Agora Deposit: E 14:3
Title:   Drawshaft, "Kybele Cistern"
Category:   Cistern
Description:   Cistern-shaft at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the course of the passage to the east and opening into it.
A revised list of assigned objects prepared by GRE is followed here to sort objects found in the cistern system 88/ΛΔ - 95/ΚΘ - 100/ΚΘ.
Cf. E 14:1 and E 15:3.
Objects either from 95/ΚΘ (middle fill) or 88/ΛΔ (lower Hellenistic fill), but uncertain which (they are in the finds lists of both but not assigned to subdivisions PAF) are the following: P 5655, P 5656, P 5657, P 5659, BI 154, S 574, L 1788, IL 193, SS 4091.
Only middle fill contained moldmade relief bowls. Twenty stamped amphora handles. Over two-thirds of bowls long-petal.
Contents:   Coins:
10 May 1935 #1-#10
11 May 1935 #1-#10 (-1.10-2.00)
13 May 1935 #1-#11 (-2.00-2.80)
14 May 1935 #1-#16 (2.80-3.50)
15 May 1935 #1-#8 (to 4.10)
16 May 1935 #1-#3 (passage)
17 May 1935 #30-#32 (passage)
18 May 1935 #1-#2 (passage-probably fill of 100/ΚΘ-p.1635)
22 May 1935 #1-#3
23 May 1935 #11-#12
Notes:   Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Middle fill
.3=Lower fill, POU
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 100, n. 116.
    Hesperia 35 (1966), pp. 252-259.
    Delos XXVII, p. 335 (under no. E 103), 381.
    Agora IV, p. 237.
    Agora X, p. 67.
    Agora XXI, p. 97.
    Agora XXII, p. 99.
    Agora XXIX, p. 446.
    Agora XXVI, pp. 306-307.
    Agora XXXII, p. 297.
    Agora XXXIII, pp. 352-353.
    Agora XXXIV, p. 181.
Chronology:   Upper fill, Late Roman with some Hellenistic.
Middle fill, Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C.
Lower fill, 4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment
Date:   9-22 May 1935
1 June 1935
Section:   Γ
Grid:   Γ:95/ΚΘ
Elevation:   -4.8m.
Masl:   -4.8m.
References:   Publications (11)
Publication Pages (78)
Objects (137)
Coins (18)
Deposit: E 14:3.1
Deposit: E 14:3.2
Deposit: E 14:3.3