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F 16:3: Urn Cremation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 1. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female 30-40 years old). Mentioned as Grave XVII in Deposit list. Consisted of a roughly circular pit, approximately 0.30-0.40m in diameter, cut into ... Late Protogeometric

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F 16:4: Urn Cremation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 2. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole). In some records as XXIII. Variously labeled as grid 7/Δ, 7/Γ and 7/Γ-Δ. Rectangular pyre trench cut through earth into bedrock, with only the lowest 0.04m surviving ... Transitional Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I

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F 16:5: Funerary Deposit on Stone Pavement

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 16:6: Rectangular Shaft

Rectangular shaft at northwest foot of Areopagus; dumped filling of second half of 4th c. B.C. Pit at 16/Δ-Ε recorded one time as an extension of shaft 17/Δ-Ε (see L 506 and nb.p. 395), but items from ... Ca. 325-275 B.C.

F 16:7: Child's Burial- Pyre

Child's burial in south wall of Marble Worker's House. Bones examined 20 June 1975 and found to be an immature animal, not human (canid-puppy?). Identified as pyre by SIR. Set into a shallow roughly ovoid ... Late 4th c.

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F 16:8: Menon's Cistern and Well

Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. Coins: 5 August 1968 #1-#6 (#5 and #6 disintegrated. Missing 19/7/1973) 6 August 1968 #1bis-#25 (#5 in Lot 503 not a coin but bronze bits of nail. #6 not a coin ... 325-275 B.C.

F 17:1: North Hypocaust Furnace Dump

Furnace Dump from N. Hypocaust in Bath to East of Poros Building. Coins: 26 March 1948 #4-#8 27 March 1948 #1-#3 29 March 1948 #2-#7 1 April 1948 #2-#3 3 April 1948 #14-#15 7 April 1948 #16-#27 8 April ... Second half 3rd c.-first half 4th c. A.D.

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F 17:3: Well

Although separated by a sterile rocky fill the two use fillings are apparently one continuous accumulation (GRE). Packing around well includes SS 14261, P 25943-P 25953. These are not given a subdivision ... 350-300 B.C. to ca. 225 B.C.

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F 17:4: Cistern

Stucco-lined bottle-shaped cistern, with tunnel and subsidiary manhole, in SW Baths, Room Α 10. Homogeneous dumped fill, mostly of mold-made bowls and and molds for terracotta figurines. Sixteen stamped ... 225-190 B.C.

F 19:1: Stratified well

Roman Group L. Layer I (cont. 59-64) Pre-Herulian second half of 3rd c. (bottom, 15.95-13.90). Layer II (cont. 42-58) 4th c.-first quarter of 4th c. (11.90-13.90). Layer III (cont. 17-41) -4th c. (10.00 ... Second half 3rd c.-early 5th c. A.D.

F 19:2: Cistern

Bottle-shaped cistern with dumped fillings on NW slopes of Areopagus; appears not to have been finished in antiquity: the walls and floor show no traces of stucco. Lower filling, ca. 375-340 B.C. Upper ... Ca. 375-275 B.C.

F 19:3: Well

Unfinished well, all one fill; solid bedrock at a depth of -2.47m. It contained masses of broken rooftiles and probably was used as a refuse pit after the sack of Athens by Sulla. Twenty-three stamped ... Early 1st c. B.C.

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F 19:4: Well

This filling is the largest deposit of its time found in the Agora. It may be compared with H 6:5 and with N 7:3. Dug in soft bedrock to a depth of 11.40m; footholds cut on opposite sides of the shaft ... Ca. 490-450 B.C.

F 19:5: Unfinished Well Shaft

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.

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F 19:6: Well

Unfinished well-shaft with debris filling (apparently of the Sullan sack), on the lower NW slopes off the Areopagus. Abandoned due to poor quality of bedrock. Three closely contemporary fills, considered ... End 2nd c. B.C.-second quarter 1st c. B.C.

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F 20:1: Pyre

Identified as Pyre by SIR. Debris filling of the middle of the 4th c. B.C. including the remains of a sacrificial pyre. Objects dispersed in red-clay fill uncovered in removal of modern staircase. A broken ... 4th c. B.C. disturbed

F 30:1: Martyr

Martyr at Δ6. Top strosis (Byzantine-Turkish) discarded. Strosis 2, late Hellenistic (Lot ΔΕ 21) Strosis 3, early Hellenistic (Lot ΔΕ 22) Strosis 4, to mid-4th c. B.C. (Lot ΔΕ 23) Nothing catalogued from ... To mid-4th c. B.C.

