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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. |
Coins:
15 June 1939 #1 ... 15 June 1939 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
| Grave X in notebook = RSY Grave 14. PD 731-g ... Ca. 525-500 B.C. |
| Grave XII in notebook = RSY Grave 9 ... Just after the middle of the 6th. c. B.C. |
| Grave XIV in notebook = RSY Grave 13. PD 731-f ... Late 6th. c. B.C. |
| Grave XV in notebook = RSY Grave 1.
Part of a burial jar with bones of 18-month-old child. Position of body not determinable. Foot of jar had been broken to insert body of child and stopped with stones ... Second half of 8th. c. B.C. |
| Grave XVI in notebook = RSY Grave 3.
Bones of a young child found inside. Discarded? ... 6th. c. B.C. |
| Grave XVII in notebook = RSY Grave 15.
Only lower half of skeleton preserved. Bones discarded? ... Last quarter of the 6th. c. B.C. |
Grave XXIII in notebook = RSY Grave 46.
Late Hellenistic filling in a disturbed grave, west of Areopagus ... 19 June 1939 |
| Sacrificial Pit II in notebook = RSY Grave 7 ... Ca. 540 B.C. |
| Sacrificial Pit III in notebook = RSY Grave 6.
Small bit of calcined bones (discarded?) ... Ca. 550-530 B.C. |
Sacrificial Pit V in notebook = RSY Grave 19 ... Last quarter 6th. c. B.C. |
Sacrificial Pit VI in notebook = RSY Grave 18 See also B 21:23 ... Ca. 525-500 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 |
Well. Construction, use and dumped fillings of the Hellenistic period. Tile-lined well with a packing of jars behind the tiles; the well cut through (Fill 4) the passage of a cistern (B 21:25). At 9.00m ... Hellenistic |
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. |
Back fill in an unfinished well, originally dug only to a depth of 3.80m. Apparently dug in the 3rd. c. B.C. and refilled at once; the filling contained a scattering of 5th. and 4th. c. fragments as well ... To early 3rd century. |
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. |
Containers 15-37. Masses of pots, largely water jars; fragments of Pergamene; Samian B; brittle ware; ER unguentaria.
The following finds on deposit list as bottom fill (.2) are from depths of level .1: ... First half of 1st c. A.D. |
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 |
| Grave 4 in notebook: urn burial. Lower part of a storage jar (P 15407) containing the bones of a small child along with a black glazed kantharos (P 15409) and a banded pelike (P 15408) ... 325-300 B.C. |
Well on the north slope of the Areopagus; depth at 9.65m; scanty dumped fillings. From about 3.20m to the bottom, little but tile fragments appeared; in the fillings above, the lower is characterized by ... Ca. 350-290 B.C. |
Well at SE corner of Court of Late Roman Building (Trench C). Estimated Grid ... 12th c. A.D. |
Note of 20-III-52 (deposit nb): Have looked up notebook pp. 1101 ff. The fill of this well was certainly Roman, also some part of the fill behind the tiles - but is that only a part tunneled as a passage ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D. |
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. |
Ostrakon deposit, sand fill in a shallow channel in bedrock at the bottom of the Great Drain in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of Nymphs.
This group of ostraka may well come from a single ... Ca. 490-480 B.C. |
| In area West of the Areopagus. Fills with many figurines and molds, possibly from a terracotta factory.
Twelve stamped amphora handles; no long-petal bowls; Type 54 A lamp Coins:
31 May 1939 #11
1 June ... Mostly 200-150 B.C. |
Filling in a cistern chamber in the area west of the Areopagus. Main dumped fill of 2nd. c. B.C., with small amount of later material in uppermost 1.00m. A connecting passage contained some material of ... 2nd. c. B.C. |
| Grave XX in notebook = RSY Grave 16. PD 731-i ... Late 6th. c. B.C. |
| Grave XXI in notebook = RSY Grave 11. Pottery discarded; late Roman, mostly coarse. PD 731-e ... Ca. 530 B.C. |
| Grave XXV in notebook = RSY Grave 4. PD 731-b ... 750-725 B.C. |
Simple drawshaft ending in flat floor, no passages. Mixed Hellenistic fill to the bottom. Coins:
15 June 1939 #1-#3 No container ... 15 June 1939 |
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