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| Installation of the Hephaisteion sculptures, from the left, the Hesperides' group (S 429) Athena (S 1232) and a standing youth, possibly Herakles (S 1313) ... east ... 18 Sep 1958 |
Containers 2, 3 ... Late Hellenistic? |
Containers 4, 5, 6 and channel ... Ca. 225-150 B.C. POU |
Built against the south wall of the annex to the Poros Building
west of the Areopagus. At the west the upper layer of marble chips carried against it, the lowest were cut by it.
Part of same system as ... 225-100 B.C. |
Containers 1-5. Coins:
8 April 1949 #17-#20 ... 150-100 B.C. |
Containers 6-9. Coins:
9 April 1949 #1-#6 ... 225-150 B.C.? |
| 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. |
| Pyre /Burial (?) disturbed, in the area of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. In northeast corner of room 4 west.
Concentration of artifacts, tiny slivers of bone, and burning in a layer of fill ... Early 4th c. B.C. |
| Sacrificial pyre in Poros Building, NW Room (RSY= Pyre 1).
Against east wall of room 5 west. artifacts, bone, carbon and ash in pit in floor sequence. the pyre lay below a floor covered with marble dust, ... Middle of 4th c. B.C. |
An unfinished well in the northwest room of the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus. Dumped filling. Chips from marble-working, variety of plain and figured wares ... Ca. 400-385 B.C. |
Well under Poros Building Drain at 62/ΛΣΤ, west of the Areopagus. Digging abandoned at 6.10m due to a collapse of the soft bedrock at the west. Small amount of supplementary filling was added in the upper ... Ca. 520-480 B.C. |
Upper fill early Roman. Lower fill latest Hellenistic.
No house walls clearly associated with it, and apparently no attempt made to assign it to any particular house. Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Lower ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman |
Containers 1-3. Coins:
27 September 1947 #1-#2 ... Early Roman |
Containers 6-12 ... Latest Hellenistic |
Unfinished well, south of the annex to the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus. The shaft was apparently never used as a well. The lower dumped filling contained a quantity of clean red clay, as if from ... Ca. 350-325 B.C. |
| Pocket with burning at 60/ΚΗ. "Is this perhaps a disturbed pyre burial." [Nbp. 2928].
Identified as pyre by SIR.
Near north end of corridor, beside its west wall. Concentration of artifacts, tiny scraps ... 4th c. B.C. |
| Disturbed Pyre at 59/ΚΗ (ΚΖ), in the area of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus.
Against east wall of room 5 west. concentration of artifacts, ash, carbon and a few bones in stratum, no pit discerned ... 3rd c. B.C. |
Rectangular shaft neighboring the well D 17:12. Dug only to a depth of 4.40m. and provided with two galleries or channels extending from it. Apparently never intended as a well. Refilled with the dug bedrock ... 4th c. B.C. |
Pithos in NW corner (room) of Poros Building. Marble chips ... Mid-4th c.? |
Shallow pit in bedrock. NB fragment found in gravel to south of pit (ΟΟ 399=P18633) ... Second quarter 5th c. B.C. |
Drain in corridor of Poros Building. Deposit is from the period of use of the drain. Cf. also containers 140 and 602 ... Late 5th-early 4th c. B.C. |
Casting pit near SE corner of Poros Building, Room C 3. Combined with D 18:4 ... 1st c. B.C.-1st c. A.D. |
Unfinished well in corridor of Poros Building ... Third quarter 5th c. B.C. |
Great Drain fills, including "packing over elliptical tiles" and "gravel fills". The central drain area covered by the sections below; other sections are with other deposits. Coins:
9 May 1947 #2-#5
16 ... 1st c. A.D. |
| North of House G (RSY=Pyre 13).
