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"Symbolon Pit" (Rectangular Pit in bedrock E of Stoa, Room 5). Preserved depth 0.45m, original depth estimated at ca. 1.65m., the upper part having been cut away by successive building operations in the ... Third quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
Well at 21/Ε (beneath Library of Pantainos).
The clearing of the well was abandoned because of a cave-in of the rock walls. Heavy dumped filling, the proportion of fine black table ware high ... Ca. 440-425 B.C. |
Well at 20/ΙΔ.
No POU fill. Bottom packed with sherds, including roof-tile fragments. Above this, were six meters with a "fair quantity" of sherds; then the top meter and a half contained a great quantity ... Ca. 420-390 B.C. |
Cistern at 43/ΙΣΤ, outside the southeast corner of the market square, slightly west of the Panathenaic way. A small neat plaster-lined cistern filled with material evidently all dumped at the same time ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Kernos Pit #2 at 33/ΛΑ. P 30175-P 30186 (ΙΙ 635-ΙΙ 646) added on 7 May 1973 ... Early 4th c. B.C. |
Hole in bedrock; small amount of debris filling ... Last quarter 5th c. B.C. |
Lower filling mostly of second half of 4th c. B. C. and earlier, but perhaps dumped in 3rd c. B.C. Upper filling mixed to Roman (4th c. A.D.). Pottery in container (9-22-58) is mostly second half of 4th ... Ca. 375-325 B.C. with late-3rd-century disturbance |
Green and sandy fill in foundation. Coins:
15 May 1936 #1-#5 ... 4th c. B.C. |
| Hole at 57/ΛΣΤ = Pottery Dump at 57/ΛΣΤ. May well have accumulated on the spot where it was found, its fragmentary state being attributable to the later rubble wall laid over it.
Cf. also P 19982 (ΟΟ ... Ca. 400-375 B.C. |
Carefully cut in bedrock with firm footholds on either side. The use filling is represented by a few fragments of water jars (uninventoried), indicating a short period of use. The dumped filling, below ... Ca. 470-425 B.C. |
Fillings associated with Southwest and North Buildings (78-99/ΙΣΤ-ΚΘ) and early walls to west of Great Drain.
pottery p. 1189, vol VII ... Subdivisions:
.1=Filling over bedrock.
.2=Fillings behind retaining ... Various levels and dates |
Dumped fillings probably to be associated with the construction of the Great Drain in this area.
Green fill under North Building ... Ca. 400 B.C. |
Fillings in and to the north of Building A/Poros Building/Greek Building ("Strategeion"), the accumulation mostly a late archaic dump, but not deposited till near the middle of the century. Most of the ... First half of 5th c. to ca. 460-450 B.C. |
P 5302 may be from disturbed fill ("soft spot", container B 57, nbp. 1246) ... 12 March-6 April 1935
7 May 1935 |
| Grave V, under room 18 in House 3, plus burned deposit at 94/IΘ. Identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR on Agoraios Kolonos:
In southeast corner of house 3. 35 artifacts, bone and charred material in pit, ... Ca. 300-275 B.C. |
Pit on north slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Traces of burning in the dirt fill; mixed in with this many fragments of fine pottery ... Ca. 450-420 B.C. |
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. |
Primarily late Roman material but some scrappy early Roman. Coins:
5 March 1934 #1-#4
6 March 1934 #1-#3
7 March 1934 #1-#2
8 March 1934 #1-#4
9 March 1934 #1-#4
10 March 1934 #1 ... Ca. A.D. 350 dumped fill |
Trench at 11/ΚΕ cut into the stereo (length 1.40m, width 0.50m). Coins:
5 April 1932 #5 (illegible).
Red figure pottery; coarse ware ... Mid-5th c. B.C. |
Nbp. 661: Dug in 1st c. Cleaned out almost to bottom shortly after the middle of the 3rd c. and used for a few years. During Herulian invasion of 267, Laughing Faun broken up and thrown in. Thereafter ... 1st-5th c. A.D., 2nd c. A.D.=POU |
| Pyre(?) in House N, S.W. Room. (=House C, Room 10)
In room 10. Vessels from an earlier pyre were found dispersed in the makeup of the latest "floor" in the room, with tile fragments trodden into its surface ... First quarter of the 4th c. B.C. |
Scanty debris filling in a pit. The wishbone-handled bowl (P 16753) is of the middle of the third quarter of the 5th. c. century, as are also two red figured fragments, P 25820 and P 25821; the deposit ... Ca. 450-400 B.C. |
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. |
Pit along house wall foundations to south = footing trench. Uncertain context, possibly no later than ca. 425 B.C ... 450-400 B.C. |
Fillings in a well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. The shaft reached a depth of 20.28m., but produced no use filling. The lower part, from water level at 12.60m. to bottom, provided only mud and gravel ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Square pit in bedrock southwest of the Hephaisteion. Many marble chips from the construction of the temple of Hephaestus were found here together with a large quantity of pottery and other objects ... Ca. 450 B.C.
Ca. 390-380 B.C. |
Perhaps originally a grave cutting ... Ca. 390-380 B.C. |
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. |
A supplementary fill dumped when the original had settled ... To ca. 390 B.C. |
Dumped filling in a well on the west slope of the Areopagus (apparently separate, no mends between them, but differing little in date) the bottom filling apparently thrown in towards the beginning of the ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. and earlier |
A smaller deposit, but with some good household pottery, and red-figure both Meidian and sub-Meidian ... 17-22 May 1939 |
Heavy deposit of good black and plain wares ... 450-425 B.C |
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. |
Deposits containing much ash and charcoal, probably to be associated with the Persian sack. Layers IV-VI of trial pit between Stoa piers IV and V ... 1st quarter 5th c. B.C. |
A dumped filling including red figured fragments of the second quarter of the 4th c. B.C. Coins:
25 June 1931 #12 (in strosis above pottery deposit) 15 November 1952, going through the containers Tin 59-Box ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Filling inside N room of Temple of Apollo, including directly under the foundations of the N room ... Ca. 350 B.C. and earlier |
| Rubbish Dump in mouth of abandoned well in Tholos Trench F, Kitchen. Filled with ash, charcoal, broken pottery, roof tiles.
Also from Trench L.
13 March 2014 by Ann Steiner
The deposit has four components ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
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