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B 21:14: Inhumation, probably a female

RSY Grave XXVI in notebook ... Ca. 525-500 B.C. or sightly later

B 21:22: Cremation

RSY Sacrificial Pit VI in notebook. See also B 21:23 ... Ca. 525-500 B.C.

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B 21:24: Well

Well. Construction, use and dumped fillings of the Hellenistic period. Tile-lined well with a packing of jars behind the tiles; the well cut through (Fill 4) the passage of a cistern (B 21:25). At 9.00m ... 1st. c.

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B 22:3: Burned Deposit

Burned deposit: Middle Terrace, south of Archaic cemetery. RSY: Pyre 10 ... Ca. 300 B.C.

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BB 17:1: Well

Well at west side of Theseion Plataea, partly cleared to a depth of ca. 5.30m. Dumped filling, apparently the debris from a sculptor's workshop, as indicated by both the quantity of marble chips in the ... Second quarter 4th. c. B.C.

C 8:5: Well

Cistern System #1e: Shaft at 11/ΞΑ. Agora XXIX: "Well (not cistern shaft, as in Agora XII) ... Communicates with water system through small hole (see C 8:1) probably fortuitously. Single fill ... " Coins: ... 350-300 B.C.

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C 9:6: Marble Chips Pit

Square pit in bedrock southwest of the Hephaisteion ... Ca. 390-380 B.C.

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C 11:3: Pit

Perhaps originally a grave cutting ... Ca. 390-380 B.C.

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C 12:2: Well

A well on Kolonos Agoraios. The upper dumped filling, a heavy deposit of pottery, was separated from the lower filling of similar character by several meters of plain mud. No use filling. Coins: 8 April ... Ca. 375-325 B.C. with disturbance of 250-225 B.C.

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C 13:2: Well

Roman well, stratified. Finds from the earth (not recorded in a subdivision): P 7995, P 8036, P 21834, SS 6338, IL 483, IL 486, BI 309, BI 310, BI 314. Coins: 5 June 1936 #1-#2 (from earth) 6 June 1936 ... 2nd-4th c. A.D.

C 17:2: Pyre

North of House G (RSY=Pyre 13) ... 290-250 B.C.

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C 18:4: Construction fillings

Fillings below the courtyard floor of the Poros Enclosure west of the Areopagus. The lowerst layer, over bedrock, is of the archaic period and may have accumulated on the spot before the start of building ... First half of 5th c. B.C.

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C 18:7: Pit with Stony Fill

Construction filling of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Patch of stony fill beneath the courtyard. Accumulation of the second quarter of the 5th c., deposited in the last quarter ... Ca. 475-450 B.C. and later

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C 18:8: Well

Well, neatly stone-curbed to bottom. Subdivisions: .1=upper fill .2=POU ... Use filling of ca. 575-550 B.C.

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C 18:11: Early drain channel pit

Ostrakon deposit, sand fill and pocket in floor of drain ... Ca. 490-480 B.C.

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C 19:4: Pit

Debris filling in a pit cut in bedrock at W side of House H, Room 10 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C.

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C 19:5: House fillings

House R, fill under drain tiles and fillings associated with house K in industrial area, including what was C 19:15, plus C 19:16 and C 19:17. a) House built as dwelling in second half of 5th.c. b) Used ... Ca. 5th and 4th c. B.C.

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C 19:8: Well

Well, unfinished? ... Ca. 440-420 B.C.

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C 19:9: Well

Well in house R of industrial area west of the Areopagus. This well, originally tiled, was abandoned and filled at the time of the conversion of the house into a stone-cutters' workshop. Subdivisions: ... Ca. 425-400 B.C.

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C 19:10: Well

Well in House H, Room 13. Two dumped fills apparently of the same date, but separated by a clay deposit of over 2.00m. Subdivisions: .1=Upper fill .2=Lower fill ... Ca. 425-400 B.C.

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C 19:11: Well

Well in House H, Room 10 (and pit over). Scanty use filling at bottom; above this, a broken bedrock fill and above that a dumped filling. The upper part of the well was lined with tiles in the second half ... Ca. 425-400 B.C.

C 20:3: Cistern

Cistern with mixed dumped filling uniform throughout cistern and channels. Coins: 16 May 1939 #6-#7 17 May 1939 #1 ... 6th-1st c. B.C.

