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Coins:
1 June 1935 #1-#11
3 June 1935 #1-#14 Estimated Grid ... 1-3 June 1935 ... Well 7, earth |
Well Y, in area North of the West end of the Yellow Poros Foundation. The shaft had cut through the wall of an earlier well and the cavity had been packed with stones by the diggers of the new well. In ... Earth 5th c. B.C ... Earth 5th c. B.C. |
Well at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Use filling of 1st c. A.D.; dumped fillings of 3rd c. and of early Byz. times. Coins:
15 June 1937 #1-#2 (earth)
16 June 1937 #14-#20 (earth)
17 June 1937 ... 1st c. A.D.=POU ... Coins:
15 June 1937 #1-#2 (earth)
16 June 1937 #14-#20 (earth)
17 June 1937 #1-#11 (earth)
18 June 1937 #4-#5 (earth)
19 June 1937 #4-#6 (earth) |
Stratified well with POU first half of 1st c. - mid 3rd c. A.D. and dumped fills of 4th and 5th-6th c. A.D.
Finds from upper fills "earth": BI 315, L 2549.
Finds from lower fills "earth": BI 302, BI 316, ... 1st to 3rd century and late 3rd to 6th century ... Finds from upper fills "earth": BI 315, L 2549.
Finds from lower fills "earth": BI 302, BI 316, L 2460, L 2498, L2499,
L 2501, G 73, P 21113, T 1218 ... Coins:
20 May 1936 #1
21 May 1936 #1-#9 [#1-#2 in 18 May baskets, #3-#8 in 20 May baskets]
22 May 1936 #1-#4 [#1-#3 found in 20 May baskets]
29 May 1936 #5-#18 [earth, lower fills]
30 May 1936 #1-#9 [earth, lower fills]
1 June 1936 #2-#4 [#2 in 24 May basket, #3-#4 in earth, lower fill]
2 June 1936 #2 [earth, lower fill]
9 June 1936 #1 [earth, above water]
11 June 1936 #20 [earth, above water] |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXVI in notebook. Loose earth with bones. Coins:
14 March 1939 #1 ... 25 February 1939
18 March 1939 ... Grave XXVI in notebook. Loose earth with bones. |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXX in notebook.
Filling: loose earth. No mention of bones. Lot 401b ... 8 March 1939 ... Filling: loose earth. No mention of bones. |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXIII in notebook.
Filling: loose earth and bones. Lot 404 (a) Neg. KK 377 ... 6 March 1939 ... Filling: loose earth and bones. |
Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXV in notebook.
Filling: loose earth and confused bones. Coins:
6 March 1939 #11-#13 ... 8 March 1939 ... Filling: loose earth and confused bones. |
Containers 24-72.
Masses of pottery; including many BHWJ's; lamps XVIII and XXIV
Coins:
12 June 1937 #14-#53
13 June 1937 #1-#7 (from earth of 12 June)
13 June 1937 #8
14 June 1937 #1-#3
15 June 1937 ... First half 1st c. A.D ... Masses of pottery; including many BHWJ's; lamps XVIII and XXIV
Coins:
12 June 1937 #14-#53
13 June 1937 #1-#7 (from earth of 12 June)
13 June 1937 #8
14 June 1937 #1-#3
15 June 1937 #2-#13 (earth from lower part)
16 June 1937 #21-#22 (bottom, found 15 June) |
Green Earth at 03-04-05/ΚΑ-ΚΔ, to at least -3.50m. near the southwest corner of the market square. Terracotta figurines; lamps; fragmentary pottery ... Ca. 500-475 B.C. and later ... Green Earth at 03-04-05/ΚΑ-ΚΔ, to at least -3.50m. near the southwest corner of the market square. |
Coins:
9 June 1937 #1
10 June 1937 #1-#11
11 June 1937 #1-#30
12 June 1937 #1-#13 (from earth of 11 June) ... 2nd c. A.D ... Coins:
9 June 1937 #1
10 June 1937 #1-#11
11 June 1937 #1-#30
12 June 1937 #1-#13 (from earth of 11 June) |
Red sandy earth at inner corner of heavy late wall at 12/ΛΖ.
A. Walker coin deposit. Coins:
27 March 1934 #1-#12
28 March 1934 #1-#2 ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D ... Red sandy earth at inner corner of heavy late wall at 12/ΛΖ.
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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 ... Layer I: red earth in the central depression, probably the accumulation of the last period of use of the cistern as a source of water. ... Layer III: fine red earth. It was put in to fill the cistern immediately after Layer II, and having settled, was later supplemented with layers IV and V, in close succession ... Layer IV: Dug bedrock and earth. |
| 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 ... Roman layer of red, compact earth.
Baskets 50,52,54. |
"Red earth": Herulian destruction debris over Roman House and east of cistern B. Coins:
30 May 1935 #1-#8
31 May 1935 #1-#15 Sherds stored in container Lot ΠΘ 4b ... 27 May 1935
31 May 1935
3 June 1935 ... "Red earth": Herulian destruction debris over Roman House and east of cistern B. |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XXXII in notebook.
