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Coins:
5 May 1932 #1-#7
Laughing faun found at this level with pottery similar to that of group K (miniature) ... 3rd c.-267 A.D ... -10.4--10.2m. |
Well at 16/ΚΗ, in SW corner of Gymnasium complex. Lowest Roman deposit. 9th-10th century Byzantine and Turkish
Coins:
24 April 1935 #3
Envelope 4 in Tin 14 ... 5th c. A.D. - 10th c. A.D ... Agora V, p. 125 ... Agora VII, p. 227 ... Agora XXI, p. 99. |
Original filling completely removed by construction of well dug through it. Filling eliminated by digging of E 11:2. Dumped filling. Coins:
28 March 1936 #1
31 March 1936 # 4-#5
2 April 1936 #2-#6
3 April ... 4th c. A.D ... -6.65m. |
| Komos Cistern at 66/Κ, on the north slope of the Areopagus. Homogeneous fill.
Thirty-four stamped amphora handles. Eight Histiaian tetrobols, dating 170-160 at the earliest, found near top, possibly an ... Last quarter of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd century B.C ... M 21:1 ... M 21:1 |
Well with 4th. c. fill, no well deposit at the bottom. Coins:
2 April 1936 #1
3 April 1936 #8-#19
4 April 1936 #11
8 April 1936 #3-#4
22 May 1936 #5
25 May 1936 #2
27 May 1936 #2
28 May 1936 #2-#5
29 May ... Second half A.D. 4th. c ... Agora V, p. 124 ... Agora X, p. 67 ... Agora XXXII, p. 294. |
Nbp. 3104: When dug, the fill of the well divided itself into 3 deposits.
Objects catalogued from the "earth" are: L 4838, P 21602, P 21603, P 21604. Dumped filling of Turkish times. Coins:
17 May 1937 ... Late 6th-7th c. A.D ... -10.3m. |
Well with overflow into cistern system. Probably Hellenistic in origin. POU late 1st. c. to early 3rd. c. Dumped filling of 4th. (and 5th.?) c.
Abandoned at 22.50m. because of water. Coins:
21 May 1937 ... Late 1st. c.-4th. c. A.D. (and 5th c. A.D.?) ... Agora V, p. 124 ... Agora XXI, p. 96 ... Agora XXXII, p. 292. |
Roman well re-used in Byzantine times. Subdivisions:
.1=0.00-13.80m.
.2=13.80-23.50m.
.3=23.50-25.00m ... Late 1st-early 2nd, 4th-5th, 11th centuries ... Subdivisions:
.1=0.00-13.80m.
.2=13.80-23.50m.
.3=23.50-25.00m. |
Mycenaean Grave, disturbed, in scarp E of Stoa, a little to the south of the group of tombs clustered around Pier 12. No remains (perhaps a child's grave whose bones had completely disintegrated).
Small ... Myc. IIIA:2-B ... Agora |
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); ... Early 1st c. B.C ... M 20:1 ... M 20:1 |
Represents excavated levels V-IX. Coins:
5 July 1971 #857 ... Late 5th c.-300 B.C ... Agora |
Tile well at 52/ΛΣΤ, in the northern late Roman building in the room with the apse. The top was covered by a large stone, and the well had never been filled after the last period of use. water stood to ... Late 1st (?) cent.-early 3rd to 6th cent ... Agora V, p. 126 ... Agora VI, p. 100 ... Agora X, p. 137. |
Well at 9/ΙΣΤ-ΙΖ has been cleaned and stripped of its tiles and original filling and bedrock thrown back into shaft.
Joins between sherds from all levels.
No coins or lamps. Containers examined 5 March ... 1st c. B.C ... Agora V, p. 127 ... Agora XXXIII, p. 375. |
Fill to 6.50m., masses of stone, animal bones and coarse pottery with some unfinished poros sculpture at 6.50m. - a dump of early 3rd c. ... At 6.50m. begins use filling with numerous BHWJs and other water ... Late 1st c. to early 3rd cent. and of 4th and 5th cents ... Fill to 6.50m., masses ... 6.50m. - a dump of early 3rd c. ... At 6.50m. begins |
Pit in Tholos Trench V (below Layer e).
