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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The East 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 ... 23 February-16 March 1932
A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several ... Ca. 575-480 B.C.
Well near middle of Tholos which served the prior building.
Period of Use dated to ca. 500-480(?) B.C., Upper fill dated to ca. 480-470 B.C. or soon after in Agora XXX.
No subdivisions: upper dumped fill ... Ca. 500-480 B.C.
Well 8 (in Tholos), put out of use by a fall of the rock walls and replaced by well G 11:3. Scanty use filling at and near the bottom, separated by a mass of fallen rock from a debris filling in the upper ... Ca. 550-500 B.C.
Grave 1 in notebook. Slightly disturbed by the digging of Pit A.
A large oil jar containing the bones of a small child. A bit of plaster A 443 probably a modern intrusion (RSY) ... Ca. 600 B.C.
From disturbances in original floor of Tholos with ash and burning. Probably reflects the military and political conditions of 307 B.C ... Ca. 340-295 B.C.
Circular well cut through the old road after it had gone out of use, and filled probably at the time of the building of the drain and building A, and the throwing of fill over the road ... Ca. 430-400 B.C.
Well associated with Building D. Hellenistic Group A with Late Roman fill in upper 3.00m. Objects A 245 and P 4597 are from fill on floor around well-head, contemporary with upper fill but not in subdivision ... 325-260
Tiled well, three fills noted: lower fill of earth and stones with a few fragments only of coarse pottery (none inventoried, containers 66-71); middle filling a heavy deposit primarily of table ware, apparently ... 4th-2nd c. B.C.
100-70 B.C.
Wells at 24/ΙΓ at 26/ΙΑ (the party wall between them broken through in antiquity).
Use filling middle to third quarter of 6th c. B.C., upper filling, 6th c. B.C. with Hellenistic infiltration in upper ... Ca. 550-525 B.C.
The pottery apparently belongs to a filling of one period, since it exhibited no marked difference in character to the bottom. No where was the deposit very abundant [nbp. 753] ... Ca. 410-390 B.C.
Dumped filling in a well on the west slope of the Areopagus, the bottom filling apparently thrown in towards the beginning of the last quarter of the fifth century, the middle and top fillings near the ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. and earlier
Investigations to the south of the Metroon, in the passageway between the Metroon and the Tholos; accumulated layers, from the Geometric and earlier periods to the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.
Cf. Hesperia ... Geometric to second c. B.C.
Investigations in the area around the Tholos, especially to the east and south of the building, between it and the Great Drain, and not otherwise specified as deposits.
This "deposit" has no form. It ... various levels and dates
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.
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) ... Ca. 375-350 B.C.
A very homogeneous dumped filling and no period of use. Apparently a failure as a well. Cf. BI 157 "from behind the curbing of the well by Stoa pier 3." ... Ca. 470-460 B.C.
Two chambers connected by a tunnel, each with two fills. Lower fill in south chamber contemporary with upper fill in north chamber, at the end of the 4th c. B.C.
Objects T 122, T 145, L 453 and L 454 ... Ca. 375-160 B.C.
Filling behind retaining wall of Stoa of Zeus. The remains of unfired clay adhering to the interior of various pieces make it probable that the material in this filling is a mass of debris from the floor ... Ca. 435-425 B.C.
Investigations in the Hellenistic Metroon, various levels. Stoa Pits A, B, C, D, E, F, H and I (various layers).
Locations include:
SW corner of Primitive Bouleuterion; from contemporary filling alongside ... 8th-6th c. B.C.
A pit, perhaps a well, extending beneath the foundations of [Building D, the Primitive Bouleuterion] the Hellenistic Metroon. Not completely dug due to its position. A dumped filling so far as dug, apparently ... Ca. 575-525 B.C.
Rubbish Dump in mouth of abandoned well in Tholos Trench F, Kitchen. Filled with ash, charcoal, broken pottery, roof tiles.
Also from Trench L ... Ca. 425-400 B.C.
Various layers and dates, primarily from Tholos Tr. L (area of early road drain), Q (area of road) and V (area of road).
Also Room G of Trench V listed with G-H 11-12 probably has road layers (no finds, ... 8th c.-ca. 480 B.C.
Ostrakon Pit (Horos Terrace Trench). Oval pit cut into bedrock. Packed filling of stones, coarse sherds and roof tiles; among these a few fragments of finer vases and 22 ostraka, probably from the ostracaphoria ... Ca. 490-480 B.C. and later
Well A, early 5th c. B.C.
Period of Use and Upper dumped fills dated to ca. 520-480 B.C. in Agora XXX.
