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
Cistern system West of Bouleuterion: (see also B: cistern system to West of Tholos). Third Chamber from North. A well was dug through the bottom in Byz. times. Cf. deposit F 9:2. Coins:
3 May 1934 #1 ... 160-140 B.C., with Byz. disturbance
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.
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
The following objects may be from this level or from the 'Mixed Classical Level at 10/Δ: SS 449, SS 450, SS 451 (nbp. 186). Coins:
4 March 1933 #1-#6 (cf. #7-#13)
7 March 1933 #39 ... 150-86 B.C.
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.
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 of Middle Drain (Tr. H+F in Section Ζ). Sand and gravel filling of the old course of the west branch of the Great Drain, a large (ca. 1.00m. deep and 1.30m. wide) underground channel in the area ... 150-100 B.C.
Well (Hole) at 19/Ι(ΙΑ). Collapsed well creating a hole above; mixed fill in hole, early Byz in well proper. Coins:
26 April 1934 #12
28 April 1934 #38
1 May 1934 #3 ... Early Byz.
Dug to 6.60m. and abandoned because of danger.
Perhaps this context: P 528, P 1223 (JWH). Coins:
22 April 1932 #1 ... Second half 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D.
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.
Includes area labeled "Deposit around collapsed section of poros gutter, road cut south of annex of SWFH." Coins:
28 June 1967 #2
13 July 1967 #1-#6
14 July 1967 #1
15 July 1967 #1 ... 325-275 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.
Located in front of west end of Stepped Retaining Wall, Heliaia. Filled in and covered in last stages of grading of area after construction of Middle Stoa ... 175-150 B.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.
Located at the bifurcation of the Panathenaic Way and West Road.Byzantine fill (9th-10th century) in upper 5.70m. with a series of Classical to Hellenistic accumulations below. Coins:
10 July 1971 #861 ... 14 June-27 July 1971
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.
Hellenistic fill on either side of wall running east-west over 50/ΙΓ. Mostly coarse pottery including many stamped amphora handles.
Cf. also nb. P XII, pp. 2297-2298. Coins:
13 June 1935 #2 ... 275-200 B.C.
"Red Fill" (extending to bedrock or near, over most of area). Mainly first century after Christ with later disturbance. Coins:
17 April 1936 #10-#13
18 April 1936 #1
20 April 1936 #13-#17
21 April 1936 ... 1st-2nd c. A.D.
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
Cistern on lower north slope of Areopagus. Coins:
12 March 1937 #5-#8
13 March 1937 #1-#8
15 March 1937 #1-#5
16 March 1937 #1-#7
17 March 1937 #1-#2
18 March 1937 #1-#3
19 March 1937 #3 Also noted as ... 260-190 B.C.
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.
Pyre 2 in Central House, R oom X, under strosis 9. Signs of burning, carbonized food, no bone.
Cf. Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 122 ff. Coins:
5 May 1958 #1 (above pyre) Cf. Lot Φ 217 for strosis above pyre ... 290-275 B.C.
A 3rd. c. B.C. cistern and an unfinished rectangular cutting of the 2nd c. B.C. which destroyed some of its upper part. These two features are combined in this deposit; the following objects are identified ... 3rd-2nd c. B.C.
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.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above. Subdivisions:
.1=top and intermediate fills, to 2.00m.
.2=middle fill
.3=bottom fill ... 6 February 1937
Cistern in NW corner of Byzantine Building. Pottery consistent throughout, late Hellenistic. Late 2nd c. B.C. Coins:
3 May 1934 #4
7 May 1934 #8-#10
8 May 1934 #1
11 May 1934 #4-#7 ... 100-75 B.C.
Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. Subdivisions:
.1=upper fill (Group F)
.2=middle fill
.3=lower fill ... Second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C.
Construction filling of well N 20:3 which was dug through this cistern; a few later sherds at upper levels may result from late repairs to well tiling. Coins:
6 April 1938 #14-#15
8 April 1938 #4 Some ... Second half 1st c. A.D.
Dumped fillings thrown in during second quarter of 1st c. B.C. containing mostly debris resulting from Sulla's sack in 86 B.C.