Loose earth and bones filling. Coins:
25 February 1939 #5-#6
6 March 1939 #2-#4
15 March 1939 #1 Neg. 378 ... 25 February 1939
6 March 1939 ... Grave XXXII in notebook.
Loose earth and bones filling. |
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 ... p. 2424.
24 May 1939 #1-#3
25 May 1939 #1
12 June 1939 #1(dump)
13 June 1939 #3(dump)
16 June 1939 #2-#3(found 8 & 9 June 1939)
21 June 1939 #1-#14(sifting earth)
22 June 1939 #7-#18(#7 found 5 June 1939, #8-#18 from earth)
23 June 1939 #9-#13(earth) |
Well cut through cistern at 40/Θ on Kolonos Agoraios (E 11:1). Two use periods plus an upper dumped fill from which the following objects: B 319, I 3994, SS 5745, T 1235. Coins:
6 April 1936 #18-#21
7 ... First half of 1st c. A.D.
4th-early 5th c. A.D ... Coins:
6 April 1936 #18-#21
7 April 1936 #1-#7
28 May 1936 #1
6 June 1936 #3
12 June 1936 #1-#22 (dump, lower earth)
12 June 1936 #28-#30 (dump, upper earth) |
| Grave 8 in notebook.
Inhumation in Tholos Cemetery. Length of shaft 1.75m; Width at upper end 0.95m; Depth from cover 0.70m.
One end cut into sloping rock.
Skeleton of a woman, with head southeast. Most ... 750-725 B.C ... Over body, earth fill; above fill of ashes and cinders of ca. 0.10m; on top fine earth which had sifted through slabs. |
| Pit, partly cleared; dumped filling of first half of 3rd. c. B.C., but with considerable material of the 4th. c. Hellenistic.
Its rotten schist walls collapsed some time near then and it was filled up ... 4th-3rd c. B.C ... Its rotten schist walls collapsed some time near then and it was filled up with pottery, ashes and earth, and abandoned. ... There was still soft earth in the bottom (at ca. 6m.), but we had stopped getting pottery at 4.20m.
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| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 25 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave I: SM). Bones discarded. In some records as Grve XIV (JP)?
Notebook says (p. 947) contents: hard earth, no bones. Lisa's list says bones discarded.
Negs. X-75, ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Notebook says (p. 947) contents: hard earth, no bones. Lisa's list says bones discarded.
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Early Roman pit at P/7-6/4,6
layer Ia in Room 7 of Greek House δ. Black earth fill with much carbon.
Plaster, nails, glass, bones (also bones from deposit P 6:4).
Coin
5 June 1971 #395 ... Early Roman ... Black earth fill with much carbon.
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Brown earth with occasiional small stones, quite distinct from upper and lower fills. Pottery mostly Hellenistic with an occasional late Roman sherd scattered through it at all levels. [nbp. 3112] Coins: ... Mostly 1st c. with some Roman ... Brown earth with occasiional small stones, quite distinct from upper and lower fills. |
Nbp. 3104: When dug, the fill of the well divided itself into 3 deposits.
Objects catalogued from the "earth" are: L 4838, P 21602, P 21603, P 21604. Dumped filling of Turkish times. Coins:
17 May 1937 ... Late 6th-7th c. A.D ... Objects catalogued from the "earth" are: L 4838, P 21602, P 21603, P 21604. |
Nbpp. 3104-3105: Represents well deposit; the [baskets] from this layer showed no stratification. Containers marked "earth" presumably represent primarily Layer II.
... it is presumed that the sherds of ... Late 6th-7th c ... Containers marked "earth" presumably represent primarily Layer II.
... it is presumed that the sherds of Layer III, not differing appreciably from the heavy well deposit above were put into the well deposit container. |
Destruction fill in "Storeroom" south of fish mosaic., outside SW corner of Roman House H. In SW corner of room an area of broken jars. heavy deposit (ca. 0.45m thick) of destruction fill over whole room ... 3rd c. A.D ... Reddish sandy earth with numerous large pieces of broken roof tiles. |
Roman well, stratified.
Finds from the earth (not recorded in a subdivision):
P 7995, P 8036, P 21834, SS 6338, IL 483, IL 486, BI 309, BI 310,
BI 314.
According to the excavator the shaft had been cleaned ... 2nd-4th c. A.D ... Finds from the earth (not recorded in a subdivision):
P 7995, P 8036, P 21834, SS 6338, IL 483, IL 486, BI 309, BI 310,
BI 314.
... Coins:
5 June 1936 #1-#2 (from earth)
6 June 1936 #1 (from earth) |
Dump, 4th c. Cut through a cistern which was probably constructed in the 4th c. B.C, near the southwest corner of the market square. Coins:
25 May 1935 #1 (with L 1809) (disintegrated) Subdivisions:
.1=Upper ... Second half 1st c.-end 2nd c ... Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Transitional fill
.3=Middle fill
.4=Lower fill
.5=Earth |
Lined with small stones.
Difference noted between the pottery from the top and that from the bottom. Coins:
11 April 1933 #13 (disintegrated)
12 April 1933 #1-#6 (disintegrated) (Coin no. 1. N 18194 found ... Turkish ... N 18194 found in red earth above stoa foundations, not sure if it belongs in this deposit). |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 6 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXII: PG). Bones discarded. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole).
