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Very little pottery and mainly broken tiles in this well, all mixed from Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (nbp. 1441) ... 25 May-1 June 1939 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
| 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. |
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. |
| 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. |
It was impossible to return to the digging of this well either in 1939 or 1940 [due to collapse of stereo] (nbp. 1432).
HAT compares pottery to that of Square Building fill. Coins
26 May 1939 #1 ... Second half of 4th c. B.C. |
A smaller deposit, but with some good household pottery, and red-figure both Meidian and sub-Meidian ... 17-22 May 1939 |
Heavy deposit of good black and plain wares ... 450-425 B.C |
Also noted as 32-33/Μ. The N wall collapsed. A very shallow deposit of ancient fill over its stuccoed floor. Coins:
10 May 1939 #3-#4 ... Hellenistic, 4th-early 3rd, Roman, 4th c. A.D. |
Filling in the footing trench of the late Roman Fortification.
Includes Layer 1 and Layer 2 of Library Colonnade opposite Room 2. "Note: both these layers are fill thrown into V.W. footing trench." (nb.p ... End 3rd. c. A.D. |
Sculptor's Workshop at 37-40/Β-ΣΤ Coins
20 April 1933 #1-#20
21 April 1933 #37-#41
24 April 1933 #97-#100
1 May 1933 #5-#8
4 May 1933 #2
12 May 1933 #8-#9
15 May 1933 #8
S 343, S 407-S 413, S 390: Fragments ... Ca. 267 A.D. |
Well at 34/ΚΔ.
a) Depth 13.60m. Little pottery (14 tins) and some of that made useless by loss of tickets during war.
b) Top to 13.00m (upper and transitional fills) 4th century. LRP ware and a 4th century ... Late 2nd to middle of 3rd cent; 4th century |
Well at 30/ΛΒ; the shaft possibly never used as a well; dumped filling with a small amount of fragmentary pottery ... Ca 500 B.C. |
A well outside the market square to the southeast, 20m west of the Panathenaic Way; Modern fill in upper 1.65m. with Early Roman dumped fillings below. Coins:
9 May 1939 #37 (dirt pile)
10 May 1939 #53 ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
Well outside market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way. Accumulated use filling from first half of 1st c. A.D. to early 3rd c. Top to 14.65m. 4th c. dump; nothing significant catalogued ... POU First half of 1st c.-early 3rd c. A.D. |
Well at 37/Α, on the lower Acropolis slopes, west of the Panathenaic Way ... 600-550 B.C. |
Well at the southeast corner, almost on the line of the east-west street. Upper Fill: Late Roman dumped fill.
Lower Fill: Dark Age: ca. 7th c. A.D.
Coin
30 March 1939 #34 ... 7th-Late 6th century |
Well L: Early Byzantine ... Early Byzantine |
Well 23: Late Mycenaean (Well D:SM) ... Late Mycenaean |
Well 12: Archaic.
It lies on a rocky ledge about thirty meters north of the Klepsydra, just east of the Panathenaic street. In spite of its depth, it produced little pottery and its contents were of slight ... 6th c. B.C.? |
Modern fill to 21.00m. at which depth a human skeleton weighed down with iron. ER fill from 21.00-28.00m. (bottom). A POU fill with a possible break around 25.00m ... 1st to mid-2nd c. A.D. |
Late Roman, perhaps as late as 7th c., but excavator noted small amount of material made close dating impossible throughout. Nbpp. 2448-2449: The fill of this well throughout is mixed and there are numerous ... Early to Late Roman |
Well on the lower west slope of the Areopagus. Tiled well. The tiles were carefully made and clamped together with lead, two clamps at each joint.
Several fills but apparently all 2nd c. Material in lowest ... Late 2nd to early 1st c. B.C. |
| Grave II in notebook = RSY Grave 17. PD 731-j ... Ca. 510-490 B.C. |
| Grave V in notebook = RSY Grave 5. PD 731-c, Ptg. 244 ... Second quarter of the 6th. c. B.C. |
| Grave VI in notebook = RSY Grave 10. PD 731-d Ptg. 251 ... Ca. 520-525 B.C. |
| Grave VII in notebook = RSY Grave 21. PD 731-k ... Date uncertain, presumably 7th. or 6th. c. B.C. |
| Grave X in notebook = RSY Grave 14. PD 731-g ... Ca. 525-500 B.C. |
Called a Middle Helladic Well in the notebook ... Middle Helladic |
House K: Brown fill (publ. House U). Filling between terrace wall and house wall at the extreme west end of the Areopagus; a brown gravelly filling of early Roman date found here undisturbed but occurring ... Early Roman |
| Sacrificial Pit I in notebook = RSY Grave 20 ... Ca. 510-490 B.C. |
| Rodney S. Young ... RSY/JP Disturbed Geometric burial over "Sacrificial Pit VI" (Grave B 21:22). Grave IX in notebook. Bones discarded?
Pottery found in the upper filling of a sixth century cremation pit, which had perhaps ... Middle Geometric II/Transitional to Late Geometric |
Use filling of first half of 1st c.; dumped filling of late 1st c.(?). This well, near its mouth, cuts off the end of the upper passage of the cistern at 53/Ε. Subdivisions:
.1=Dumped filling
.2=POU ... First half of 1st c. A.D. POU |
Containers 1-14. Very fragmentary pottery. Some material earlier than late 1st c. A.D. Coins:
10 May 1939 #4-#5
11 May 1939 #4-#9
12 May 1939 #5
15 May 1939 #7-#9
17 May 1939 #1-#2
23 May 1939 #1 ... Late 1st c. A.D. |
Crescent-shaped cutting in bedrock at 47/ΙΓ; on the north slope of the Areopagus, slightly to the west of the dromos of the Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.
Dimensions of cutting : max. diameter ca. 2.50m.; depth ... Ca. 500-450 B.C.
400-350 B.C. |
Cistern (and passage) on the north slope of the Areopagus. Fill badly disturbed in modern and Turkish times. The few ancient sherds seem to be chiefly early Roman-1st c. B.C. (p. 256).
Some finds labeled ... 1st c. B.C. |
Cistern with two tunnels, the one entering its neck cut off by an early Roman well, the other, at the bottom not excavated.
Chamber conical in shape, with a depressed draw basin in the center of the floor ... Early Roman-3rd c. B.C. |
'Mouth and upper passage' on deposit list. Containers 1 and 2. Pottery in mouth of cistern in upper tunnel. Coins:
5 May 1939 #1
9 May 1939 #10-#11
12 May 1939 #4 ... 1st c. with earlier material |
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