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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. |
No period of use. Below the upper (Early Roman) dump extending down to ca. 6.10m. was a dumped fill of broken pottery in great quantity, including a high proportion of red-figured fragments. Masses of ... Ca. 430-400 B.C.
Late 1st c. B.C.-mid 1st 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. |
Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
Top fill to 1.00m. = dump of late Hellenistic ware mixed with some Roman of 2nd c. to early 3rd. c. Intermediate fill 1.20-2.00m. = dump with tiles and stucco, almost no sherds. Coins:
6 February 1937 ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D. |
Well to N of Nymphaeum at 115/ΙΣΤ. A good water supply but no evidence for a period of use.
Exceptionally heavy dumped filling, including much fine tableware, many wine- jar fragments and other objects ... Ca. 420-400 B.C. |
| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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Investigations in the area around the Tholos, especially to the east and south of the building, between it and the Great Drain, and not otherwise specified as deposits.
This "deposit" has no form. It ... various levels and dates |
| Fragment of Laconian stamped cover tile (left, A 1412); fragments of Laconian stamped pan tiles (right, top to bottom, A 2677, A 1538 and A 1413) ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Jun 2000 |
Well at 45/Θ (Skytha Well) near the north side of the market square. No period of use was distinguished, since it was impossible to clear the well to the bottom. The considerable quantity of dumped filling ... Ca. 460-440 B.C. |
Northern Manhole to Water Channel [R 9-10], East of Shop 14 ... 2nd c. B.C. |
Well at 21/Ε (beneath Library of Pantainos).
The clearing of the well was abandoned because of a cave-in of the rock walls. Heavy dumped filling, the proportion of fine black table ware high ... Ca. 440-425 B.C. |
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 |
| Terracotta pan tile (A 938) to fit tile standard, and matching cover tile (A 1322) ... Misc Horizontal (normal) |
| Top: section of terracotta roof tiles (A 1911, A 1913 and A 1914). Center: terracotta well-head (A 1916), section and elevation. Bottom: shallow dish on stand (P 21957), section and elevation. From Well ... M.R.H ... PD 661 PD 662 PD 677 Misc Horizontal (normal) ... 1952 |
| 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. |
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. |
Investigations to the south of the Metroon, in the passageway between the Metroon and the Tholos; accumulated layers, from the Geometric and earlier periods to the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.
Cf. Hesperia ... Geometric to second c. B.C. |
A well about 2.00m. SE of the Tholos precinct wall. The presence of the water-clock strengthens the probability, suggested by its location, that the well served one of the public buildings in the neared ... Ca. 410-390 B.C. |
| Terracotta sima with plastic and painted decoration. Cf. Hesperia 17 (1948), pl. XXXVIII, 2 ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1965 |
| Architectural terracottas from the Middle Stoa. From left to right, simas (A 825 and A 554), a lion's head spout (A 913) and on the top of the simas, a palmette antefix (A 211) ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1948 |
| Stamps on terracotta roof tiles found either in or immediately overlying the destruction debris: 1) Dionysios series (A 1309), 2) Diodoros series (A 552), 3) Aigipyros series (A 415), 4) Medeios series ... John Travlos ... PD 99 Cf. Travlos (1971), p. 372, fig. 479. Top right image. Horizontal (normal) ... 1948 |
| Fragments of terracotta roof tiles ... Horizontal (normal) ... August 1952 |
| Tile Standard with pan tile (A 2672) and Attic type cover tile (A 1323). Photographed for Mabel Lang ... Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1959 |
| Terracotta roof tiles probably from the Tholos kitchen (second period). Third quarter of the 4th c. B.C ... Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1935 |
| Eaves tiles (A 772 and A 861) and decorative antefix (A 880) assembled ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1938 |
