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Coins:
10 April 1937 #5 ... 4th-3rd c. B.C ... F 5:5 ... F 5:5 |
| Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 5. Adult (female?) inhumation.
Cist grave lined and covered with slabs of limestone, sandstone and schist. Cut into virgin soil under Royal Stoa at I/12,13-5/3,4. Grave measures 1.79x0.39-0.49x ca ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... I 5:5 ... I 5:5 |
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 ... Coins:
26 February 1937 #1-#2
27 February 1937 #2-#3
1 March 1937 #1
3 March 1937 #1
6 March 1937 #1-#3
9 March 1937 #1-#4
29 March 1937 #4
3 April 1937 #4-#6
5 April 1937 #3-#4
6 April 1937 #4-#8
7 May 1937 #1(well dump) |
| Pyre in House N, room 2, layer 5 (RSY=Pyre 8).
Near northern corner of room 6. Artifacts, bone, burnt logs, and cinders in square pit dug from level of layer 5, through layers 5 and 6; thin clay floor ... 325-300 B.C ... Pyre in House N, room 2, layer 5 (RSY=Pyre 8).
Near northern corner of room 6. Artifacts, bone, burnt logs, and cinders in square pit dug from level of layer 5, through layers 5 and 6; thin clay floor laid over it. |
Rubble and mortar pithos built over and into line of zig-zag drain. Excavated upside-down. Loose fill. No coins ... 18 A.D with mostly 16 A.D. c ... Q 5:1 ... Q 5:1 |
Represents excavated levels V-IX. Coins:
5 July 1971 #857 ... Late 5th c.-300 B.C ... J 5:1.4 ... J 5:1.4 |
| Grave in opisthodomos of Hephaisteion. Grave XLIX in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
9 March 1939 #8-#13 Neg. KK 365 ... 9 March 1939
16 March 1939 ... E 7:5 ... E 7:5 |
| 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 ... J/10-5/5 |
Now H 13:4. Asterisk: G 13:5* ... Asterisk: G 13:5* |
(now G 12:22) Asterisk: H 12:5* ... Asterisk: H 12:5* |
Cistern system, 88/ΝΓ (shaft and passages). Apparently a dumped filling of Roman times, drawn mostly from some Hellenistic deposit. Coins:
31 March 1937 #1-#5
1 April 1937 #4-#5
3 April 1937 #1-#2
5 April ... Hellenistic and Roman, 4th c. A.D ... D 5:2 ... D 5:2 |
| Enclosure within Roman Circular Building. The finds apparently reflect the entire area inside the enclosure. Pottery lot ΒΓ 515 identifies the deposit as layer 10 and coin #895 from layer 11 says "layer ... 12-18 August 1971
9-10 May 1972 ... J 5:2 ... J 5:2 |
Well at 18/ΜΑ. Not dug to bottom. Coin
9 May 1957 #5 Recorded in Ω Books, pp. 1874ff ... 30 April-14 May 1957 ... Coin
9 May 1957 #5 |
| Susan Rotroff ... Grave 1. Burial of a child perhaps 6 years old, covered by broken amphora. Skeleton lay extended on its back, oriented N-S, with head at south. No grave gifts. PD 2207 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... I 5:1 ... I 5:1 |
Hellenistic cistern, part of the same system as 94/ΝΣΤ (D 4:1) and connected with it by a passage. Later cleaned out for reuse and filled with destruction debris of the late 4th c. A.D. Coins:
23 March ... Second half 4th c. A.D ... E 5:1 ... E 5:1 |
Filling accumulated between the time of the Persian sack and the building of the Stoa.
Cf. Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 14-18 and H 6:5 ... H 5-6.2 ... H 5-6.2 |
9th-10th c. A.D ... J/10-5/5 |
Represents excavated levels II-III ... 275-150 B.C ... J 5:1.2 ... J 5:1.2 |
Represents excavated level IV. Coins:
2 July 1971 #851-#856 ... 300-275 B.C ... J 5:1.3 ... J 5:1.3 |
A very homogeneous dumped filling and no period of use. Apparently a failure as a well.
T 263-T 289 resorted and reduced August 1967. Cf. BI 157 "from behind the curbing of the well by Stoa pier 3." Estimated ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... Hesperia 5 (1936), pp. 333-354. |
"Debris Pit" beneath starting line in Panathenaic Way.
Dug as
Trench B (1971), pp. 1631-1649 (notebook not seen, PF);
finds record both Layer 28 and beneath Layer 28.
Trench I, pit 16a, (1973), pp. 3010-3022 ... 2 August 1971
4-6 July 1973
27 June-11 July 1980 ... L 5:2 ... L 5:2 |
Pit at 18-20/Λ-ΛΓ.