In plan it would seem to have been oval, though its east end is c/../ by the south wall of the North Archaic Home. Its N-S width is 1.25m, its E-W length is 1.40m ... 7th-early 6th c. B.C ... Pit in Tholos Trench V ... width is 1.25m, its E-W length is 1.40m. Its bottom |
Well cut through the floor of a cistern. Apparently a dumped fill in an unused well. Coins:
16 March 1934 #15 (illegible)
17 March 1934 #2
19 March 1934 #1-#4
20 March 1934 #1-#3
22 March 1934 #1
23 March ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D ... Agora |
A well outside the market square to the southeast, 20m west of the Panathenaic Way; Modern fill in upper 1.65m. with Early Roman dumped fillings below. Coins:
9 May 1939 #37 (dirt pile)
10 May 1939 #53 ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D ... Agora V, p. 127 ... Agora IV, p. 244 ... Agora VI, p. 100. |
Well dug through N 18:1 (cistern at 79/ΜΗ) on the lower north slopes of Areopagus; the cistern was the northern chamber of a system; the southern chamber is at 84/ΝΣΤ (N 19:1).
A single dumped deposit ... 3rd-4th c. A.D ... Agora |
"Oinophorus Well".Tiled well in House H (diameter 0.80m, water level -4.70m). Height of tiles 0.64m Heavy well deposit; lamps,, type XXVII; many basket-handled water jars; oinophoros with labors of Herakles ... Use filling of early 2nd-mid.-3rd c. A.D ... Agora V, p. 124 ... Agora VI, p. 98 ... Agora VII, p. 224. |
May be of Hellenistic origin when cistern system went out of use.
For a general note on the cistern see Nb. ΟΕ III, pp. 246 ff.
Objects from B 586 various depths (no subdivision): S 2324-S 2330,
P 34894, ... Late 2nd-early 6th c. A.D ... Agora V, p. 125 ... Agora VI, p. 99 ... Agora VII, p. 226. |
Shallow pit containing pottery, burning and tiny fragments of bone. A dumped group of pottery in an amphora pit, ca. 1.00 m. in diameter, 0.60m. in depth. Many tiny fragments of bone were in the fill ... 375-325 B.C ... A dumped group of pottery in an amphora pit, ca. 1.00 m. in diameter, 0.60m |
| Well South of Soft Yellow Poros Foundation. Dumped filling of a collapsed well, that, due to hazardous conditions, could not be cleared below- 2.50m. The well was partly cut on the east side by a Byzantine ... Protogeometric-Early Geometric II, ca. 850 B.C ... Agora XXXI, pp. 107, 230, fig. 4 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 29, pp. 268-281, 542-543, figs. 2.174-2.178, 3.29, 3.30. |
A tiled well with two periods of use, Byzantine and Late Roman.
Some coarse Byzantine pottery from the upper part. from the lower part, pre-Herulian pottery, lamps and figurines. Also ΑΡ 221 (A 1202) the ... 3rd c. A.D. (before 267 A.D.)
11th-12th c. A.D ... -9.4m. |
Tiled well, ca. 30m south of the Tholos. Associated with Building D. Hellenistic Group A with Late Roman fill in upper 3.00m. Objects A 245 and P 4597 are from fill on floor around well-head, contemporary ... 325-260 B.C ... Agora IV, p. 239 ... Agora X, p. 67 ... Agora XII, p. 391. |
Coins:
26 May 1936 #2-#3
Fragments of "A" ware and of micaceous water jars; no basket-handled water jars; and a lead seal with the name and portrait of Hadrian ... Late 2nd.-early 3rd. c. A.D ... Fill V |
Displaced curbing stone had fallen into top of shaft; fill with and around it is presumably second half of 2nd c. A.D. Below tumbled filling at top, shaft was empty to 10.80m. Tiles were missing to ca ... Late 1st-early 2nd c ... Agora V, p. 125 ... Agora VI, p. 98 ... Agora VII, p. 225. |
Evidence of stratification into five layers, although joins between the layers. Layer VI added when the construction of the Roman building above required it. No subdivisions assigned.
