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| 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 below Stoa Terrace Fountain.
Heavy dumped filling, including a great variety of figured and plain wares.
Never completed in antiquity because of hard bedrock. Estimated Grid ... 575-550 B.C. |
| Black glaze cup wth lid (left), lekanis with lid (centre) and bowl with lid (right) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black glaze cup wth lid (left), lekanis with lid (centre) and bowl with lid (right) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Thamneus' Cellar, a storage cellar on the north slope of the Areopagus. Lower filling of mid-6th c. B.C., upper filling of last quarter of 6th c. B.C ... 6th c. B.C. |
Filling in a sizeable pit. The objects, along with the dimensions of the cutting from which they came, might suggest offerings in a disturbed grave but there was no evidence of skeletal remains ... Ca. 430-415 B.C. |
A well on the lower south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Last quarter of the 5th. c. B.C. But upper fill dated to 3rd. to mid-2nd. century B.C. and lower fill dated to ca. 425-400 B.C. in Agora XXX. Coins: ... 425-400 B.C. |
| Coins:
22 May 1937 #1 ... 425-400 B.C. |
| A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several ... Ca. 575-480 B.C. |
Estimated Grid ... Ca. 510-480 B.C. |
Dumped filling in a well on the west slope of the Areopagus (apparently separate, no mends between them, but differing little in date) the bottom filling apparently thrown in towards the beginning of the ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. and earlier |
Heavy deposit of good black and plain wares ... 450-425 B.C |
| Black glazed potttery ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black glaze pots ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black glaze lekanis ... Jeff Vanderpool ... Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jul 2020 |
| Black glaze lekanis ... Jeff Vanderpool ... Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jul 2020 |
| Black glaze lekanis ... Jeff Vanderpool ... Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jul 2020 |
| Black glaze lekanis ... Jeff Vanderpool ... Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jul 2020 |
| Black glaze lekanis ... Jeff Vanderpool ... Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jul 2020 |
| Black glaze lekanis ... Jeff Vanderpool ... Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jul 2020 |
| Profiles for Agora XII ... Nina Travlou Fred N. Ley Kathleen Lynch ... Linked image is a redrawn digital version (F. N. Ley and K. Lynch) of the original (N. Travlou) 83-277 83-277 ... 2008
1962 |
| Profiles for Agora XII ... Nina Travlou Fred N. Ley Kathleen Lynch ... Linked image is a redrawn digital version (F. N. Ley and K. Lynch) of the original (N. Travlou) 83-277 83-277 ... 2008
1962 |
| Profiles for Agora XII ... Nina Travlou Fred N. Ley Kathleen Lynch ... Linked image is a redrawn digital version (F. N. Ley and K. Lynch) of the original (N. Travlou) 83-277 83-277 ... 2008
1962 |
| Profiles for Agora XII ... Nina Travlou Fred N. Ley Kathleen Lynch ... Linked image is a redrawn digital version (F. N. Ley and K. Lynch) of the original (N. Travlou) 83-277 83-277 ... 2008
1962 |
| Profiles for Agora XII ... Nina Travlou Fred N. Ley Kathleen Lynch ... Linked image is a redrawn digital version (F. N. Ley and K. Lynch) of the original (N. Travlou) V-170 V-170 ... 2008
1962 |
| Black glaze profiles for Brian A. Sparkes ... Nina Travlou Fred N. Ley Kathleen Lynch ... Linked image is a redrawn digital version (F. N. Ley and K. Lynch) of the original (N. Travlou) 82-587 82-587 ... 2008
1961 |
| Black glaze profiles for Brian A. Sparkes ... Nina Travlou Fred N. Ley Kathleen Lynch ... Linked image is a redrawn digital version (F. N. Ley and K. Lynch) of the original (N. Travlou) 82-587 82-587 ... 2008
1961 |
| Black glaze profiles for Brian A. Sparkes ... Nina Travlou Fred N. Ley Kathleen Lynch ... Linked image is a redrawn digital version (F. N. Ley and K. Lynch) of the original (N. Travlou) 82-591 82-591 ... 2008
1961 |
| Black glaze profiles for Brian A. Sparkes ... Nina Travlou Fred N. Ley Kathleen Lynch ... Linked image is a redrawn digital version (F. N. Ley and K. Lynch) of the original (N. Travlou) 82-591 82-591 ... 2008
1961 |
| Black glaze profiles for Brian A. Sparkes ... Nina Travlou Fred N. Ley Kathleen Lynch ... Linked image is a redrawn digital version (F. N. Ley and K. Lynch) of the original (N. Travlou) 82-591 82-591 ... 2008
1961 |
| Hellenistic pottery: profiles, wash drawings, etc ... Marian Welker ... Made for G.R. Edwards' publication.
