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Mycenaean Pit (Bothros?) opposite Pier 17.
Diameter at top 1.30m Estimated Grid ... Mycenaean IIIA:2-B |
Byzantine Well at 22/ΜΕ ... 24 February 1936
16 June 1951 |
Well at 24/ΝΒ-ΝΓ ... 18-19 April 1938 |
Pithos at 19/ΜΔ Coins:
10 February 1936 #1-#2 ... 8-10 February 1936 |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb opposite ΣΑ pier 15. It was discovered about 20m to the west of Pier 15 of the Stoa of Attalos and almost in a line and a few meters south of Tomb XX. although the entire upper part ... Myc. II-IIIA/B |
With cistern at 17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ (P 10:2), two chambers connected by a passage.
18/Π went out of use first and was closed off from 17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ; filled up at one time with material dating between 350 and 300 B.C ... 325-285 B.C. |
With cistern at 18/Π (P 10:1), two chambers connected by a passage.
18/Π went out of use first and was closed off from 17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ; filled up at one time with material dating between 350 and 300 B.C.
17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ ... 17 April 1937
27-28 May 1937 |
Small fill; most pottery Hellenistic but a few fragments of early Roman present. Coins:
27 May 1937 #3-#4 ... 265-200 B.C. |
Terminus post quem of ca. 240 provided by amphora handle ... 1st c. A.D. |
Tiled Well in Square Building Foundations, equipped with evenly spaced hand-holds, with a good supply of water. There was no period of use represented and the dumped fill consisted mostly of chunks of ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
Modern Pithos containing coins ... 23 March 1937 |
Pithos at 15-17/ΠΕ-ΠΣΤ. Coins:
9 March 1937 #6-#8
16 March 1937 #15-#17 ... 8-16 March 1937 |
Turkish Pit at 41/ΙΣΤ ... 3 April 1935 |
Well at 53/ΙΗ, east of the east Stoa Plateia. Diameter 1.40-1.50m. Shaft worked with chisel, tapers toward bottom. Plentiful water. Uniform fill with field-stones, perhaps including period of use ... 775-725 B.C. |
Dumped debris filling east of East Building, badly shattered. There is a small amount of disturbance from the filling immediately above, but the bulk of the pottery is consistent, and very close to that ... Ca. 470-460 B.C. |
Mycenaean well under East Building Terrace steps (No catalogued pots). Rectangular in shape, 0.90x0.60m.
Abutting against the back of the East Building Terrace steps to the south. Yielded much thrown bedrock ... 14 July 1967 |
Hoard of coins of King Otho |
Sand fill N of Base A.
... Because of the uncertainty of ground level contemporary with Base A and of the possibility of missing a continuous strosis or disturbance in this soft sandy fill, I have kept ... Last quarter 2nd-first quareter 3rd c. A.D. |
| Well at 99/ΜΕ.
Just outside of SE corner of Fountain House. This well was used in at least two periods; the marble well curb of the second period, certainly Byzantine, was found in place. The fill was ... 5 May 1952
5-14 July 1952 |
Kiln (pit) at 110/ΛΘ.
Debris in a metal working pit in the area of the Mint. Lot Τ 26e and T 27 ... 1st century A.D. |
| Bronze-casting pit and furnace against S apse of Church (106/ΛΕ). Late Roman sherds of the 4th and the 6th c. A.D. were found with fragments of moulds from bronze casting. The west end was destroyed by ... 5th-6th c. A.D. |
Filling over drain from East Room of Archaic Fountain House. Lot T 16, fill e.
Τ 1567 (SS 11587) and Τ 1734 (P 22538) from upper disturbed fill (p. 2448) ... Late 5th. into 4th c. B.C. |
In stone water channel and trench above. A. Walker? |
Well at 112/Ν.
