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[Deposit]  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.

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[Deposit]  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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[Deposit]  D 17:4: Cistern

Cistern at 70/ΚΕ and channels. Part of same system as D 17:3 and D 17:5. The following objects are from the dirt pile and have no subdivision: G 397, S 1436, ST 470, T 2927. Subdivisions: .1=Top fill .2=Middle ... Ca. 200-150 B.C.

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[Deposit]  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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[Deposit]  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.

[Deposit]  D-E 15:1: Great Drain fillings

Great Drain: fillings in south part of section; Martyrs I, II and III, all layers (essentially no difference in the layers). Pottery sorted and recorded by H.A. Thompson 12 may 1950: "Having gone through ... Early 1st c. B.C.

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[Deposit]  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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[Deposit]  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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[Deposit]  E 5:2: Cistern

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

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[Deposit]  E 5:5: Pit

Pit at 79-83/ΜΒ-ΜΖ (or 81/ΜΣΤ=pit under floor of Room 11 in Roman Bldg. 2, 82/ΜΓ, 83/ΜΕ=well at 83/ΜΗ). Purpose of pit obscure. Evidently filled in Hellenistic times and disturbed in Roman times. Coins: ... 275-200 B.C. with later disturbance

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[Deposit]  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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[Deposit]  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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[Deposit]  E 10:1: Manhole, Channel Mouth 4

Water channel in north part of Section: Channel Mouth 4. Coins: 22 February 1936 #16-#18 24 February 1936 #1-#2 ... 120-86 B.C.

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[Deposit]  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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[Deposit]  E 14:3: Drawshaft, "Kybele 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 ... Upper fill, Late Roman with some Hellenistic. Middle fill, Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C. Lower fill, 4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment

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[Deposit]  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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[Deposit]  E 14:10: Well I

Abandoned digging at 12.85m. due to collapse of side walls. Well H contents probably thrown in to Well I during cleaning in early Roman times; the pottery from the two wells is similar. Cf. E 14:6 ... 350-250 B.C.

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[Deposit]  E 15:3: 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 ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C.-86 B.C.

[Deposit]  E 15:7: Well C

A small concentration of pottery in lowest 1.80m., possibly a use fill. Three fills above, with little pottery, ranging from Hellenistic to late Roman in date. Coins: 26 February 1934 #4-#6 27 February ... 325-200 B.C.

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[Deposit]  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.