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[Agora Deposit] F 19:4: Well

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.

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[Agora Deposit] Q 12:3: Stoa Gutter Well

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.

[Agora Deposit] G 18:1: Well

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

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[Agora Deposit] G 6:3: Rectangular Rock-Cut Shaft

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.

[Agora Deposit] Q 15:2: Well to the North of Nymphaeum

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.

[Agora Deposit] N 7:3: Skytha Well

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.

[Agora Deposit] M 20:3: Well

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.

[Agora Deposit] G 11:3: Well

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.

[Agora Deposit] G 18:1.2: Middle fill

Heavy deposit of good black and plain wares ... 450-425 B.C

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[Agora Deposit] Q 13:5: Well Below Stoa Terrace Fountain

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.

[Agora Deposit] R 13:4: Well

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.

[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.

[Agora Deposit] E 14:5: Unfinished Well, Well G

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.

[Agora Deposit] O 19:4: Well at 55/ΚΕ

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.

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[Agora Deposit] A 18-19:1: Ostrakon Area

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.

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[Agora Deposit] H 12:15: Well

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.

[Agora Deposit] C 12:2: Well

A well on Kolonos Agoraios. The upper dumped filling, a heavy deposit of pottery, was separated from the lower filling of similar character by several meters of plain mud. No use filling. Coins: 8 April ... Ca. 375-325 B.C. with disturbance of 250-225 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] J 18:4: Pit B

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.

[Agora Deposit] G 15:1: Well, "western extension"

Wells at 24/ΙΓ at 26/ΙΑ near the SW corner of the market square, about 10m west of the Southwest Fountain House (the party wall between them broken through in antiquity). ... Ca. 500 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] U 25:2: Well 6 in ΟΑ

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.

[Agora Deposit] B 13:5: Well

Dumped filling in the upper part of a well, to a depth of 6.65m. (the excavation could not be completed and the use filling was not reached). Homogeneous fill dumped from nearby. Coins: 1 June 1936 #1 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] R 12:1: ΘΡΑ Well East of Stoa Room 2

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.

[Agora Deposit] A-B 21-22:1: Terrace fillings

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.

[Agora Deposit] B 15:1: Well on Lower South Slope of Kolonos Agoraios

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.

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[Agora Deposit] B 15:1.2: Lower fill

Coins: 22 May 1937 #1 ... 425-400 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] B 19:7: Pit in House N Room 2

Pit in House N, Room 2 (RSY, House C). Filling thrown in behind the west wall of the Great Drain South at the time of the building of the drain and the extension of House C. Cf. Hesperia 20 (1951), pp ... Ca. 430-410 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] D 15:1: Well

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

[Agora Deposit] D 15:3: Cistern

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.

[Agora Deposit] E 3:1: Cistern at 44/Η

Cistern with considerable dumped fill at the north foot of Kolonos Agoraios. It may have been abandoned ca. 295-295 B.C.; it will have been filled by 280 B.C. Multiple vessels share same stamps, and painted ... Ca. 325-250 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] E 13:1: Well 5

Carefully cut in bedrock with firm footholds on either side. The use filling is represented by a few fragments of water jars (uninventoried), indicating a short period of use. The dumped filling, below ... Ca. 470-425 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] F 19:2: Cistern

Bottle-shaped cistern with dumped fillings on NW slopes of Areopagus; appears not to have been finished in antiquity: the walls and floor show no traces of stucco. Lower filling, ca. 375-340 B.C. Upper ... Ca. 375-275 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] F 19:2.2: Lower fill

It is a considerable deposit including both figured and plain wares, the red-figure consistently of the second quarter of the 4th c. Estimated Grid ... Ca 375-340 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] H 6:5: Well by Stoa Pier 3

A very homogeneous dumped filling and no period of use. Apparently a failure as a well. T 263-T 289 resorted and reduced August 1967. Cf. BI 157 "from behind the curbing of the well by Stoa pier 3." Estimated ... Ca. 470-460 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] H 7:1: Trial Pit behind Stoa Retaining Wall

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.

[Agora Deposit] B 12:5: Well

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.

[Agora Deposit] D-E 8-9:1: Theseion Cisterns A and B (1936)

Two chambers connected by a tunnel, all filled at the same time, but with slight Hellenistic disturbance. Chamber A, to west at 14/ΛΗ, B to east at 14-15/ΛΒ on grid for section RR. Cistern system ca. 20.00m ... Ca. 325-275 B.C.

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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.

[Agora Deposit] H 12:11: Well

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.