Linked image is a redrawn digital version (F. N. Ley and K. Lynch) of the original (M. Walker) V-52 V-52 ... 2008
1956 |
Hellenistic pottery: profiles, wash drawings, etc ... Marian Welker ... Made for G.R. Edwards' publication. Cf. PD 1190-22b. V-52 V-52 ... 1956 |
Hellenistic pottery: profiles, wash drawings, etc ... Marian Welker ... Made for G.R. Edwards' publication. Redrawn in digital format (ca. 2007-2008) by Anne Hooton and Kathleen Lynch for forthcoming addition/supplement to Agora XII. V-52 V-52 ... 1956 |
| Chronological markers for lopadia and lekanides ... Susan I. Rotroff ... 2013 |
| Pyre 1 in Central House, Room XI, strosis 3. Sacrificial pyre with characteristic small vases amid carbonized twigs and bone.
Near north side of courtyard. This pit was cut slightly into strosis 3 (lot ... 1st quarter 4th c. B.C. |
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. |
Well at 69/ΟΒ (Late 5th c.)
Lower fill dated to 420-400 B.C. in Agora XXX.
There were no use filling and the well was apparently not a success as a water-supply: there was no concentration of water-jars ... 420-400 B.C. |
"Fauvel Collection"
Collector's dump? Debris in the cellar of a modern house, probably once that of F.S. Fauvel.
The collection included vases of all periods, from Geometric to Turkish; a number of the ... Modern Context |
Use filling of first half of 1st c.; dumped filling of late 1st c.(?). This well, near its mouth, cuts off the end of the upper passage of the cistern at 53/Ε. Subdivisions:
.1=Dumped filling
.2=POU ... First half of 1st c. A.D. POU |
Containers 1-14. Very fragmentary pottery. Some material earlier than late 1st c. A.D. Coins:
10 May 1939 #4-#5
11 May 1939 #4-#9
12 May 1939 #5
15 May 1939 #7-#9
17 May 1939 #1-#2
23 May 1939 #1 ... Late 1st c. A.D. |
Refuse pit at 51/Ζ; it had been partly cut away at the north by the late Roman retaining wall; the dumped filling a homogeneous deposit of figured, black and plain wares. Red figure oinochoe in the style ... Ca. 450-420 B.C. |
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. |
Filling around rubble wall (35/ΚΕ). It contained a mass of pottery, most of it uninventoried ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
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. |
| Disturbed pyre containing only a pyxis and a chytridion.
No notebook account of excavation exists. The pyre may have been located at the edge of an ancient road. There is no record of bone or burning ... 350-325 B.C. (?) |
Thra (ΘΡΑ) Well (East of Stoa Room 2). Heavy dumped filling, including figured, black and plain wares, and also a quantity of animal bones, mostly skulls of oxen. On many of these the horns had been sawn ... Ca. 520-480 B.C. |
Well 6: archaic. Diameter 1.20m
Well on the northwest slope of the Acropolis, below the Klepsydra.
There are three fills, all thrown into the unfinished well at the same time (end of 6th- beginning of ... Last quarter of 6th c. B.C. |
| Pyres. Deposits A 18:3 and A 18:9.
P 14866 at left. P 16663 at top right, below are P 14865 and P 16664, and P 14846 ... Angelique Sideris ... More images, and raw and bw files in: Unworked / Projects / 2013.09. Pyres (for S. Rotroff) Horizontal (normal) ... 20 Oct 2011 |
| Pyre. Deposit B 17:5.
