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| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 2. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole). In some records as XXIII.
Variously labeled as grid 7/Δ, 7/Γ and 7/Γ-Δ.
Rectangular pyre trench cut through earth into bedrock, with only the lowest 0.04m surviving ... Transitional Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I ... Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 468-470 (with F 16:3). |
Figurine Deposit in Roman Building 4, Room 20, strosis 1. Coins:
13 April 1937 #1 ... To 4th c. A.D ... To 4th c. A.D. |
Primarily late Roman material but some scrappy early Roman. Coins:
5 March 1934 #1-#4
6 March 1934 #1-#3
7 March 1934 #1-#2
8 March 1934 #1-#4
9 March 1934 #1-#4
10 March 1934 #1 ... Ca. A.D. 350 dumped fill ... Coins:
5 March 1934 #1-#4
6 March 1934 #1-#3
7 ... #1-#4
9 March 1934 #1-#4
10 |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Coin hoard of Athenian tetradrachms. Dug into fill under floor (floor level not preserved) on east side of Strategeion near the NE corner of room formed by the eastern poros block wall and an east-west ... Second half of 4th c. B.C ... Second half of 4th c. B.C ... F/12-13/14 |
Practically at surface. 17 Byzantine coins stuck together. One group of 11, one of 3, and 3 loose. Coins:
29 March 1934 #1-#17 Deposit created 4 October 2001 ... Byzantine ... F 11:4 ... F 11:4 |
| This filling is the largest deposit of its time found in the Agora. It may be compared with H 6:5 and with N 7:3.
Dug in soft bedrock to a depth of 11.40m; footholds cut on opposite sides of the shaft ... Ca. 490-450 B.C ... -11.4m. |
| Stucco-lined bottle-shaped cistern, with tunnel and subsidiary manhole, in SW Baths, Room Α 10. Homogeneous dumped fill, mostly of mold-made bowls and and molds for terracotta figurines. Sixteen stamped ... 225-190 B.C ... F 17:4 ... F 17:4 |
Trench at 11/ΚΕ cut into the stereo (length 1.40m, width 0.50m). Coins:
5 April 1932 #5 (illegible).
Red figure pottery; coarse ware ... Mid-5th c. B.C ... F 14:4 ... F 14:4 |
Well just outside the southwest corner of the market square ... Late 7th-early 6th c. B.C ... F 15:4 ... F 15:4 |
Bottom of well plus dump. Coins:
4 May 1932 #8
5 May 1932 #8-#42 'from mud', #42 uncertain ... 2nd. c. A.D ... -11.5--10.4m. |
Coins:
31 May 1935 #1 ... 1st c. A.D ... F 13:2.4 ... F 13:2.4 |
Byzantine 13th-14th c. A.D ... F 4:1 ... F 4:1 |
Dump, 4th c. Cut through a cistern which was probably constructed in the 4th c. B.C, near the southwest corner of the market square. Coins:
25 May 1935 #1 (with L 1809) (disintegrated) Subdivisions:
.1=Upper ... Second half 1st c.-end 2nd c ... F 13:2 ... F 13:2 |
Pit on north slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Traces of burning in the dirt fill; mixed in with this many fragments of fine pottery ... Ca. 450-420 B.C ... Hesperia 4 (1935), p. 238. |
Cutting in stereo. Early 4th c. fill with some Hellenistic-Early Roman disturbance ... Ca. 400-375 B.C ... F 14:1 ... F 14:1 |
Coins:
4 May 1932 #1-#8 (#8 from dump) ... 4th c. A.D ... F 16:2.2 ... F 16:2.2 |
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 ... March 1934 #1-#4
20 March ...
23 March 1934 #1-#7 (#4 ... 1934 #4
26 March 1934 #1-#5 |
Martyr at Δ6. Top strosis (Byzantine-Turkish) discarded.
Strosis 2, late Hellenistic (Lot ΔΕ 21)
Strosis 3, early Hellenistic (Lot ΔΕ 22)
Strosis 4, to mid-4th c. B.C. (Lot ΔΕ 23)
Nothing catalogued from ... To mid-4th c. B.C ... (Lot ΔΕ 22)
Strosis 4, to mid-4th c. B.C. (Lot ΔΕ 23) |
Well associated with the Tholos, with scanty use fill but primarily dumped filling. Coins:
5 April 1934 #1-#4
10 April 1934 #1-#2
11 April 1934 #1
12 April 1934 #1
18 April 1934 #1-#2
19 April 1934 #1-#5 ... Ca. 350-294 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl 4 (1940), pp. 98-101, 135-135, fig. 75 (marked A). |
Roman Group L.