Agora XXIX, p. 464: Four fills distinguished during exavations ... but seemingly ... Late 2nd c. and early 1st c. B.C. POU; 110-75 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
South Stoa I: 75-76/ΚΗ-Λ South Shop Building Layer g (O 16:1) and South Stoa I: Stony Fill below floor level (O 16:2). (merged from O 16:1 and O 16:2) Merged from two separate deposits: O 16:1 and O 16:2 ... ca. 420-400 B.C. and earlier
Cistern at 63/ΛΑ (part of cistern system 63/ΛΑ-65/ΜΑ-70/ΛΣΤ, consisting of two chambers and a well). Roman upper fill with modern cesspool fill above. Channel finds: MC 517, SS 8078. Subdivisions:
.1=Upper ... 300-195 B.C.
With cistern at 17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ (P 10:2), two chambers connected by a passage.
18/Π went out of use first and was closed off from 17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ; filled up at one time with material dating between 350 and 300 B.C ... 325-285 B.C.
With cistern at 18/Π (P 10:1), two chambers connected by a passage.
18/Π went out of use first and was closed off from 17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ; filled up at one time with material dating between 350 and 300 B.C.
17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ ... 17 April 1937
27-28 May 1937
Dumped fill in a shaft which served as means of access leading to a water channel south of the Stoa of Attalos. Coins:
29 June 1933 #1
29 April 1936 #1-#3
4 May 1936 #1 ... Early 1st c. A.D.
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 C - Passage, belongs with II - Brick Shaft. All dumped fills. No objects catalogued from Well C of section ΟΑ. One object (I 5422) catalogued from modern fill in shaft, one from dump (I 5545) Subdivisions: ... 2nd c. A.D.-Byz.
The upper part of a plastic lamp with perforated top, modelled in the shape of a sandalled right foot. Traces of handle behind.
Glaze red to brown, worn on outside.
Pinkish-buff clay.
ADDENDA RVN: Pobably ... 28 February 1953
Fragment showing upper left part of negro head, including eye and curls above forehead. At top, pour-hole.
Black glaze outside and inside. Added white for eyeball.
Pinkish-buff clay. Worthy sherds from ... 1956
Handle missing; rim chipped. Open mouth; flaring lip set upon rounded body; flat bottom, no base ring; attachments for handle at lip and shoulder.
Attic clay; black glaze badly flaked. 324 Leica, 89-20-19 ... 6 July 1931
Plastic attachment for twisted handle. Mask has long nose, crudely rendered mouth. On the small remaining pot body fragment are stripes of clay applied as paint.
Attic clay; black glazze. 383 Leica ... 13 July 1931
Moulded rim with two grooves beneath the edge; below, part of a panel of diminishing squares and a checkerboard pattern in black and white.
Dark buff clay; unglazed inside.
Hellenistic. 418 Leica, 89-21-21 ... 15 July 1931
Mended from two pieces; complete save for a small piece of the rim. Plain moulded rim; body nearly flat; heavy base ring. At the center of the interior, a small impressed circle; half way between the center ... 30 July 1931
Complete save for a chip from rim. Heavy moulded rim; plate nearly flat; high base ring. In the center, an irregular six-pointed star, incised; six stamped palmettes and three bands of hatching.
Attic ... 4 August 1931
Under surface rough, unfinished from the wheel; curving body; broad projecting rim, nearly flat; wide vertical band handles, carelessly attached.
Pink clay; no glaze.
Miniature Votive Bowl.
Six complete ... 5 August 1931
The bottom, most of one side, and a bit of the lip are missing. Flaring lip; short narrow neck; handle extending from lip to shoulder, carelessly attached; body curving, with a vertical band just above ... 5 August 1931
Parts of rim with one handle and part of foot broken away. Profiled foot (0.018 high); flaring rim; from just below its edge to the widest part of the swelling body below, vertical ribbon handles, with ... 16 February 1932
Rim flares to heavy, profiled edge; remains of large, rising, horizontally set handles attached to the swelling body of the vase. Foot, 0.018 high, two concave mouldings set on a convex one, the central ... 16 February 1932
Mended from several fragments. A good part of body walls and rim missing. Body like that of small amphora with greatest diameter below center. Low ring base. Mouth closed by strainer (eight holes around ... 17 February 1932
From a small cup or bowl with nearly straight sides and thin walls, the edge slightly grooved on the outside.
Over part of a festoon, painted in thick buff on the black glaze, the letters:
Clay, fine ... 18 February 1932
Broad rim divided by grooves into three ridges of which the innermost is the highest. Interior slope, rim to center, a triple-curved line. High ring base, mesomphalic.