Upper row from left to right: P 20141, P 2013, P 20142. Middle row from left to right: P 20147, P 20144, P 20146 and P 20145. At bottom: P 20148, and stack of saucers: P 20151, P ... Angelique Sideris ... More images, and raw and bw files in: Unworked / Projects / 2013.09. Pyres (for S. Rotroff) Horizontal (normal) ... 5 Sep 2011 |
| Pyre. Deposit B 18:5.
Upper row from left to right: P 19318, P 19314, P 19315. Bottom row: P 19313, P 19317 ... Angelique Sideris ... More images, and raw and bw files in: Unworked / Projects / 2013.09. Pyres (for S. Rotroff) Horizontal (normal) ... 31 Oct 2011 |
| Pyre. Deposit B 19:3.
Upper row from left to right: P 17706, P 17707, P 17708, P 17709, ST 385. Middle row from left to right: P 17705, P 17718 with lid P 17719, P 17710, P 17711, P 17721. Bottom row from ... Angelique Sideris ... More images, and raw and bw files in: Unworked / Projects / 2013.09. Pyres (for S. Rotroff) Horizontal (normal) ... 24 Oct 2011 |
| Pyre. Deposit C 17:2.
Top row from left to right: P 18456, P 18455, P 18457, P 18472, P 18471. Center part from left to right: P 18475, P 18476, P 18468, P 18464, stack of small saucers: P 18461, P 18463, ... Angelique Sideris ... More images, and raw and bw files in: Unworked / Projects / 2013.09. Pyres (for S. Rotroff) Horizontal (normal) ... 3 Nov 2011 |
| Deposit 19:4. Upper row from left to right: P 14804, P 15885, P 14803. Bottom row from left to right: P 15884, P 15883, P 15882 ... Angelique Sideris ... More images, and raw and bw files in: Unworked / Projects / 2013.09. Pyres (for S. Rotroff) Horizontal (normal) ... 31 Oct 2011 |
| Objects from disturbed pyre. Deposit Q 17:5. P 24778 (left) and P 24777 (right) ... Craig Mauzy ... More images, and raw and bw files in: Unworked / Projects / 2013.09. Pyres (for S. Rotroff) Horizontal (normal) ... 10 Jul 2012 |
Well at 115/ΣΤ (all the 5th c. fills of 116/ΣΤ). The lower part of the shaft contained a heavy deposit of pottery and other objects of the late archaic period, both coarse and finer wares; probably a post-Persian ... Ca. 500-480 B.C.-Roman |
A small flask-shaped cistern on the lower southeast slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Lined with hydraulic cement and containing a large quantity of glazed table ware and a fair amount of coarse ware; a homogeneous ... 350-325 B.C. |
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 |
Found in 13/06/1935.
Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup, perhaps in one of the public buildings near the SW corner of the square ... Ca. 520-490 B.C. |
A well (diameter 1.10m) at the east edge of the valley road leading from the SW corner of the Agora, about 90m SW of the Tholos. The mouth of the well was subsequently covered by the east wall of the Great ... Ca. 500-480 B.C. |
| Crevice in Rock (Grave?) at 70/ΝΣΤ (below modern surface accumulation).
Identified as a sacrificial pyre, with characteristic banded plates and saucers, by SIR ... 4th c. B.C./300-250 B.C. |
| Grave V, under room 18 in House 3, plus burned deposit at 94/IΘ. Identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR on Agoraios Kolonos:
In southeast corner of house 3. 35 artifacts, bone and charred material in pit, ... Ca. 300-275 B.C. |
| 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. |
| Pit, partly cleared; dumped filling of first half of 3rd. c. B.C., but with considerable material of the 4th. c. Hellenistic.
Its rotten schist walls collapsed some time near then and it was filled up ... 4th-3rd c. B.C. |
| Pit (6x10) in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Large cutting in bedrock with 540 ostraka, mainly of the late eighties of the 5th. c. B. C. Much pottery, principally of the early ... Ca. 500-450 B.C. |
| Sacrificial pyre, disturbed; a small pyxis (P 14864) is close to that from B 18:4. First half of 4th. c. B.C., perhaps first quarter.