JP
Roughly rectangular trench cut through hard earth into bedrock to a depth of about 0.35m, approximately ... Late Protogeometric ... JP
Roughly rectangular trench cut through hard earth into bedrock to a depth of about 0.35m, approximately 1m long and 0.50m wide. ... The uppermost layer , to a depth of 0.20m, was characterized by loose blackened earth mixed with ash and charcoal. The lower stratum, 0.15m deep, comprised hard burned earth with pieces of cremated bone and carbonized matter. |
Original filling completely removed by construction of well dug through it. Filling eliminated by digging of E 11:2. Dumped filling. Coins:
28 March 1936 #1
31 March 1936 # 4-#5
2 April 1936 #2-#6
3 April ... 4th c. A.D ... Coins:
28 March 1936 #1
31 March 1936 # 4-#5
2 April 1936 #2-#6
3 April 1936 #1-#3
4 April 1936 #1-#10
6 April 1936 #2-#5 (earth) |
Coins:
10 April #68-#78
12 April 1937 #1-#6, #9-#65 (found 10 April 1937)
13 April 1937 #2-#13 (found 10 April 1937)
13 April 1937 #14-#24 (found 12 April 1937)
19 April 1937 #1-#5 (found 10 and 12 April ... Early Roman, 1st c. A.D ... Coins:
10 April #68-#78
12 April 1937 #1-#6, #9-#65 (found 10 April 1937)
13 April 1937 #2-#13 (found 10 April 1937)
13 April 1937 #14-#24 (found 12 April 1937)
19 April 1937 #1-#5 (found 10 and 12 April 1937)
20 April 1937 #1 (from bottom earth) |
Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.
Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C.
Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D ... Coins:
21 May 1935 #6-#9 (from 95/ΚΘ, N passage upper fill, therefore here) (no 6 was reassigned to E 14:3 Nbpp 3082-3083).
22 May 1935 #1-#3 (ditto) (no 2 was reassigned to E 14:3 Nbpp 3082-3083).
23 May 1935 #11-#12 (ditto) (no 12 was reassigned to E 14:3 Nbpp 3082-3083).
25 May 1935 #5-#10
27 May 1935 #1-#3
28 May 1935 #1-#3
29 May 1935 #1-#4
30 May 1935 #1-#5
31 May 1935 #1-#2
1 June 1935 #1-#6
3 June 1935 #1-#4 (#3-#4 from earth)
4 June 1935 #1-#3 (from earth)
5 June 1935 #1-#8 (from earth)
7 June 1935 #14-#18 (from earth)
8 June 1935 #2-#3 (from earth) ... Subdivisions:
.1=Upper Roman fill
.2=Lower Hellenistic fill
.3=Red earth at bottom=POU |
Digging abandoned at 17.10m.
Nbp. 2863: The fill in the mouth to -6.50 was a dump of mixed hellenistic and late roman sherds. From -6.50 to -11.00m. small stones with a few late roman sherds 4th-5th c ... 4th-5th c. A.D ... Coins:
17 May 1935 #1-#6
20 May 1937 #1
22 May 1937 #1
27 May 1937 #2
28 May 1937 #1-#26
29 May 1937 #1-#6
3 June 1937 #1-#6 (earth of 1-2 June)
4 June 1937 #1-#3 (earth) |
| Pyre in House T, Room 1, Layer 5-6 (RSY=Pyre 3) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
First quarter 4th. c. B.C.
Artifacts, bone, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The pyre was found in digging ... 400-375 B.C.(?) ... The hard red earth under the pyre indicates that it was burnt in situ, but a few centimeters of earth between the floor of the pit and the vessels suggests vessels were cleaned out and then thrown back in. |
| Grave 7b in notebook. Inhumation in Tholos Cemetery; The skeleton positioned directly below the male in Grave 7, but with direction reversed, i.e., head at southeast end. Most grave offerings at lower ... 750-725 B.C ... Body covered with earth 0.25m thick, then ca. 0.10m ashes and cinders.
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Coins:
5 April 1937 #1
8 April 1937 #3 (disintegrated)
9 April 1937 #1
10 April 1937 #9-#67
12 April 1937 #3-#6
13 April 1937 #1, (found 7 April 1937), # 24
14 April 1937 #1-#2 (found 8 April 1937)
16 ... Late Roman, 4th-early 5th. c. A.D ... Coins:
5 April 1937 #1
8 April 1937 #3 (disintegrated)
9 April 1937 #1
10 April 1937 #9-#67
12 April 1937 #3-#6
13 April 1937 #1, (found 7 April 1937), # 24
14 April 1937 #1-#2 (found 8 April 1937)
16 April 1937 #1-#4 (from Roman earth)
17 April 1937 #1 (found 10 April 1937) |
(Roman Group J). The upper fill to a depth of ca. 16.00m. was of earth scooped up elsewhere and thrown in ... The latest piece noted from this fill was a TC fragment dated late 4th to 5th(?) c. BC. From ... 2nd.-3rd. c. A.D ... The upper fill to a depth of ca. 16.00m. was of earth scooped up elsewhere and thrown in ... ... Coins:
19 March 1936 #1-#4
21 March 1936 #1-#2
24 April 1936 #5-#6
Coins found in going through earth from well after drying:
2 May 1936 #1
5 May 1936 #1-#3
6 May 1936 #1-#4
11 May 1936 #1-#4
14 May 1936 #1-#4 |
Early Roman pit at P/3-6/6,7
Layer 4a in Room 6 of Greek House δ, area P/2,3-6/6,8.
