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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 ... O 17:7 ... O 17:7 |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.
Although badly disturbed at various times in antiquity, it was clearly a chamber tomb with the chamber little more than a cubby-hole at the end of a steep dromos, entered at the ... Myc. III A-B ... O 7:7 ... O 7:7 |
Deposit at 42/ΙΕ beside rubble wall under modern cellar wall ... 5th c. B.C ... O 19:7 ... O 19:7 |
Hollow with silt over niche of Mycenaean Tomb (O 7:5) ... 7th-early 6th century, some 5th century intrusions ... 7th-early 6th century, some 5th century intrusions. |
The Tortoise's Grave.
Small deposit in the lower part of a wine-jar (P 21715) set down into the filling of a pit of the archaic period (O 7:9).
Contains tortoise shell ... 425-400 B.C ... period (O 7:9).
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| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXVIII: PG)
Shallow oval cutting in natural bedrock lintel of Mycenaean chamber tomb O 7:5, containing a large two-handled cooking pot. Within, the unburned bones of a foetal ... Developed-Later Protogeometric ... O 7:6 ... O 7:6 |
Irregular Pit in Bedrock, ca. 35/ΙΕ Coins:
28 May 1951 #4 ... 600-550 B.C ... O 7:15 ... O 7:15 |
Mycenaean Deposit (Gully) in front of NE Stoa (corrected from P 7:1).
It consisted of a series of irregular pits, some gradually linked up with one another to form what seemed a natural gully. The largest ... Mycenaean IIIA-B ... Mycenaean Deposit (Gully) in front of NE Stoa (corrected from P 7:1).
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| Eugene Vanderpool ... Early Geometric grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXIX) ... Late Protogeometric ... O 7:11 ... O 7:11 |
Small Pit or Well at 25/ΚΑ with a small quantity of fine and coarse household pottery, much of it whole, or nearly so ... Ca. 450-425 B.C ... O 7:10 ... O 7:10 |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... "Submycenaean" grave into Mycenaean gully.
Rectangular trench cut partly in bedrock, partly through Mycenaean domestic filling. No pottery catalogued ... Late Helladic IIIC-Early Protogeometric ... O 7:16 ... O 7:16 |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXV. Adult female inhumation. Deposit summary and notebook write at 31/Θ-I ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Early Protogeometric ... O 7:1 ... O 7:1 |
Shallow rectangular pit in bedrock at 44/Η. It contained a very small quantity of pottery, mostly coarse but including a few black glazed pieces, one stamped. Agora XII, p. 396.
No container, pottery ... 450-400 B.C ... O 7:13 ... O 7:13 |
Archaic Pit at 25/ΙΓ, near the northeast corner of the market square. Filling in upper part of shaft, cleared only to a depth of 3.10m because of rock conditions ... 600-550 B.C ... O 7:9 ... O 7:9 |
| Mycenaean Burial.
The cutting was roughly rectangular (1.60 by 0.50m) and was once covered with rough stone slabs, two of which were found over the body. The skeleton, presumably that of a man, lay in ... Myc. III A-B ... O 7:3 ... O 7:3 |
Mycenaean Grave (grave with kylikes).
Small irregular pit (about 0.70m by 0.45m by 0.50m deep). it was full of Mycenaean sherds and fragmentary pots, mostly kylikes, but also contained occasional scraps ... Mycenaean IIIB-C ... O 7:4 ... O 7:4 |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb with niches.
One of the few tombs found in the Agora that has an almost architectural regularity with squares chamber (1.75m wide by 2.10m deep) and axially centered dromos (4m long ... Myc. III A 1:2 ... O 7:5 ... O 7:5 |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.
Only the bottom 0.10 to 0.20m of the chamber was preserved along with the partial skeletal remains of two or three occupants. The plan revealed a square chamber (1.80m by 1.80m), ... Myc. III A 1:2 (14th c.) ... O 7:2 ... O 7:2 |
Filling over bedrock. Coins:
26 May 1938 #7-#10
27 May 1938 #1
28 May 1938 #1 ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D ... O 18:3 ... O 18:3 |
Well at 67/ΛΓ on the northeast slope of the Areopagus. Connected with the same cistern system as O 20:2.
Dug as several fills but probably a continuous accumulation Coin
28 May 1938 #1 (?) Illegible N ... 300-250 B.C ... system as O 20:2.
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