Concentration of artifacts, small pieces of bone, and burnt material in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre is cut by the trench of a wall of a Roman house to north. It ... 290-250 B.C. |
A tiled well with POU from 9.30-10.80m. and dumped fill above 9.30m. The dumped fill differs from lower fill only in the less frequent appearance of fragments of micaceous water jars and the occurrence ... 3rd c. A.D. with destruction at 267 A.D. |
This is associated with Building A. It had a circular marble well-head with a rectangular well slab beneath. The construction throughout was of well tiles. It produced little to a depth of -8.60m. Between ... 4th c. A.D. |
Pit (Well?) under Building A, Room 2. Coins:
9 May 1949 #1-#2
11 May 1949 #4
12 May 1949 #3 (not a coin, bronze fragment in lotted metal tins ΠΠ 295). Estimated Grid
Remains of coloring matter found with ... Hellenistic-Early Roman |
No objects catalogued ... Late 4th c. B.C. |
Pocket of pottery to south of grave at 36/ΛΔ; uncertain context. Terracotta figurines resembling those from the Coroplast's Dump (S 19:3) No containers (cf. O 18:2).
T 2468, T 2476, ST 412 from Hellenistic ... 350-320 B.C. |
Rectangular pit (in Trench IX); dumped filling of late 5th. c. B.C. with some disturbance as late as Early Roman. P 18559 and P 18510 from above this pit ... 5th c. B.C. |
POU 3.50-10.30m. dumped filling of 5th or 6th century. Coins:
10 May 1949 #1
16 May 1949 #1
17 May 1949 #1-#2
19 May 1949 #1-#2
20 May 1949 #1-#12
21 May 1949 #1-#4 from dump
23 May 1949 #1-#3 from dump ... 3rd-5th c. A.D. |
Stratified well. Coins:
22 July 1947 #1 Subdivisions:
.1=top to -5.20m.
.2=5.20-7.80m.
.3=7.80-10.30m ... Second half 1st-early 3rd c. A.D. |
First half of 5th c. B.C. |
Near the Poros Enclosure. Diameter 0.76m. water level -1.20m. Plain shaft sunk in the stereo ... 14-22 July 1947 |
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 |
Well, neatly stone-curbed to bottom. Diameter 0.70m. The use filling, from about 3.50m to bottom, consisted chiefly of water-jars with a few small vases and some black-figured fragments.
Upper filling, ... Use filling of ca. 575-550 B.C. |
Second half of 6th c. B.C. |
Ostrakon deposit, sand fill in a shallow channel in bedrock at the bottom of the Great Drain in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of Nymphs.
This group of ostraka may well come from a single ... Ca. 490-480 B.C. |
| Pit with traces of burning ... Probably 3rd qtr. 5th c. B.C. |
Cistern (diameter 0.90m) 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 ... 325-275 B.C. |
Abandoned digging at 6.25m. due to water level. Tile well could be associated with a bit of late Roman wall to the south, with floor level about one meter above that of pebble floor. Well tiles were not ... 14-22 April 1948 |
Displaced curbing stone had fallen into top of shaft; fill with and around it is presumably second half of 2nd c. A.D. Below tumbled filling at top, shaft was empty to 10.80m. Tiles were missing to ca ... Late 1st-early 2nd c. |
A rubbish pit at the foot of the northwest slope of the Areopagus. Black figured, plain glazed vases and several lamps. A pair of lekythoi recall both in make and in style the products of the Haimon Painter ... Ca. 480-475 B.C. |
Cistern at 65/ΚΗ (and Channel). Cistern in the northwest 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. |
Cistern at 70/ΚΕ and channels. Part of same system as D 17:3 and D 17:5. It was set against a corner of the lowest foundation block. Thus one is forced to assume that enough of the wall remained at least ... Ca. 200-150 B.C. |
Container 1 ... Ca. 150 B.C. |
| Square cutting: pocket of burn fill (possible burials). Deposit C 18:13 ... east 2995 Horizontal (normal) ... 26 May 1949 |
| Pottery dumb beside wall of the Poros Building. Deposit D 17:6 ... north Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Jun 1949 |
| South central area, showing pit with pottery dumb at lower left. Deposit D 17:6 ... north Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Jun 1949 |
| Southeast corner ... west 4282 Horizontal (normal) ... June 1968 |
