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F 5:3: Pit

Traces of burning in the dirt fill; mixed in with this many fragments of fine pottery ... Ca. 450-420 B.C.

F 5:4: Figurine Deposit

Figurine Deposit in Roman Building 4, Room 20, strosis 1. Coins: 13 April 1937 #1 ... To 4th c. A.D.

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F 5:5: Casting Pit A

Coins: 10 April 1937 #5 ... 4th-3rd c. B.C.

F 5:6: Casting Pit B

Bits of broken molds and iron waste; no objects catalogued ... 4th-3rd c. B.C.

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F 6:1: Vaulted Cistern

Coins: 29 April 1936 #17 ... Byzantine

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F 6:2: Well

Scanty dumped filling in an abandoned well cutting ... Ca. 425-420 B.C.

F 6:3: West Chamber

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.

F 7:1: Xian Burial V

Once vaulted chamber north of Hephaisteion. Grave V in notebook. Vault gone. Five skulls. Pottery discarded. Coins: 17 April 1936 #2 ... 27-28 April 1936

F 7:2: Grave

Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LXII in notebook. No mention of bones. Pottery discarded. Coins: 11 March 1939 #15 14 March 1939 #5 Neg. KK 385 ... 18 March 1939

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F 9:1: Pit tomb, child inhumation

Grave 15 in notebook. Burial of child (E.L. Smithson: Grave XIV: PG). Single bone. Nb. says: few bones. Negs. KK 24 and KK 30 431 ... Developed to Late Protogeometric

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F 9:2: Cistern Chamber I

Cistern system West of Bouleuterion: (see also B: cistern system to West of Tholos). First Chamber from North. Coins: 1 March 1934 #1 2 March 1934 #1-#5 10 March 1934 #1 12 March 1934 #1(from dump) ... 150-ca. 75 B.C., with Byz. disturbance.

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F 9:3: Water channel

Water channel in scarp above Bouleuterion Plateia ... Latest 2nd or early 1st c. B.C.

F 10:1: Pocket

Pocket behind heavy Roman wall ... 4th c. B.C.

F 10:2: A. Walker coin deposit

Red sandy earth at inner corner of heavy late wall at 12/ΛΖ. A. Walker coin deposit. Coins: 27 March 1934 #1-#12 28 March 1934 #1-#2 ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D.

F 10:3: Coin Hoard

Hoard of 10 Byzantine coins ("all turned up with one blow of pick"). Late strosis. Coins: 15 March 1934 #12-#21 (hoard) 16 March 1934 #17 ... Byzantine

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F 11:1: Well

Well cut through the floor of a cistern. Apparently a dumped fill in an unused well. Coins: 16 March 1934 #15 17 March 1934 #2 19 March 1934 #1-#4 20 March 1934 #1-#3 22 March 1934 #1 23 March 1934 #1-#7 ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D.

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F 11:2: Well

Well 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 24 April 1934 #1-#2 2 May ... Ca. 350-294 B.C.

F 11:3: Fill

Patch of undisturbed filling over bedrock (at east edge of Kolonos Agoraios) ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C.

F 11:4: Coin Hoard

Practically at surface. 17 Byzantine coins stuck together. One group of 11, one of 3, and 3 loose. Coins: 29 March 1934 #1-#17 Deposit created 4 October 2001 ... Byzantine

F 12:1: Urn-burial of an infant

Shallow round pit scraped out of bedrock. Grave 18 in notebook. The confusion here is that P 5347 found in the grave was catalogued in B' but the large bowl fragment (P 6482) was catalogued in B (see nb ... Late Geometric

[Deposit]  F 12:2*

Now Deposit G 12:24.

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F 12:3: Well

Originally a well but after it had been in use for a short time the shaft was partially filled in and the upper part widened to form a large cistern. The pottery falls into three distinct groups ... however, ... 335-250 B.C.

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F 12:3.2: Chamber floor

1.00m. of fill at bottom of cistern chamber ... sealed in by 6.00m. of sterile bedrock. Coins: 20 April 1934 #1 ... 310-275 B.C.

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F 12:3.3: Bottom POU

Small amount of fill accumulated at bottom of well during use sealed by deposit of some 7.00m. of dug bedrock, thrown in to fill well to level of bottom of new cistern. Pottery closely similar to that ... 335-294 B.C.