The cistern S 19:3 and the well S 19:8, together with a Roman well, S 19:1, had collapsed to form a large pit S 19:5. The upper part of the pit was dug to a depth of ca. -8m as deposit ... 7-8 April 1938
28 April-26 May 1938 ... The cistern S 19:3 and the well S 19:8, together with a Roman well, S 19:1, had collapsed to form a large pit S 19:5. The upper part of the pit was dug to a depth of ca. -8m as deposit S 19:5.
... Coins
3 March 1938 #7-#8
7 April 1938 #5-#6
9 April 1938 #1-#3
30 April 1938 #1-#2
2 May 1938 #1
10 June 1938 #1-#7 |
Turkish deposit of 28 gold coins inside a plain pot. Modern Context, just below basement level. Coins:
10 June 1971 #808-#835
In pot, fragments of cloth and bits of paper with Greek writing ... 1818-1819 ... L 5:1 ... L 5:1 |
| Susan I. Rotroff ... Burial 3 beneath the floor of the Stoa Basileios. It consisted of a rectangular pit cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.44m, lined on all sides and covered with an admixture of narrow stone slabs of soft ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... I 5:3 ... I 5:3 |
| Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 4 under Royal Stoa. Cist Grave cut into bedrock and lined with limestone and schist slabs. There were two layers of cover slabs with a layer of dirt between. Grave measured 0.98x0,25-0,32x0,25-0,30 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... I 5:4 ... I 5:4 |
| Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 2. Adult female inhumation. Grave extending under the south retaining wall of the Temenos of the Royal Stoa. It is oriented ne-sw, with head at sw. Grave built of slabs of schist, with packing of ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... I 5:2 ... I 5:2 |
Well near west edge of level area south of the Hephaisteion. Dumped filling thrown in near end of 4th. c. but by far the greater part belonging to the 30 years before 350 B.C.
Diameter of shaft 0.98m ... Ca. 380-350 B.C ... B 12:5 ... B 12:5 |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 5 in notebook.
The grave had been somewhat disturbed by the digging of Well B. The hydria lay on its side; in it was found the skeleton of a small child lying on its side with the knees drawn up ... Late 8th-early 7th c. B.C ... Grave 5 in notebook.
The grave had been somewhat disturbed by the digging of Well B. |
Drain channel system along the line of an ancient north-south road, the channel in part at the surface and in part tunneled and accessible by shafts. Over a considerable part of this channel the hard water ... 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D ... E 5:4 ... E 5:4 |
Essentially uniform fill of III-IV c. A.D. with a Byzantine upper fill. Coins:
14 June 1937 #1-#3
15 June 1937 #2
16 June 1937 #1
17 June 1937 #1-#2
18 June 1937 #1-#4
19 June 1937 #1-#4
9 June 1938 #1-#3 ... Late 3rd-mid-4th c. A.D ... Coins:
14 June 1937 #1-#3
15 June 1937 #2
16 June 1937 #1
17 June 1937 #1-#2
18 June 1937 #1-#4
19 June 1937 #1-#4
9 June 1938 #1-#3
10 June 1938 #1
13 June 1938 #1
15 June 1938 #1-#4
5 July 1938 #1-#3 (dump) |
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, mostly of ... 350-300 B.C ... Coins:
4 March 1936 #10-#11
5 March 1936 #2-#3
16 March 1936 #1-#1a |
| Pit in Layer 9, lined on the sides and bottom with small stones ... Late 5th c. B.C ... K 5:1 ... K 5:1 |
Actually 1 meter into section Δ, the well lies under a filling of primarily Hellenistic date which had been thrown in as underpinning for the support of a 2nd c. A.D. Roman tile-mosaic floor.
POU is 15.80-16.35m ... First half of 1st c. A.D ... Coins:
19 March 1934 #8
20 March 1934 #1-#3
21 March 1934 #3-#5
23 March 1934 #1-#3, #6-#8
30 March 1934 #39 |
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.
Flask-shaped cistern ... Early 3rd-late 2nd c. B.C ... F 5:1 ... F 5:1 |
Patch of burned filling at 66-67/ΚΘ-Λ (or Λ-ΛΑ) Coin
18 May 1938 #10 P 34428 added from Lot Ω 102 ... Early 5 c. B.C. (?) ... Early 5 c. B.C. (?) |
Burial disturbed. Located in Middle Stoa, north aisle, "upper trench", piers 3 and 4. Two individuals: small child (ca. 5 yrs. old) and adult female.