| Room A3 at beginning of season ... east 4217 Horizontal (normal) ... June 1968 |
| The southeast area at beginning of season ... southwest 4215 Horizontal (normal) ... June 1968 |
| The southeast area of the bath ... east 4216 Horizontal (normal) ... June 1968 |
| Room A4. Ancient bedrock cutting and large poros block under floor ... northeast 4214 Horizontal (normal) ... 18 Jun 1968 |
| Stratification of destruction fill at southeast corner of south hypocaust area ... south 4289 Horizontal (normal) ... 18 Jun 1968 |
| Room A6. Northeast corner after exposing hypocaust floor ... west 4232 Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jul 1968 |
| Latrine in northwest corner ... southeast 4248 Horizontal (normal) ... 4 Jul 1968 |
| South area of the bath. Pillaging trench along south face of Room A3 ... west 4283 Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Jul 1968 |
| Hypocaust columns in tepidarium (Room A) ... 4295 Horizontal (normal) ... 23 May 1968 |
| Hypocaust floor in Room A ... east 4293 Horizontal (normal) ... 23 May 1968 |
| Room A3. Fire chamber and passage to hypocaust room ... northwest 4298 Horizontal (normal) ... 24 Jul 1968 |
| Room A1 with the west end of Room A3 in foreground. Mosaic hall at right ... south 4315 Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Jul 1968 |
| Room A1 with late walls crossing over the room. Mosaic hall at left ... north 4313 Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Jul 1968 |
| Lower rooms to west of bath proper, with exedra of mosaic hall in foreground ... south 4331 Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Jul 1968 |
| Rooms to west of bath proper ... south 4333 Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Jul 1968 |
| Entrance to Hellenistic Bath complex ... northwest 4260 Horizontal (normal) ... 25 Jul 1968 |
| Mosaic hall (Room A2) ... north 4329 Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Jul 1968 |
| Room A3 at beginning of season ... west 4287 Horizontal (normal) ... June 1968 |
| Large courtyard in center with well, "kitchen" (Room 3) at right center and "dining room" (Room 2) in right background where the two marble busts (S 1299, S 1319) were found ... Cf. "Excavation summary 1948" for miscellaneous name of South House in notebooks. (SD) southeast Horizontal (normal) ... 24 March 1948 |
| Different plans and sections. Top row: in ΠΘ, storage pit (Deposit B 14:5); in ΓΓ inhumation of a child, (Deposit E 19:2); Protoattic oinochoe fragment P 13284. Bottom row: in ΓΓ inhumation of a male (Deposit ... E. Brann (PD 1040, PD 1053) Piet de Jong (PD 434, PD 435) John Travlos (PD 1065 a, b) ... PD 1053 PD 1040 PD 435 PD 434 PD 1065-a PD 1065-b no grid for Q 17:6; Horizontal (normal) ... 1958 |
| Two joining fragments of base and lower wall; no finished edge.
Wheelmade, translucent, dark yellowish -brown. Thin-walled shallow bowl with narrow ribs and slightly concave base. Two narrow horizontal ... 14 July 1947 |
| Single piece of base and lower wall; no finished edge.
Wheelmade; colorless, with pale green tinge. Thin-walled shallow bowl with narrow ribs, flat base.
Context early 1st century AD. Added 9 July 2001 ... 14 July 1947 |
| Single piece of rim and upper wall. (Dropped and broken by Records office in August 2003. Now mended from several fragments.)
Blown glass, translucent yellowish-brown. Slightly everted rim, ground. Vertical ... 14 July 1947 |
| Civic, Possibly Commercial Unknown Limestone Poor, foundations and lines of walls ... Mid 5th B.C. |
| Broken at top and back. Palmette with volutes and tendrils.
Gritty red clay; traces of white stucco. Signature along lower edge in raised letters: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΟΥ.
Cf. A 1347 (ΟΟ 469). In late wall over D 1 ... 18 March 1948 |
| Broken at back and sides; edges of molding broken away. Top much worn: tramped on in some reuse. One original edge of mutule preserved, and approximately full depth, with three row of guttae, of which ... 22 April 1948 |
| Fragment preserving lower part of antefix with start of cover tile.