Shallow well with a short period of use. The scattering of fragments in the upper dumped filling is consistently earlier. Lot Τ 12 (all sherds saved) and Lot Τ 13a (Dirt Pile) ... 520-500 B.C. |
Well at ΜΣΤ,ΜΗ/112. Collapsing bedrock prevented us from reaching bottom. Not A. Walker but same scenario ... 7th-Mid 6th c. B.C. |
It may perhaps be assumed that in the 5th c. the Romans cleaned the well to 25.30m., thus removing 2nd c. and subsequent fill, and then began to reuse the shaft. Coins
20 May 1938 #6
21 May 1938 #1
25 ... POU 1st c. and 5th-6th c. A.D. |
Containers 1-52. Top to 20.00m. = modern fill.
Note a strong presence of W. Asia Minor (non-export-type) closed vessels here - did owner perhaps come from there? [JWH] Coins:
25 May 1938 #1-#2 ... Late Roman 5th-7th c. A.D. |
Containers 53 (transitional)-69. Coins:
20 May 1938 #6
21 May 1938 #1
26 May 1938 #1-#2 ... Early Roman 1st c. A.D. |
Well at 30/ΛΣΤ Coins (none useful)
25 May 1938 #3-#6
26 May 1938 #3-#4 ... Early 3rd cent and of 4th-6th cent. A.D. |
Tile well at 52/ΛΣΤ, in the northern late Roman building in the room with the apse. The top was covered by a large stone, and the well had never been filled after the last period of use. water stood to ... Late 1st (?) cent.-early 3rd to 6th cent. |
(see O-Q 18-19) Asterisk: P 19:2* |
Cistern at 65/ΜΑ.
Same system as 63/ΛΑ and 70/ΛΣΤ (not yet cleared).
Mentioned in Hesperia VIII, 1939, p.216 Not yet cleared? Nothing catalogued? |
Cistern at 72/ΛΘ. Under NW corner of Roman House H. Stucco-lined, bottle-shaped cistern, poor condition. Diameter at bottom -2m.
Two tunnels, one leading east, one west, ca. 1.65m high and 0.80m across ... 150-110 B.C. with a few earlier pieces |
| Pyre in north central room of house, measuring 0.50m east-west by 0.35m north-south. Pottery, bone, and burnt material in pit dug into layer IIb (crushed bedrock floor: lot Ω 464, 4th c.) and covered by ... 350-325 B.C. |
| Osteotheke. (Group N). Coin
7 May 1938 #7 83/ΜΔ (83-84/ΜΓ-ΜΕ: If I judge from p. 811, this grid would be the concrete retaining wall). Somebody else wrote the following grid on page 878: 83-85/ΜΓ-ΜΣΤ ... Early 7th cent. |
| Well in East Colonnade of Roman House H. Diameter 0.80m, lined with field stones set in mortar. used as a cistern as well.
No useful pottery dates. Capital from colonnade A 3866 and part of shaft found ... 29 July 1970 |
| Well in West Colonnade of Roman House H. Covered by a large handsome marble well-head, apparently reused. Cut through bedrock. Diameter ca. 1.20m, water at -3.60m.
Two distinct POU fills. One at ca. -4.50m ... June-August 1970 |
Cistern at 53/ΝΕ, bottle-shaped, stucco-lined, in the east aisle of the peristyle of Roman House H (courtyard of Greek House G, just west of andron).
Lower diameter 2.73m.
Homogenous fill all apparently ... Into early 2nd century B.C. |
| Eugene Vanderpool Homer A. Thompson ... Mycenaean Grave to W. of "Court Room" below Stoa Terrace with "Ballot Box" (Grave XXIX).
Unusual type, conforming neither to our pit nor to our cist graves, and consisted of two parts. The outer part was ... Mycenaean III A-B |
Stoa Construction Fills (n.b. for all Stoa and pre-Stoa fills later than construction filling of Square Peristyle see P-R 6-12)
Over 100 stamped amphora handles in fill. No long-petal bowls, but one fragment ... Before ca. 150 B.C. |
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