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D 5:1: Stuccoed pit

Coins: 26 March 1937 #1 ... C a. 400-350 B.C.

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D 7:2: Theseion 'Street' Deposit

Packing under cobblestones. The high quality of the pottery from this deposit and the fact that some of it shows signs of burning has suggested that it might have come from a sanctuary destroyed by the ... Ca. 500-440 B.C.

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D 11:2: Drawshaft

Drawshaft of a complex cistern system. Coins: 26 March 1936 #1 ... 300-215 B.C.

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D 12:4: Pit

Deposit of fine table ware and lekythoi, both black-figured and red; the plain wares closely resemble those from the well H 6:5 ... 470-450 B.C.

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D 15:1: Well

Well at 115/ΣΤ (all the 5th c. fills of 116/ΣΤ). The lower part of the shaft contained a heavy deposit of pottery and other objects of the late archaic period, both coarse and finer wares; probably a post-Persian ... Ca. 500-480 B.C.

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D 15:3: Cistern

A small flask-shaped cistern lined with hydraulic cement and containing a large quantity of glazed table ware and a fair amount of coarse ware; a homogeneous fill with joins at all levels. Coins: 20 June ... Ca. 375-300 B.C.

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D 15:4: Pit

Lower filling mostly of second half of 4th c. B. C. and earlier, but perhaps dumped in 3rd c. B.C. Upper filling mixed to Roman (4th c. A.D.). Subdivisions: .1=Upper fill .2=Lower fill ... Ca. 375-325 B.C. with late-3rd-century disturbance

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D 16:1: Cistern A

Cistern with two channels; the fill of the cistern proper, below the scant upper (Byzantine) deposit, appears to have been dumped all at the same time, to 325-275 B.C. Notebook says "all one fill, late ... 325-275 B.C.

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D 16:8: Pit 2

Pit 2 in Grave area. Small deposit in a pit; a fragment of a red-figured nuptial lebes recalls the early Kerch style of the second quarter of the 4th c.; the deposit as a whole runs somewhat later ... Ca. 375-315 B.C.

D 17:2: Bothros of Agonippos

A rubbish pit at the foot of the northwest slope of the Areopagus ... Ca. 480-475 B.C.

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D 17:3: Cistern

Cistern at 65/ΚΗ (and Channel). Cistern in the northeast room of the annex to the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Part of the same system as D 17:4 and D 17:5, the chambers connected by long tunnels ... 300-250 B.C.

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D 17:6: Filling

Hole at 57/ΛΣΤ = Pottery Dump at 57/ΛΣΤ. May well have accumulated on the spot where it was found, its fragmentary state being attributable to the later rubble wall laid over it. Cf. also P 19982 (ΟΟ ... Ca. 400-375 B.C.

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D 17:9: Well

An unfinished well in the northwest room of the Poros Building. Dumped filling ... Ca. 400-385 B.C.

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D 17:10: Well

Well under Poros Building Drain at 62/ΛΣΤ. Digging abandoned at 6.10m. Fill dated to ca. 520-480 B.C., top fill dated to mid-5th century B.C. in Agora XXX, represented by P 20867 ... Ca. 520-480 B.C.

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D 17:12: Well

Unfinished well. The shaft was apparently never used as a well. The lower dumped filling contained a quantity of clean red clay, as if from an industrial establishment; also some marble chips and a scattering ... Ca. 350-325 B.C.

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D 19:1: Cistern

A flask-shaped cistern in House H with a dumped fill of the late fifth century brought from elsewhere and evidently deposited sometime in the 3rd c. B.C. Especially to be noted is the stamped Thasian amphora ... Ca. 420-400 B.C.

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D-E 8-9:1: Theseion Cisterns A and B (1936)

Two chambers connected by a tunnel, all filled at the same time, but with slight Hellenistic disturbance. Chamber A, to west at 14/ΛΗ, B to east at 14-15/ΛΒ on grid for section RR. Cistern system ca. 20.00m ... Ca. 325-275 B.C.

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D-E 18-19: Road

West Road and Drain. (Road, drain and closely related cuts.) Packing in line of ancient road running along the northwest shoulder of the Areopagus. Includes excavation of 1957 titled "Road Area to North", ... Late 6th c. B.C. - Roman