Layer I (cont. 59-64) Pre-Herulian second half of 3rd c. (bottom, 15.95-13.90).
Layer II (cont. 42-58) 4th c.-first quarter of 4th c. (11.90-13.90).
Layer III (cont. 17-41) -4th c. (10.00 ... Second half 3rd c.-early 5th c. A.D ... F 19:1 ... F 19:1 |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 4 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave XLIV). No remains (not really a grave, note on p. 331).
Roughly rectangular patch of unworked fieldstones, measuring about 1.20x0.80m neatly laid on bedrock, ... 19-21 March 1932 ... F 16:5 ... F 16:5 |
| Identified as Pyre by SIR.
Debris filling of the middle of the 4th c. B.C. including the remains of a sacrificial pyre.
Objects dispersed in red-clay fill uncovered in removal of modern staircase. A broken ... 4th c. B.C. disturbed ... 4th c. B.C. disturbed |
Well near southwest corner of market square; successive use fillings, and dumped filling.
Lower use filling, second half of 4th century B.C.
Main use filling, second quarter of 2nd century B.C. to shortly ... 10 April-31 May 1935 ... F 13:3 ... F 13:3 |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Ovoid pit cut into bedrock or sterile fill just north of preserved floor surfaces in the so-called Strategeion. Length (west-east) 2.6m; widens at 1.25m from the east scarp so that at west pit is 0.75m ... 4th B.C ... F/17,19-13/4,6 ... 4th B.C. |
Very little pottery and mainly broken tiles in this well, all mixed from Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (nbp. 1441) ... 25 May-1 June 1939 ... -8.4m. |
Rectangular shaft at northwest foot of Areopagus; dumped filling of second half of 4th c. B.C. Pit at 16/Δ-Ε recorded one time as an extension of shaft 17/Δ-Ε (see L 506 and nb.p. 395), but items from ... Ca. 325-275 B.C ... -4.55m. |
Part of cistern system with mouths at 47/ΛΒ, 60/ΜΖ and 51/ΜΓ.
Last 1.50m. of 47/ΛΒ probably cut in modern times, contained modern fill in bottom. Coins:
10 March 1934 #2-#7
12 March 1934 #9-#14
16 March ... Hellenistic and modern ... #4-#6 |
Also possibly object B 252 "scraping bedrock in south part; context too disturbed and uncertain to be trusted." ... 4th c. B.C ... 4th c. B.C ... F 11 |
Furnace Dump from N. Hypocaust in Bath to East of Poros Building. Coins:
26 March 1948 #4-#8
27 March 1948 #1-#3
29 March 1948 #2-#7
1 April 1948 #2-#3
3 April 1948 #14-#15
7 April 1948 #16-#27
8 April ... Second half 3rd c.-first half 4th c. A.D ... Second half 3rd c.-first half 4th c. A.D. |
It is a considerable deposit including both figured and plain wares, the red-figure consistently of the second quarter of the 4th c. Estimated Grid ... Ca 375-340 B.C ... F 19:2.2 ... F 19:2.2 |
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 ... Coins:
3 June 1937 #1-#4
4 June 1937 #5-#9
7 June 1937 #1-#4 |
Pocket behind heavy Roman retaining wall ... 4th c. B.C ... F 10:1 ... F 10:1 |
Patch of undisturbed filling over bedrock (at east edge of Kolonos Agoraios) ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
| Although separated by a sterile rocky fill the two use fillings are apparently one continuous accumulation (GRE).
Packing around well includes SS 14261, P 25943-P 25953. These are not given a subdivision ... 350-300 B.C. to ca. 225 B.C ... quarter 4th c. B.C. |
Child's burial in south wall of Marble Worker's House.
Bones examined 20 June 1975 and found to be an immature animal, not human (canid-puppy?).
