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E 2:3: Foundry Pit

"Foundry Pit": N-S Cut on 50m. line (area of Stoa, Layer VII, with slag). Formerly deposit no. F 2:1. Coins: 9 March 1939 #2 ... Ca. 375-350 B.C.

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E 3:1: Cistern

Cistern with considerable dumped fill. It may have been abandoned ca. 295-295 B.C.; it will have been filled by 280 B.C. Coins: 31 March 1936 #8 1 April 1936 #23-#24 2 April 1936 #15-#19 3 April 1936 #15-#18 ... Ca. 325-250 B.C.

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E 5:2: Cistern

Coins: 16 February 1937 #7-#9 22 February 1937 #23-#26 ... 250-190 B.C.

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E 6:1: East Chamber

Cistern System #3: East Chamber at 69/Λ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/ΛΣΤ ... 175-125 B.C.

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E 6:2: West Chamber

Cistern System #3: West Chamber at 69/ΛΣΤ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/Λ. Coins: 8 June 1936 #1 10 June 1936 #1-#5 11 June 1936 #1-#3 12 June 1936 #1 ... 175-125 B.C.

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E 6:3: Furnace waste pit "cistern"

Flask-shaped pit probably originally intended as a cistern; used for dumping waste from a metal furnace. A substantial mass of iron slag found at the bottom along with a thick waste of bricks, charcoal ... Ca. 375-310 B.C.

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E 7:2: Ostrakon Pit

Same filling as Theseion Street Deposit D 7:2 but separate list. Perhaps also P 7904. Area disturbed by Turkish (50-56/ΜΓ-ΜΣΤ). Coins: 18 May 1936 #13-#14 ... Ca. 500-470 B.C.

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E 13:1: Well 5

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.

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E 14:1: Cistern

Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the course of the passage to the east and opening into ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C. Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C. Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D.

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E 14:5: Unfinished well, Well G

Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup ... Ca. 520-490

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E 14:6: Well H

Upper fill was early Roman dated by AWP to the 1st c. A transitional fill was later assigned to the upper level. Nbp. 2913: The history may have been that the well was cleaned out at the time that it was ... 19-26 May 1936 4-5 June 1936

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E 14:8: Boar Lid Hole

Pit in deep depression in bedrock. Also includes containers from early fill under late Roman floors down to bedrock at 81-83/ΚΗ-ΛΒ ... 7th c. to ca. 575 B.C.

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E 14:11: Great Drain South

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

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E 14:14: Cutting in bedrock

The almost complete red figure hydria set into this cutting suggests the possibility of a 5th c. burial put into a much earlier grave cutting; however, the remainder of the filling appears thoroughly disturbed ... 5th and 4th c. B.C.

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E 15:6: Well F

No difference in date was discerned in the pottery from different depths, although there were several changes in the character of the filling. It was filled at about the time the Great Drain was built ... Ca. 500-480 B.C.

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E 16:1: Well A

At the bottom of the well were scanty remains probably from a period of use, but without whole water jars; above this lay a heavy deposit of mud, containing little pottery; the dumped filling in the top ... Ca. 425-375 B.C.

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E 19:5: Pit

North and South Rectangular Stereo-cut Rubbish Pits. These two adjacent rock-cut pits, of uncertain original purpose, were filled with deposits of rubbish evidently contemporary and probably dumped simultaneously, ... Second half of 5th c. B.C.

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E 19:7: House fillings

Exploration of area of small early house walls. Considerable deposits of late 6th-early 5th c. B.C., but some later (all periods) and some early levels, disturbed. Objects P 14805, P 14939 and P 14940 ... Late 6th-early 5th c. B.C.

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E 29:1: Cistern

Lower levels of cistern to N. of House of Greek Mosaic. Coins: 6 July 1964 # ΔΕ5 ... Ca. 325-290 B.C.

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E-F 2-3:2: Fill

N-S Cut on 50m. 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 ... Prehistoric to Roman

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E-F 12-14: Building Fill

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.

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F 5:1: Cistern

Evidence of stratification into five layers, although joins between the layers. Layer VI added when the construction of the Roman building above required it. No subdivisions assigned. Coins: 3 June 1937 ... Early 3rd-late 2nd c. B.C.

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F 5:2: Sacrificial Pyre

Grave V, under room 18 in House 3, plus burned deposit at 94/IΘ. Identified as pyre by SIR ... Ca. 300-275 B.C.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 12:5: 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.

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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 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.

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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 16:6: 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.

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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 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.

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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-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.