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N-S Cut on 20m. line (area of Road, area of Stoa, area N of Stoa)
various levels and dates over the three areas.
Investigations to the northwest of the market square in the area of the road that bordered ... Protogeometric to Late Roman |
The filling from top to bottom uniform, yielding small bits of ancient worked marbles and pottery of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. mixed with undecorated coarse ware, probably of Byzantine times ... 5th c. A.D.-Byz. |
Well at 9/ΙΣΤ-ΙΖ has been cleaned and stripped of its tiles and original filling and bedrock thrown back into shaft.
Joins between sherds from all levels.
No coins or lamps. Containers examined 5 March ... 1st c. B.C. |
Drain at 7/ΙΘ-ΚΑ ... Early Roman |
Exploration of packing below paving blocks of Panathenaic Way.
Uncatalogued material: 66 sherds, 2 objects (50A) and 43 sherds (50B). Coins:
26 April 1960 #1-#2
3 May 1960 #1-#4, #6-#9 Deposit created ... 1st c. A.D. |
Klepsydra: West Passage. Loose fill, and fill between boulders.
Cf. Hesperia 12 (1943), pp. 246-248 Probable P 12807 belongs in this deposit ... Late 2nd c. A.D. |
Dumped fill in shaft. Estimated Grid ... Byzantine |
Well B: early Byz.
Water level ca. -7.80m. Diameter Top ca. 1.10m, Bottom ca. 0.80m Coins
17 February 1937 #1 ... Early Byzantine |
Late Roman, perhaps as late as 7th c., but excavator noted small amount of material made close dating impossible throughout. Nbpp. 2448-2449: The fill of this well throughout is mixed and there are numerous ... Early to Late Roman |
Loose filling below earliest Byzantine Floor. Coins:
25 February 1939 #3-#5
27 February 1939 #2-#4 ... To 11th c. A.D. |
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. |
Coins:
24 May 1937 #1
27 May 1937 #1
31 May 1937 #1
2 June 1937 #1 ... Byzantine |
Two periods of use.
Outside the SW corner of the market square, to the west of the north-south road; lower use of filling, of 1st to early 2nd c. A.D. Coins:
26 May 1937 #1 [to 8.30m.]
9 June 1937 #2-#4 ... 10 -11 June 1935
20 May-20 June 1937 |
Coins perhaps Hadrian 117-138 A.C.
No XXVII lamps and no XX catalogued (but excavator notes their presence in fill) ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
Coins:
2 May 1935 #1-#4 ... Turkish |
Located in Room IV, strosis 3, of SW House. Archaic, later disturbed, filling in and over undug well. See also L-M 17-18:1 where objects SS 14318 and T 3576 are actually from the filling over the undug ... 6th-5th c. B.C. |
A well lined with a very well built stone wall, carefully made and fitted to the curve of the well cutting, with footholds running down its N and S faces. This wall, of small stones, runs to 7.30m. from ... 23-29 March 1937 |
Grave XXIII in notebook = RSY Grave 46.
Late Hellenistic filling in a disturbed grave, west of Areopagus ... 19 June 1939 |
Early Roman well with four fills.
fill 1: well sealed 1st. c. A.D.
fill 2: more bones than pots.
