Agora Deposit: M 20:1
Title:   Cistern
Category:   Cistern
Description:   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); nearly sterile layer (probably part of middle fill); Roman upper fill.
Sixty-eight stamped amphora handles. Middle fill contained fruit measure conforming to late 2nd c. decree.
Notes:   Subdivisions:
.1=top and intermediate fills, to 2.00m.
.2=middle fill
.3=bottom fill
Bibliography:   Agora IV, p. 242.
    Agora V, p. 125.
    Agora X, p. 67.
    Agora XXII, p. 103.
    Agora XXIX, p. 461.
    Agora XXXII, p. 301.
    Agora XXXIII, p. 365.
    Delos XXVII,, p. 381.
Chronology:   Early 1st c. B.C.
Date:   February 1937
Section:   Χ
Grid:   Χ:75/ΟΑ
Elevation:   -2.85m.
Masl:   -2.85m.
References:   Publications (7)
Publication Pages (49)
Report: 1946 Χ
Report Page: 1946 Χ, s. 4
Objects (117)
Coin: N 71157
Deposit: M 20:1.1
Deposit: M 20:1.2
Deposit: M 20:1.3
Notebooks (6)
Notebook Pages (63)