In its disturbed state the burial was found (at elevation ... First half of 7th c. B.C ... I 13:5 ... I 13:5 |
| Pyre 2 in Central House, Room X, under strosis 9. Signs of burning, carbonized food, animal bone.
In room south of courtyard. concentration of artifacts, bone, and charred material in floor makeup, no ... 290-275 B.C ... Coins:
5 May 1958 #1 (above pyre) |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 4 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave XLIV). No remains (not really a grave, note on p. 331).
Roughly rectangular patch of unworked fieldstones, measuring about 1.20x0.80m neatly laid on bedrock, ... 19-21 March 1932 ... F 16:5 ... F 16:5 |
A well on the NW slope of the Areopagus; unfinished well-shaft dug to a depth of only 3.05m., and refilled with broken pottery and other debris. The shaft clearly was begun with the intention of digging ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... F 19:5 ... F 19:5 |
The fill in this cistern is Byzantine with considerable admixture of Greek IV-III c. B.C. Coins:
7 March 1932 #9
9 March 1932 #1
10 March 1932 #1-#2
11 March 1932 #2
12 March 1932 #1 ... 11th-12th c. A.D ... G 5:1 ... G 5:1 |
| 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.
The bones from this ... Mid-2nd c. B.C ... G 5:3 ... G 5:3 |
Exploration over bedrock inside the Tholos; levels of 6th c. B.C ... 6th c. B.C ... G 11:5 ... G 11:5 |
Connected with G 14:3.
There was a layer of Late Roman fill. It rested over a layer of 2nd c. B.C Hellenistic and then another of 4th c. B.C Hellenistic; the passage between the two cisterns contained ... Late Hellenistic ... G 14:5 ... G 14:5 |
No description in Deposit folders ... Geometric ... G 15:5 ... G 15:5 |
Pit in shop I of Roman Stoa, 2.50m. behind the Royal Stoa. Most of the pottery dates to the third quarter of the 5th c. B.C. Many of the vessels were marked with a ligature, indicating that this was the ... 3rd quarter 5th c. B.C ... H 4:5 ... H 4:5 |
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 ... H 5-6 ... H 5-6 |
Deposits containing much ash and charcoal, probably to be associated with the Persian sack. Layers IV-VI of trial pit between Stoa piers IV and V ... 1st quarter 5th c. B.C ... H 5-6.1 ... H 5-6.1 |
Fillings immediately antedating the building of the Stoa.
Cf. Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 20 and the debris of a pottery works behind the Stoa (H 7:1) ... H 5-6.3 ... H 5-6.3 |
Deposit beneath re-used poros blocks.
Fragments of 2 ancient blocks of soft, white poros were reused here for a later foundation. the course of the late wall cannot be traced beyond the length of the two ... 15-17 July 1931 ... H 7:5 ... H 7:5 |
| This cutting was filled in at the time Road 6 was laid. Homogeneous dumped fill.
This deposit represents fill which was brought in at the time Road 6 at the west end of the Middle Stoa was laid to fill ... Ca. 480 B.C ... H 13:5 ... H 13:5 |
| Shallow pit below layer I in Stoa Shop VI (Pyre)
Diameter 0.90; D. 0.15m Under shop VI of the Stoa of Attalos Pottery, ash, burning and packing of small stones in pit in stratum. The pyre was covered by ... Ca. 350 or 325 B.C. ? ... R 11:5 ... R 11:5 |
Pre-Stoa Pit beneath floor of Shop I ... 2nd c. B.C ... R 12:5 ... R 12:5 |
Well at 20/ΙΔ.
No POU fill. Bottom packed with sherds, including roof-tile fragments. Above this, were six meters with a "fair quantity" of sherds; then the top meter and a half contained a great quantity ... Ca. 420-390 B.C ... R 13:5 ... R 13:5 |
Well A
Mostly uniform dumped fill. use level probably late. The well head (A 2753) had evidently been broken up and thrown in as soon as the well went out of use. Dumped filling, second quarter of 7th ... 7th century B.C ... R 17:5 ... R 17:5 |
Well K: Late Neolithic. Near Klepsydra.
Diameter top ca. 1.00x0.80
at -1.50 ca. 0.75
at -2.25 ca 0.50
Water level ca. -2.00m ... Late Neolithic ... S 27:5 ... S 27:5 |
Fill in abandoned cistern, lower terrace adjacent yo the Eleusinion on the north.
Uncatalogued material: 189 sherds, 4 objects. Many kernoi fragments.
Objects : loom weights; lamp.