fill 3: nothing later than 1st. c. B.C.=POU
fill 4: similar to fill 3, a little earlier? Coins:
7 May 1940 ... Early Roman |
House K: Brown fill (publ. House U). Filling between terrace wall and house wall at the extreme west end of the Areopagus; a brown gravelly filling of early Roman date found here undisturbed but occurring ... Early Roman |
Cistern System #1d: Manhole at 24/ΝΘ. Coins:
29 February 1936 #3
2 March 1936 #1 ... Byzantine with 4th c. to Hellenistic |
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 |
Chronology mixed to late Roman ... Roman |
A shallow tiled well or reservoir set inside the South Stoa against its back wall. Its location in relation to the wall of the Stoa, and the fact that a lead pipe set through the latest floor of the Stoa ... 5th - 6th c. A.D. |
Early Roman, late 1st c. A.D. with some later fragments. Coins:
31 May 1938 #1-#12
1 June 1938 #1-#5
2 June 1938 #1-#2 ... Late 1st c. B.C. |
Dumped fill. Well lining collapsed at ca. 0.60m. from bottom, apparently at start of POU, forcing abandonment. Pottery described as mixed to "latest Roman", including combed and gouged; all very fragmentary; ... Late Roman |
Hoard of 10 Byzantine coins ("all turned up with one blow of pick"). Late strosis. Coins:
15 March 1934 #12-#21 (hoard)
16 March 1934 #17 ... Byzantine |
"baskets" 1-5 Coins:
22 April 1937 #7
23 April 1937 #17-#18
24 April 1937 #1
coins from Dump:
28 May 1937 #31-#32 ADDENDA Top-early 4th. c. consistent with coins of Licinius and Maximinus in good condition ... post-Herulian |
Coins:
25 April 1947 #1
26 April 1947 #1-#5
28 April 1947 #1-#3 |
Nbp. 3104: Container includes a miscellaneous accumulation of Greek and Roman pottery with some fragments of Byzantine brown glaze. No joins were observed between this layer and Layer II ... 16-24 May 1937 |
Tiled well cleared only to a depth of 6.60m. where fallen tiles and broken bedrock made further work impossible. So far as dug, a dumped filling as late as the 6th c. A.D. Coins:
16 May 1949 #2
18 May ... As late as 6th c. A.D. |
Pit 4 in Grave area (= Cistern). Not completely cleared. Filling probably late Hellenistic, though with some earlier material ... Hellenistic |
Cistern through which well G 14:4 was dug. Filling in cistern, early Byzantine, but with various objects resembling those from the upper dumped filling in the well, below the cistern floor (5th c. A.D.) ... Early Byzantine |
East Chamber of Cistern System #2. The fill in layers, but probably a destruction fill with layering not significant. Coins:
4 May 1936 #1-#6
5 May 1936 #1-#7
6 May 1936 #2-#6
LRD pottery and gouged ware ... Late 5th-early 6th c. A.D. |
| Rubbing of Knidian amphora stamp showing boukranion and names of the potter Dioskourides and the magistrate Hermon ... 1 Jun 2000 |
| Amphora ... F.E ... PD 2802-1 ... 2001 |
| Amphora ... F.E ... PD 2802-2 ... 2001 |
| Amphora ... F.E ... PD 2802-4 ... 2001 |
| Amphora ... F.E ... PD 2802-9 ... 2001 |
| Amphoras: SS 7210 (a) and SS 14142 (b) ... F.E ... PD 2802-12 ... 2001 |
| Amphoras: SS 9464 (a) and SS 371 (b) ... F.E ... PD 2802-14 ... 2001 |
| Amphora ... F.E ... PD 2802-16 ... 2001 |
| Amphora ... F.E ... PD 2802-18 ... 2001 |
From the mouth to 10.50m. a fill of earth with mixed sherds, Roman 4th. c. to geometric. Probably dumped in to fill the well. From 10.50-17.75m. the fill was of broken bedrock, with a few sherds scattered ... 5th. c. |
| Stamped amphora: knidian ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jun 2009 |
| Rhodian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jun 2009 |
| Fragment of Knidian amphora ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 17 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jun 2009 |
| Knidian stamped amphora handle ... Angelique Sideris ... For Mark Lawall. Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jun 2009 |
| Stamped Knidian amphora handle ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Knidian amphora handle ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Drawing of toe from stamped amphora: Knidian ... Found in a cabinet in architect room, with no PD or DA number. Fragile |
Turkish Pit at 41/ΙΣΤ ... 3 April 1935 |
Well East of Stoa Shop 14. Coins:
31 October 1949 #1-#2 ... 1st c. A.D. |
Road SE of altar, below 51.56m.
In 1981, p. 1883: "A single pass, ca. 0.03m. thick and we hit another surface, at 51.56m. which we take as Layer XV. Fairly loose gravelly fill under surface, sandy, greenish ... 1st c. B.C. |
| A tiled well with two periods of use, Byzantine and Late Roman.
Some coarse Byzantine pottery from the upper part. from the lower part, pre-Herulian pottery, lamps and figurines. Also ΑΡ 221 (A 1202) the ... 3rd c. A.D. (before 267 A.D.)
