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Stratified well; very late Roman verging on Byzantine. Coins
19 April 1939 #1-#8
22 April 1939 #1-#2
25 April 1939 #1
15 May 1939 #1 Subdivisions:
.1=0.00-15.25m.
.2=15.25-21.00m.
.3=21.00-22.00m ... 3rd-5th c. A.D.
9th c A.D. |
Includes a transitional layer 15.25-16.50m. Containers 12-42. Coins:
19 April 1939 #1-#8 (#2-#8 from dump) ... 4th-5th c. A.D. POU |
Containers 43-47. Coins:
22 April 1939 #1-#2
25 April 1939 #1
15 May 1939 #1 ... 3rd c. A.D. |
Modern fill to 21.00m. at which depth a human skeleton weighed down with iron. ER fill from 21.00-28.00m. (bottom). A POU fill with a possible break around 25.00m ... 1st to mid-2nd c. A.D. |
Early Roman, late 1st c. A.D. with some later fragments. Coins:
31 May 1938 #1-#12
1 June 1938 #1-#5
2 June 1938 #1-#2 ... Late 1st c. B.C. |
Well in branch of Aqueduct (ca. 13/ΚΔ) 3rd c. A.D. - 5th c. A.D ... 3rd c. A.D. |
Cistern and drawshaft connected by tunnel; used in modern times as cesspool. No stratigraphy noted, but pottery from first five boxes excavated is later than that from boxes 6-18.
11 stamped amphora handles ... Hellenistic and Late Hellenistic |
| Initially was recorded as disturbed saucer grave, but identified as pyre by SIR.
Found by gardener washing out of scarp during the winter rains. The location is just south of an east-west road; there ... 1962 |
The pottery of the first six meters (containers 1-3 of 117 containers total) contains a good deal of unglazed early Byzantine along with very late Roman. Below this begins a great mass of Roman pottery ... 4th-6th c. A.D. POU |
A small square well at 37/ΚΑ (about 0.60x0.70m), on the north slope of the Areopagus. Curbed with rough stones.
Filling of a small shallow well which contained nothing from the POU and since no water was ... Ca. 350-320 B.C. |
Filling over bedrock. Coins:
26 May 1938 #7-#10
27 May 1938 #1
28 May 1938 #1 ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
Coins:
19 May 1938 #1 (illegible)
20 May 1938 #3-#5, #12-#20 (Dump) ... 4th-6th c. A.D. |
It may perhaps be assumed that in the 5th c. the Romans cleaned the well to 25.30m., thus removing 2nd c. and subsequent fill, and then began to reuse the shaft. Coins
20 May 1938 #6
21 May 1938 #1
25 ... POU 1st c. and 5th-6th c. A.D. |
Well at 30/ΛΣΤ Coins (none useful)
25 May 1938 #3-#6
26 May 1938 #3-#4 ... Early 3rd cent and of 4th-6th cent. A.D. |
| Cup Fragment: Çandarli Ware ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Flagon Fragment ... AMS Rotate 270 CW |
| Plate Fragment: Gray Ware ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl or Plate Fragment: Gray Ware ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Stemmed Cup Fragment: Gray Ware ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl Fragment: Gray Ware ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl Fragment ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Votive Relief Fragment ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Grave Relief Fragment: Isis ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
Lower part only.
Lotus petals spring from single row of acanthus. Long and narrow empolion cutting.
Pentelic marble. Marble pile. Leica ... 6 June 1962 |
Some later scraps; lamp fragments Type 20, 24 and 25 ... Early Roman |
Selected sherds; graffito fragments; figurine fragments; lamp fragments Type 20, 25 and 27 ... Early Roman |
Larger and plainer fragments ... Early Roman |
Large and plainer pieces ... Early Roman |
Stamped fragments (cross); incised fragments; fragmentary red glazed plate; lamp fragment type 31 (28?) ... Very Late Roman |
Selected; Roman sherds and lamp fragments ... Late Roman |
Coarse early Byzantine ... Latest Roman-Early Byzantine |
Stones; a few Sherds; pots begin again ... 19 May 1938 |
This tin fell of shelf in earthquake September 1999, contents of box remained together, but rest were found on the floor accompanied by the internal label. A few scraps from tin Ψ 119 and Ω 257, may now ... May 1938 |
Containers 19-22: many pots catalogued; the remainder packed of in one tin in field ... 13-14 May 1938 |
Figurine fragments ... 16-17 May 1938 |
A few scraps from Ψ 119 and Ω 257, may now be mixed in. JWH October 1999. p. 906.
Tin 119 displaced by earthquake September 1999. A few pieces from here may now have been put back in container T 86 (JWH) ... 26 May 1938 |
Some intrusions from above ... 18 April 1939 |
| Segment preserving ca. one-fourth of plate from rim to just above foot. Offset rim with concave upper surface.
Soft, very micaceous clay, light gray (10YR 7/1). Shiny gray glaze, peeling body (7.5YR 5/?) ... 7 August 1957 |
| Foot and base of wall preserved. Flaring foot, slightly rounded resting surface; convex underside. Two concentric circles at center of floor and two more outside them.
Soft, micaceous light gray clay ... 7 August 1957 |
| Rim fragment. Widely out-turned rim with two grooves in upper surface. Possibly from same vessel as P 31961 (Ψ 1159).
Soft, micaceous, friable light gray clay. Dull dark gray glaze (2.5Y 4/ ), mostly ... 7 August 1957 |
| Base of cup and upper part of stem preserved. Thin, hollow stem flaring to offset at junction with body; moldmade body, possibly of jewelled long-petal design.
Soft, very micaceous light gray clay (10YR ... 7 August 1957 |
Upright rim, glazed on top; maeander outside.
Brown glaze. Tholos Trench I, layer XII. 2496 Leica, 81-597 ... May 1938 |
Mended from numerous fragments; part of rim and wall missing. Plain surface, flaring from central depression to rim; heavy wall, ring base, much depressed underneath. Two grooves at center of base.
Firm ... December 1962 |
One handle and about half of wall missing; mended and partly restored in plaster. High handles; rounded lower body, concave upper walls; grooved ring foot; reserved groove at resting surface.
Firm black ... December 1962 |
| Fragments missing from lip, wall and one handle. Strap handles with ivy leaves. Wreath in thinned clay around upper wall.
Black glaze fired red around lower wall and base outside and over lower wall inside ... 10 August 1959 |
Broken but complete save for mouth and neck fragments; chipped. Plump shape; narrow neck; high foot. Incised line on shoulder.
Light brown clay. Glossy glaze on outside, chipped. Cistern under room 4 ... 10 August 1959 |
Foot and floor with part of wall preserved; nothing of rim. Light-walled cup-skyphos. Moulded foot; a scraped groove and a light ridge around the wall within the foot. Glaze bands on the reserved underside ... 12 August 1959 |
| Mended from several pieces. Rather more than half preserved. Open bowl with low ring foot; rim round at inner edge, polygonal at outer. At center of floor, a swastika in a square with a circle round about ... 1 April 1937 |
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