Identified as pyre by SIR. Set into a shallow roughly ovoid ... Late 4th c ... F 16:7 ... F 16:7 |
Coins:
10 April 1937 #5 ... 4th-3rd c. B.C ... 4th-3rd c. B.C. |
Bits of broken molds and iron waste; no objects catalogued ... 4th-3rd c. B.C ... F 5:6 ... F 5:6 |
Associated with the Tholos.
Originally a well but after it had been in use for a short time the shaft was partially filled in and the upper part widened to form a large cistern.
The pottery falls into ... 335-250 B.C ... F 12:3 ... F 12:3 |
Bottle-shaped cistern with dumped fillings on NW slopes of Areopagus; appears not to have been finished in antiquity: the walls and floor show no traces of stucco.
Lower filling, ca. 375-340 B.C.
Upper ... Ca. 375-275 B.C ... -4.46m. |
Cistern at 9/Β (10/Β on plan), at the NW foot of the Areopagus, some 200m to the west of the Coroplast's Dump. It had evidently belonged to one of the small houses in that thickly populated residential ... Second half 4th c. B.C ... F 16:1 ... F 16:1 |
Nbp. 661: Dug in 1st c. Cleaned out almost to bottom shortly after the middle of the 3rd c. and used for a few years. During Herulian invasion of 267, Laughing Faun broken up and thrown in. Thereafter ... 1st-5th c. A.D., 2nd c. A.D.=POU ... F 16:2 ... F 16:2 |
Well at 96/Ι in arm of cistern at 94/Θ (F 15:2). Probably the rebuilding of an earlier well.
P 3149, P 3150, P 3154 are jars from packing in cistern arm; construction fill - early Roman.
P 4588 is listed ... Second half of 3rd c. A.D.=POU ... F 15:3 ... F 15:3 |
Coins:
26 April 1932 #1
27 April 1932 #1-#2
Only the pottery from last 1.00m of fill retained. Finds recorded in both Δ and Δ'. See Δ nbp. 114 for division of Δ into two parts, northern (Δ) and southern ... 4th c. A.D ... F 15:1 ... F 15:1 |
It was impossible to return to the digging of this well either in 1939 or 1940 [due to collapse of stereo] (nbp. 1432).
HAT compares pottery to that of Square Building fill. Coins
26 May 1939 #1 ... Second half of 4th c. B.C ... Second half of 4th c. B.C. |
Coins:
1 June 1935 #1-#11
3 June 1935 #1-#14 Estimated Grid ... 1-3 June 1935 ... F/2,3-13/4,5 |
Drain channel system along the line of an ancient north-south road, the channel in part at the surface and in part tunneled and accessible by shafts. Over a considerable part of this channel the hard water ... 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D ... Channel F, water deposit |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 1. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female 30-40 years old).
Mentioned as Grave XVII in Deposit list.
Consisted of a roughly circular pit, approximately 0.30-0.40m in diameter, cut into ... Late Protogeometric ... tombs
F 16:3 & F 16:4". |
A well on the NW slope of the Areopagus; unfinished well-shaft dug to a depth of only 3.05m., and refilled with broken pottery and other debris. The shaft clearly was begun with the intention of digging ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... F 19:5 ... F 19:5 |
The West Chamber of a double cistern lying between the northeast corner of the Theseion and the Annex to the Stoa of Zeus Eleftherios. ... Both chambers went out of use as water containers simultaneously ... 225-165 B.C ... F 6:3 ... F 6:3 |
4th c. A.D ... 4th c. A.D. |
See cistern system wells F 11:2 and F 12:3, part of Tholos water system. Estimated Grid ... Ca. 350-294 B.C ... See cistern system wells F 11:2 and F 12:3, part of Tholos water system. |
N-S Cut on 50m. line (area of Road, area of Stoa, area N of Stoa) various levels and dates over the three areas.
