Single wall fragment, broken all around. From vertical wall with offset sloping shoulder. Vertical handle from wall to shoulder, with a freely moving loop handle attached to it.
Rather coarse reddish ... 1952
Bit of base(?) preserved. Sides neatly stippled.
Unusually fine fabric; light red clay, very micaceous. Traces of clay wash(?).
Cf. Agora V, part I, p. 85, pl. 63, no. M 4. In hard earth overlying bedrock, ... 11 May 1932
Fragment a) and fragment b) broken all around.
Fragment a): single fragment with five elongated pale blue dots.
Fragment b): three joining fragments with five elongated pale blue dots as on fragment a) ... 5-6 April 1937
Three small non-joining fragments preserve part of the rim and wall of an open vessel.
At the rim a narrow band of green. In the transparent wall, yellow spirals, disposed horizontally. Well on lower north ... 15 April 1937
Three fragments, a) from the shoulder, with rim or neck broken off above; b) and c) from the walls.
On a) a garland of wedge-shaped projections; on b) and c) staggered rows of similar projections, set ... 11 February 1937
Two fragments from base and wall of a small bowl or beaker(?). Very low rounded ring foot; the wall decorated with neat sharp horizontal ridges.
Very fine white fabric; outside with lustrous finish, ... 12 April 1949
Stem broken above base.
Hollow stem ending in base which rounds up to form closed shape. Stem would have been inside this vessel.
Silvery iridescent glass.
Cf. Agora V, no. M 309.
"According to Mrs ... 14 June 1971
Five joining fragments from shoulder of large pot [Max. Dim. 0.205].
Painted in dull red:
Highly micaceous light brown clay. Unglazed.
ADDENDA Whole pot, from shoulder down. Fragments found in containers ... 8 April 1937
Chip missing from rim. Bomb-shaped body, wheel-ridged; no foot; rounded bottom. Flaring rim. Two very small vertical handles.
Coarse pinkish clay, fired gray outside; on the inside, red from stacking ... 24 June 1933
[Deep cup.] Low irregular foot; small flaring rim; handleless. Body horizontally ribbed.
Coarse clay, red at core, burned black outside and in. Unglazed. Rectangular drain. Leica PD 2262-39a ... 9-17 June 1933
[Deep cup.] Low irregular foot; small flaring rim; handleless. Body horizontally ribbed.
Coarse red and black clay; unglazed. Rectangular drain. Leica, LXI-51 PD 2262-39c ... 9-17 June 1933
Many fragments missing. Deep rounded body, slightly flattened on the bottom; flaring mouth, and two vertical handles from the rim. Horizontal grooves around body.
Coarse gritty red clay, much burned ... March-April 1936
Bottom missing. Restored in plaster. Similar to P 8338 (ΠΘ 2023), but smaller. Not burned outside.
ADDENDA P 8338: Deep rounded body, slightly flattened on the bottom; flaring mouth, and two vertical ... March-April 1936
Round bottom, with slight concavity; body horizontally ribbed; narrow, turned out rim, slightly thickened at lip.
Coarse clay, fired black over most of outside; purplish-red inside, and on bottom where ... May-June 1936
Like P 8512 (Ι 934), but without concavity in bottom, which is very carelessly finished.
Gritty brownish clay, with a little mica, fired a bright brownish-yellow at surfaces.
ADDENDA P 8512: Round bottom, ... May-June 1936
Most of rim and much of upper walls missing. Restored in plaster. Much like P 8513 (Ι 935) but with small flat base, and body less squat.
Coarse gritty pink clay with a little mica.
ADDENDA P 8513: ... May-June 1936
Round bottom, with slight concavity; low ridged sides; sharp shoulder; high neck with concave profile and narrow flaring rim, thickened at lip. The rim thinner and more flaring. No marked ridges on the ... May-June 1936
About two-thirds of rim missing. Restored in plaster. Shape as P 8515 (Ι 937), but slightly lower in proportion to width; the rim thinner and more flaring. No marked ridges on the lower body.
