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| Section of painted terracotta sima ... Piet de Jong ... See DA 3220 for water color of the sima. |
| Inscribed terracotta roof tile ... Piet de Jong ... Cf. Hesperia 8 (1939) p. 214, fig. 12. VII-10 VII-10 Fragile Watercolor Paper Watercolor ... 1938 |
Well West of N-S Street. Coin
2 August 1982 #704 ... Ca. 115-75 |
South Stoa II Construction Fill.
About 85 stamped amphora handles, many with parallels in building fills of Middle Stoa and Stoa of Attalos. Fragments of long-petal bowls confirm date after mid-2nd c ... To ca. 140 B.C. |
With cistern at 17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ (P 10:2), two chambers connected by a passage.
18/Π went out of use first and was closed off from 17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ; filled up at one time with material dating between 350 and 300 B.C ... 325-285 B.C. |
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. |
Well at the southeast corner, almost on the line of the east-west street. Upper Fill: Late Roman dumped fill.
Lower Fill: Dark Age: ca. 7th c. A.D.
Coin
30 March 1939 #34 ... 7th-Late 6th century |
| Lion's Head Spout ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Sima Fragment: Painted ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Sima Fragment: Painted ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lion's Head Spout ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Drawing of fragmentary painted sima, section and elevation. By Piet de Jong ... PD 243 PD 246 PD 228 PD 247 Misc Horizontal (normal) |
| Sima fragment with painted inscription ... Ptg. 214 Misc
Cf. Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 214, fig. 12. Horizontal (normal) |
Cistern system, 88/ΝΓ (shaft and passages). Apparently a dumped filling of Roman times, drawn mostly from some Hellenistic deposit. Coins:
31 March 1937 #1-#5
1 April 1937 #4-#5
3 April 1937 #1-#2
5 April ... Hellenistic and Roman, 4th c. A.D. |
Shaft fill, not mouth fill, of drawshaft at 42/Θ. This is part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ.
Thirteen stamped amphora handles; fragments of Arretine pottery; over half of bowls long-petal ... 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.
Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C.
Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D. |
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. |
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. |
Including the passage between the south and north chambers ... Ca. 325-270 B.C. |
| Terracotta lion's head spouts found in various places ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1965 |
| Sima Fragment: Painted ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Sima fragment with painted inscription ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Sima fragment with painted inscription ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Painting on Hephaistos tile ... Ptg. 214 AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Drawing of architectural terracotta ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Watercolor of painted Terracotta sima ... Piet de Jong ... Exhibited at the Benaki Museum, 15 November 2006 to 7 January 2007. Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink |
| T.C. painted sima fragment and section ... Piet de Jong ... IX-52 IX-52 Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink |
| Royal Stoa, terracotta sima ... 1970 |
| Lion's head water spouts found in Hellenistic fill. At left, A 2300; at right, A 2306 ... 1953 |
| Lion's head water spouts. At right, A 913; at left, A 298 ... 1966 |
| Watercolor by Piet de Jong of a painted terracotta sima ... Craig Mauzy ... PD 242 Horizontal (normal) ... 2006 |
| Watercolor by Piet de Jong of decorative details from terracotta sima roof tile from temple of Hephaistos ... Amber Laughy ... Ptg. 214 Horizontal (normal) ... 27 Nov 2007 |
| Sides and back broken; height preserved.
Painted bead and reel along edge of bottom surface.
Coarse, buff clay, carefully painted in red and black on a fine greenish cream slip.
A 418 (Α 909, from Cave) ... 4 August 1931 |
| Left side and top preserved. On sima, traces of a painted design in red and white: anthemion and leaf (?). Horos Terrace Trench, Middle: Herulian destruction level. Leica, 80-83-12 ... 20 March 1953 |
| Broken at back and bottom. Jaw missing. Few chips missing from hair, nose and right ear. Cracked. Traces of purple paint on hair, dark and light red on face; black for pupil of left eye; see A 2306 (Τ ... 25 April 1953 |
| Jaw, nose and left ear missing; broken behind. Chips of hair missing. Top of sima preserved behind. Three rows of flame locks blown forward. Light red clay with bits in it; light smooth finish on face ... 6 May 1953 |
Broken all around. Left eye and part of forehead of lion's head spout. Orange brown clay. White on eyeball, red near center. Red paint of eyebrow, on which the hair is modeled.
Somewhat similar to A 2306 ... 14 May 1953 |
| Left end bit with fasciae at top and bottom, ovolo between.
Top: maeander with cross; ovolo: lotus and palmette; bottom: running spiral.
Painted decoration in dark and dilute brown.
Red clay; yellowish ... 20 April 1937 |
| Left side preserved.
Flat fillet across the top decorated with key-pattern; the squares between the keys painted purple. Below, decorating the curved molding and the flat band, large lotus and palmette ... 25 February 1938 |
| From a raking cornice; the full width preserved at the front, and the full height of the sima; much of the tile remains behind, with part of the right edge, but not the full depth.
Broad red band on soffit ... 20 May 1938 |
A little of the original left end remains, with the joint surface. Broken at right end and behind.
Ovolo type with plain fascia above and below. On soffit a band of bead and reel, in red; on lower fascia ... 31 May 1934 |
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