| Profile drawings of terracotta rooftiles, well-head and basin on stand ... PD 661 PD 662 PD 667 AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Architectural terracottas from the Middle Stoa. From left to right, simas (A 825 and A 554), a lion's head spout (A 913) and on the top of the simas, a palmette antefix (A 211) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... 1948 |
| Stamps on terracotta roof tiles found either in or immediately overlying the destruction debris: 1) Dionysios series (A 1309), 2) Diodoros series (A 552), 3) Aigipyros series (A 415), 4) Medeios series ... John Travlos ... PD 99 Cf. Travlos (1971), p. 372, fig. 479. Top right image. Horizontal (normal) ... 1948 |
| Tile Standard with pan tile (A 2672) and Attic type cover tile (A 1323). Photographed for Mabel Lang ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1959 |
| Terracotta sima with plastic and painted decoration. Cf. Hesperia 17 (1948), pl. XXXVIII, 2 ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... 1965 |
| Eaves tiles (A 772 and A 861) and decorative antefix (A 880) assembled ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... 1938 |
| Terracotta roof tiles probably from the Tholos kitchen (second period). Third quarter of the 4th c. B.C ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1935 |
| Scheme of tiles of Hellenistic Metroon ... John Travlos ... Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink ... 1936 |
| Middle Stoa: sima A 825 ... William B. Dinsmoor, Jr ... Torn Dirty Repaired Heavy Tracing Paper Drafting Ink ... 1966 |
| Stamps on terracotta roof tiles found either in or immediately overlying the destruction debris: 1) Dionysios series (A 1309), 2) Diodoros series (A 552), 3) Aigipyros series (A 415), 4) Medeios series ... John Travlos ... PD 99 Horizontal (normal) ... 1948 |
| Fragments of stamped Laconian pan tiles (left, A 1472; right, A 1483) ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Jun 2000 |
| Fragments of Laconian stamped cover tiles (top left, A 434; right, A 833). Fragment from a Laconian stamped pan tile (bottom left, A 978) ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Jun 2000 |
| Terracotta sima with plastic and painted decoration. Cf. Hesperia 17 (1948), pl. XXXVIII, 2 ... 1965 |
| Broken at back and at right side.
On the base of the sima an elaborate curving floral pattern in high relief, below, on the flat fascia, a maeander in red glaze. On soffit, a bead and reel in red. Red ... 10 March 1938 |
Tholos tiles ... Late 5th B.C. |
| Eaves tile and antefix from the Tholos ... Piet de Jong ... IX-62 IX-62 |
| Tholos antefix and roof tile ... Piet de Jong ... Exhibited at the Benaki Museum, 15 November 2006 to 7 January 2007.
See 2008.03.0060 for detail. VII-12 2008.03.0060 VII-12 2008.03.0060 |
| Detail of Guilloche decoration from Tholos roof tile ... Piet de Jong ... Cf. Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1935), p. 69, fig. 54 and frontispiece. Fragile Watercolor Paper Watercolor |
Located in the NE corner of the early peribolos. Probably originally 1.00-1.50m. deeper, the bedrock above having been cut back in late times. Scanty pottery remains; some evidence for a period of use ... Ca. 600-570 B.C. |
Fillings associated with early houses on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus; various levels and dates.
Both houses were built in the 6th century B.C. and destroyed by the Persians; both also have ... 6rd c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D. |
Well at 73/Μ on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter of 0.90m. It seems to have been abandoned because of the very soft stereo that kept falling in from all sides. Many pieces of terracotta ... Ca. 430-420 B.C. |
Byzantine Well at 66/ΛΑ.
Semi-curbed well at the west wall of the Byzantine room.
From the mouth of the well, a few brown glazed sherds ... Byzantine |
Great Hole at 33/Ζ = Area of early wells Some of the objects may have come from N 18:7 or from a neighboring 7th c, well, not separately cleared, but no definite association is possible ... 7th-5th c. B.C. |
Well dug through cistern at 64/Γ. Seems to have been stratified; four fills recorded but here treated as one as divisions are rather "arbitrary".
Agora V, p. 126: Constructed in late 1st c.; use filling ... 3rd c. A.D. POU (before 267 A.D.) |
Dumped fillings thrown in during second quarter of 1st c. B.C. containing mostly debris resulting from Sulla's sack in 86 B.C.