Coarse ... May-June 1936
The bottom missing, much of the wall, and a piece of the rim. Ribbed and round-bodied two-handled pot with slightly flaring rim.
Red-brown clay, blackened outside. Cistern, layer I, 1st.-2nd. c. A.D ... 8 April 1937
Bottom missing, one handle and part of rim. Restored in plaster. Open pot with angular sides and flaring rim; small ribbon handle set just beneath rim. Walls lightly wheelridged.
Orange-red clay, the ... 9-10 April 1937
Center of bottom missing, and about one-quarter of rim and walls. Restored in plaster. Angular body, flaring rim, small vertical handles; two grooves below rim outside.
Red paint inside only; outside ... 13 April 1937
About half preserved with one vertical band handle, lip to shoulder, and one horizontal rolled handle on the shoulder. Round bodied pot, the walls narrowing slightly to vertical rim. Groove around wall ... 14 April 1937
Few missing pieces restored in plaster. Rounded bottom; slightly flaring neck with shallow collar rim; two vertical grooved handles.
Gritty clay, light brown on inside, gray on outside. Cistern. Leica, ... February-April 1937
Large part of bottom and pieces of side restored in plaster. Squat and fat; rounded bottom; very low rim with flat top surface and ridge at inner edge; two horizontal handles that rise above the rim.
... February-April 1937
Wall fragments and part of one handle restored in plaster. Rounded bottom; flaring rim; one vertical and one horizontal handle.
Gritty red-brown to gray clay. Cistern, upper fill. Leica, LIX-83 PD 1171-163 ... February-April 1937
Missing pieces restored in plaster. Rounded bottom; slightly flaring rim with thickened lip; one horizontal and one vertical handle.
Gritty red-brown to gray clay, blackened from use. Cistern. Leica, ... February-April 1937
Two joining and one non-joining fragment preserve profile complete except for center of base; one handle missing. Restored in plaster. Rounded body with flattened bottom; angular shoulder and convex neck; ... 20 May-5 June 1932
Base and a part of wall missing. Partly restored in plaster. Rounded, apparently ovoid body; wide, low neck with slightly everted lip, sloping up to exterior, no handles.
Gritty , dark brownish-red clay ... 20 May-5 June 1932
Part of body and part of lip missing; otherwise complete. Fusiform shape; single handle. Ridge around toe and lip; body irregularly wheel-grooved.
Dark red highly micaceous clay. A yellowish powdery substance ... 3 April 1937
Fragment of body and chip of lip missing; otherwise complete. Body tapering to toe ridged above point; single handle. Ribbing on upper part of body.
Dark gray clay. Traces of yellowish powdery substance ... 3 April 1937
Mouth, neck, handle and fragments of body missing. Bottom pointed with cup-shaped underside with small point; body ribbed.
Micaceous brownish clay. Very thin, dull purplish to grayish glaze wash.
For ... 7-8 April 1937
Fragments of body and most of lip missing. Single handle. Wheel ridges on narrow neck and tapering body. Small high conical foot.
Painted under handle in dull black:
Dark red highly micaceous clay ... 3 April 1937
Much of body missing, but profile complete; restored in plaster. Ribbed body; base neatly made; deep, cup-shaped underside with small point at center.
Gray to black micaceous clay.
ADDENDA Incised under ... 7 April 1937
Large fragments missing from body. Striped ring foot and ribbed body; narrow neck and mouth with one handle.
Micaceous black clay. Well. Leica, LXI-6, LXIX-56 ... March-April 1936
Intact save small hole at shoulder. Body rather plump, tapering to small toe depressed beneath; single handle. Irregular wheel ridges around body.
Micaceous red to buff clay. A black deposit covering ... 5 April 1937
Neck and mouth entirely gone, otherwise unbroken. Single handle on shoulder; shoulder slopes to angle with tubular body, ending in a very long tapering toe.
Highly micaceous dark red clay. Traces of yellow ... 5 April 1937
Mouth and most of neck missing. Air hole knocked in upper part of body. Body rather full, tapering sharply above and below.
