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Well 8: Archaic. On the northwest slope of the Acropolis.
Depth from surface of rock, -16.10m.
Diameter top ca. 0.90; bottom ca 0.80m. Water level, ca. -9m ... Late 6th - early 5th c. B.C. |
Found in 13/06/1935.
Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup, perhaps in one of the public buildings near the SW corner of the square ... Ca. 520-490 B.C. |
| A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several ... Ca. 575-480 B.C. |
Well (stone-curbed shaft) near middle of Tholos which served the prior building.
Period of Use dated to ca. 500-480(?) B.C., Upper fill dated to ca. 480-470 B.C. or soon after in Agora XXX (a gradual ... Ca. 500-480 B.C. |
Exploration over bedrock inside the Tholos; levels of 6th c. B.C ... 6th c. B.C. |
Front part and most of floor preserved.
Round bottomed lamp with vertical collar and flat rim not projecting outside.
Red to black glaze inside, on rim and on nozzle.
Attic clay.
Type III (plain variety) ... 27 May 1936 |
One piece preserves the cone and a part of the rim; the other a small piece of the rim and the edge of the wick hole.
The rim slopes inward sharply; it does not project on the outside. The wick hole extended ... August-September 1932 |
Nozzle and part of rim and body to left preserved.
Rim nearly flat on top. Practically no outward projection.
Glaze black on rim, nozzle and bottom of interior. Transparent glaze on exterior.
Type 19B ... 525-480 B.C. |
| A hollow cone at the center of the floor. Rim nearly flat. Nozzle, encroaching slightly on rim, is tilted up.
Uneven black glaze on inside, rim and nozzle. Underside, dilute glaze wash.
Type III (plain ... 525-ca. 480 B.C. |
Fragment preserving most of floor and a small piece of wall and rim.
Bottom rises to hollow cone in center of floor. Rim slopes sharply inward.
Black glaze on floor and rim, thin wash on exterior.
Type ... 525-ca. 480 B.C. |
| One nozzle chipped, and the central cone.
Two nozzles, opposite each other. Walls rounded to flat bottom; rim slopes inwards, without projection. Open truncated cone in middle of floor.
Black glaze inside, ... 16 June 1938 |
| Howland, R. H ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The author has used the trustworthy chronological data supplied by the scientific excavation of “closed deposits” at the Athenian Agora to build a continuous series of lamp types from the 7th century B.C ... 1958 |
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