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Corinth ... BMC 423--471.
[(BMC 441)]
Corinth.
Obv. Pegasus left.
Rev. Trident upward, in field right racetorch. Coin no. 10. Cistern at 75/ΟΑ. below Pegasos flying l. Trident upward; at r., race torch. 98, 188 ... late 5th--3rd century B.C. |
Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
Top fill to 1.00m. = dump of late Hellenistic ware mixed with some Roman of 2nd c. to early 3rd. c. Intermediate fill 1.20-2.00m. = dump with tiles and stucco, almost no sherds. Coins:
6 February 1937 ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D. |
Dump, Sullen clean-up. Coins:
9 February 1937 #6-#10
10 February 1937 #11-#13
11 February 1937 #16-#20 ... First quarter 1st c. B.C. |
"Not much earlier than middle fill" Coins:
12 February 1937 #5-#7 ... Fourth quarter of 2nd c. 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. |
Well at 72/ΟΔ.
Partially excavated to depth of 8m. Turkish fill in upper 3m. Hellenistic fill mostly of roof tiles and coarse pottery. Coin
12 February 1937 #4 (disintegrated) ... 3rd c. B.C. |
A well, apparently unfinished, with footholds in east and west sides ... 2nd c. A.D. |
| Neolithic statuette: reclining nude steatopygous. Pentelic marble ... 1938 |
| Neolithic statuette: reclining nude steatopygous. Pentelic marble ... 1938 |
| Neolithic statuette: reclining nude steatopygous. Pentelic marble ... 1938 |
| Neolithic statuette: reclining nude steatopygous. Pentelic marble ... 1938 |
| Neolithic statuette: reclining nude steatopygous. Pentelic marble. View of chest and arms ... 1938 |
| Neolithic statuette: reclining nude steatopygous. Pentelic marble ... 1938 |
| Neolithic statuette: reclining nude steatopygous. Pentelic marble ... 1938 |
| Neolithic statuette: reclining nude steatopygous. Pentelic marble ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Neolithic statuette: reclining nude steatopygous. Pentelic marble |
| Neolithic statuette: reclining nude steatopygous. Pentelic marble |
| Neolithic statuette: reclining nude steatopygous. Pentelic marble |
a) Top fill selected; piece of water pipe [as late as early 3rd c. A.D. Herulian destruction ?]
b) Middle fill
c) Coarse selected Resorted 1997, by SIR. |
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