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F 12:4: Well

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 ... 350 A.D. dumped fill

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F 12:5: Well 1

Unfinished well cut in bedrock; dumped filling containing much material of the 7th c. B.C. but extending into the 6th ... 7th-ca. 570 B.C.

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F 12:6: Well 3

Possibly a short period of use but chiefly a debris filling including a number of fragments from disturbed early burials. Two pot fragments, believed to be from lower body of P 18525, added from Well 3 ... Ca. 575-550 B.C.

F 12:7: Cistern Passage/Drawshaft

Part of cistern system with mouths at 47/ΛΒ, 60/ΜΖ and 51/ΜΓ. Last 1.50m. of 47/ΛΒ probably cut in modern times, contained modern fill in bottom. Coins: 10 March 1934 #2-#7 12 March 1934 #9-#14 16 March ... 10 March-14 April 1934

F 12:8: Disturbed burial

Disturbed burial set into a cutting in hardpan ... 2nd half of 5th c. B.C.

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F 13:1: Disturbed Sacrificial Pyre

"Perhaps a cremation burial ... " nbp. 811. "Sacrificial pyre, disturbed," GRE, deposit nb ... Ca. 250 B.C.

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F 13:2: Well 7

Dump, 4th c. Cut through a cistern which was probably constructed in the 4th c. B.C. Subdivisions: .1=Upper fill .2=Transitional fill .3=Middle fill .4=Lower fill .5=Earth ... Second half 1st c.-end 2nd c.

F 13:2.2: Well 7, transitional fill

Coins: 25 May 1935 #1 (with L 1809)

F 13:2.3: Well 7, middle fill

Coins: 25 May 1935 #2 28 May 1935 #1-#3 29 May 1935 #1-#3 30 May 1935 #1-#2 ... 2nd c. A.D.

F 13:2.4: Well 7, lower fill

Coins: 31 May 1935 #1 ... 1st c. A.D.

F 13:2.5: Well 7, earth

Coins: 1 June 1935 #1-#11 3 June 1935 #1-#14 ... 1-3 June 1935

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F 13:3: Well 9, Upper Fill

Upper fill (POU and dump). Evidence for 4th-c. use (Lower fill of Agora XII) consists of a few 4th c. fragments found at bottom mixed with Hellenistic [Agora XXIX, p. 450]. The fill from top to bottom, ... 150-86 B.C. abandonment

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F 13:4: Coin Hoard

Laura Gawlinski ... Coin hoard of Athenian tetradrachms ... Second half of 4th c. B.C.

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F 13:5: Hellenistic (?) Amphora Deposit

Laura Gawlinski ... Ovoid pit cut into bedrock or sterile fill just north of preserved floor surfaces in the so-called Strategeion. Length (west-east) 2.6m; widens at 1.25m from the east scarp so that at west pit is 0.75m ... 4th B.C.

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F 14:1: Cutting

Cutting in stereo. Early 4th c. fill with some Hellenistic-Early Roman disturbance ... Ca. 400-375 B.C.

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F 14:2: Pocket

Also 22/KE (nbp. 286) ... Ca. 430-420 B.C.

F 14:3: Rectangular Pit

Rectangular pit over bedrock in north part of E. Building ... Late 6th-ca. 480 B.C.

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F 14:4: Trench

Trench at 11/ΚΕ Coins: 5 April 1932 #5 ... Mid-5th c. B.C.

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F 15:1: Well

Coins: 26 April 1932 #1 27 April 1932 #1-#2 Finds recorded in both Δ and Δ'. See Δ nbp. 114 for division of Δ into two parts, northern (Δ) and southern (Δ') ... 4th c. A.D.

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F 15:2: Cistern

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.

F 15:3: Well D

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

F 15:4: Well

Late 7th-early 6th c. B.C.

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F 15:5: Well

Actually 1 meter into section Δ, the well lies under a filling of primarily Hellenistic date which had been thrown in as underpinning for the support of a 2nd c. A.D. Roman tile-mosaic floor. POU is 15.80-16.35m ... First half of 1st c. A.D.

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F 16:1: Demeter Cistern

Cistern at 9/Β (10/Β on plan). Fourth century deposit overlaid by late Roman upper fill (cf. T 85, L 379, container 80, not recorded with this deposit and no subdivision given). Coins: 20 February 1931 ... Second half 4th c. B.C.

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F 16:2: Well of the Laughing Faun

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

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[Deposit]  F 16:2.2

Coins: 4 May 1932 #1-#8 (#8 from dump) ... 4th c. A.D.