Pit in NW corner of Room 6 bounded by walls of Room to North and West, cut into preexisting layers to east, cutoff by ... 17 May 1971 ... Loose earth, red and black earth (especially black toward bottom); tiles, bones, carbon, glass, unidentifiable bronze pieces, very large iron nails with round heads, small iron nails, iron staples, plaster, some pieces of vitrified pottery.
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| Circular pit and irregular cutting north of it. Diam. of pit ca. 0.80m; Dimension of irregular cutting ca. 1.00x1.20m. The pit was dug into bedrock and filled with red earth which was packed with undisturbed ... Second half of 7th c. B.C ... The pit was dug into bedrock and filled with red earth which was packed with undisturbed pottery. ... At the bottom was a filling of earth and small stones. |
| In room A. Concentration of artifacts and burning in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre lay below a Late Hellenistic fill with a smooth earth surface. It is described as a black patch of earth with sherds, ... 350-250 B.C ... The pyre lay below a Late Hellenistic fill with a smooth earth surface. It is described as a black patch of earth with sherds, resting on a rough and uneven surface topping a fill that dates largely in the 4th c., to at least 325, with seven Hellenistic sherds perhaps intrusive from the level above. |
| Homer A. Thompson ... (Grave XXX: EG)
Rectangular cutting with burned bones of a female 40-45 years old, and both burned and unburned pottery fragments.
Rectangular trench, measuring approximately 0.80m long, 0.40m wide, with ... Middle Geometric I ... Rectangular trench, measuring approximately 0.80m long, 0.40m wide, with a preserved depth of 0.20m, cut through earth, partly into irregular outcroppings of bedrock, oriented northwest-southeast. A fieldstone paving was found closing the mouth of the trench and lining the sides cut in earth. The floor was bedrock at one end, hard clay at the other. The filling consisted of hard-packed burned earth with scattered fieldstones, crude pieces of mudbrick, ash, charcoal, the cremated remains of, the deceased, described by Angel as an arthritic woman about 45-50 years old, as well as what was originally published as a few unburned bones of a dog. |
Dumped filling of 6th c. A.D. Coins:
3 May 1939 #1-2 (red earth above well)
9 June 1939 #1
10 June 1939 #1
12 June 1939 #1-#5
13 June 1939 #1
19 June 1939 #1-#2, #3 (Dump)
7 May 1940 #1
9 May 1940 #1
27 ... Early 1st-5th c. A.D. POU ... Coins:
3 May 1939 #1-2 (red earth above well)
9 June 1939 #1
10 June 1939 #1
12 June 1939 #1-#5
13 June 1939 #1
19 June 1939 #1-#2, #3 (Dump)
7 May 1940 #1
9 May 1940 #1
27 May 1940 #1
28 May 1940 #1 (Dump) |
Well at 5/ΚΘ. Digging abandoned at -7.20m for fear of collapse.
Upper 50cm, fill in broken in mouth, very late Roman (4th-7th. c. A.D.)
Fill below 50cm to 6.50mL late roman with some earlier material (from ... 4th-7th century A.D ... Fill below 50cm to 6.50mL late roman with some earlier material (from earth from digging this well). |
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 ... From the mouth to 10.50m. a fill of earth with mixed sherds, Roman 4th. c. to geometric. |
| Mycenaean tomb: Myc. III A:1-2.
SAI
Small rectangular chamber, 2.30m wide by 1.80m deep,, entered from the east through a dromos 1.10m wide which contracted to a doorway 0.92m. wide. the doorway preserved ... 2nd half of 14th c ... SAI
Small rectangular chamber, 2.30m wide by 1.80m deep,, entered from the east through a dromos 1.10m wide which contracted to a doorway 0.92m. wide. the doorway preserved its rough stone blocking wall to a height of 0.70m to 0.80m., and the dromos the firm red earth with which it had been packed to a height of 1.30m.
Only the lower 0.50m of the chamber had been hewn from bedrock, the upper part being cut from very compact gravelly earth. The ceiling of the chamber had collapsed at least as early as the 6th c. |
| Rebecca Wood Robinson ... Damaged Protogeometric grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XL).
Small corner only preserved, cut in part into the filling of the Submycenaean Grave J 9:2. In this corner, and spilling into the disturbed upper ... Late Protogeometric ... In this corner, and spilling into the disturbed upper filling of J 9:2, burned earth and charcoal, with the burned bones of a female of about 40, and four fragmentary vases. |
| Identified as pyre by SIR.