Light brown micaceous clay. Unglazed. Well, container 28, 5th. c. A.D. 907-908 ... 5 April 1937
Complete; large air hole in shoulder. Foot hollow underneath; body full and "shouldery"; lip projecting.
Clay light brownish, micaceous. Dull red to dark glaze on upper half. Well, container 29, 5th ... 5 April 1937
Mouth and fragment of shoulder missing; otherwise unbroken. Fusiform body similar to P 9792 (Φ 248).
At base of single handle, traces of dipinto, illegible.
Clay and finish similar to P 9799 (Φ 258), ... 5 April 1937
Long pointed body with hollow foot and shallow horizontal grooves; narrow concave neck and thickened lip.
Christian monogram(?) incised on body:
Micaceous red clay with a thin wash of black glaze ... 28 May 1937
Appears to have fallen into the drain from above, after the drain was filled up. Hence need not to be contemporary.
Most of lip gone at one end. Simple tongue joint; broad shallow corrugation, more marked ... May-June 1936
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.
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Coins:
23 March 1936 #5-#6
31 March 1936 #3
30 April 1936 #1
1 May 1936 #6
2 May 1936 #2
5 May 1936 #8
6 May 1936 #15-#16
14 May 1936 #5-#8
15 May 1936 #1-#3
16 ... 23 March-20 May 1936
5-16 May 1937
The well had two upper fills and a stratified deposit at the bottom. The well deposit is divided into two parts, 3rd. c. and 2nd. c. (with perhaps late 1st. c.). Subdivisions:
.1=0.00-17.75m. upper and ... 1st.-3rd. c.
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Use filling of late 1st. to late 2nd. c. A.D.; dumped filling of 4th. c. A.D. Subdivisions:
.1=0.00-19.50m. dumped fill (15.40-19.50m. produced nothing).
.2=19.50-20.70m ... 1st.-4th c. A.D.
Roman use fill in lowest 6.70m; Byz upper fill (dump). Notebook lists eight fills; subdivisions based on shelf groupings.
Subdivisions:
.1=Dumped fills 1-2, Byzantine
.2=Fill 3
.3=Fill 4
.4=Fills 5, 6, ... 50-150 A.D. to Early Byz.
Well with 4th. c. fill, no well deposit at the bottom. Coins:
2 April 1936 #1
3 April 1936 #8-#19
4 April 1936 #11
8 April 1936 #3-#4
22 May 1936 #5
25 May 1936 #2
27 May 1936 #2
28 May 1936 #2-#5
29 May ... Second half 4th. c. A.D.
(Roman Group J). The upper fill to a depth of ca. 16.00m. was of earth scooped up elsewhere and thrown in ... The latest piece noted from this fill was a TC fragment dated late 4th to 5th(?) c. BC. From ... 2nd.-3rd. c. A.D.
POU 3.50-10.30m. Coins:
10 May 1949 #1
16 May 1949 #1
17 May 1949 #1-#2
19 May 1949 #1-#2
20 May 1949 #1-#12
21 May 1949 #1-#4 from dump
23 May 1949 #1-#3 from dump Five fills are noted by HSR; however, ... 3rd-5th c. A.D.
Tiled well in House H. Subdivisions:
.1=top-2.95m. Late Roman dump.
.2=2.95-7.00m. Post-Herulean cleanup.
.3=7.00-bottom, POU ... Use filling of early 2nd-mid.-3rd c. A.D.
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.
Stratified well with POU first half of 1st c. - mid 3rd c. A.D. and dumped fills of 4th and 5th-6th c. A.D.
Finds from upper fills "earth": BI 315, L 2549.
Finds from lower fills "earth": BI 302, BI 316, ... 1 April-24 May 1936
Displaced curbing stone had fallen into top of shaft; fill with and around it is presumably second half of 2nd c. A.D. Below tumbled filling at top, shaft was empty to 10.80m. Tiles were missing to ca ... Late 1st-early 2nd c.
Use filling of the Roman period.
Several objects are from unknown depth or containers and do not appear in subdivisions. Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill=Dump
.2=Second POU
.3=First POU
Container 86 at unknown ... 1st-3rd c. A.D.