Relief palmette above spirals; raised letters along lower edge: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΟΥ.
Red tile fabric with remains of light buff surfacing and ... 28 April 1949 |
| Small piece, broken all around, from a thin nearly flat tile.
Inside covered with thin black glaze wash; outside unglazed. On outside, circular stamp with anchor.
Gritty light yellowish buff clay. Well ... May-June 1949 |
| Very well preserved but for one edge lightly chipped.
Rhombic hexaedron (or trigonal trapezohedron) in shape. Flat sides with drilled dots misaligned on all faces.
Highly polished. Stained light green ... Probably Hellenistic |
| One end broken; lengthwise cracks and chips.
Preserved end has rabbet to take another section over it. One large hole.
Bone stained brown. Cistern. Container no. 2. Leica, 83-385 PD 1242 ... 20 April 1949 |
| Intact.
Standing draped female figure. Hole in bottom for attachment.
No visible arms unless they are conceived as held close to the sides, and folded across the front, concealed by and holding up the ... 3 June 1949 |
| Globular bead with very large perforation; possibly intended for use around a shaft of pin or the like rather than as a bead.
Bone well polished or worn; stained brown. Pocket with burning.
4th c. B.C ... 4 June 1949 |
| Circular disk pierced in center. Above marble chips. A pocket with burning at 60/ΚΗ.
4th c. B.C. 2929 Leica ... 8 June 1949 |
| Plain rim fragment of shallow bowl.
Two shallow grooves on outside of rim; cluster of dots in relief on side.
Mold made (?) Light green glaze; dots blue (?) Dirt fill.
Late Roman. Leica, XXXIII-24 PD 505 ... 2 May 1947 |
| Rim fragment from rather small deep bowl.
Plain rim; thick vertical ridges in relief on outside. Inside, a single shallow groove just below lip, and a pair of grooves about half way down preserved piece ... 16 May 1947 |
| Fragment preserving part of a broad projecting rim with down-turned outer edge.
A groove at inner and outer edge of rim.
Opaque bluish white glass. Late Roman fill. 868 Leica, XXXIII-26 PD 505, PD 2023-14 ... 18 June 1947 |
| Fragment from near lower part of wall.
Incised decoration of rather large pentagons and hexagons, each with a double outline.
Silvery iridescent glass. Mud brick layer south of Roman house B, room 1.
6th ... 25 June 1947 |
| Mended from two pieces. About half the body and base preserved; the rim broken away, also the lower edge of the foot.
Small high flaring base, reverse-curved, set off from wall by a moulded ring. Deep ... 24 June 1947 |
| A single fragment preserves the neck, the flaring rounded rim, and one handle, with the upper attachment of the other, of a miniature amphora.
Dark blue glass; the handles white glass. For contaxt see ... 2 July 1947 |
| From rim and wall of a fairly large bowl, moulded.
Bowl with plain slightly out-turned rim. Two grooves around the rim. On the wall a scale pattern formed of oval depressions.
Colorless glass. Agora sample ... 9 July 1947 |
| Two joining fragments give part of bottom and start of wall.
Group of shallow grooves at outer edge of bottom.
Pale greenish glass with dark blue laminations, appearing as dark blue blobs, inside and out ... 15 July 1947 |
| Handle and immediately adjacent part of wall only preserved.
Projecting thumb-rest and two spurs on handle.
Pale green glass. ΛΖ-ΜΣΤ* Great Drain, gravel. Early Roman. 1067 Leica ... 15 July 1947 |
| Neck, lip and part of shoulder preserved. Band handle, from below lip to shoulder, missing.
Round mouth with rounded flaring lip, set off by a ridge below. Narrow neck; short shoulder, rounding to nearly ... 15 July 1947 |
| Mended from four pieces; profile preserved to inside foot ring.
Ring foot; nearly flat bottom, upturned to form a very low wall; broad flat insloping rim, lightly grooved near inner and outer edges.
Nearly ... July 1947 |
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