A 2296, A 2345, T 3270 and T 3271 from the dump and without subdivisions. Subdivisions: (from the ... Ca. 520-480 B.C.
Archaic house with Distyle Porch (= Building J) in southeast of section: packing beneath floors (Layers a and b of Tholos Trench S.Layer b=Beneath original floor dated to ca. 500 B.C.
Layer a=Between original ... 6th-early 5th c. B.C.
Formerly G 13:5.
Cleared to a depth of 8.50m. where further collapse made work impossible. Use filling not reached. Lower dumped fill dated to ca. 425-400 B.C., with objects P 24209, P 24210, 24211. Upper ... Ca. 425-375 B.C.
An extensive cistern system, south chamber with blind tunnel extending further south (south tunnel); north chamber; drawshaft further north, extends to north tunnel. With exception of north tunnel (which ... Ca. 320-240 B.C.
Grave 4 in notebook: urn burial. Lower part of a storage jar (P 15407) containing the bones of a small child along with a black glazed kantharos (P 15409) and a banded pelike (P 15408) ... 325-300 B.C.
Area in front of E-W retaining wall, just above cobble pavement, disturbed by coins and pottery as late as the 3rd c. B.C. Coins:
25 May 1932 #6-#7
26 May 1932 #1-#3 SS 367 listed on deposit list but ... 375-275 B.C.
Stratified fill in Rockcut Pit, which apparently served as a rubbish dump. Coins:
17 May 1939 #2-#3
22 May 1939 #4 Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Middle fill
.3=Lower fill ... Ca. 410-250 B.C.
Middle Stoa Building Fill (with filling to S) (See also Κ: H-I-J 14-15 and Λ: K-M 13-14)
This deposit is not definitive and must be considered with the above deposits before details are entered into database; ... to ca. 180 B.C.
Backfill of demolition of Great Monument beneath Middle Stoa.
[Soft pit below Layer II of south aisle (=fill of early "Great Drain")] ... Early 4th c. B.C.
No clear distinction in the filling, either of date or of character, could be observed but the presence of a number of water jars of various sorts, many of them from the lower levels, suggests that the ... Ca. 625-570 B.C.
Well at 62/ΙΑ, 63/ΙΑ. Use filling in the lowest meter of the shaft.
The upper part of the shaft was filled with clay containing only occasional fragments of pottery; at the top a small supplementary filling ... Ca. 600-540 B.C.
Digging terminated at 14.50m. due to falling bedrock. Scanty pottery remains at 10.00m. In the mouth and upper part of the shaft was a heavy dumped filling of much shattered fragments, for the most part ... Last quarter of 5th c. B.C.
Irregular depression in bedrock; area south of E-W Late Roman wall. Dumped filling apparently intended to level off the area. Coins:
11 March 1952 #10
12 March 1952 #1-#5
13 March 1952 #3-#5
21 March 1952 ... Ca. 400-325 B.C.
Hole in bedrock; dumped filling used in leveling. Coins:
1 April 1933 #10
31 May 1933 #12-#13
9 June 1933 #3 Notebook uses 24/ΛΑ, continuing with 19/ΚΘ and 19/ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ, as grid ... Ca. 350-270 B.C.
Water deposit in Polygonal Drain (43-44/Γ-Ζ and martyra). Early branch of the original course of Great Drain. P 2248 added to this deposit by E.V. - from Old Drain ... Ca. 420-390 B.C.
Pottery Deposit at 57/ΙΔ (also 57/ΙΣΤ and 63-66/Κ-ΚΕ). Contents of pit range from Mycenaean to Turkish; apparently the dump of a modern antiquities dealer ... Modern Context
Accumulated fillings in a system of underground drains at west end of section ΔΔ with northward continuation into and across Section Υ.
The filling in the "underground passages" in section ΔΔ appears to ... 3rd c. B.C.
2nd c A.D.
Well on lower slopes of Areopagus. Dumped filling of 8th c. at the top. Fill mostly Geometric but containing bits of later (even Roman) pottery. Perhaps cleaned out and refilled with its own contents at ... 8th c. B.C.
Fillings associated with early houses on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus; various levels and dates.
Both houses were built in the 6th century B.C. and destroyed by the Persians; both also have ... 6rd c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D.
Well at 69/ΟΒ (Late 5th c.)
Lower fill dated to 420-400 B.C. in Agora XXX. I can't find out what M 20:3-S is (Cf. P 9347) as published in Agora XII (SD) ... 420-400 B.C.
Cistern with two tunnels, the one entering its neck cut off by an early Roman well, the other, at the bottom not excavated. No stratigraphy noted during excavation, but analysis of pottery suggests three ... 5-17 May 1939
