"Type","dc-date","Icon","Collection","dc-publisher","Redirect","Chronology","dc-description","dc-creator","UserLevel","Name","dc-title","dc-subject","Id"
"Report","10 Jun-1 Aug 2008","Agora:Image:2008.15.0129::/Agora/2008/2008.15/2008.15.0129.tif::639::851","Agora","","","","Excavations took place in three sections, two north of Hadrian Street (ΒΗ and ΒΘ) and one in the old area south of the Tholos (Γ).; In Section ΒΗ, layers in, over and behind the building identified as the Painted Stoa were excavated to down below the middle Byzantine walls. The back wall and the interior colonnade were explored and detailed information about the building construction were gained. Behind the back wall a small fragment of a large terra cotta pipe was found in situ in middle Byzantine layers. Layers contemporary with the Stoa were not reached this season. A rubble wall may represent a late blocking of the interior colonnade, relatively common in the late Roman period.; In Section ΒΘ, a new section was opened up after the demolition of two houses. Mostly late fills were dug but the top of Byzantine walls came to sight in some places, as was large worked blocks that may have come from one or several Classical buildings.; In Section Γ, the exploration of some small buildings of the Classical period continued. The aim was to try to determine if these buildings were public or private. A tile-lined well was found and its location should indicate that the area was an open courtyard surrounded by buildings. The well went probably out of use in the 4th century B.C. Elsewhere various floor levels and pits were dug, most of them dating to the 4th century B.C. Some fill contained pottery of the 8th and 7th centuries B.C., perhaps indicative of earlier houses or disturbed burials.","John McK. Camp II","","2008 Excavations","Preliminary Report on the 2008 Excavation Season","Checked","Agora:Report:2008 Excavations"
"Report","13 Jun-3 Aug 2007","Agora:Image:2008.01.0487::/Agora/2008/2008.01/2008.01.0487.tif::2850::2266","Agora","","","","Excavation continued this year in the sections ΒΖ, ΒΗ and Γ.; In Section ΒΖ South, two areas were investigated: the north-south road and the areas west of the road. In the road, hard-packed gravel surfaces were taken out, and the later water supply lines, one of terracotta and two of lead, were fully exposed. More of the deep street drain and another subsidiary channel entering it from the west, were cleared. All these channels were in use in the 4th or 5th centuries A.D. To the west, Hellenistic and Classical levels were excavated, and a pyre buried under a floor was exposed, dating to the late 4th or early 3rd century B.C. ; In Section ΒΖ North, mostly Classical and Hellenistic levels in and behind the Classical commercial building were excavated. More of its eastern back wall was exposed, along with several cross-walls. It seems to have been a building of at least six rooms/shops set side-by-side along the street. A draw-shaft and part of the tunnel of a Hellenistic cistern complex was found outside the building to the east. The tunnel may lead to a collapsed cistern located within the building itself.; In Section Γ, the excavation of the building identified as the Strategeion continued. Well preserved floor levels in the eastern part of the building were excavated, including a pit full of marble chips overlying a pit filled with several amphorae. Excavation in other fills went down to late 8th and early 7th centuries B.C. Further east, the exploration of a series of small irregular buildings started.; In Section BH, the last of the 10th/11th century walls and other Byzantine installations were cleared and excavation continued into late Roman fills. More of the back wall of the presumed Stoa Poikile was found. The new parts consist of two adjacent orthostate blocks from the outer face of the back wall of the building and a limestone unfluted column shaft in the interior Ionic column of the stoa.","John McK. Camp II","","2007 Excavations","Preliminary Report on the 2007 Excavation Season","Checked","Agora:Report:2007 Excavations"