Flask-shaped cistern ... Early 3rd-late 2nd c. B.C ... Agora |
| Well cut into bedrock, associated with late Roman building G in ΕΛ 1.2m in diameter, narrows to 0.5m at bottom. Disturbed by later pits at top. Excavated from 85.77-79.25m (6.52m), but bedrock at 85.91m ... Late 4th/early 5th AD ... 85.77-79.25m. |
East Chamber of Cistern System #2. The fill in layers, but probably a destruction fill with layering not significant. Coins:
4 May 1936 #1-#6
5 May 1936 #1-#7
6 May 1936 #2-#6
LRD pottery and gouged ware ... Late 5th-early 6th c. A.D ... to M XII and some gouged |
Well 15: Mycenaean. It was situated about 35 meters down the slope northwest of the exit of the Mycenaean Fountain.
Well circular or roughly oval in section.
Diameter max. width to -4.0: ca. 1.50, below ... Late Mycenaean ... -6.2m. |
| Extract from notebook ΠΘ XIX, pp. 3644-3646. Well at 105/ΝΗ (report on sorting of pottery, July 19, 1951 - H.S. Robinson).
"Not a useful well" HSR.
Well dug to 1.50m., vi/9/36; dug from 1.50m. to bottom ... Early Roman; use fillings of 2nd. c. B.C. and 1st. and 4th. c. A.D.; dumped filling of late 4th. c. (HSR)
Fill I: 2nd. c. B.C.
Fill II-V: to second half of 4th. c. A.D.
Fill VI: mixed to Byzantine ... Agora V, p. 124 ... Agora X, p. 136 ... Agora XXIX, p. 433. |
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 ... Agora V, p. 126 ... Agora VI, p. 99 ... Agora VII, p. 227. |
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 ... Agora V, p. 126 ... Agora VI, p. 100 ... Agora VII, p. 227. |
Part of cistern system 76/ΝΖ-76/ΝΘ-81/ΝΘ on Kolonos Agoraios with lower dumped filling of 3rd. c. B.C. and upper dumped filling of first half of 1st. c. A.D. Coins:
4 June 1936 #5
5 June 1936 #3
6 June ... 3rd. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D ... -3.5m. |
Well-shaft abandoned before use because of crumbling of rock.
From top to 15.00m. a dumped fill predominantly early Roman but containing material of late 1st c. B.C. to mid-1st c. A.D. A rock filled shaft ... 1st c. B.C. to mid-1st c. A.D ... Agora V, p. 124 ... Agora IV, p. 236 ... Agora VI, p. 98. |
| Mycenaean grave.
Small pit grave (0.50m by 1.35m by 0.75m deep) containing the skeleton of an infant girl. Although a simple grave with a single interment, the pit was packed with gifts. These consisted ... No later than mid-15th c ... Agora XIII, pp. 205-208, 274, pls. 47, 65-66, 75, 77, 79, 87 (Grave XVI) ... Agora XXVII, p. 226. |
| Upper mixed dumped fill (last quarter 3rd c.-4th c.) with Roman POU below 10.40m. Coins:
16 February 1937 #1 (disintegrated)
17 February 1937 #1 (disintegrated)
8 April 1937 #5-#10 (dump)
9 April 1937 ... 2nd half of 1st c.-first half of 3rd c. A.D ... Upper mixed dumped fill (last quarter 3rd c.-4th c.) with Roman POU below 10.40m. |
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Use filling of late 1st. to late 2nd. c. A.D.; dumped filling of 4th. c. A.D. Coins:
24 April 1937 #2
27 April 1937 #6-#12
28 April 1937 #2
29 April 1937 #2
8 May ... 1st.-4th c. A.D ...
.1=0.00-19.50m. dumped fill (15.40-19.50m. produced nothing).
.2=19.50-20.70m. POU. |
Cistern on the lower south slope of Kolonos Agoraios; dumped filling, second half of first century after Christ. Coins:
9 June 1937 #3
11 June 1937 #1-#8 ... 50-100 A.D ... Agora |
| Well at 52/Ι, on the lower northeast slopes of the Areopagus. It was cut down and re-used in the late Roman period, in connection with the water channel. Use fill of 1st to early 2nd c.
Dump fill 5th to ... Early to Late Roman ... -18m. |
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