West of House C. Pottery and cinders in pit in stratum. The pyre was ... First half 4th. c. B.C. |
| Pyre(?) in House N, S.W. Room. (=House C, Room 10)
In room 10. Vessels from an earlier pyre were found dispersed in the makeup of the latest "floor" in the room, with tile fragments trodden into its surface ... First quarter of the 4th c. B.C. |
West Terrace, South End, Layers IV and V. Heavy dumped filling associated with terrace walls at the extreme south end of the excavations in the Areopagus industrial area. The proportion of figured and ... Ca. 420-390 B.C. |
Well near west edge of level area south of the Hephaisteion. Dumped filling thrown in near end of 4th. c. but by far the greater part belonging to the 30 years before 350 B.C.
Diameter of shaft 0.98m ... Ca. 380-350 B.C. |
| Pyre in Room 2, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 12).
In courtyard. Artifacts, bone, ash, carbon, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The rectangular pit was cut into a white strosis with marble chips (ΠΠ ... 315-300 B.C. |
| Pyre in House T (= House D), Room 2 (5th c.) and fill east of pyre.
Earlier than the other pyres of this house.
Pottery, slivers of burnt bone, and heavy deposit of carbonized material and cinders in ... Ca. 420-410 B.C. |
| Pyre in House C, Room 8 (RSY=Pyre 6).
Near east corner of room 8. Artifacts, burnt bone, burnt sticks, and large cinders in a shallow pit dug into surface of layer 3, and covered by layer 2. Some cinders ... 350-325 B.C.-end of 4th c. B.C. |
| Grave XXVI in notebook = RSY Grave 12 ... Ca. 525-500 B.C. or sightly later |
Sacrificial Pit VI in notebook = RSY Grave 18 See also B 21:23 ... Ca. 525-500 B.C. |
Square pit in bedrock southwest of the Hephaisteion. Many marble chips from the construction of the temple of Hephaestus were found here together with a large quantity of pottery and other objects ... Ca. 450 B.C.
Ca. 390-380 B.C. |
| Artifacts, burnt bone, ash, cinders and charcoal in pit in bedrock. The pyre lay directly under mosaic floor A. the deposit is not badly disturbed, however, and it is possible that it was laid immediately ... Early second quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
| North of House G (RSY=Pyre 13).
Concentration of artifacts, small pieces of bone, and burnt material in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre is cut by the trench of a wall of a Roman house to north. It ... 290-250 B.C. |
Fillings below the courtyard floor of the Poros Enclosure west of the Areopagus. The lowest layer, over bedrock, is of the archaic period and may have accumulated on the spot before the start of building ... First half of 5th c. B.C. |
First half of 5th c. B.C. |
Well (stone-curbed shaft) near middle of Tholos which served the prior building.
Period of Use dated to ca. 500-480(?) B.C., Upper fill dated to ca. 480-470 B.C. or soon after in Agora XXX (a gradual ... Ca. 500-480 B.C. |
High proportion of material in unusually complete codition ... 475-450 B.C. and later |
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. |
Filling behind retaining wall of Stoa of Zeus. The remains of unfired clay adhering to the interior of various pieces make it probable that the material in this filling is a mass of debris from the floor ... Ca. 435-425 B.C. |
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. |
| 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. |
| At the northwest foot of Areopagus. Square stone-curbed well with no clear evidence for a period of use; appears to be a single dump ... Ca. 500 B.C. |
| Bowl with lid (left), lekanis (centre) and black glaze lekanis (right) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Olpe, oinochoe and two plates ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black glaze bowl with lid (left), banded krater (centre) and lekanis with lid (right) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Vases and other objects from grave in house N at 35/ΛΛ, section ΠΠ ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Vases and other objects from grave in house N at 85/ΛA, section ΝΝ ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Vases from fifth century B.C. pyre ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black glazed and red pattrned vases from fifth century pyre (Section NN) (B 18:5) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black glazed moulded lid and red patterned lid from fifth century pyre (Section NN) (B 18:5) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Vases, etc. from pyre 6 (B 19:3) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Vases, etc. from pyre 12 (B 17:5) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Vases, etc. from Pyre 13 (C 17:2) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black glazed potttery ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
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