In room E. Burnt "pocket" found while digging red earth that contained late Hellenistic pottery, including a fragment of Pergamene (discarded). No pit was discerned, but concentration ... 3rd quarter 4th c. B.C ... Burnt "pocket" found while digging red earth that contained late Hellenistic pottery, including a fragment of Pergamene (discarded). |
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 ... Two fills of distinctly different earth but with no apparent difference in date. |
Dug as Metroon Porch Pit A and Pit C (layers II and III). ... 7th-6th c. B.C ... In the lowest layer the dug bedrock was mixed with viscous red earth. |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ.
Objects with context as "cistern 44ΙΓ, mouth of 46/ΙΑ" are listed with D 12:2.
The following objects are from "earth", i.e. no context layer:
SS 5334, ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman ... The following objects are from "earth", i.e. no context layer:
SS 5334, SS 5336, SS 5343, SS 5438, SS 5441, SS 5442, SS 5444, SS 5446, SS 5635, SS 5740
LL 2130, L 2132, L 2188
T 1045, T 1067
P 7138
Nineteen stamped amphora handles; many late 2nd c. lamps ... Coins
29 February 1936 #3 (from mouth)
2 March 1936 #1
3 March 1936 #7
5 March 1936 #4-#5
6 March 1936 #1-#3
7 March 1936 #1-#4
9 March 1936 #1-#3
10 March 1936 #1-#2
11 March 1936 #1
From "earth":
12 March 1936 #6
13 March 1936 #1-#2
14 March 1936 #1-#7
16 March 1936 #1
17 March 1936 #1-#3
18 March 1936 #1-#2 |
Dromos of a Mycenaean Tomb at N end of Stoa Terrace (Burial 3). No remains. Perhaps to be associated with dromos of a Mycenaean chamber tomb (?) observed in this area (XIV, p. 2707).
Tomb found when workmen ... Myc. III A ... A soft spot in the earth revealed a cutting about 0.95m wide running from west to east and sloping downward toward the east, apparently the dromos of a chamber tomb, with its chamber under the stylobate foundations of the Stoa. The cutting was filled with greenish earth and contained only two sherds. |
| C.G. Thomas ... Geometric grave. Bones discarded.
Tomb located about 2m west/west-southwest of the EG1 child inhumation, beneath the restored line of a hypothetical wall connecting the western "apse' and the south wall ... Middle Geometric II ... The floor of the "house" could not be distinguished from the earth packing at the top of the grave. A roughly rectangular trench was cut through earth into bedrock, except at the southeast where it was wholly cut into earth, to a depth of 0.15-0.20m. ... The filling consisted of hard earth, most of it burned and struck through with charcoal, which was especially thick on the floor of the trench, where some pieces were as much as 0.05m across. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 7 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXI: PG). Bones discarded. Disturbed and damaged cremation (originally trench-and-hole), the east end cut away, probably contained the burial urn.
JP
It consisted ... Late Protogeometric ... The east end where the cinerary urn would have originally been located in an urn-hole, was almost completely cut away by the Hellenistic water channel that skirted the tomb to the south. evidence of heavy burning, in the form of reddened earth, was noted on the ground around the mouth, rim, floor and three sides of the trench. The preserved east end, built up from redeposited green schist bedrock streaked with reddened earth, may have been a barrier between the destroyed urn-hole and the pyre trench, constructed after the fire had subsided. |
Rodney S. Young ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXVI:PG). Early fill over bedrock. No remains.
Two fragmentary unburned vases were found together on bedrock, beneath Roman and Byzantine fill. Disturbed earth over bedrock for several ... Early Protogeometric ... Disturbed earth over bedrock for several meters around them contained quantities of Early Iron Age pottery.
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Cistern at 72/ΛΘ. Under NW corner of Roman House H. Stucco-lined, bottle-shaped cistern, poor condition. Diameter at bottom -2m.
Two tunnels, one leading east, one west, ca. 1.65m high and 0.80m across ... 150-110 B.C. with a few earlier pieces ... Joins from top to bottom, and no changes of earth noted. No POU fill.
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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 ... Mostly of earth and field stones with little pottery, probably thrown in at the time of the abandonment of the well due to the construction of the Tholos. |
Tile-lined well at T/7-13/10,ca. 0.75m in diameter, top at ca. 64.90. Three tiles per circuit, ca. 0.63m high each; 10 rows of tiles. No POU.
Fill was largely dumped earth of the 3rd and 4th c. A.D., apparently ... Late 3rd to 5th century A.D ... Fill was largely dumped earth of the 3rd and 4th c. |
| 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 ... Virtually nothing of the pyre trench survived, but it's presence was indicated by hard red-colored burned earth packed tightly against the rim of the amphora along the northwest side. ... Also P 345 from sifting earth around grave.
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| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 3 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XIII: PG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female.
JP
Rectangular trench, measuring approximately 1.10x0.45m, but which may have been larger, cut through ... Late Protogeometric ... JP
Rectangular trench, measuring approximately 1.10x0.45m, but which may have been larger, cut through earth and partly into bedrock. ... "Burned earth" fired red with the odd pyre sherd noted on the floor and spilling into the urn-hole". 2. layer of ash and charcoal. 3. |
Lamps all found together at the southeast corner of the excavated area, in a deposit running in part under the dike of earth which has been left against the wall of the street.
