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Also possibly object B 252 "scraping bedrock in south part; context too disturbed and uncertain to be trusted." ... 4th c. B.C ... Also possibly object B 252 "scraping bedrock in south part; context too disturbed and uncertain to be trusted." |
Fillings to either side of the Great Drain, in the southern part of the area west of the Areopagus; various levels, late 6th. and early 5th c. B.C. to Sullan destruction. Coins:
26 July 1946 #1-#2
30 July ... Late 6th. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D ... Great Drain South in Southern Part of the Area West of the Areopagus |
Red fill with burning over south part of Heliaea. Post Herulian Metal- Worker's establishment. Coins:
20 May 1953 #1-#2
4 May 1953 #1 P 30199 (Κ 4282), B 1544-1546 (Κ 4281, Κ4283-4284) catalogued on May ... Late 3rd. c. A.D ... Red fill with burning over south part of Heliaea. |
Cistern Shaft at 61/Β and south passage to E.W. drain.
Part of H-I 16-17 system. Coins:
8 April 1932 #14
9 April 1932 #1-#8
11 April 1932 #1-#3
12 April 1932 #1 ... 8-16 April 1932 ... Cistern Shaft at 61/Β and south passage to E.W. drain.
Part of H-I 16-17 system. |
Well near west edge of level area south of the Hephaisteion. Dumped filling thrown in near end of 4th. c. but by far the greater part belonging to the 30 years before 350 B.C.
Diameter of shaft 0.98m ... Ca. 380-350 B.C ... Well near west edge of level area south of the Hephaisteion. Dumped filling thrown in near end of 4th. c. but by far the greater part belonging to the 30 years before 350 B.C.
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Drain channel system along the line of an ancient north-south road, the channel in part at the surface and in part tunneled and accessible by shafts. Over a considerable part of this channel the hard water ... 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D ... Drain channel system along the line of an ancient north-south road, the channel in part at the surface and in part tunneled and accessible by shafts. Over a considerable part of this channel the hard water deposit at the bottom, belonging to the period of use, is consistently of the second and early third centuries, although coins of Gallienus in the upper part of the filling show that the channel was not abandoned before the time of the Heruli. |
| Mycenaean Grave to W of Pier 12 (Burial 11).
The northern part of the tomb had been cut away by the foundation trench for the south stylobate of the Square Building that preceded the Stoa, and the dromos, ... Myc. IIB-IIIA:1 ... The northern part of the tomb had been cut away by the foundation trench for the south stylobate of the Square Building that preceded the Stoa, and the dromos, if one existed, must have been lost in this operation. The chamber was small with an original east-west dimension of 1.60m and a preserved north-south dimension of 1.20m, the walls preserved to a maximum height of 0.90m. A single skeleton lay in some disorder in the eastern part with its head to the south. |
Great Drain: fillings in south part of section; Martyrs I, II and III, all layers (essentially no difference in the layers).
Pottery sorted and recorded by H.A. Thompson 12 may 1950: "Having gone through ... Second half of 2nd c. B.C.-Early 1st c. B.C ... Great Drain: fillings in south part of section; Martyrs I, II and III, all layers (essentially no difference in the layers).
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West Terrace, South End, Layers IV and V. Heavy dumped filling associated with terrace walls at the extreme south end of the excavations in the Areopagus industrial area. The proportion of figured and ... Ca. 420-390 B.C ... West Terrace, South End, Layers IV and V. Heavy dumped filling associated with terrace walls at the extreme south end of the excavations in the Areopagus industrial area. The proportion of figured and good glazed fragments is unusually high, including cups, squat lekythoi and other vases in greater part of the last two decades of the 5th. c. but with some material that goes back into the first quarter of the 5th. c. and a little that continues into the early years of the 4th. |
| Listed in notebook as at 6/ΛΗ but later found to be at 12/ΛΗ.
Originally B 16:1.
Large cistern distinguished by a short (1.75m) blind tunnel running SW from its floor, and a shallow (ca. 0.80m originally) ... Ca. 150 B.C ... Large cistern distinguished by a short (1.75m) blind tunnel running SW from its floor, and a shallow (ca. 0.80m originally) settling basin just south of the cistern mouth. The lowest part of the cistern as well as the tunnel had been packed with amphoras. |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb by Stoa Pier 12 (Burial 10).
The entire north side of the chamber had been cut away by Stoa Pier 12 and most of the depth by leveling operations in connection with Square Building, ... Early Myc. IIIA ... What remained of the chamber measured 1.30m east-west by 0.90m north-south. Despite the disturbance two skeletons were found in order as far as their thighs, lying inn a north-south position with their heads to the south; the east skeleton lay on its right side with the right hand under the head, the left over the chest; the west skeleton had the left arm raised to its chin, the right arm at its side. There was no trace of offerings of any kind, but these may have been in the north part which was demolished by the Stoa Pier. |
| Homer A. Thompson ... PG grave to NW of Pier 19 (Grave 4).