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[Deposit]  F 16:2.3

Coins: 5 May 1932 #1-#7 ... 3rd c.-267 A.D.

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[Deposit]  F 16:2.4

Bottom of well plus dump. Coins: 4 May 1932 #8 5 May 1932 #8-#42 'from mud', #42 uncertain ... 2nd. c. A.D.

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F 16:3: Urn cremation

Grave 1. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female. Mentioned as Grave XVII in Deposit list. Also P 345 from sifting earth around grave. See also P 34860-P 34866 catalogued as "sherds overlying ... Late Protogeometric

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F 16:4: Urn cremation

Grave 2. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole). In some records as XXIII. Variously labeled as grid 7/Δ, 7/Γ and 7/Γ-Δ. See also P 34860-P 34866 catalogued as "sherds overlying tombs F 16:3 & F 16:4". A note ... Transitional Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I

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F 16:5: Funerary (?) deposit on stone pavement

(E.L. Smithson: Grave XLIV). Grave 4 in notebook. No remains. Neg. ΣΤ 99 ... Early Geometric I

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F 16:6: Shaft

Rectangular shaft at northwest foot of Areopagus; dumped filling of second half of 4th c. B.C. Pit at 16/Δ-Ε recorded one time as an extension of shaft 17/Δ-Ε (see L 506 and nbp. 395), but items from there ... Ca. 325-275 B.C.

F 16:7: Child's burial

Child's burial in south wall of Marble Worker's House. Bones examined 20 June 1975 and found to be an immature animal, not human. Identified as pyre by SIR ... Hellenistic

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F 16:8: Menon's Cistern and Well

Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. Coins: 5 August 1968 #1-#6 6 August 1968 #1bis-#25 7 August 1968 #1-#3 8 August 1968 #1-#2 14 August 1968 #1-#11 16 August 1968 #1-#19 17 August 1968 #1-#6 Neg ... 325-275 B.C.

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F 17:1: N. Hypocaust Furnace Dump

Furnace Dump from N. Hypocaust in Bath to East of Poros Building. Coins: 26 March 1928 #4-#8 27 March 1948 #1-#3 29 March 1848 #2-#7 1 April 1948 #2-#3 3 April 1948 #14-#15 7 April 1948 #16-#27 8 April ... Second half 1st c.-first half 4th c. A.D.

F 17:2: Jewelry and Coins

Deposit of jewelry in hypocaust area (92/ΙΗ) of Bath to East of Poros Building. Coins: 8 April 1948 #12-#47 ... 2nd-3rd c A.D.

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F 17:3: Well

Although separated by a sterile rocky fill the two use fillings are apparently one continuous accumulation (GRE). Packing around well includes SS 14261, P 25943-P 25953. These are not given a subdivision ... 11-25 May 1957

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F 17:3.2: Upper use fill

End of 4th.-3rd c. B.C.

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F 17:4: Cistern

Stucco-lined bottle-shaped cistern, with tunnel and subsidiary manhole, in SW Baths, Room Α 10. Homogeneous dumped fill, mostly of mold-made bowls and and molds for terracotta figurines. Coins: 13 May ... 225-190 B.C.

F 18:1: Well

Very little pottery in this well, all mixed from Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (nbp. 1441) ... 25 May-1 June 1939

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F 19:1: Stratified well

Roman Group L. Coins: 24 May 1939 #1-#3 25 May 1939 #1 12 June 1939 #1(dump) 13 June 1939 #3(dump) 16 June 1939 #2-#3(found 8 & 9 June 1939) 21 June 1939 #1-#14(sifting earth) 22 June 1939 #7-#18(#7 found ... Second half 3rd c.-early 5th c. A.D.

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F 19:2: Cistern

Cistern with dumped fillings. Coins: 5 May 1939 #10-#12 Subdivisions: .1=Upper fill .2=Lower fill .3=Dump ... Ca. 375-275 B.C.

F 19:2.1: Upper fill

Ca. 300-275 B.C.

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F 19:2.2: Lower fill

... a considerable deposit including both figured and plain wares, the red-figure consistently of the second quarter of the 4th c. ... Ca 375-340 B.C.

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F 19:3: Well

Unfinished well, all one fill. Coins: 2 May 1939 #1-#3 ... Early 1st c. B.C.

