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| Athens ... Coin no. 2.
Casts stored in Lab Case No. 52C Between red and black fills south of mosaic. Head of Athena r., wearing Corinthian helmet. Border of dots. Α/Θ-Ε
Zeus, nude, striding r., hurling thunderbolt; ... 87/86 B.C. |
Ptolemy XI, Ptolemaic Kings ... Coin no. 9. Terrace west of church, House A, destruction fill. Head of Zeus Ammon r. B-A
Eagle standing l. on thunderbolt. 113 ... 114-88 B.C. |
Methymna (Lesbos) ... Coin no. 1. House A, Room 6, destruction fill. Head of Athena r., wearing Corinthian helmet. Countermark.: lyre. [M]-A|θ-Y Kantharos. Border of dots. 216 ... 2nd-1st c. B.C. |
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. |
Estimated Grid ... Ca. 300-275 B.C. |
It is a considerable deposit including both figured and plain wares, the red-figure consistently of the second quarter of the 4th c. Estimated Grid ... Ca 375-340 B.C. |
House A destruction debris over floors. All floors (rooms 1-7) dug in 1939. Re-examination of House A in 1967 (nbpp. 648 ff.). Coins:
27 February 1939 #5-#9
7 March 1939: #1
9 March 1939 #4-#6
11 March ... First half 3rd. c. A.D. |
Middle Helladic Pit at NW corner of church of St. Athanasius Estimated Grid ... Middle Helladic |
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. |
| Restored plan of a Roman house. Scale 1:50 ... W.B. Dinsmoor, Jr ... PD 1690 Horizontal (normal) ... 1967 |
| General view of the house ... east 3005 Horizontal (normal) ... July 1967 |
| House on the northwest shoulder of the Areopagus, central part ... northwest 3009 Horizontal (normal) ... July 1967 |
| Courtyard, with the mouth of the well blocked by a boulder ... northwest 3013 Horizontal (normal) ... July 1967 |
| Restored plan of a Roman house. Scale 1:50 ... W.B. Dinsmoor, Jr ... PD 1690 AMS Horizontal (normal) ... 1967 |
| Long narrow, square in section.
Thicker at center than at either end. Flat on bottom, round on top, pierced near top.
No glaze.
Fine buff slightly micaceous clay; surface polished. Cistern, lower red fill ... 6 May 1939 |
| From edge of one-half of a double disk or bobbin(?). Around outside, a branch with berries in added red. Within part of uncertain scene. Underside reserved, reddened. Relief contour. Either near Civic ... December 1953 |
| Mended from two pieces. From the reverse; part of the wreath of leaves on the rim. Two draped youths to right; the figure on the left holds a diskos, below which is an aryballos in the field. No relief ... May 1939 |
| Head and shoulders of woman, right; peplos, earring, necklace, knitted(?) sakkos. No relief contour. Added clay for ornaments; white for flesh; the dress once painted in an added color.
Pinkish-buff ... (1953) |
| Rim fragment from a large plate, neatly moulded. Part of ring foot with flat resting surface reserved. On rim, between reserved bands, ivy wreath, the leaves reserved, the stems and berries white. Late ... 1949 |
| From the wall of a closed pot. Parts of two figures, right: male figure in a shirt to below the hips, fringed, following a draped female figure. Partial relief contour; brown inner drawing. Terrace west ... 6 March 1939 |
| Part of the neck of a lekythos, with one handle attachment preserved; glazed. On the front, a plastic female figure, partly draped, winged, with hands clasped above the head.
Traces of white on the figure ... 7 March 1939 |
| Long narrow fragment broken off at one end; possibly a handle ?
Red clay; thin green vitreous glaze.
Non-Attic. House A, room 2, destruction fill. Leica, 97-11-13 ... 9 March 1939 |
| Wall fragmentary; restored in plaster. Plump eggy body and short straight neck with plain flaring thickened lip. Handles, shoulder to middle of neck. Rounded bottom with small pointed knob, chipped. Shallow ... 7, 9 March 1939 |
| From the outer part of the handle for a large lekanis; on the top, egg pattern; on the vertical face, two bands of egg and dot. Lower edge glazed black; red wash on inner face.
Cf. P 1499 and P 19251 ... 22 March 1939 |
| Mended from many fragments; pieces of wall missing. Tall irregularly cylindrical body with pointed toe; sloping shoulder, tapering neck with thick rolled lip; handles from shoulder to below lip.
Pinkish ... 29 March 1939 |
| Fragment from center of floor of small cup, stemless. At center beneath, a neatly moulded glazed ring; within it, a second ring, surface broken. Glaze on the wall outside with a reserved band between it ... 1947 |
| Much chipped around the edges. Walls concave, spreading above and below to form broad flat projecting rim and ring foot, respectively. Groove around inner edge of rim, separating it from top, which curves ... 22 April 1948 |
| Wall fragment. Head and shoulders of a satyr; body in front view, head profile to right; left hand rests on the head. White fillet round the head. Other white fillets in the background. No relief outline ... October 1950 |
| Most of the neck and shoulder preserved, mended from many pieces; non-joining fragment gives foot. Large unguentarium with fat bulging body, well-turned neck and foot. Small horizontal handle laid flat ... 5 May 1939 |
| Two much-mended fragments (a tenuous join between them) and a small non-joining piece give nearly half the diameter of a deep bowl with rounded wall and plain lip. Restored in plaster. Two partly scraped ... 5 May 1939 |
| Small piece from shoulder preserving part of cock, left, and of spear and hand of Athena.
Incision for details of cock and of hand. Hand in added white; traces of white spots on cock, and of red for his ... 1947 |
| Broken all around; fragment from just below rim. Upper border, Lesbian leaf separated by drops; below, chariot race, right. Parts of two chariots preserved, with Nike as charioteer in the first.
Outside ... 1949 |
| Single fragment from wall of a large cup. Exterior: lower half of draped female figure, right; to right, foot of a second figure; to left, part of floral ornament.
Interior: a bit of the reserved edge ... August 1947 |
| From a large bowl? On outside, band of bead and reel and egg pattern in relief.
Gray clay; gray to black glaze; much flaked on inside. Heavy fabric. Provenience unknown. Leica ... August 1947 |
| Small fragment from shoulder. Upper border, encircled palmettes; below, head and wings of Nike, left, the wing tips encroaching on the border. Firm white with brown over-painting for the figure's face ... 1 October 1947 |
| A single fragment, brοken all around. Part of one of the columns is preserved, with the inscription painted alongside it: Σ Η Late Roman fill. Leica ... October 1947 |
| Fragment from the wall of a bell krater, preserving part of a draped figure and part of a staff. The drawing glaze has fired black; the background glaze, and the glaze on the interior, red. Late Roman ... October 1947 |
| Limestone (?) beach pebble, nearly spherical in shape.
One side much worn and polished from grinding. Middle Helladic Pit at northwest corner of church of St. Athanasius. 86 ff. Leica, 83-545 ... 24 February 1939 |
| Nearly oval flat.
One side much worn from grinding.
Quartzy dark gray stone. Finished Middle Helladic Pit at northwest corner of church of St. Athanasius. 86 ff. Leica, 83-545 ... 24 February 1939 |
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