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.
Filling of a well on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus, dug early in the 1st c. B.C. [construction fill]; in use into the the 2nd c. A.D.[well fill] (H Ms.) No apparent stratification. Coins:
17 ... 2nd c. A.D.
Modern fill to 21.00m. at which depth a human skeleton weighed down with iron. ER fill from 21.00-28.00m. (bottom). A POU fill with a possible break around 25.00m ... 1st to mid-2nd c. A.D.
Use filling of first half of 1st c.; dumped filling of late 1st c.(?). This well, near its mouth, cuts off the end of the upper passage of the cistern at 53/Ε. Subdivisions:
.1=Dumped filling
.2=POU ... First half of 1st c. A.D. POU
Well dug through cistern at 64/Γ. Seems to have been stratified; four fills recorded but here treated as one as divisions are rather "arbitrary".
Agora V, p. 126: Constructed in late 1st c.; use filling ... 3rd c. A.D. POU
Dumped filling of 6th c. A.D. Coins:
3 May 1939 #1-2 (red earth above well)
9 June 1939 #1
10 June 1939 #1
12 June 1939 #1-#5
13 June 1939 #1
19 June 1939 #1-#2, #3 (Dump)
7 May 1940 #1
9 May 1940 #1
27 ... Early 1st-5th c. A.D. POU
The pottery of the first six meters (containers 1-3 of 117 containers total) contains a good deal of unglazed early Byzantine along with very late Roman. Below this begins a great mass of Roman pottery ... 4th-6th c. A.D. POU
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. Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Lower fill ... POU 1st c. and 5th-7th c. A.D.
There is no doubt that the pottery from the well is "stratified" in the sense that a very definite sequence could be observed from the late 6th c. pottery near the top down to pottery of the 1st c. A.D ... 29 June-27 July 1955
No period of use. Below the upper (Early Roman) dump extending down to ca. 6.10m. was a dumped fill of broken pottery in great quantity, including a high proportion of red-figured fragments. Masses of ... Ca. 430-400 B.C.
Use filling of 1st c. A.D.; dumped fillings of 3rd c. and of early Byz. times. Coins:
15 June 1937 #1-#2 (earth)
16 June 1937 #14-#20 (earth)
17 June 1937 #1-#11 (earth)
18 June 1937 #4-#5 (earth)
19 June ... 1st c. A.D.=POU
Nbp. 3104: When dug, the fill of the well divided itself into 3 deposits.
Objects catalogued from the "earth" are: L 4838, P 21602, P 21603, P 21604. Coins:
17 May 1937 #1 Subdivisions:
.1=Layer I
.2=Layer ... Late 6th-7th c. A.D.
Three well tiles, much mended, forming one complete section, slightly elliptical, perhaps warped.
All three joints were held in place by lead clamps, of which much remains. Thickened rim; semicircular ... 14 June 1939
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.
The west chamber of a cistern system composed of two chambers connected by a passage (91/Ν); the east chamber at 91/Ν (E 5:1) retained little or no traces of its original period of use. North of the Hephaisteion ... Use filling early 1st c. B.C.
Restored in plaster. Flat disk of fine buff clay with a hole through the middle. Large rays in relief on the upper side.
ADDENDA A wheel for a toy. Well. Leica, LXI-7 ... March-April 1936
Smoothly broken at base, where it was attached.
Feathers incised on both sides. Rectangular drain.
Middle of 3rd c. A.D. Leica, LIX-63 ... 20 June 1933
Well East of Stoa Room 11; no appreciable change in pottery top to bottom; dumped fill of Augustan times. Coins:
15 May 1950 #1 ... 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D.
Modern fill in upper 1.65m. with Early Roman dumped fillings below. Coins:
9 May 1939 #37 (dirt pile)
10 May 1939 #53 (dirt pile) ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D.
Well outside market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way. Accumulated use filling from first half of 1st c. A.D. to early 3rd c. Top to 14.65m. 4th c. dump; nothing significant catalogued ... POU First half of 1st c.-early 3rd c. A.D.