Buff, micaceous clay; inside painted ... 20 February 1932
Broken both ends. Piece resembles large deep lamp nozzle, but does not appear to be associated with any known lamp type. The head is applied with its cut-off neck toward the up-curving tip of the spout ... 1 March 1932
Arched horizontal handle attached at top of swelling body of pot, of which a bit of the flaring rim is also preserved; the handle is split into five by grooves. Set on each attachment a plastic female(?) ... 2 March 1932
Mended from several fragments; all of one handle and a part of the other, missing; small piece gone from foot. A heavy moulded lip surrounds the deep, flaring rim, which is set in from a small bulging ... 8 March 1932
The lid rises toward the center; around its outer edge are two deep grooves from which the glaze has been scraped away. Between the grooves, alternating buff and white dots. The lid is finished by a vertical ... 10 March 1932
Upper part mended from many pieces; short handle from lip to high shoulder, and most of trefoil lip missing. Groove above flat, offset base.
Glazed inside lip and all over outside including bottom. Thin, ... 2 March 1932
Restored in plaster. The upper surface slopes to a small round depression in center. The edge of the plate has a dropped flange. Flaring ring base surrounding convex underside of central depression.
... 2 March 1932
Repaired from several fragments; most of one handle missing. Egg-shaped body tapering to a very small raised foot and curving in sharply at rim; two handles.
Rather coarse pink clay. The glaze simply ... 24 March 1932
Lower part of large bowl; mended from several fragments, none of the rim or upper part preserved. Heavy fabric. Low ring foot; body offset above foot; traces of handle attachment.
Decorated inside with ... 15 February 1932
Mended from three pieces; small fragment missing. Interior, six palmettes enclosed by delicate hatched band.
Glaze mottled with much red. Cave, north chamber, lowest red deposit (lower fill). Leica, 78-2-22, ... 14 March 1932
Mended from several fragments; about half the circumference of the rim preserved; partly restored in plaster. Neck with outcurving rim sharply set off from neat profiled shoulder.
Around neck, vine pattern ... 13 April 1932
Around the cylindrical neck a thickened band as though to fasten the handle ends.
Dull black glaze over all; decorated with irregular dots and dashes in thin white and heavy clay-colored paint around ... 16 April 1932
Narrow flat rim with sharp projecting edge. Body tapering to low foot. Two grooves around upper part of body. Decoration in thin paint, much worn: stripes across handle, on rim, and between the two grooves ... 16 April 1932
Handles from neck to angle of body, broken away. Rim somewhat chipped. Small squat amphora with flaring profiled rim; angular body on heavy low ring foot. Decoration in alternate white and clay-colored ... 16 April 1932
Cup with small mouth and high swung vertical handle, flat base. Thin brown glaze chipped, and blackened as if by fire on one side. Traces of yellow pigment inside beneath red pigment and in thick and peeling ... 16 April 1932
Small shallow bowl with s-curved sides and downturned rim. In the center, inside, four stamped palmettes carelessly set within a hatched band. High ring foot.
Glaze much mottled; glossy, but worn and ... 18 April 1932
Sides concave, top and bottom flat with small central opening in top; inkwell? Inside a small shallow groove, 0.009m. from the outer edge of the top; the surface slopes downward very slightly toward the ... 18 April 1932
Bowl with flaring sides and low foot. Flat bottom left rough from the wheel.
Blackened pinkish-buff clay. Well. Leica, group shot 92-7-2 ... 18 April 1932
Small situla with basket handle and body tapering to low flat-bottomed foot.
Pinkish-buff clay. Surface blackened and otherwise discolored; but apparently not glazed. Well. Leica PD 1091-120 ... 18 April 1932
Handles broken away; base mended; chip missing. Horizontal handles. Around the outside of the moulded base, a groove, scraped and colored with miltos; inner edge of resting surface bevelled off and likewise ... 20 April 1932
Foot, handles and most of rim missing. Partly restored in plaster.
Most of glaze peeled away, but ivy pattern around center of rim still discernible.
Attic clay. Inside, good black glaze; outside mottled ... 20 April 1932
Mended from four pieces; hole in center of bottom. Ring foot, grooved beneath; thick walls; incurving rim.
Attic clay. Glaze fair quality, much chipped. From pocket in bedrock. Leica, 91-17-9, 82-441 ... 22 April 1932
