... 160-130 B.C ... Hesperia 3 (1934), p. 369-392 ... Agora IV, p. 241 ... Agora XXII, pp. 102, 109-110. |
| Second century B.C. fill with early 13th c. A.D. fill in mouth.
The Byzantine objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585.
Lower fill contained bones of many infants and dogs.
The bones from this ... Mid-2nd c. B.C ... G 5:3 ... G 5:3 |
Well associated with the Tholos, with scanty use fill but primarily dumped filling. Coins:
5 April 1934 #1-#4
10 April 1934 #1-#2
11 April 1934 #1
12 April 1934 #1
18 April 1934 #1-#2
19 April 1934 #1-#5 ... Ca. 350-294 B.C ... #3-#5 |
Found in 13/06/1935.
Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup, perhaps in one of the public buildings near the SW corner of the square ... Ca. 520-490 B.C ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 439-440 ... Agora IV, p. 237 ... Hesperia Suppl. 8, p. 399, no. 12a. |
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 ... Hesperia 75 (2006), pp. 364-365 ... Hesperia 32 (1963), pp. 325-326 ... Hesperia 31 (1962), pp. 244-262. |
| James H. Oliver ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave IX: PG). Two children's skeletons one on top of the other. Cf. PD 329 for PD 430 for second skeleton, same deposit.
PG grave about 25m. SW of Cistern A at 46/ΜΔ.
[In some records, ... Developed Protogeometric ... Hesperia 14 (1945), pp. 303-304, 350-351, no. 75 (AA 29) pl. LI (read ΠΘ where KK on ... Hesperia 5 (1936), pp. 23-24, figs. 21-22 (PD 429) ... Desborough (1952), pp. 71-74, 85 ("an early tomb"), pp. 99-100. |
May be of Hellenistic origin when cistern system went out of use.
For a general note on the cistern see Nb. ΟΕ III, pp. 246 ff.
Objects from B 586 various depths (no subdivision): S 2324-S 2330,
P 34894, ... Late 2nd-early 6th c. A.D ... Nb. ΟΕ III, pp. 246 ff ... cistern ... lies 3.55m. below ...
.3=Layer VI
.4=Layer V
.5=Layer IV
.6=Layer III
.7=Layer |
Mycenaean Well at Q/8-9;23/2-3.
Small pieces, few joins. From the lowest levels a few somewhat larger pieces, from jars suited to drawing and transporting water, but no characteristic POU fill.
Proportion ... LH IIIC ... Hesperia 92 (2023), pp. 115, ... Mycenaean Well at Q/8-9;23/2-3.
Small pieces, few |
Hellenistic fill South of Middle Stoa near NW corner of Heliaea. This fill contained material later in date than that which made up the middle Stoa Building Fill.
Only the coins (and a few amphora handles ... To ca. 140 B.C ...
See Hesperia 57 (1988), pp. ... #1-#4
6 April 1954 #1-#3 + N ... 31012- N 31015
8 April 1954 |
Well on the north slope of the Areopagus. Unfinished, probably because of hardness of rock, and refilled at once, perhaps with sanctuary dump and with collapsed rock from the shaft itself.
Diameter 1.15m ... 3rd quarter of the 7th c. B.C ... Hesperia 7 (1938) pp. 412-428, figs. 1-10 ... Agora IV, p. 242. |
| 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 ... 22.25-21.30m.
.3= Fills III, IV, V = ... XIX, pp. 3644-3646. Well at ... bottom (22.80m.), iv/9/37 - iv/23/37. Cut in bed-rock (no |
| Located in House H, Room 13 on the lower northwest slope of the Areopagus ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... C 19:3 ... C 19:3 |
| A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several ... Ca. 575-480 B.C ... G/3,4-6/7,8 |
Filling on original floor of Primitive Bouleuterion = Building D.
Metroon pit η. H 10:2 is also contemporary with the construction of the building ... Third quarter 6th c. B.C ... H 10:3 ... H 10:3 |
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