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Water channel in north part of section. Hellenistic and Early Roman pottery. No inventoried finds ... 13-14 March 1936 |
Water channel in north part of section. Pottery late 2nd.-1st. c. B.C. Coins:
14 March 1936 #8 ... Late 2nd.-1st. c. B.C. |
Pit (= collapsed cistern). Fill mixed, late Hellenistic to early Roman. The cistern floor has an E-W channel, no doubt running from the pit at 107/Ζ to the well at 107/ΙΓ (B 21:24). Coins:
10 June 1939 ... 150-100 B.C ... The cistern floor has an E-W channel, no doubt running from the pit at 107/Ζ to the well at 107/ΙΓ (B 21:24) ... Also from cistern passage north, leading to well B 21:24 (107/ΙΓ: ΝΝ 1694 (SS 9510), ΝΝ 701 ( SS9512), ΝΝ 1863 (B 760), ΝΝ 2316 (P 17408), ΝΝ 2317 (P 17409), ΝΝ 2318 (P 17410). |
| Hole (Well) and adjoining water channel with 4th c. pottery, probably a dumped fill.
At a depth of about -5.70m we started yielding some very crude potsherds, clearly not made on the wheel (maybe Prehistoric) ... Prehistoric-Roman ... Hole (Well) and adjoining water channel with 4th c. pottery, probably a dumped fill.
... B 1199 has been placed with A 16:1. |
Construction fill below floor of Brick Building.
Areas involved:
a) Western portion of Room A: packing below floor.
b) Room B: packing below floor of northern,larger room.
c) Fill over water channel in ... First quarter 2nd century, before its end ... Areas involved:
a) Western portion of Room A: packing below floor.
b) Room B: packing below floor of northern,larger room.
c) Fill over water channel in smaller, southern room B; channel discovered by builders of Brick Building,rebuilt by them and covered over.
d) Foundation trench of earlier building beneath Brick Building, filled and covered by builders of Brick Building.
e) "Apparently from below floor of building" (nb.p. 1282).
... Lot 20 "Ash, Carbon and Slag Fill, against the west face of dividing wall between Rooms A and B" of 1936 excavations including P 19790, SS 5379 and coin ΣΑ-16. |
Early cutting beside Great Drain: 103-111/Λ-ΛΓ (= "Deep cutting" Pit at 107/ΛΑ).
Abandonment filling in channel for early drain; the fragment of a red figured bell krater, P 17000, probably to be dated ... Ca. 425-395 B.C ... Abandonment filling in channel for early drain; the fragment of a red figured bell krater, P 17000, probably to be dated between 400 and 397 BC, is the latest dated object from the deposit, otherwise a consistent filling of the last quarter of the 5th. c. with some earlier material.
... For other fills related to Early Drain and giving date for building of Great Drain, see B 19:7 and B 19:12. |
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa.
c) 46.60-48-60m. from East End of Stoa.
d) 51.00-53.00m. from East End of Stoa.
e) 79.00-81.00m. from ... 2nd c. B.C ... Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa.
c) 46.60-48-60m. from East End of Stoa.
d) 51.00-53.00m. from East End of Stoa.
e) 79.00-81.00m. from East End of Stoa.
Includes drain trench in front of back wall of Stoa (some disturbed, some undisturbed fill), soft fill above stone drain, fill from within stone drain, channel behind stylobate. |
Well (diameter 0.91m, water level -7m) in House H, Room 10 (and pit over). Plain shaft cut in stereo; pit at mouth of well,reused as drainage pit at start of tile drain running west.
Scanty use filling ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... The upper part of the well was lined with tiles in the second half of the 4th. c. for use as a collecting basin for a water system, a channel of which entered the well shaft. ... a) use and lower dumped filling (425-400 B.C.)
b) Filling behind tiles (450-400 B.C.)
c) Abandonment filling (3rd c. ... P 18400, although found in the drain channel, appears to be a good 5th c. collar rim type,and was perhaps dislodged in this same disturbance. |
| Report on sorting of pottery, August 1951, by H.S. Robinson [nb p. 3666].
Cistern discovered and dug to 1.60m., vi/10/36; dug to bottom iv/22/37-v/6/37. Diam. At mouth 0.26m.; neck begins to widen out ... 1st. c. B.C. to post-Herulian ... At 1.50m. appears the flow of an overflow channel connecting with the well at 105/ΝΗ ... Subdivisions: B 1085 from unknown depth
.1=dump+top-1.60m.+1.60-3.95m.
.2=3.95-5.20m.
.3=5.20m. |
Filling of Middle Drain (Tr. H+F in Section Ζ). Sand and gravel filling of the old course of the west branch of the Great Drain, a large (ca. 1.00m. deep and 1.30m. wide) underground channel in the area ... 150-100 B.C ... Sand and gravel filling of the old course of the west branch of the Great Drain, a large (ca. 1.00m. deep and 1.30m. wide) underground channel in the area of the Tholos. ... Coins: Section Ζ Coins: Section B
2 June 1937 #1 13 April 1937 #2-#5
4 June 1937 #1-#19 15 April 1937 #1-#25
5 June 1937 #1-#13 16 April 1937 #1-#3
7 June 1937 #1-#12 17 April 1937 #1-#3
8 June 1937 #1-#4
9 June 1937 #1
14 June 1937 #1-#17
15 June 1937 #1-#21
19 February 1938 #1-#4
21 February 1938 #1-#3
22 February 1938 #1
25 May 1938 #1-#60
26 May 1938 #1-#17
28 May 1938 #1-#6 |
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