F-G 9-10: Fill

Fills associated with construction of New Bouleuterion, i.e. inside porch, unused foundation trenches on west side and south side ... Down to last quarter of 5th c. B.C.

F-G 10-11: Bouleuterion Plateia Fills

Accumulated fillings in the Bouleutrion Plateia beginning in late 5th c. B.C. and continuing into the 3rd c. A.D., reaching a depth of 0.20-0.30m. (Hesp. 6 (1937), p. 168. Subdivisions: .1=Layer I .2=Layer ... 5th c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D.

F-G 10-11.2: Bouleuterion Plateia Layer II

Accumulated filling over Bouleuterion Plateia, Layer II. Coins: 8 May 1935 #1 ... 1st or 2nd c. A.D.

F-G 12:1: Road Fills

Filling of early N-S road and related fills, in the area of the Geometric Cemetery south of the Tholos; various levels including plundered foundation trench. For late, disturbed or uncertain levels over ... 7th-6th c. B.C.

F-G 12:2: Road Fills

Area of early road and Geometric Cemetery: late, disturbed or uncertain levels. Includes Geometric/Proto Attic material thrown in the Turkish well at 35/Δ. Includes between road and bedrock in Β'. Four ... 5 May 1934 19-23 March 1935 2 April 1935

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F-G 12:3: Inhumation of a Woman

Grave 19 in notebook. Bones only AA 3. Length 2.15m; width 0.63m; depth 0.52m. Woman' skeleton with head at north. Cover slabs piled at foot of grave, probably by the diggers of Well J 18:8, who rifled ... Late Geometric

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G 3:1: Pit

Pit with burned debris north of the ancient road leading from the Agora to the Dipylon Gate, probably to be associated with the Persian sack [deposit notebook]. Also includes a similar filling lying over ... Ca. 500-470 B.C.

G 4:1: Well

Well at 16/Γ = Well at 15/Β. Dug to 14.90m. and abandoned due to influx of water. Coins: 15 May 1936 #1 20 May 1936 #2-#5 18 June 1936 #1, dump ... 3rd c. B.C.

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G 4:3: Pit

Herm head deliberately buried in a pit with coins of the 2nd half of the 4th c. Head found at an elevation of 51.907. Bottom of the pit at 51.637 m. Coins: 27 June 1972 #199-#205 Bits of bronze, iron ... 2nd half 4th c. B.C.

G 5:2: Cistern

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.

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G 5:3: "Bone Well"

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 6:2: Cistern East Chamber

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 ... Ca. 200 B.C.

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G 6:3: Rectangular Rock-Cut Shaft

A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several ... Ca. 575-480 B.C.

G 6:3.1: Rectangular Rock-Cut Shaft Upper fill

Estimated Grid ... Ca. 510-480 B.C.

G 6:3.2: Rectangular Rock-Cut Shaft Lower fill

Containers Lot Α 306-Lot Α 340. Estimated Grid ... Ca. 575-535 B.C.

G 8:1: Well

Well on Slopes of Kolonos, apparently with two periods of active service. The earlier dating from ca. the turn of the era well down into the 1st c. A.D. Probable that the well was never cleaned out in ... POU Early to second half 1st c. A.D.

G 11:1: Cistern Chamber III

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 Early 3rd to late 2nd c. B.C. POU

G 11:2: Well in Cistern to West of Tholos

May be of Hellenistic origin when cistern system went out of use. For a general note on the cistern see Nb. ΟΕ III, pp. 246 ff. Objects from B 586 various depths (no subdivision): S 2324-S 2330, P 34894, ... Late 2nd-early 6th c. A.D.

G 11:3: Well

Well (stone-curbed shaft) near middle of Tholos which served the prior building. Period of Use dated to ca. 500-480(?) B.C., Upper fill dated to ca. 480-470 B.C. or soon after in Agora XXX (a gradual ... Ca. 500-480 B.C.

G 11:4: Well to West of Tholos.

See cistern system wells F 11:2 and F 12:3, part of Tholos water system. Estimated Grid ... Ca. 350-294 B.C.

G 11:5: 'Cellar Cut' inside Tholos. Layer IV.

Exploration over bedrock inside the Tholos; levels of 6th c. B.C ... 6th c. B.C.

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G 11:6: Roasting Pits

Roasting pits associated with the archaic buildings which preceded the Tholos ... Ca. 500-470 B.C.

G 11:7: Tholos Kitchen

Investigations in Room to N of Tholos, various layers and periods. ... 470 B.C.-post-Herulian reuse