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[Agora Deposit] H 14:1: Pyre

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 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 25, p. 134, figs. 57, 60.

[Agora Deposit] N 6:4: Pyre at N/9-6/1,2

Pyre at N/9-6/1,2, layer 11a. No formal limits, apparent limits about 0.30-0.40m N-S; 0.50-0.60 E-W (cut into by trench at east) ... Late 575-550 B.C ... Pyre at N/9-6/1,2, layer 11a. No formal limits, ... N-S; 0.50-0.60 E-W (cut into

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[Agora Deposit] P 20:3: Pyre

Pyre in north central room of house, measuring 0.50m east-west by 0.35m north-south. Pottery, bone, and burnt material in pit dug into layer IIb (crushed bedrock floor: lot Ω 464, 4th c.) and covered by ... 350-325 B.C ... No lot. See pd #1998 for location.

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[Agora Deposit] Q 6:3: Chamber Tomb in ΒΔ

Stephen G. Miller ... Irregular circular tomb (Diam. 2.20-2.60) with blocked dromos to northwest. Top of tomb lost in Archaic grading of area, center disturbed by Byzantine pit, overbuilt by northern-eastern walls of Room 3 ... LH III ... Irregular circular tomb (Diam. 2.20-2.60) with blocked dromos to northwest. Top of ... No coins. No pottery; see container 393 for Archaic grading of top of tomb.

[Agora Deposit] D 6:2: West Chamber

West Chamber of Cistern System #2. This chamber filled earlier than the East Chamber. No stratification but at 3.80m. considerable pottery of the late 5th c. B.C., as in 60/ΛΗ cistern, presumably a portion ... First half of 3rd c. A.D ... No stratification but at ... 60/ΛΗ cistern, presumably a

[Agora Deposit] P 15:1: Mycenaean Well Under East Building Terrace Steps

Mycenaean well under East Building Terrace steps (No catalogued pots). Rectangular in shape, 0.90x0.60m. Abutting against the back of the East Building Terrace steps to the south. Yielded much thrown bedrock ... 14 July 1967 ... (No catalogued pots). Rectangular in shape, 0.90x0.60 ... evidently got little or no use.

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[Agora Deposit] P 6:4: Pyre

Pyre in layer 8a in SW corner of Room 7 of Greek House δ. Oval pyre; 0.60 (n-s)x 0.35 (e-w). The pyre was covered by the surface of layer 8 and extended slightly into layer 9 below it. Small bone fragments, ... 325-300 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 1, pp. 98-100, figs. 6, 7, 15-18.

[Agora Deposit] B 18:12: Well

Diameter 0.83m. Water level -4.20m. Tiled well; height of tiles 0.60m. Heavy deposit of pottery throughout; stamped amphora handles, five Knidian; one Rhodian; one Parian. Semi-coarse stamnos; funnel-mouthed ... Ca. 120 B.C ... Diameter 0.83m. Water level -4.20m. Tiled well; height of tiles 0.60m. Heavy ... fill (no amphora handles or

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:15: Inhumation a Man

Grave 14 in notebook. Length of shaft 2.12m; width 0.46m; depth from cover 0.60m. Man's skeleton stretched NE-SW with head at NE. Offering at foot of shaft, with the skyphos in the mouth of the pitcher ... 750-725 B.C ... 0.46m; depth from cover 0.60 ... the pitcher. No signs of

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[Agora Deposit] K 18:3: Cistern

Dumped filling mostly of 3rd c. A.D., but dumped as late as 5th century. Nbp. 143: The fill in this cistern was of three kinds: to within .60m. of the floor plain broken bedrock with no sherds; then a ... 10-17 February 1937 ... within .60m. of the floor plain broken bedrock with no

[Agora Deposit] B 13:6: Well

Fillings in a well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. The shaft reached a depth of 20.28m., but produced no use filling. The lower part, from water level at 12.60m. to bottom, provided only mud and gravel ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... produced no use filling. The ... at 12.60m. to bottom, ... 3.00m. to 12.60m. including

[Agora Deposit] O 18:2: Hedgehog Well

A small square well at 37/ΚΑ (about 0.60x0.70m), on the north slope of the Areopagus. Curbed with rough stones. Filling of a small shallow well which contained nothing from the POU and since no water was ... Ca. 350-320 B.C ... A small square well at 37/ΚΑ (about 0.60x0.70m), on ... no water was encountered,

