Agora Deposit: L-M 17-18:1
Title:   Southwest House and Central House (1958)
Category:   Fill
Description:   Fillings associated with early houses on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus; various levels and dates.
Both houses were built in the 6th century B.C. and destroyed by the Persians; both also have later histories.
Southwest House, Rooms I-VIII, 42-55/ΚΖ-ΜΖ:
The earliest house had a court on the west with a Well (B) and two small rooms at the north. A pit at 54/ΛΓ (M 17:7) served the area and a good water pipe... The latest period of the house is the Herulian destruction.
Central House, Rooms IX-XI, 42-55/ΙΖ-ΚΖ
From 1957 excavations of these houses see P 25888, P 25895, L 5298.
Contents:   Coins:
18 March 1958 #1
8 April 1958 #1-#2
9-10 April 1958 #1-#3
10 April 1958 #1-#2
21 April 1958 #1
22 April 1958 #1-#6
24 April 1958 #1-#7
25 April 1958 #1-#5
26 April 1958 #1-#17
3 May 1958 #1-#4
5 May 1958 #1
6 May 1958 #1-#2
7 May 1958 #1-#3
12 May 1958 #1-#3
13 May 1958 #1
Notes:   See also L 17:3 where objects SS 14318 and T 3576 are listed as part of the well deposit but are actually from the filling over the undug well, i.e. strosis 3, Room IV in Southwest House (nbp. 1393).
Bibliography:   Agora XII, p. 394.
    Agora XXIII, p. 333.
Chronology:   6rd c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D.
Date:   12-21 April 1957
22 July 1957
12-21 March 1958
7 April-13 May 1958
17-20 June 1958
Section:   Φ
Grid:   Φ:42-55/ΚΖ-ΜΖ
    Φ:42-55/ΙΖ-ΚΖ
References:   Publication: Agora XII
Publication: Agora XXIII
Publication Pages (7)
Report Page: 1958 Φ, s. 2
Objects (18)
Coins (5)
Lots (54)
Notebook: Φ-7
Notebook: Φ-8
Notebook Pages (40)