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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. |
Dump, Sullen clean-up. Coins:
9 February 1937 #6-#10
10 February 1937 #11-#13
11 February 1937 #16-#20 ... First quarter 1st c. B.C. |
Middle Stoa Building Fill (with filling to S) (See also Κ: H-I-J 14-15 and Λ: K-M 13-14)
This deposit is not definitive and must be considered with the above deposits before details are entered into database; ... To ca. 180 B.C. |
Profiles (a-q) of Hellenistic and Roman vases for G.R. Edwards article ... Aliki Halepa-Bikaki ... 1956 |
Profiles of Roman pottery ... Aliki Halepa-Bikaki |
Profiles of Roman pottery ... Aliki Halepa-Bikaki |
| Komos Cistern at 66/Κ, on the north slope of the Areopagus. Homogeneous fill.
Thirty-four stamped amphora handles. Eight Histiaian tetrobols, dating 170-160 at the earliest, found near top, possibly an ... Last quarter of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd century B.C. |
| Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter at bottom -3.20m Upper fill: Latest coins ... Second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. |
Baskets 1-21 (containers 1-20). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from level .1, are from depths within the .2 range:
MC 318, MC 433-MC 437, T 1309, T 1394, T 1396, IL ... 110 to early 1st c. 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. |
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 two tunnels, the one entering its neck cut off by an early Roman well, the other, at the bottom not excavated.
Chamber conical in shape, with a depressed draw basin in the center of the floor ... Early Roman-3rd c. B.C. |
'Lower fill' on deposit list. Containers 8-33, (34 mouth of lower passage). Coins:
9 May 1939 #1-#3, #5, #7, #9
10 May 1939 #1
11 May 1939 #1-#2
12 May 1939 #1-#2
13 May 1939 #2-#3(?)
15 May 1939 #1-#6 ... Ca. 250-215 B.C. |
| Phaidon Street Cistern: North Chamber
Sullan destruction debris. One of two chambers connected by tunnel.
Two latest coins date to 87/86. Gray ware lamp of first quarter of 1st c. A.D. indicates disturbance ... 2nd c. B.C. |
Cistern at 72/ΛΘ. Under NW corner of Roman House H. Stucco-lined, bottle-shaped cistern, poor condition. Diameter at bottom -2m.
Two tunnels, one leading east, one west, ca. 1.65m high and 0.80m across ... 150-110 B.C. with a few earlier pieces |
Layer 7 in South Peristyle of court of Roman House Ε. Irregular cutting in bedrock with sand, gravel, fallen bedrock. Some burning ... 275-250 B.C. |
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. |
| Lid Fragment with Paint Decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl with Paint Decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lid: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Reversible Lid: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl Fragment: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Plate Fragment: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Plate Fragment: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Reversible Lid: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl with Paint Decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl with Paint Decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl Fragments: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Pyxis Lids: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Plate Fragment: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Vessel Fragment: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Vessel Fragment: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl Fragments with Paint Decoration, P 4141 f ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Dish Fragment: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lid: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Reversible Lid: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lid: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl Fragment with Paint Decoration and Rouletting ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl with Paint Decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl with Paint Decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl with Paint Decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Reversible Lid Fragment: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lekanis: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Reversible Lid: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| P 6008 a, ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl Fragment: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Black Glaze Bowl Fragment with Paint Decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lid Fragment: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lid Fragment: West Slope ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
Well-shaft abandoned before use because of crumbling of rock.
From top to 15.00m. a dumped fill predominantly early Roman but containing material of late 1st c. B.C. to mid-1st c. A.D. A rock filled shaft ... 1st c. B.C. to mid-1st c. A.D. |
Drawshaft of a complex cistern system with two chambers (D 11:4, E 11:1), two more drawshafts (D 11:3, D 12:2), and two blind tunnels, all of which were filled later than D 11;2. Coins:
26 March 1936 #1 ... 300-215 B.C. |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ.
Objects with context as "cistern 44ΙΓ, mouth of 46/ΙΑ" are listed with D 12:2.
The following objects are from "earth", i.e. no context layer:
SS 5334, ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman |
Brown earth with occasiional small stones, quite distinct from upper and lower fills. Pottery mostly Hellenistic with an occasional late Roman sherd scattered through it at all levels. [nbp. 3112] Coins: ... Mostly 1st c. with some Roman. |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ. The filling of the 46/ΙΑ cistern shaft, with the exception of a little Roman at the top, was the same as the bottom fill of 44/ΙΓ - late Hellenistic, running ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C. |
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. |
Cistern System #3: West Chamber at 69/ΛΣΤ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/Λ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos. Upper fill of early 1st ... 175-125 B.C. |
Cistern-shaft 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 ... Upper fill, Late Roman with some Hellenistic.
