Agora Deposit: S 19:7
Title:   Well
Category:   Well
Description:   Well at 18/ΜΓ, on the lower north slope of the Acropolis, under the course of the later Panathenaic Way, west of the Archaic Building.
Diameter 0.97m. Water level 8m.
At the mouth of the well and to a depth of 4m, the soft bedrock had collapsed leaving a large irregular pit. The rock from this collapse filled the well-shaft down to a depth of 7m.
below this point lay the water jars from a period of use, to a depth of 8,50m. The filling at the bottom of the well was of mud and sand, without pottery.
Contents:   Dumped filling in pit: 650-600 B.C.
POU: 7th c. (second quarter?)
Bibliography:   Hesperia 30 (1961), pp. 117-125.
    Agora VIII, p. 131.
    Agora XII, p. 399.
Chronology:   Late 8th to 675 B.C.
Date:   19-30 March 1938
Section:   ΑΑ
Grid:   ΑΑ:18/ΜΓ
Elevation:   -10.5m.
Masl:   -10.5m.
References:   Publication: Agora VIII
Publication: Agora XII
Publication: Hesperia 30 (1961)
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