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[Agora Deposit] C 9:8: Urn cremation

Grave 1 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXV: PG). No remains. Probable trench-and-hole. JP Roughly circular pit measuring 0.39m in diameter cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.72m. Pyre refuse-described ... Late PG/EG I ... PG). No remains. Probable ... although there is no specific ... width of ca. 0.60m, was cut

[Agora Deposit] Q 8:13: Cist Grave in Northwest Corner of Stoa Terrace

Eugene Vanderpool Homer A. Thompson ... Mycenaean burial (no offerings) in NW corner of Stoa Terrace (original north end). " It consisted merely of an adult skeleton lying in an extended position with head to east and the left leg slightly flexed ... Mycenaean or Protogeometric ... Mycenaean burial (no ... 1.60m long by 070m wide ... fact that no grave goods

[Agora Deposit] Q 23:1: Mycenaean Well

Mycenaean Well at Q/8-9;23/2-3. Small pieces, few joins. From the lowest levels a few somewhat larger pieces, from jars suited to drawing and transporting water, but no characteristic POU fill. Proportion ... LH IIIC ... water, but no characteristic ... 173, 175, 122, nn. 60, 265,

[Agora Deposit] N 20:7: Cistern at 67/ΙΗ

At 67/ΙΗ, at the northeast slope of the Areopagus. Cistern with drawshaft, 4.60m deep. The drawshaft had been cleared to bottom in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, and some of the fill in the main ... Most second half of 3rd c. B.C ... Cistern with drawshaft, 4.60 ... No long-petal bowls.

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[Agora Deposit] A 17:2: Well in Industrial Area of Areopagus

A well in the industrial area of the Areopagus, about 7.00m. west of the West Bath, to a depth of 14.60m. This well was the direct successor to A 17:1, replacing it when it collapsed. The use filling at ... Second quarter 6th. c ... Hesp. 18 (1949), p. 125, no. ... to a depth of 14.60m. This

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[Agora Deposit] T 15:1: Pit Grave, Adult Inhumation

John Camp ... Protogeometric Grave about 0.60m to the southeast of T 15:2. Unlined roughly rectangular-elliptical pit, oriented north-south, neatly cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.70m, with rounded corners. The pit ... Early-Developed Protogeometric ... Protogeometric Grave about 0.60m to the southeast ... There were no trace of stone

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[Agora Deposit] D 17:13: Pocket with burning

Pocket with burning at 60/ΚΗ. "Is this perhaps a disturbed pyre burial." [Nbp. 2928]. Identified as pyre by SIR. Near north end of corridor, beside its west wall. Concentration of artifacts, tiny scraps ... 4th c. B.C ... Pocket with burning at 60/ΚΗ. "Is this perhaps a ... stratum, no pit discerned. the

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[Agora Deposit] Q 10:2: Chamber Tomb at Southeast Corner of Pier 12

Mycenaean Grave at SE corner of Pier 12 (Burial 9). There are no traces of dromos, which must have been located at the north and have been cut away by the trench four the south stylobate of the Square ... Myc. III A:1 ... There are no traces of ... 1.60m east-west by a

[Agora Deposit] N 16:2: Rectangular Cutting

Rectangular cutting at 58-60/ΚΘ-Λ, probably a plundered wall trench ... 350-290 B.C ... Hesperia 25 (1956), p. 11, no. 48.

[Agora Deposit] E 6:3: Furnace Waste Pit "Cistern"

Within the precinct of the Hephaisteion, about 10m. north of the north stylobate of the temple. Flask-shaped pit (W. (bottom) 3.14 x 2.73m) probably originally intended as a cistern; used for dumping ... Ca. 375-310 B.C.-Byzantine ... pottery. At 1.60m. a layer of ... leading from 60/ΛΗ.

[Agora Deposit] D 17:1: Well

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 ... Hesperia 24 (1955), p. 283, no. 11.