Includes 10 lamps in Section ... 17-18 June 1931
15 May 1933 ... Lamps all found together at the southeast corner of the excavated area, in a deposit running in part under the dike of earth which has been left against the wall of the street.
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| Julia Shear ... Burial. Roman Temple south half, in fill south of temple crosswall and norh of polygonal wall, layer 37a.
Small, roughly circular pit. The diameter of the pit appeared to be only slightly greater than ... Late Helladic IIIC Late-Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... The diameter of the pit appeared to be only slightly greater than the maximum diameter of the amphora (P 32307), which is 0.254m
The fill of the pit was a fine, loose-textured, dark red-brown earth, distinct from that of the surrounding fill. |
| Artifacts, burnt bone, ash, cinders and charcoal in pit in bedrock. The pyre lay directly under mosaic floor A. the deposit is not badly disturbed, however, and it is possible that it was laid immediately ... Early second quarter of 4th c. B.C ... The pyre was probably burnt in situ; pots rested on a thick layer of burning, and fragments of burnt earth were found in the pit. some charcoal as large as ca. 0.03m in diameter is preserved, and bits of burnt matter were found in the lekanis. |
Filling between tongue walls to north of main apse in Late Roman complex, equals "Coroplasts' Dump" overlying Odeion south side.
Containers Ο 17-Ο 20 are from "debris of burnt building" [i.e. Odeion ... 267-ca. 350 A.D ... These finds include only those from "Late Roman fill between tongue walls" (the "brownish earth" indicated on nbp. 252 plan),and not from "debris of burnt building" which should fall under Destruction Debris of Odeion deposit L-M 9-12. |
| Pyre in Room 1, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 11).
Early in the third quarter of the 4th. c. B.C.
In courtyard. Artifacts, bone, and cinders in irregular pit in floor sequence. The pit had been dug into ... 350-330 B.C ... The pyre was burnt in situ (earth surface reddened). |
| David Scahill ... At northeast corner of Classical Building II; on south side of dromos of Tomb K 2:5, and separated from it by ca. 0.6m of bedrock. Chamber cut through bedrock. The northeast corner of chamber defined ... LHIII A:1 ... Upper fill of stones and earth inside cutting with Geometric sherds. |
| (Grave XXIX: EG).
Rectangular cutting with remains of charred human bones and both burned and unburned pottery fragments. Bones discarded.
Rectangular trench cut through earth into bedrock, oriented east-west ... Middle Geometric I ... Rectangular trench cut through earth into bedrock, oriented east-west and measuring 1.10m long, 0.70m wide and under 0.30m deep. |
| Pyre in House T, Room 2 through floor of second period (RSY=Pyre 5) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
4th. c. BC.
Concentration of artifacts, burnt bone, and charcoal in floor makeup consisting ... 375-350 B.C ... Concentration of artifacts, burnt bone, and charcoal in floor makeup consisting of earth, dug bedrock, and marble chips, no pit discerned. |
| Pyre in House T (= House D), Room 2 (5th c.) and fill east of pyre.
Earlier than the other pyres of this house.
Pottery, slivers of burnt bone, and heavy deposit of carbonized material and cinders in ... Ca. 420-410 B.C ... Hardened and reddened earth under the deposit indicates that the pyre was burnt in situ. |
| Pyre in Room 2, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 12).
In courtyard. Artifacts, bone, ash, carbon, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The rectangular pit was cut into a white strosis with marble chips (ΠΠ ... 315-300 B.C ... The rectangular pit was cut into a white strosis with marble chips (ΠΠ 282), filled with red earth, and the surface then trodden hard. |
Well in the bottom of chamber cistern at 106/ΛΓ, stratified. A soft spot in the bedrock at the west side of the well caved in and was packed with typical coarse Roman first century amphoras; the well was ... A.D. 200-150 ... Coins:
16 May 1937 #1
17 May 1937 #1
28 May 1937 #30
29 May 1937 #1
31 May 1937 #1-#3
From the earth:
1 June 1937 #2
4 June 1937 #5-#9 |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 20 (E.L. Smithson: Grave X: PG). Bones discarded. Pit tomb, inhumation (on bier or in coffin?), perhaps of a child. Little ash and carbon in the filling, but the grave offerings were unburned.
JP ... Developed Protogeometric ... No trace of formal tomb covering.
3 distinct strata of the fill:
a) Upper half, to a depth of 0.40m, redeposited bedrock chips mixed with earth. Sterile.
b) To a depth of 0.12-0.15m, : "ash and cinders with a few burned bits of nonhuman/animal bones. ... The se pots, all unburned and clustered together, would have been placed in the area immediately above the feet of the deceased.
c) in the lowest 0.30m, very damp earth with very little ash, much heavy black matter "of a different character", from that in the layer above.
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| 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 ... Rectangular pyre trench cut through earth into bedrock, with only the lowest 0.04m surviving. ... The trench floor comprised what appeared to be scorched earth; it contained a few sherds, described by the excavator as being of "small bowls".