Agora XXIX, p. 464: Four fills distinguished during excavations ... but seemingly ... Late 2nd c. and early 1st c. B.C. POU; 110-75 B.C. |
Well at 55/ΚΕ
Period of Use dated to the last quarter of 5th c. B.C., Upper fill dated to the same (deposited later) in Agora XXX. Coins
1 April 1938 #10 ... Last quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
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. |
Square Peristyle (Square Building) Constructions fill + other (square peristyle area); fragmentary and with some earlier material but in the main, where undisturbed, a homogenous deposit. Coins:
26 May ... Βefore 300 B.C. |
| Well in West Colonnade of Roman House H. Covered by a large handsome marble well-head, apparently reused. Cut through bedrock. Diameter ca. 1.20m, water at -3.60m.
Two distinct POU fills. One at ca. -4.50m ... June-August 1970 |
Cistern at 53/ΝΕ, bottle-shaped, stucco-lined, in the east aisle of the peristyle of Roman House H (courtyard of Greek House G, just west of andron).
Lower diameter 2.73m.
Homogenous fill all apparently ... Into early 2nd century B.C. |
Stoa Construction Fills (n.b. for all Stoa and pre-Stoa fills later than construction filling of Square Peristyle see P-R 6-12)
Over 100 stamped amphora handles in fill. No long-petal bowls, but one fragment ... Before ca. 150 B.C. |
Filling over Floor of Square Peristyle (beneath Stoa).
122 stamped amphora handles. Many parallels with handles from cistern M 21:1. Latest coin dates ca. 200. latest lamp types 33 A and 34 A. Fragment ... 200 B.C. |
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. |
| Well below Stoa Gutter opposite Pier 1.
Heavy dumped filling remarkable among Agora well-deposits both for the high quality and the good conditions of pottery of all sorts.
It represents the stock of a ... Ca. 520-490 B.C. |
Well in Stoa Shop 6 (5th century).
No evidence for period of use. Considerable dumped filling of fragmentary black and plain vases; no figured fragments are preserved, but the small amount of impressed ... 450-425 B.C. |
Well cut through cistern at 51/ΙΑ (merged with R 17:1); well and cistern filled at one time ... 5th c. A.D. |
Well at 34/ΚΔ.
a) Depth 13.60m. Little pottery (14 tins) and some of that made useless by loss of tickets during war.
b) Top to 13.00m (upper and transitional fills) 4th century. LRP ware and a 4th century ... Late 2nd to middle of 3rd cent; 4th century |
A well outside the market square to the southeast, 20m west of the Panathenaic Way; Modern fill in upper 1.65m. with Early Roman dumped fillings below. Coins:
9 May 1939 #37 (dirt pile)
10 May 1939 #53 ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
Well 8: Archaic. On the northwest slope of the Acropolis.
Depth from surface of rock, -16.10m.
Diameter top ca. 0.90; bottom ca 0.80m. Water level, ca. -9m ... Late 6th - early 5th c. B.C. |
Well D: Archaic
Well on the northwest slope of the Acropolis. Debris filling with scanty pottery remains; most of the pottery is earlier than the lower limit. Diameter at top ca. 1.20m; bottom ca. 1.10m ... End of 6th c. B.C. |
| Well in Room 6 of Street Stoa U/2,U/3-13/15.
Associated with the building lying under the Roman Street Stoa. Its fills divided into 5 separate layers, with the bulk of finds belonging to Layer 1, the ... 14 June-21 August 1973 |
Well I: archaic. On the northwest slope of the Acropolis below the Klepsydra. Diameter ca. 1.10m. Water level ca. -9.50m. Substantial use filling in the lower 0.75m. In the upper debris filling both the ... End of 6th c. B.C. - Early Byzantine |
Well 3: archaic.
Diameter, top ca. 1; bottom ca. 0.90m. Water level just above ca. -10m Use filling including figured, black and plain wares.
Scanty dumped filling. Upper fill-Dark Age.
Middle fill/Bottom-early ... Last quarter of the 6th c. B.C. |
| Eaves Tile Fragment: Painted ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Corinthian pan and cover tiles, of terracotta ... John Camp ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Corinthian pan and cover tiles, of terracotta ... John Camp ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Tholos roof tile ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Tholos roof tile ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Tholos roof tile ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Tholos roof tile ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Tholos roof tile ... AMS
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| Tholos roof tile ... AMS
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| Tholos roof tile ... AMS
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| Tholos roof tile ... AMS
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| Tholos eaves tiles ... AMS
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