11th-12th c. A.D. |
Coins:
20 March 1947 #1 Estimated Grid ... 11th-12th c. A.D. |
| Stamped Knidian amphora ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Knidian amphora ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Knidian amphora ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Knidian amphora ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Knidian amphora ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Knidian amphora ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Knidian amphora ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Knidian amphora ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Knidian amphora ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Knidian amphora ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Level, broad, start of right angle curve.
Coarse clay; grey at core.
Impression incomplete below; much worn. Publ: a worse ex than TD 6862 (VG)* Lowest red stratum. Ἐπὶ Ξενο[κλ]έ
ο[υς Ἀ]θα[ν]οκ
ρί[του ... 1 March 1932 ... Amphoras | Knidian |
| Level, broad, ribbed; broken at curve.
Coarse clay; red; traces of light slip.
Frame rectangle, impression set somewhat obliquely; worn. Δράκοντος
Κνίδιον
(Σ lunate, framed) Leica ... 1 March 1932 ... Amphoras | Knidian |
| Slightly rising; curves close to neck.
Very coarse clay; red, grey at core; surface gone.
Right end of the impression broken away; left end worn down.
Late Knidian. Θευ(
(retr) Leica ... 1 March 1932 ... Amphoras | Knidian |
| Broad, ribbed; junction with neck not preserved.
Coarse red clay, yellowing to surface; traces of light slip.
Upper left part of the impression incomplete; broken away extreme right but no letters lost ... 1 March 1932 ... Amphoras | Knidian |
| Broad, ribbed, curves close to neck.
Coarse clay, red, grey at core.
Impression set close to neck; incomplete above but sharp and neat. Ἀ̣γ̣αθο
κλῆς Θεύ
κριτος circle round dot
(Σ lunate) Leica, 94-22-15 ... 1 March 1932 ... Amphoras | Knidian |
| Broad, ribbed, descending.
Coarse reddish-brown clay, brighter at edges; cream slip.
Slightly incomplete impression on upper left part. Boustrophedon beginning upper right corner. Δράκο (retr)
ντος Μ ... 1 March 1932 ... Amphoras | Knidian |
| Broad, ribbed; small fragment not preserving junction with neck.
Coarse red clay; grey at core.
Right end of the impression broken away; rest clear and sharp; surface damaged near left end. Ἐπὶ Διογ[ένευς] ... 1 March 1932 ... Amphoras | Knidian |
| Broad, level; start of right angle curve(?).
Coarse red clay; grey at core.
Leaf-shaped impression, carelessly set; doubled; on observe variation of square and lunate.
Cf. SS 3215. Stp: doubled*
Par: ... 1 March 1932 ... Amphoras | Knidian |
| Broad, slightly twisted, broken before curve.
Coarse red clay, yellowing to surface; remains of light slip.
One quarter of the impression chipped away; shallow set, nearly effaced; set close to neck ... 1 March 1932 ... Amphoras | Knidian |
| Slightly rising; broad, ribbed, broken at curve.
Coarse clay; red, grey at core; light slip.
Impression incomplete above an d below; retrograde. Dte: 188--167 BC (VG, v.62)* Lowest stratum. [Ε]ὐ̣κ̣ρ̣ ... 188-167 B.C ... Amphoras | Knidian |
| Typical shape.
Typical clay.
Upper right and lower left of the impression incomplete; worn.
Handle from same jar as SS 246. Par: for rdg see SS 00246* [ Ἐπ]ὶ Κλεανδρ̣[ί]
δα Σκιρ̣ boukranion τοῦ̣ (Ο ... 2 March 1932 ... Amphoras | Knidian |
| Broad, level, broken before curve.
Coarse red clay, yellowing slightly at surface; light slip.
Only left end of the impression preserved. Σκι[ρ boukra- τοῦ]
Κν[ί nion διον]
Τ[ελεσίφρ(ων)] Leica ... 2 March 1932 ... Amphoras | Knidian |
| Very small fragment not preserving curve or piece of neck; broad.
Coarse red clay; grey at core; light slip.
Most of the impression chipped or broken away; two letters preserved on lower left corner ... 2 March 1932 ... Amphoras | Knidian |
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