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| 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 ... Loose fill of stones and earth filling tomb with large number of geometric sherds ranging early to late Geometric. |
| A well in the industrial area of the Areopagus, about 7.00m. west of the West Bath, to a depth of 14.60m. This well was the direct successor to A 17:1, replacing it when it collapsed. The use filling at ... Second quarter 6th. c ... Above this the shaft was filled with pure dug bedrock almost to the top. The earth filling of the top 1.90m., where the walls of the well had broken out to form a pit, contained very scanty pottery, of the same date as that of the use filling. |
| Pyre in cut in E-W street, layer 7 (Pyre 14). North edge of Piraeus street, west of the Great Drain Bridge, in the area west of Areopagus.
RSY-Pyre.
Pottery, a little burnt bone, and patches of charcoal ... 250-240 B.C ... Possibly, however, marbleworking took place just outside a house to the north, against the wall of which these layers run. hardened earth beneath the pyre indicates burning in situ. |
| 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 ... The pottery and burnt deposit lay in the lowest 0.08m of the pit, which was filled with earth and topped with a broken tile. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 4 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XX: PG). Bones discarded. Grave of older child.
JP
Rectangular pit, cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.26m, approximately 0.97m long and 0.36m wide. Tomb oriented ... Late Protogeometric ... Tomb oriented east-west,head of the deceased to the east. a thin strosis of hard-packed redeposited bedrock mixed with much burned earth and many small stones was described as lying above and surrounding the tomb pit. |
| Grave 1 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXV: PG). No remains. Probable trench-and-hole.
JP
Roughly circular pit measuring 0.39m in diameter cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.72m. Pyre refuse-described ... Late PG/EG I ... Pyre refuse-described as "ashes and cinders etc"- was encountered throughout the tomb pit, below, around and above the urn. although there is no specific mention of a trench, Young's description of the tomb suggests that a rectangular trench, with a maximum length of about 0.80m and a preserved width of ca. 0.60m, was cut through earth into bedrock. consequently, the tomb appears to be a classic example of an Athenian trench-and-hole, oriented east-west,with the urn-hole at the east. |
Dumped filling in a well on the west slope of the Areopagus (apparently separate, no mends between them, but differing little in date) the bottom filling apparently thrown in towards the beginning of the ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. and earlier ... Three separated dumped fillings were noted, divided by layers of earth and mud; all were dumped in at about the same time, but each had somewhat distinctive characteristics. |
Tiled well near the SW corner of the market square between the Southwest Fountain House and the Great Drain, three fills noted: lower fill of earth and stones with a few fragments only of coarse pottery ... 4th-2nd c. B.C.
100-70 B.C ... Tiled well near the SW corner of the market square between the Southwest Fountain House and the Great Drain, three fills noted: lower fill of earth and stones with a few fragments only of coarse pottery (none inventoried, containers 66-71); middle filling a heavy deposit primarily of table ware, apparently a gradual accumulation; upper supplementary fill. |
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 ... Loose brown earth was removed from the highest preserved level of Pithos D (Lot 518) until the bottom of the lowest course of masonry of the vessel wall was visible. |
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 ... Area North of Stoa:
Habitation earth above gravel: gray minyan, protogeometric
See also cut on 50m. line (E-F 2-3:2). |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Child's Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXVIII: G).
Cf. Container Lot ΣΤ 165 (fill over geometric grave).
Neat, rectangular, unlined trench, cut into bedrock to a preserved depth of 0.20m,below the level ... Early Geometric I ... The fill of the tomb pit was plain earth,the upper parts of which were described by the excavator as disturbed too a level "fairly close to the skeleton". Slight traces of carbonized matter were noted at the southeast end near the cranium, with small specks of carbon throughout the earth fill,but no substantial traces of burning or any burnt pots. |
| James H. Oliver ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave IX: PG). Two children's skeletons one on top of the other. Cf. PD 329 for PD 430 for second skeleton, same deposit.
PG grave about 25m. SW of Cistern A at 46/ΜΔ.
[In some records, ... Developed Protogeometric ... JP
Rectangular put cut through yellow earth into bedrock to a depth of 0.30m below the level of the uncut surrounding bedrock. ... The two bodies were probably inhumed at the same time. this is supported by the fact that the skeletons, both well preserved, were neatly laid out on top of each other with no earth separating them. |
| Well in Room 6 of Street Stoa U/2,U/3-13/15.
Associated with the building lying under the Roman Street Stoa. Its fills divided into 5 separate layers, with the bulk of finds belonging to Layer 1, the ... 14 June-21 August 1973 ... In this layer the bulk of sherds and vases was greater than the bulk of earth. It was noted at the time the well was dug that objects seem to come out in groups, i.e. ... Layer 2. 52.25m-50.43 (boxes 73-74) was a fill of almost pure earth, stones, and cut bedrock. ... Layer 5. 48.13m-46.71m (boxes 81-85) consisted of a fill of mixed earth, fallen bedrock, few stones, roof tiles, 27 boxes of pottery and 19 catalogued items. |
A well (diameter 1.10m) at the east edge of the valley road leading from the SW corner of the Agora, about 90m SW of the Tholos. The mouth of the well was subsequently covered by the east wall of the Great ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... From -9m to the bottom -9.70m : a filling of earth and stones with few pottery fragments. |
| Homer A. Thompson ... Cremation burial (trench-and-hole) under S. edge of E-W Street, southern burial. In some records as Grave XLVI.