Investigations to the northwest of the market square in the area of the road running out ... Prehistoric to Roman ... E-G 2-4 |
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. |
Possibly a short period of use but chiefly a debris filling including a number of fragments from disturbed early burials. Two pot fragments, believed to be from lower body of P 18525, added from Well 3 ... Ca. 575-550 B.C ... F 12:6 ... F 12:6 |
End of 4th.-3rd c. B.C ... F 17:3.2 ... F 17:3.2 |
| Grave V, under room 18 in House 3, plus burned deposit at 94/IΘ. Identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR on Agoraios Kolonos:
In southeast corner of house 3. 35 artifacts, bone and charred material in pit, ... Ca. 300-275 B.C ... F 5:2 ... F 5:2 |
| Grave V in notebook = RSY Grave 5. PD 731-c, Ptg. 244 ... Second quarter of the 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 88-89, fig. 7 and pls. 38 f, 39 a (Grave 5). |
Cistern at 70/ΚΕ and channels. Part of same system as D 17:3 and D 17:5. It was set against a corner of the lowest foundation block. Thus one is forced to assume that enough of the wall remained at least ... Ca. 200-150 B.C ... D 17:4 ... D 17:4 |
The deposit notebook lists S 1439 here, but the following information on that card indicates that D 18:4 could be considered with D 18:3 and not as a separate deposit.
"Excavation of pit, which partly ... card indicates that D 18:4 ... Poros Building. 4th. century ... deposit D 18:3[p.f. Oct 2006] |
Filling of early N-S road and related fills, in the area of the Geometric Cemetery south of the Tholos; various levels including plundered foundation trench.
For late, disturbed or uncertain levels over ... 7th-6th c. B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 4, p. 106. |
Accumulated fillings in the Bouleutrion Plateia beginning in late 5th c. B.C. and continuing into the 3rd c. A.D., reaching a depth of 0.20-0.30m. (Hesp. 6 (1937), p. 168. Subdivisions:
.1=Layer I
.2=Layer ... 5th c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D ... F 11 |
N-S Cut on 20m. line (area of Road, area of Stoa, area N of Stoa)
various levels and dates over the three areas.
Investigations to the northwest of the market square in the area of the road that bordered ... Protogeometric to Late Roman ... "Augustan"
Layer VI: chiefly 4 ... c. B.C.)
Layer VII: 4th c ... geometric to 4th c. B.C.
Area |
| Grave cut into bedrock (L. 2m, W. 0.58m), head toward E; offerings at south end. Skeleton of a male about 40 years old, laid out with knees slightly bent.
Brann. PD 434, PD 1058 ... 750-725 B.C ...
Brann. |
Coins:
8 May 1935 #2 ... 4th-2nd c. B.C ... 4th-2nd c. B.C ... F 11 |
House F, room 4 below floor at -2.00m., fill 4. Deposit created by A.W. and first appears in his thesis (Biblio. below). Coins;
19 May 1949 #1-#16 Cf. coins from 17 June 1949 #1-#4 listed with lot OO 490 ... First quarter 2nd c A.D ... A. Walker Coin Deposit in House F in ΟΟ |
A well (diameter 1.10m) at the east edge of the valley road leading from the SW corner of the Agora, about 90m SW of the Tholos. The mouth of the well was subsequently covered by the east wall of the Great ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... including a few water pots.
4 |
North of court F, around well head only. Deposit created by A.W. and first appears in his thesis (Biblio. below).
Cf. nbpp. 2204 and 2234 and lot 350 for court F and p. 2127 for north of court. Coins: ... 1st-2nd c. A.D ... A. Walker Coin Deposit North of Court F in ΟΟ |
| Located in Tholos Trench E, beneath floor, beneath layer III.
Diameter 1m. Cf. P 4952 with fragment from this deposit and E-F 12-14.2.
Similar the well filling, H 6:5 Originally called H 12:5
Ann Steiner ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 126-128. |
Exploratory excavation trench between east front of Hellenistic Metroon and Great Drain.
Cf. Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1941), p. 106.
Cf. also Metroon Drain Cut I 9:1 and F-G 12:1 and H 12:9 ... 8th-6th c. B.C ... Drain.
Cf. Hesperia Suppl. 4 ... Metroon Drain Cut I 9:1 and F |
Exploration in the area between the east front of the Hellenistic Metroon and the Great Drain, from accumulated road metal of early north-south road.