Middle fill, Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C.
Lower fill, 4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment |
Late Roman (3rd c. A.D) with some Hellenistic |
Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C. |
Evidence of stratification into five layers, although joins between the layers. Layer VI added when the construction of the Roman building above required it. No subdivisions assigned.
Flask-shaped cistern ... Early 3rd-late 2nd c. B.C. |
A cistern leading to the east of the road leading from the southwest corner of the market square. Filled all at one time, last quarter of 2nd. c. B.C. (nbp. 493).
Included are the Hellenistic finds from ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
Unfinished well, all one fill; solid bedrock at a depth of -2.47m.
It contained masses of broken rooftiles and probably was used as a refuse pit after the sack of Athens by Sulla.
Twenty-three stamped ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Coins:
23 March 1936 #5-#6
31 March 1936 #3
30 April 1936 #1
1 May 1936 #6
2 May 1936 #2
5 May 1936 #8
6 May 1936 #15-#16
14 May 1936 #5-#8 (#6 N 51520 is from ... 50 B.C-3rd c. A.D. |
.2=Original fill dumped back in. "Perhaps cleaned out for sake of tiles and original fill dumped back in." HSR ... 1st.-3rd. c. A.D. |
House N, Room 4, Pit through layers 5-6. Debris filling, mixed context. Estimated Grid ... Late 4th. c. B.C. into early 3rd c. B.C. |
Cistern with two fills. Lower fill in cone on floor, with dumped upper fill above. Coins:
27 April 1940 #3-#5
14 May 1940 #5-#6
15 May 1940 #3-#7
17 May 1940 #11-#13
20 May 1940 # 8-#9
21 May 1940 #1 ... Late Hellenistic |
Sullan destruction debris. Coins:
27 April 1940 #3-#5
14 May 1940 #5-#6
15 May 1940 #3-#7
17 May 1940 #11-#13 ... 3rd. to 1st. c. B.C. |
Cistern System #1b: Shaft/manhole and gallery at 18-19/ΞΑ-ΞΓ.
Objects divided between the two features, shaft and gallery, according to deposit notebook list, not according to remarks on cards. 22 February ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
Coins:
22 February 1936 #4-#13
26 February 1935 #1-#2
27 February 1936 #1-#4
28 February 1936 #3-#5 |
Stucco, bones, pebble, mosaic about 90% discarded ... Second quarter of 3rd B.C. |
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).
Use filling middle to third quarter ... Ca. 550-525 B.C. |
| Well on lower northwest slope of Areopagus. Dug to 6.60m. and abandoned because of danger. Single dumped deposit.
Perhaps this context: P 528, P 1223 (JWH). Coins:
22 April 1932 #1 ... Second half 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
| Bowls and painted basin ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| West slope lid, pattern and profile, drawing of pattern ... PD 901-105 AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| West Slope lid, pattern and profile ... PD 901-145 AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| West Slope lid, pattern and profile ... PD 901-205 AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| West Slope lid, pattern and profile ... PD 901-181 AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| West Slope reversible lid ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 46. Horizontal (normal) ... 29 Mar 2012 |
| West Slope reversible lid ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 46. Horizontal (normal) ... 29 Mar 2012 |
| West Slope reversible lid ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 46. Horizontal (normal) ... 29 Mar 2012 |
| West Slope reversible lid ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 46. Horizontal (normal) ... 29 Mar 2012 |
| West Slope reversible lid ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 46. Horizontal (normal) ... 29 Mar 2012 |
| West Slope reversible lid ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 46. Horizontal (normal) ... 29 Mar 2012 |
| Charm necklace ... Susan Rotroff Elizabeth R. Safran ... No. 1266 has no P number assigned in publication. Dirty Drafting Film Drafting Ink ... 1989 |
| Profiles of Hellenistic and Roman vases for G.R. Edwards article ... Aliki Halepa-Bikaki ... Some in Agora XII. Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink ... 1956 |
| West slope plate ... Piet de Jong ... Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink |
| Hellenistic pottery for Susan Rotroff ... Susan Rotroff Elizabeth R. Safran ... Drafting Film Drafting Ink ... 1989 |
| Reversible lid with West Slope decoration ... 1 Jun 2000 |
Coarse; fine ... 1st B.C.-2nd A.D. |
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