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Ostrakon Pit (Horos Terrace Trench). Oval pit cut into bedrock. Packed filling of stones, coarse sherds and roof tiles; among these a few fragments of finer vases and 22 ostraka, probably from the ostracaphoria ... Ca. 490-480 B.C. and later ... H 12:14 ... H 12:14 |
Gravel above cobbled street surface ... Second half 2nd c. B.C ... H 14:3 ... H 14:3 |
Silt fill of early road drain to North of SW Fountain House. Coins:
10 August 1961 #5 ... 325-275 B.C ... H 14:2 ... H 14:2 |
| Pocket, identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR. Possibly disturbed. Outside south wall of building. Concentration of pottery in a small pocket below a "Hellenistic" fill. There is no mention of bone or ... First quarter 4th c. B.C ... H 14:1 ... H 14:1 |
Middle Stoa Building Fill (with filling to S) (See also Κ: H-I-J 14-15 and Λ: K-M 13-14)
This deposit is not definitive and must be considered with the above deposits before details are entered into database; ... To ca. 180 B.C ... Θ:14/Φ |
Filling on original floor of Primitive Bouleuterion = Building D.
Metroon pit η. H 10:2 is also contemporary with the construction of the building ... Third quarter 6th c. B.C ... H 10:3 ... H 10:3 |
Deposits containing much ash and charcoal, probably to be associated with the Persian sack. Layers IV-VI of trial pit between Stoa piers IV and V ... 1st quarter 5th c. B.C ... H 6 |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Child's Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXVIII: G).
Cf. Container Lot ΣΤ 165 (fill over geometric grave).
Neat, rectangular, unlined trench, cut into bedrock to a preserved depth of 0.20m,below the level ... Early Geometric I ... H 17:2 ... H 17:2 |
A pit, perhaps a well, extending beneath the foundations of [Building D, the Primitive Bouleuterion] the Hellenistic Metroon. Not completely dug due to its position. A dumped filling so far as dug, apparently ... Ca. 575-525 B.C ... H/6,7-10/16,17 |
Includes area labeled "Deposit around collapsed section of poros gutter, road cut south of annex of SWFH." Coins:
28 June 1967 #2
13 July 1967 #1-#6
14 July 1967 #1
15 July 1967 #1 (?) Estimated Grid ... 325-275 B.C ... Coins:
28 June 1967 #2
13 July 1967 #1-#6
14 July 1967 #1
15 July 1967 #1 (?) |
Filling accumulated between the time of the Persian sack and the building of the Stoa.
Cf. Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 14-18 and H 6:5 ... H 5-6.2 ... H 5-6.2 |
Coins:
19 May 1933 #14
20 May 1933 #3
22 May 1933 #1-#2
23 May 1933 #2
24 May 1933 #1
30 May 1933 #1 ... 10th c. A.D ... Coins:
19 May 1933 #14
20 May 1933 #3
22 May 1933 #1-#2
23 May 1933 #2
24 May |
A well with POU 7th-8th c. A.D. and 10th c. dump. Coins:
19 May 1933 #14
20 May 1933 #3
22 May 1933 #1-#2
23 May 1933 #2
24 May 1933 #1
30 May 1933 #1 Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Lower fill ... 19 May-7 June 1933 ... Coins:
19 May 1933 #14
20 May 1933 #3
22 May 1933 #1-#2
23 May 1933 #2
24 May |
In front of room III from the South. Coins:
28 June 1933 #1
1 July 1933 #1
8 July 1933 #1 (dump)
12 July 1933 #1 (dump)-#2 (dump)
3 May 1934 #1
12 May 1934 #1 Estimated Grid ... Byzantine ... H 9:1 ... H 9:1 |
Cistern chamber at 52/Θ (53/Θ). Part of the H-I 16-17 system.
Cf. S.E. Tunnel (container 147) and west and north passages (container 156).
Upper fill: (packing for LR mosaic floor)
Lower fill: Hellenistic ... Hellenistic-Late Roman ... H 16:2 ... H 16:2 |
Deposit beneath re-used poros blocks.
Fragments of 2 ancient blocks of soft, white poros were reused here for a later foundation. the course of the late wall cannot be traced beyond the length of the two ... 15-17 July 1931 ... Coins:
17 July 1931 #1-#3, #13-#14 |
Hellenistic fill South of Middle Stoa near NW corner of Heliaea. This fill contained material later in date than that which made up the middle Stoa Building Fill.