For levels in the same road further south, see F-G ... 575-525 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 4, p. 106. |
Filling of Middle Drain (Tr. H+F in Section Ζ). Sand and gravel filling of the old course of the west branch of the Great Drain, a large (ca. 1.00m. deep and 1.30m. wide) underground channel in the area ... 150-100 B.C ... Hesperia 45 (1976), pp. 11-15, pls. 1-4. Pillaging fill of Building F ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 111-121. |
Cistern System #1f: Shaft at 1/ΝΘ = Well A. Scanty dumped filling. Coins:
19 February 1936 #2-#3
20 February 1936 #16-#20
21 February 1936 #5-#7
22 February 1936 #1 ... Mid-4th to 3rd c. B.C ... Mid-4th to 3rd c. B.C. |
Investigations in the Hellenistic Metroon, various levels. Stoa Pits A, B, C, D, E, F, H and I (various layers).
Locations include:
SW corner of Primitive Bouleuterion; from contemporary filling alongside ... 8th-6th c. B.C ... E, F, H and I (various ... Coins:
20 April 1934 #1 (from Pit F, footing trench of Period IV, foundation |
Various layers and dates, primarily from Tholos Tr. L (area of early road drain), Q (area of road) and V (area of road).
Also Room G of Trench V listed with G-H 11-12 probably has road layers (no finds, ... 8th c.-ca. 480 B.C ... containers 555-557).
See also F |
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 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4, pp. 30-33 (the second well of Building F). |
House A destruction debris over floors. All floors (rooms 1-7) dug in 1939. Re-examination of House A in 1967 (nbpp. 648 ff.). Coins:
27 February 1939 #5-#9
7 March 1939: #1
9 March 1939 #4-#6
11 March ... First half 3rd. c. A.D ... March 1939 #4-#6
11 March ... March 1939 #1-#5
4 April 1939 |
| Marcie Handler ... Continued from 2000 season, 10-12 July 2000; BZ XXIII p. 4472.
The hoard was originally excavated during the 2000 season (Lot BZ 1049, 5th-6th centuries AD), from a higher elevation through a gap in the ... 10-12 July 2000
21-22 July 2003 ... Road | Room F | Coin Hoard J |
| Cistern at 77/Μ on lower north slopes of the Areopagus. Bottom diameter of 2m connected by tunnel to cistern M-N 18:1.
Only stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 240. Latest coin dates about 200 ... 3rd c. B.C.-196/190 B.C ... Bowls and plates share stamps with vessels from N 21:4, E 14:1, F 17:4, G 14:2. |
The East Chamber of a double cistern lying between the northeast corner of the Theseion and the Annex to the Stoa of Zeus Eleftherios. ... Both chambers went out of use as water containers simultaneously ... Ca. 200 B.C ... which is deposit F 6:3: A ... comparison with F 5:1 and G 5:3 ... February 1932 #3-#4
15 March 1932 #3-#4
16 March 1932 #2 |
Well shaft cut through a cistern channel which was then packed with three amphorae (P 3123, P 3125, P 4201) of 1st or at latest early 2nd c. A.D. (These three amphorae could be considered with F 15:2) ... 3rd-4th c. A.D ... 3rd-4th c. A.D. |
| Rubbish Dump in mouth of abandoned well in Tholos Trench F, Kitchen. Filled with ash, charcoal, broken pottery, roof tiles.
Also from Trench L.
13 March 2014 by Ann Steiner
The deposit has four components ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 95-96, 129-132. |
| 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 ... G/3,4-6/7,8 |
Investigations within the Stoa of Zeus, the north part, various levels.
Notebook references: Stoa Trench E Layers IV and V, Stoa Pits A, B and C, and Layers I and II of area between back wall and retaining ... 5th c. B.C ... also trench F, layers III |
Upper fill (top to around 4.50m.) was in a pit of large dimensions above the preserved well shaft. From the bottom and shaft proper no catalogued pottery. No tiling in place in well but fragments of tiles ... 3rd-4th c. A.D ... 3rd-4th c. A.D. |
Well in house R of industrial area west of the Areopagus. This well, originally tiled, was abandoned and filled at the time of the conversion of the house into a stone-cutters' workshop.
Tiled well but ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... were found in House F and to ... and 4, POU, late 5th c. |
| Well west of the Eponymous Heroes monument. The shaft was of irregular width (ca. 0.81m where the full circle was first preserved), sunk in soft bedrock clay much of which had collapsed around the top ... Ca. 600-550 B.C ... at a depth of 4.25m. due |
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