It consisted of a rectangular pit, oriented north-south, cut into bedrock. Only the lowest part of the tomb pit was preserved; the upper part was cut away in the Classical ... Earlier-Developed Protogeometric ... It consisted of a rectangular pit, oriented north-south, cut into bedrock. Only the lowest part of the tomb pit was preserved; the upper part was cut away in the Classical period. |
Filling under North-South Road surface, apparently to raise the level of the road as thickness of fill varies depending on height of road. Fill sits on earliest, cobbled road layer. The road surface set ... Mid-6th c. B.C ... Filling under North-South Road surface, apparently to raise the level of the road as thickness of fill varies depending on height of road. ... Broken ceramic material in fill concentrated in the northeast part of excavated area; material remains in scarp. |
| Mycenaean Double Grave (Graves A and B).
Grave A was in Layer II. We laid a skull and a few other bones, three vases and a stone bead. We have dug to a maximum of about 0.06m below the top of Layer II ... Myc. IIIA/B ... To the South of Grave A and separated from it by a narrow wall apparently of bedrock, was part of another grave. ... to the south, whereas the plan clearly shows three skulls, apparently all children. |
| Mycenaean grave. It consisted of a shallow rectangular cutting in bedrock about 1.40m by 0.70m, but it was probably somewhat bigger, since the east side and a large part of the north side had been cut ... Myc. IIIA:1-2 ... It consisted of a shallow rectangular cutting in bedrock about 1.40m by 0.70m, but it was probably somewhat bigger, since the east side and a large part of the north side had been cut away by later builders. It contained a single burial, that of a small child, laid lengthwise in the grave along the south side. Only the skull was preserved in position. |
| Marcie Handler ... Fill within the drain from the basin on the west side of Roman Room B through Wall A.
After we removed the fill within the basin on the west side of Roman Room B (BZ XXVII p. 5325), we began excavating ... Late Roman ... After we removed the fill within the basin on the west side of Roman Room B (BZ XXVII p. 5325), we began excavating in the cutting on the east face of a conglomerate block that is part of Wall A. The cutting was semicircular, and the fill was silty and very hard-packed. The cutting is probably a drain that carried water from the basin through Wall A and onto the North-South Road. Seventy-eight coins were found in the fill, of varying sizes but all badly corroded. |
| 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 ... The western part of the offering trench of the tomb was lost to a Turkish cess pit, and disturbances at least as early as the 7th c. B.C. had cut away the upper part of the cinerary urn and the adjoining trench filling. ... The urn-hole was dug only deep enough to accommodate the cinerary urn to its shoulder; the burning suggests a north-south orientation with the cinerary urn at the south or southeast corner.
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| Initially uncovered with a diameter of c. 1.05m. Its south side extends under the south wall of the Classical structure and so clearly predates it. The highest preserved portion of the well shaft (at the ... 22 July-9 August 1994
26 June 1995
3-7 July 1995 ... Initially uncovered with a diameter of c. 1.05m. Its south side extends under the south wall of the Classical structure and so clearly predates it. ... On the south side of the shaft, a lining wall of field stones is preserved from an elevation of 49.44m above sea level; around the rest of the shaft it is preserved from an elevation of 48.99m. ... If lined, the upper part of the shaft would have been quite constricted (c. 0.70m.).
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Mycenaean Chamber Tomb W. of Circular Building (at Σ:30/ΛΕ?)
It had been badly disturbed by a fourth-century B.C. pit which cut into the northeast part of the chamber (rectangular, ca. 1.80m by 1.30m) ... Myc. III A 2 ... It had been badly disturbed by a fourth-century B.C. pit which cut into the northeast part of the chamber (rectangular, ca. 1.80m by 1.30m). ... Only the one lying along the west edge of the chamber was well-preserved, with its head to the south, knees up, and with the pots at its feet. two more pots were found lying between this skeleton and the chamber wall. |
| Marcie Handler ... Continued from 2000 season, 10-12 July 2000; BZ XXIII p. 4472.
The hoard was originally excavated during the 2000 season (Lot BZ 1049, 5th-6th centuries AD), from a higher elevation through a gap in the ... 10-12 July 2000
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Two chambers connected by a tunnel, all filled at the same time, but with slight Hellenistic disturbance. Chamber A, to west at 14/ΛΗ, B to east at 14-15/ΛΒ on grid for section RR.
Cistern system ca. 20.00m ... Ca. 325-275 B.C ... Cistern system ca. 20.00m. south of the south stylobate of the Hephaisteion. ... Abandonment of cistern and source of contents probaby attributable to an undetermined event in the early part of the decade 310 B.C.
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| 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 ... 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. ... Chamber cut into soft bedrock, depth ca. 50.926msl, diameter ca. 2m. roughly square.