Early ware : Gray Minyan; ... Mid. 4th c. B.C ... T 18:5 ... T 18:5 |
Well at 53/ΛΖ ... Byzantine ... T 19:5 ... T 19:5 |
Well D: Archaic
Well on the northwest slope of the Acropolis. Debris filling with scanty pottery remains; most of the pottery is earlier than the lower limit. Diameter at top ca. 1.20m; bottom ca. 1.10m ... End of 6th c. B.C ... T 24:5 ... T 24:5 |
Well 20: Neolithic ... 14-15 April 1939 ... T 26:5 ... T 26:5 |
Earlier well northwest of well U 19:2 and cut by it, unexcavated; sherds and hydria gathered from party wall. Uncatalogued material: 26 sherds. Deposit created by Margie Miles, 1 inventoried object ... Late Geometric ... U 19:5 ... U 19:5 |
Trial cut at 26/ΙΣΤ-ΙΖ, Layer I; Circular Building, 22m south of Eleusinion. P 30171, P 30172, L 5818 added on 7 May 1973 ... 4th c. B.C ... U 22:5 ... U 22:5 |
Well 16 Nothing catalogued, but presumably the 20th Neolithic well, see page 1. J Camp ... Neolithic ... U 24:5 ... U 24:5 |
Well 22: Neolithic ... Neolithic ... U 26:5 ... U 26:5 |
Well at 69/ΚΔ (Well G: PG, ELS).
Diameter 0.75m. Fairly but not perfectly evenly cut; no foot-holds in sides. Very little water gathered. The well produced a small amount of pottery, the bulk of it coming ... Protogeometric ... M 17:5 ... M 17:5 |
Drain Trench at 62/ΜΗ.
The presence of a number of fairly well preserved vases of good quality suggested to the excavator the possibility that the cutting might once have contained a burial. No skeletal ... 325-300 B.C ... M 18:5 ... M 18:5 |
Grave 11 ... Dark Ages - Byzantine ... M 23:5 ... M 23:5 |
Well at 69/ΛΕ (diameter 0.95m).
Narrows at bottom. Footholds on east and west. Uniform fill. Bones found in the well make it likely that it had cut through a grave, as it was itself overlain by one ... Late 8th c. B.C ... N 11:5 ... N 11:5 |
Debris of Odeon-purse? A. Walker coin deposit ... N 12:5 ... N 12:5 |
Pit in colonnade of south Stoa I, north of S. half of room 4. Estimated Grid ... N 16:5 ... N 16:5 |
Unfinished well in corridor of Poros Building ... Third quarter 5th c. B.C ... D 18:5 ... D 18:5 |
Cistern connected by tunnel to another chamber filled in Byzantine period. Small Hellenistic deposit on floor. somewhat contaminated by Byzantine fill above
No stamped amphora handles later than 3rd c.; ... 250-190 B.C ... E 5:2 ... E 5:2 |
The following pieces from E 6:4 exhibit joins with pottery from this cistern and could be listed here as well: P 7836-P 7839.
Cf. Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 19, n. 51. Coins:
15 March 1937 #1
16 March ... Mid-Late Byz ... E 5:3 ... E 5:3 |
Pit near SW corner of Hellenistic Bldg. The object catalogued is one of three TC molds found at the location ... 5th.-4th. c. B.C ... E 6:5 ... E 6:5 |
Found in 13/06/1935.
Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup, perhaps in one of the public buildings near the SW corner of the square ... Ca. 520-490 B.C ... E 14:5 ... E 14:5 |
| David Scahill ... Behind northeast corner of Classical Building; east wall C. Below Hellenistic levels and early Classical pit. Chamber cut through bedrock, depth ca. 0.90m., diameter ca. 2m., roughly square in shape, angling ... LH III A:1 ... K 2:5 ... K 2:5 |
Anne McCabe ... Pithos D, adjacent to Pithos A at the NE, is built of stone and broken tile, beehive-shaped, unlined, with no floor. The wall of Pithos D appears to have been cut by the construction of the mortar wall ... 4-6 July 2007
31 July 2007 ... L 2:5 ... L 2:5 |
| Grave VI in notebook = RSY Grave 10. PD 731-d Ptg. 251 ... Ca. 520-525 B.C ... B 21:5 ... B 21:5 |
Pit in east Terrace.
Cf. container ΝΝ 109 ... 1st. c. B.C ... B 22:5 ... B 22:5 |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 12 in notebook. Cut in bedrock. (E.L. Smithson: Grave VII: PG) Few bones (discarded). Rectangular cutting in bedrock.
