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Two narrow trenches at right angles to each other.
Small deposit in bedrock cutting Good black glaze ware ... 430-420 B.C. |
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 |
Pit in bedrock in front of Shop VII (= Pit in Stoa Colonnade in front of Shop VII). It contained a miscellaneous collection of sherds which included one scrap of red-figure ... Ca. 475-460 B.C. |
Fifth century Pit E of Stoa Room 11 with coarse pottery and a few black-glazed, some with stamping and red-figured pieces ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. |
Filling accumulated between the time of the Persian sack and the building of the Stoa.
Cf. Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 14-18 and H 6:5. |
East-West Street (63-64/ΙΣΤ, etc.)
Packing in line of ancient east-west street along Areopagus north slopes.
Lower fills, predominantly late 6th-early 5th c. B.C.
Middle fills, last quarter of the 5th ... Various levels and dates |
Filling behind retaining wall of Stoa of Zeus. The remains of unfired clay adhering to the interior of various pieces make it probable that the material in this filling is a mass of debris from the floor ... Ca. 435-425 B.C. |
Well at 73/Μ on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter of 0.90m. It seems to have been abandoned because of the very soft stereo that kept falling in from all sides. Many pieces of terracotta ... Ca. 430-420 B.C. |
Red Figure Pocket in front of Retaining Wall at 74-77/ΛΖ-ΛΘ.
Pit , a large cutting in bedrock, irregular in outline, reaching a depth of ca. 1m; dumped filling of alternating layers-broken pottery fragments ... Ca. 430-410 B.C. |
High proportion of material in unusually complete codition ... 475-450 B.C. and later |
Narrow trench in bedrock; one section found to NE of Circular Building west of the Stoa of Attalos, another (Q 8:1) beneath the terrace of the Stoa of Attalos opposite Pier 19. A single filling in both ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. and shortly after |
Dumped fillings probably to be associated with the construction of the Great Drain in this area.
Green fill under North Building ... Ca. 400 B.C. |
Carefully cut in bedrock with firm footholds on either side. The use filling is represented by a few fragments of water jars (uninventoried), indicating a short period of use. The dumped filling, below ... Ca. 470-425 B.C. |
No period of use. Below the upper (Early Roman) dump extending down to ca. 6.10m. was a dumped fill of broken pottery in great quantity, including a high proportion of red-figured fragments. Masses of ... Ca. 430-400 B.C.
Late 1st c. B.C.-mid 1st c. A.D. |
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 associated with Southwest and North Buildings (78-99/ΙΣΤ-ΚΘ) and early walls to west of Great Drain.
pottery p. 1189, vol VII ... Subdivisions:
.1=Filling over bedrock.
.2=Fillings behind retaining ... Various levels and dates |
Investigations within the Stoa of Zeus, the north part, various levels.
Notebook references: Stoa Trench E Layers IV and V, Stoa Pits A, B and C, and Layers I and II of area between back wall and retaining ... 5th c. B.C. |
Ca. 73-81/Drain. Fillings associated with the construction of the Great Drain South, especially the fill thrown in behind the east wall of the drain at the time of its building.
Cf. A 20-21:1 and B 19:7 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Well at 69/ΟΒ (Late 5th c.)
Lower fill dated to 420-400 B.C. in Agora XXX.
There were no use filling and the well was apparently not a success as a water-supply: there was no concentration of water-jars ... 420-400 B.C. |
Circular well cut through the old road after it had gone out of use, and filled probably at the time of the building of the drain and building A, and the throwing of fill over the road ... Ca. 430-400 B.C. |
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. |
Pit in House N, Room 2 (RSY, House C). Filling thrown in behind the west wall of the Great Drain South at the time of the building of the drain and the extension of House C.
Cf. Hesperia 20 (1951), pp ... Ca. 430-410 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.
Diameter of shaft 0.98m ... Ca. 380-350 B.C. |
A small flask-shaped cistern on the lower southeast slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Lined with hydraulic cement and containing a large quantity of glazed table ware and a fair amount of coarse ware; a homogeneous ... 350-325 B.C. |
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 |
| Rubbish Dump in mouth of abandoned well in Tholos Trench F, Kitchen. Filled with ash, charcoal, broken pottery, roof tiles.
Also from Trench L.
13 March 2014 by Ann Steiner
The deposit has four components ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
| Coins:
22 May 1937 #1 ... 425-400 B.C. |
A well on the lower south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Last quarter of the 5th. c. B.C. But upper fill dated to 3rd. to mid-2nd. century B.C. and lower fill dated to ca. 425-400 B.C. in Agora XXX. Coins: ... 425-400 B.C. |
Square Peristyle (Square Building) Constructions fill + other (square peristyle area); fragmentary and with some earlier material but in the main, where undisturbed, a homogenous deposit. Coins:
26 May ... Βefore 300 B.C. |
Well at 55/ΚΕ
Period of Use dated to the last quarter of 5th c. B.C., Upper fill dated to the same (deposited later) in Agora XXX. Coins
1 April 1938 #10 ... Last quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
Well at 21/Ε (beneath Library of Pantainos).
The clearing of the well was abandoned because of a cave-in of the rock walls. Heavy dumped filling, the proportion of fine black table ware high ... Ca. 440-425 B.C. |
Coins:
16 April 1932 #1 ... First quarter 4th. c.-2nd c. B.C. |
Heavy deposit of good black and plain wares ... 450-425 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 ... 4th-2nd c. B.C.
100-70 B.C. |
| 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. |
Well to N of Nymphaeum at 115/ΙΣΤ. A good water supply but no evidence for a period of use.
Exceptionally heavy dumped filling, including much fine tableware, many wine- jar fragments and other objects ... Ca. 420-400 B.C. |
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