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F 19:4: Well

This filling ... is the largest deposit of its time found in the Agora. It may be compared with H 6:5 ... and with N 7:3. The main filling was apparently a single deposit, but the amount of pottery found ... Ca. 490-450 B.C.

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F 19:5: Unfinished well shaft

"The two fills (Fill I to 1.75m.; and Fill II, 1.75-3.05m.) appear to be contemporary" (deposit nb.). No subdivisions given ... Ca. 520-480 B.C.

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F 19:6: Well

Unfinished well-shaft with debris filling (apparently of the Sullan sack). Abandoned due to poor quality of bedrock. Coins: 11 May 1939 #6 ... End 2nd c. B.C.-second quarter 1st c. B.C.

F 19:7: Well

It was impossible to return to the digging of this well either in 1939 or 1940 [due to collapse of stereo] (nbp. 1432). HAT compares pottery to that of Square Building fill ... Second half of 4th c. B.C.

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F 20:1: Pyre

Identified as Pyre by SIR. Debris filling of the middle of the 4th c. B.C. including the remains of a sacrificial pyre. Coins: 12 April 1939 #1 13 April 1939 #1 ... 4th c. B.C. disturbed

F 30:1: Martyr

Martyr at Δ6 ... To mid-4th c. B.C.

F-G 3:1: Fill

N-S Cut on 20m. line (area of Road, area of Stoa, area N of Stoa) various levels and dates over the three areas. No subdivisions are given but the layers are dated over the three areas as follows: Area ... Protogeometric to Late Roman

F-G 9-10: Fill

Fills associated with construction of NE Bouleuterion, i.e. inside porch, unused foundation trenches on west side and south side ... Down to last quarter of 5th c. B.C.

F-G 10-11: Bouleuterion Plateia Fills

Accumulated fillings in the Bouleutrion Plateia beginning in late 5th c. B.C. and continuing into the 3rd c. A.D., reaching a depth of 0.20-0.30m. (Hesp. 6 (1937), p. 168. Subdivisions: .1=Layer I .2=Layer ... 5th c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D.

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F-G 10-11.2: Bouleuterion Plateia Layer II

Accumulated filling over Bouleuterion Plateia, Layer II. Coins: 8 May 1935 #1 ... 1st or 2nd c. A.D.

F-G 10-11.3: Bouleuterion Plateia Layer III

Coins: 8 May 1935 #2 ... 4th-2nd c. B.C.

F-G 10-11.4: Bouleuterion Plateia, Scraping Bedrock

Also possibly object B 252 "scraping bedrock in south part; context too disturbed and uncertain to be trusted." ... 4th c. B.C.

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F-G 12:1: Road Fills

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.

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F-G 12:2: Road Fills

Area of early road and Geometric Cemetery: late, disturbed or uncertain levels. Includes Geometric/Proto Attic material thrown in the Turkish well at 35/Δ. Includes between road and bedrock in Β'. Four ... 5 May 1934 19-23 March 1935 2 April 1935

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F-G 12:3: Inhumation of a woman

Grave 19 in notebook. Bones only. PD 411 ... Late Geometric

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G 3:1: Pit

Pit with burned debris ... probably to be associated with the Persian sack [deposit notebook]. Also includes a similar filling lying over bedrock in the immediate vicinity of the pit. Coins: 22 February ... Ca. 500-470 B.C.

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G 3:2: Well

7th-8th c. A.D.

G 3:3: Bothros

Bothros at 18/ΙΒ (= 18/ΙΓ) ... Middle Byzantine

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G 4:1: Well

Well at 16/Γ = Well at 15/Β. Dug to 14.90m. and abandoned due to influx of water. Coins: 15 May 1936 #1 20 May 1936 #2-#5 16 June 1936 #1, dump ... 3rd c. B.C.

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G 4:2: Well

Dark Ages(?)-Byzantine

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G 4:3: Pit

Herm head deliberately buried in a pit with coins of the 2nd half of the 4th c. Coins: 27 June 1972 #199-#205 ... 2nd half 4th c. B.C.

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G 5:1: Cistern

The fill in this cistern is Byzantine with considerable admixture of Greek IV-III c. B.C. Coins: 9 March 1932 #1 10 March 1932 #1-#2 11 March 1932 #2 12 March 1932 #1 ... 11th-12th c. A.D.

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G 5:2: Cistern

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.

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G 5:3: "Bone Well"

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. Coins: 14 June 1937 ... Mid-2nd c. B.C.