JP ... Early Protogeometric ... C 9:5 ... C 9:5 |
Cistern at 79/Γ (= 80/Δ) on lower north slope of the Areopagus. Filling of 2nd c. B.C. with some later intrusions (Turkish pottery indicates disturbance).
Single Knidian stamped amphora handle dates around ... Hellenistic-Turkish ... I 16:5 ... I 16:5 |
Cistern shaft at 63/ΚΓ. Part of H-I 16-17 system. Contents of 3rd c. disturbed.
Part of extensive cistern system, of which one chamber, three drawshafts, and two blind tunnels were excavated (H 16:2, ... 3rd c., disturbed ... I 17:5 ... I 17:5 |
| Terracotta deposit in SW corner of Room K and E of Roman Wall L. Roman layer of red, compact earth.
Baskets 50,52,54. Coins:
18 July 2002 #1282
19 July 2003 #1295 ... 4th c. A.D ... J 1:5 ... J 1:5 |
Well dug through N 18:1 (cistern at 79/ΜΗ) on the lower north slopes of Areopagus; the cistern was the northern chamber of a system; the southern chamber is at 84/ΝΣΤ (N 19:1).
A single dumped deposit ... 3rd-4th c. A.D ... N 18:5 ... N 18:5 |
Well at 74/Ι, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus.
Use fill from early 1st to 3rd c. A.D.
Dump fill from 4th c. A.D. Coins
9 April 1938 #2
9 May 1938 #1 Container 20 (lost) p. 1529 ... 1st c. to 3d c. A.D ... N 20:5 ... N 20:5 |
| Mycenaean Small Chamber tomb.
The cist measures 1,90m E to W, 0.75-0.90m N to S, max. depth -1.30m. Nothing was found in it; cleaned in modern times and used as a cesspool. Some of the SW part of it had ... Myc. IIIA, early 14th c ... N 21:5 ... N 21:5 |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb with niches.
One of the few tombs found in the Agora that has an almost architectural regularity with squares chamber (1.75m wide by 2.10m deep) and axially centered dromos (4m long ... Myc. III A 1:2 ... O 7:5 ... O 7:5 |
The grid area is covered by 'modern bothros' nbp. 375 ... 1 June 1932 ... H 16:5 ... H 16:5 |
A filling lying over a cobbled floor in a house-complex on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus.
Area in front of E-W retaining wall, just above cobble pavement, disturbed by coins and pottery as late ... 375-275 B.C ... H 17:5 ... H 17:5 |
Well in Marble-Saw Shed. No distinct use filling. Estimated Grid ... Submycenaean ... O 8:5 ... O 8:5 |
| Phaidon Street Cistern: North Chamber
Sullan destruction debris. One of two chambers connected by tunnel.
Two latest coins date to 87/86. Gray ware lamp of first quarter of 1st c. A.D. indicates disturbance ... 2nd c. B.C ... O 17:5 ... O 17:5 |
Small Pit in bedrock (diameter 0.70m). " A handful of contemporary sherds found with it, discarded." p. 1238 ... July 1957 ... O 18:5 ... O 18:5 |
Well at 56/ΚΖ, just south of the south wall of the northern Late Roman Building ... Second half of 2nd c. - early 3rd c. A.D ... O 19:5 ... O 19:5 |
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 ... E 19:5 ... E 19:5 |
Well in Court J, House of Greek Mosaic ... Early 4th c. A.D ... E 29:5 ... E 29:5 |
| Grave V, under room 18 in House 3, plus burned deposit at 94/IΘ. Identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR on Agoraios Kolonos:
In southeast corner of house 3. 35 artifacts, bone and charred material in pit, ... Ca. 300-275 B.C ... F 5:2 ... F 5:2 |
Pit on north slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Traces of burning in the dirt fill; mixed in with this many fragments of fine pottery ... Ca. 450-420 B.C ... F 5:3 ... F 5:3 |
Figurine Deposit in Roman Building 4, Room 20, strosis 1. Coins:
13 April 1937 #1 ... To 4th c. A.D ... F 5:4 ... F 5:4 |
Bits of broken molds and iron waste; no objects catalogued ... 4th-3rd c. B.C ... F 5:6 ... F 5:6 |
Unfinished well cut in bedrock to the southwest of the Tholos; dumped filling containing much material of the 7th c. B.C. but extending into the 6th ... 7th-ca. 570 B.C ... F 12:5 ... F 12:5 |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Ovoid pit cut into bedrock or sterile fill just north of preserved floor surfaces in the so-called Strategeion. Length (west-east) 2.6m; widens at 1.25m from the east scarp so that at west pit is 0.75m ... 4th B.C ... F 13:5 ... F 13:5 |
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