Only the coins (and a few amphora handles ... To ca. 140 B.C ... H-I 14:1 ... H-I 14:1 |
Cistern-system west of the Stoa of Zeus. Two chambers connected by a tunnel, each with two fills. Lower fill in south chamber contemporary with upper fill in north chamber, at the end of the 4th c. B.C ... Ca. 375-160 B.C ... Coins:
1 August 1931 #5-#6
3 August 1931 #14
4 August 1931 |
Beneath layer 11. "Despite its extreme irregularity this pit may be an early well, for it would seem definitely to be an artificial cutting and sherds were found in its lowest part," (Nbp. 2095).
Contemporary ... SubMycenaean ... 14:2. |
Found while excavating Stoa Pit E in 1933. See also I 849 (Ε 329) found in the North Well in Stoa Pit E (Deposit H 9:1). Fragment Ε 496 of this inscription, listed with the finds of H 10:6, is likely from ... 8-10 May 1933
17 May 1935
18-26 May 1937 ... H 10:6 ... H 10:6 |
A tile-lined well at H/16-4/14,15 under the Roman Propylon. The tiles had been cut down; highest completely preserved tile at 50.696 m. Only three rings of tiling were preserved , the uppermost almost ... Ca. 350 B.C ... A tile-lined well at H/16-4/14,15 under the Roman ... below the tile lining. H. of |
| Well A, early 5th c. B.C. Near the Agora Boundary Stone, northwest corner of Middle Stoa; diameter at top 0.92m, widening to 1.15m and more below. Shaft neatly faced with stones to a depth of 0.70m below ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... H 12:15 ... H 12:15 |
| 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 ... H/4,5-12/14,15 |
Estimated Grid ... H 12:15.5 ... H 12:15.5 |
Includes container 202 "quarry waste" ... Ca. 225-160 B.C ... H 6:9.1 ... H 6:9.1 |
Including the passage between the south and north chambers ... Ca. 325-270 B.C ... H 6:9.2 ... H 6:9.2 |
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 ... H 12 |
Hellenistic Fills South of Middle Stoa (1954) (cf. K-M 13-14, etc) (unsolved)
This deposit is not definitive and must be considered with the above deposits before details are entered into database; left ... Asterisk: H-I-J 14-15* ... Hellenistic Fills South of Middle Stoa (1954) (cf. K-M 13-14, etc) (unsolved) |
Estimated Grid ... H/14,15-12/10,11 |
See also A 754 (Ε 501). Estimated Grid ... Roman ... H/13,14-10/16,17 |
Estimated Grid ... H/14,15-12/10,11 |
Estimated Grid ... H 12:15.2 ... H 12:15.2 |
No finds. Estimated Grid ... H/14,15-12/10,11 |
No finds recorded. Estimated Grid ... Geometric ... H 10:6.2 ... H 10:6.2 |
| Hellenistic filling in N.W. corner of Section (39-46/ΙΘ-ΚΓ inclusive). Coins:
14 July 1931 #42, #64
15 July 1931 #6 but grid 42/ΚΔ, #34-#37
16 July 1931 #15-#16
17 July 1931 #4-#12
18 July 1931 #1-#5, ... 4th.-early 2nd. B.C ... Coins:
14 July 1931 #42, #64
15 July 1931 #6 but grid 42/ΚΔ, #34-#37
16 July |
Pit I at 45/ΙΘ (= Well) (noted also 4th c. pocket in side of this pit).
This is part of the Terracotta Deposit (H 17:4) and the objects listed here are also listed in H 17:4. Containers/lots for this ... Geometric-Protoattic ... Deposit (H 17:4) and the ... listed in H 17:4. |
| Gerald V. Lalonde ... Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female with fetus/neonate. One box with burnt animal bones is stored with the skeleton AA 302 in drawer 97.
Objects also recorded frm Section ΣΤ. PD 1692, PD 1807 ... Early Geometric II, 850 B.C ... H 16:6 ... H 16:6 |
| Pithos ay the bottom of the north slope of the Areopagus with single fill; Part of Hellenistic Group D.
One stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 146. Latest coin dates in first two decades of 2nd ... 160-130 B.C ... H 16:4 ... H 16:4 |
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 ... G-H 11-12 probably has road ... 12:1, G-I 11-12, H 12:10, I |
| An extensive cistern system on the lower north slope of the Areopagus, south chamber with blind tunnel extending further south (south tunnel); north chamber; drawshaft further north, extends to north tunnel ... Ca. 320-240 B.C ... Coins: ΣΤ
13 April 1932 #1-#3
14 April 1932 #3-#5
16 April 1932 #9, #15
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