[Agora Deposit] E 15:1: Well A

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 ... Lower fill 9.10-9.60m, 4th c. (dump?). No coins. The excavator

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[Agora Deposit] N 16:3: Disturbed Urn Cremation

Homer A. Thompson ... Cremation burial (trench-and-hole) under S. edge of E-W Street, northern burial. In some records as Grave XLVII. The western part of the offering trench of the tomb was lost to a Turkish cess pit, and ... Middle Geometric I ... square, ca. 0.60m to the side, ... radius of a goat. No grave

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[Agora Deposit] T 15:2: Pit Grave, Adult Inhumation

John Camp ... Protogeometric grave (female inhumation) located about 0.60m northwest of T 15:1. It consisted of a roughly rectangular pit, with the corners slightly rounded, oriented approximately north-south. The pit ... "Submycenaean"/Early Protogeometric ... about 0.60m northwest of T ... crushed bedrock. There was no

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[Agora Deposit] I 5:2 BIS: Disturbed Cist Tomb

Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 2 (bis). Cut into by builders of I 5:2. No remains. Possible contents in I 4-5:1 Layer C (= layer 6, lower building fill), catalogued as ΒΓ 2065 - ΒΓ 2125 ... Middle Helladic or later Bronze Age (date uncertain) ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 60, pp. 411-413, figs. 2.290, 2.293, 2.294.

[Agora Deposit] M 12:2: Mycenaean (?) Grave

Grave of 38 year-old female, head NW, legs drawn up. Apparently unlined cist in bedrock or hard-packed dug-bedrock, its outlines no longer distinguishable from surrounding fill. Above skeleton, a number ... Mycenaean? ... dug-bedrock, its outlines no longer ... small stones in no order ... No finds. Bones AA 35.

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[Agora Deposit] J 3:7: Pyre in Room 1 of Classical Building II

David Scahill ... Beneath toichobate floor level in Room 1 of Classical Building II, against the south ashlar wall, ca. 1.50m. east of the southwest corner of the building. Deposit of broken pyre pots in small pit, 1.00m ... Ca. 325 B.C ... 1.00m. by 0.60m., with ash,

[Agora Deposit] Q 12:1: Well by Stoa Pier 3.

Well by Stoa Pier 3. Mouth was discovered in 1950 (p. 2273). Between first and second POU; no joins between the groups, which were separated by nearly sterile fill. No apparent chronological difference ... Mid-2nd c. B.C ... and second POU; no joins ... No apparent chronological ... but no other vase-shapes,

[Agora Deposit] C 18:3: Roman Bath - "Compartment"

Deposit in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, underlying a Roman bath. Pottery examined in June 1955; latest pieces noted: one fragment Pergamene and one fragment brittle ware; no certainly post-Sullan ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... ΝΝ:60-75/ΛΑ-ΝΣΤ

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[Agora Deposit] H 12:6: Rubbish Dump

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 ... 3.20 by 1.60, distinguished ... Tholos, but with no signs of

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[Agora Deposit] N 21-22:1: Tomb of the Ivory Pyxides

Mycenaean Chamber Tomb occupies a considerable part of the western half of section ΕΕ; lies about half way up the north slope of the Areopagus towards its eastern end, just below the highest point of the ... Myc. III A:1 ... doorway, there is no masonry ... plaster and iron rods. No ... average height 0.60m). There is

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[Agora Deposit] J 1:11: Mycenaean Chamber Tomb

Brian Martens ... Mycenaean Chamber Tomb J 1:11, located in the area north of Wall K, was partially excavated during the 2014 season. At this point the full western extent of the chamber has not been located because of ... LHIIIA ... measured about 1m by 0.50-0.60 ... No additional finds associated with the deposit were excavated in 2015.

[Agora Deposit] U 26:4: Latest Mycenaean Well C in OA

Well 19: Latest Mycenaean. Near Klepsydra. Diameter mouth 1.25-1.35m., narrowing about a third of the way down and becoming rectangular, 0.90-1.0 to a side. Muddy at m; water collecting rapidly at 8.m ... Late Mycenaean ... filling; no pottery joins

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[Agora Deposit] D 16:11: Casting pit

Laura Gawlinski ... Bronze foundry north of bridge on Piraeus street, east of Great Drain. Keyhole-shaped bronze casting pit, cut into bedrock. 2016: Continuation of the excavation of a rectangular pit with foundry debris, ... Late 6th-early 5th c. B.C. (Late Archaic/ Early Classical) ... 60.579-59.117m.