Upper part of tomb cut away by leveling for floors of Classical Building. ... At floor of tomb, concentration of bone fragments and pots, mostly broken in situ, concentrated against the north side of the tomb, with some bone fragments across the middle, and on the south side with more pots. |
Fillings in a well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. The shaft reached a depth of 20.28m., but produced no use filling. The lower part, from water level at 12.60m. to bottom, provided only mud and gravel ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... Fillings in a well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. ... The lower part, from water level at 12.60m. to bottom, provided only mud and gravel with occasional thin streaks of sherds of the same period as the main dumped fill above. |
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 ... 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 D 17:3 and D 17:4.
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| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb opposite ΣΑ pier 15. It was discovered about 20m to the west of Pier 15 of the Stoa of Attalos and almost in a line and a few meters south of Tomb XX. although the entire upper part ... Myc. II-IIIA/B ... It was discovered about 20m to the west of Pier 15 of the Stoa of Attalos and almost in a line and a few meters south of Tomb XX. although the entire upper part had been cut away in Classical times, leaving only the lowest o.50 to 0.80m., and a Classical pit had cut away the northwest corner of the chamber, the burials were remarkably undisturbed and the chamber could be planned and measures. the dromos opening to the northeast, was short and steep and irregularly cut. it was 0.70m wide and was preserved to a length of 1.50m; a few stones of the blocking wall of the doorway remained.
... One lay along the east side with head to south and legs doubled up; another in the center with feet toward the door; and a third at the back of the chamber. |
Mycenaean Deposit (Gully) in front of NE Stoa (corrected from P 7:1).
It consisted of a series of irregular pits, some gradually linked up with one another to form what seemed a natural gully. The largest ... Mycenaean IIIA-B ... The largest pit measuring 1.70m east-west by about 1.20m north-south and having a maximum depth of 0.90m was situated from five to ten meters northeast of the gully proper and was cut at the north by the back wall of Northeast Stoa, which was set down a little into it.
The gully itself ran in a southwesterly direction and yielded about twenty small painted sherds, fragmentary cooking pots, unglazed kylix stems, fragments from pithoi and other coarse pots, as well as part of a stone grinder and many animal bones.
... Towards the south, it ends at an irregular piece of bedrock. |
| 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 cranium was at a slightly lower level in the tomb than the feet; the upper part of the skull of the deceased was found near the south corner of the tomb, the jaw bone closer to the east corner. In addition to the shells, the skeleton of an animal, identified in the field as "probably a piglet", was placed to the left of the skeleton, along the central part of the southwest side of the tomb pit.
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| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb occupies a considerable part of the western half of section ΕΕ; lies about half way up the north slope of the Areopagus towards its eastern end, just below the highest point of the ... Myc. III A:1 ... Mycenaean Chamber Tomb occupies a considerable part of the western half of section ΕΕ; lies about half way up the north slope of the Areopagus towards its eastern end, just below the highest point of the hill. ... High above the chamber to the south, about five meters above its floor, is the remains of a wall of a late Roman house, part of which passed over the southwest corner of the chamber and had to be removed. ... Group of objects:
a) on the east bench, a little north of its center (BI 511, P 15234-15239)
b) on the floor in the northeast corner of the chamber just to the left of the door (B 704, P 15358-15359)
c) on the floor of the chamber, about 0.40m from the south wall, near its mid-point (B 705, BI 513, BI 514, BI 530
d) on the floor in the northwest part of the chamber, at the foot of the bench about midway between the grave and the north wall of the chamber (J 64, J 65, J 68) |
| Brian Martens ... It was partially excavated during the 2012 and 2013 seasons. The tomb, located at the center of Room III in the NE area of section ΒΖ, was found under fill surrounding perpendicular mid-to late 6th c ... LHIIIA ... The foundations, part of a now-absent structure through the area, were inserted deeply as the result of an anomaly in the soil: the collapsed tomb, cut into the hillside's soft bedrock. ... The tomb contents were found spread over the tomb of the floor, but especially concentrated at the back east and south walls. A strip of fill at the north side of the cutting, just below the scarp of Wall L remained unexcavated at the end of the season (J/17,18-1/10,11; 51.290-51.376 masl.)
2018:
We removed a final strip of fill in the chamber below the scarp under Wall K (J/17,19-1/10,11). |
| James Artz Pirisino Daniele Kylindreas Miltiades ... Excavation in Room 3 of ΒΘ West revealed 5 ceramic vessels in a row against the eastern face of Wall 12. 3 complete vessels (ΒΘ 122, 124, and 125) were catalogued, along with the base of a plain glazed ... 9th-11th c. A.D ... Excavation in Room 3 was restricted to a small area south of and adjacent to Wall 23. ... The floor was left in situ at the end of the season.
2017 Addendum:
In 2017, we resumed excavation of Room 3, concentrating our efforts on the high baulk at the northeastern part of the room.
We began by excavating the eastern portion of the high baulk (Lots ΒΘ 951, 952, 953, 955). ... With the evidence available, we can now interpret the large amount of tile uncovered this season and previous seasons in this part of Room 3 as the consequence of a roof collapse. |
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