Neat trench, rectangular as preserved, but may have originally been square, cut partly through ... Early Geometric I ... Neat trench, rectangular as preserved, but may have originally been square, cut partly through earth, partly into bedrock, to a depth of about 0.25m. |
Cistern at 9/Β (10/Β on plan), at the NW foot of the Areopagus, some 200m to the west of the Coroplast's Dump. It had evidently belonged to one of the small houses in that thickly populated residential ... Second half 4th c. B.C ... Coins:
20 February 1931 #16-#18
23 February 1932 #1-#9, #21, #26
24 February 1932 #11
27 February 1932 #3
29 February 1932 #13, #19
1 March 1932 #3-#8
2 March 1932 #18-#19, #22-#29
7 March 1932 #3
8 March 1932 #3
11 March 1932 #3-#4 (from earth) |
Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C.-86 B.C ... Coins: Nbp 2436
14 May 1935 #17 (earth)
21 May 1935 #1-#5 (late mixed fill)
22 May 1935 #4-#5
24 May 1935 #1
29 May 1935 #5-#7
30 May 1935 #6 |
| Eugene Vanderpool Homer A. Thompson ... Mycenaean Grave to W. of "Court Room" below Stoa Terrace with "Ballot Box" (Grave XXIX).
Unusual type, conforming neither to our pit nor to our cist graves, and consisted of two parts. The outer part was ... Mycenaean III A-B ... The narrow space was full of gray earth and clay with no trace of bones or any offerings, although the base of a goblet was embedded in the stones of the north side. |
| David Scahill ... Below packed clay floors in Room 2 of Classical Building II; bordered on east and south sides by polygonal cross wall and back wall extension for Classical Building. Late Roman wall and drain installation ... LHIII A:1 ... Loose fill of stones and earth with large number of Geometric sherds ranging from Protogeometric to late Geometric in date, from top of cutting extending down into layer of tomb contents. |
House R, fill under drain tiles and fillings associated with house K in industrial area, including what was C 19:15, plus C 19:16 and
C 19:17.
a) House built as dwelling in second half of 5th.c.
b) Used ... Ca. 5th and 4th c. B.C ... Most of the material comes however from the second and third phases noted above: either the marble-workers' shop, or the heavy filling of dumped earth and marble chips thrown in over the area when the level was raised for the remodelling of the building at about the middle of the 4th c. |
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 ... A.D., began later use in Byzantine times and finally filled with earth and rubbish.
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| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 8 in notebook. Bones discarded. Fragments of an iron pin found on the chest and a fragment of a Protogeometric krater base found beside the body were not inventoried.
JP
Unlined roughly rectangular ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) ... There was no evidence of any surviving cover slabs. the plain earth fill of the tomb pit yielded no sherds. |
Michael Laughy ... Debris pit, located in Room 2 of ΒΘ East. Pit measures ca. 2.30 by 1.70m., and nearly a meter deep. The pottery from the pit dates ca. 10th-12th c. A.D. The fill of the pit consisted of soft, black charcoal ... 10th-12th c. A.D ... The fill of the pit consisted of soft, black charcoal and earth, within which we recovered ca. 800 goat horns, representing over 400 unique adult goats. |
| Homer A. Thompson ... Cremation burial (trench-and-hole) under S. edge of E-W Street, northern burial. In some records as Grave XLVII.
The western part of the offering trench of the tomb was lost to a Turkish cess pit, and ... Middle Geometric I ... What survived was the south and east section of the original grave, including a strip of the pyre trench, reddened from burning to a depth of 0.05m, and below it a shallow urn-hole, roughly square, ca. 0.60m to the side, cut through earth almost to the level of bedrock, to a depth of about 0.30m.
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| Eugene Vanderpool ... Rectangular pit, oriented east-west, cut party into filling of Early Protogeometric pit-well (I 18:4), to a preserved depth of about 0.30m. A late Byzantine wall founded below the floor of the grave destroyed ... Middle Geometric I ... The tomb pit had a preserved length of about 1m and a width of ca. 0.80m. The earth-cut sides of the tomb-pit were in part lined with fieldstones, and similar fieldstones were encountered in the fill off the tomb. |
Washed-in filling at the base of the Acropolis cliffs, some 7m. east of the Klepsydra; the fill was characterized by teh fragments of a series of red-figured oinochoai of special shape, of the late 5th ... Late 3rd c. B.C ... Between the foot of the rock and three or four large fallen boulders, it was found a hollow roughly 1.50m, in diameter, which was filled with a loose, slightly gravelly black earth. The filling which had been undisturbed since antiquity, was in places as much as 0.80m deep and produced a great quantity of pottery. |
| An extensive cistern system on the lower north slope of the Areopagus, south chamber with blind tunnel extending further south (south tunnel); north chamber; drawshaft further north, extends to north tunnel ... Ca. 320-240 B.C ... Some years later, the chamber was finally abandoned and filled in with earth. In the meantime , the passageway connecting the two chambers was sacrificed and its remaining mouth closed by a wall looking into the northern chamber.
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