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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. |
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. |
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 |
Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C. |
| Pithos ay the bottom of the north slope of the Areopagus with single fill; Part of Hellenistic Group D.
One stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 146. Latest coin dates in first two decades of 2nd ... 160-130 B.C. |
| Profiles of Hellenistic Pottery for Roger Edwards.
1958-1959. Series [see also PD #901] ... Hero Athanassiades ... 82-573 82-573 ... 1958
1959 |
Profiles of Hellenistic Pottery for Roger Edwards.
1958-1959. Series [see also PD #901] ... Hero Athanassiades ... 82-574 82-574 ... 1958
1959 |
| Lagynos Fragments ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lagynos Fragments ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
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. |
Upper fill early Roman. Lower fill latest Hellenistic.
No house walls clearly associated with it, and apparently no attempt made to assign it to any particular house. Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Lower ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman |
Containers 6-12 ... Latest Hellenistic |
| Drawings of Hellenistic pottery ... PD 1091-122 PD 1091-118 AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Drawings of Hellenistic pottery ... PD 1091-126 PD 1091-124 AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Hellenistic pots ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
P 10900 a
Neck and about half of shoulder preserved; partiallyrestored.
Convex shoulder with smooth transition to long, cylindrical neck.
Torus rim. Decoration in brown glaze: band on rim and at base ... 1st-century context |
Wall Fragment.
P 10900 b
Two fragments preserve part of shoulder.
Very convex, therefore probably part of round-bodied lagynos.
Decoration in brown glaze: syrinx, with trace of wreath tied with square ... 1st-century context |
| a) Long straight neck, with rounded lip, and part of the shoulder preserved at one point to its edge. Bands of black glaze around lip and base of neck; on shoulder, hanging from the band, bows and wreaths; ... 25-29 February 1936 |
| Lagynos ... Piet de Jong ... Cf. Hesperia 3 (1934), p. 404, fig. 92. Exhibited at the Benaki Museum, 15 November 2006 to 7 January 2007. |
| Hellenistic pyxis ... Piet de Jong ... 7-330 7-330 Fragile Watercolor Paper Watercolor |
Hero Athanassiades ... 1958 |
Hero Athanassiades ... 1958 |
Hero Athanassiades ... 1958 |
| Profiles of Hellenistic Pottery for Roger Edwards.
1958-1959. Series [see also PD #901] ... Hero Athanassiades ... 1958
1959 |
Hellenistic profiles for G.R. Edwards ... Hero Athanassiades ... 1963 |
Hellenistic profiles for G.R. Edwards ... Hero Athanassiades ... 1963 |
Hellenistic pottery drawn for Susan Rotroff ... Elizabeth R. Safran ... 1983 |
Hellenistic pottery drawn for Susan Rotroff ... Elizabeth R. Safran ... 1983 |
Hellenistic pottery drawn for Susan Rotroff ... Elizabeth R. Safran ... 1983 |
Hellenistic pottery: profiles, wash drawings, etc ... Marian Welker ... Made for G.R. Edwards' publication. Sent to Princeton, 1991 ... 1956 |
Profiles of Hellenistic Pottery for Roger Edwards.
1958-1959. Series [see also PD #901] ... Hero Athanassiades ... 82-572 82-572 ... 1958
1959 |
Hellenistic pottery for Susan Rotroff ... Tina Najbjerg ... 1989 |
Hellenistic pottery: profiles, wash drawings, etc ... Marian Welker ... Made for G.R. Edwards' publication. Sent to Princeton, 1991 ... 1956 |
Hellenistic pottery: profiles, wash drawings, etc ... Marian Welker ... Made for G.R. Edwards' publication. Sent to Princeton, 1991 ... 1956 |
Hellenistic pottery drawn for Susan Rotroff ... Elizabeth R. Safran ... 1983 |
Hellenistic pottery drawn for Susan Rotroff ... Elizabeth R. Safran ... 1983 |
Hellenistic profiles for G.R. Edwards ... Hero Athanassiades ... Dirty Xerox Printing Ink ... 1963 |
| 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 22-53 (containers 21-47). Abandonment of cistern. Includes finds from NW channel leading out of 84/ΝΣΤ (containers 50-51). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from ... 125-86 B.C. |
Unfinished cistern at 31/ΚΑ ... Ca. 360-325 B.C. |
| Jar ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lagynos ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| White Ground Lagynos Fragment ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| White Ground Lagynos Fragment ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| White Ground Cup Fragment ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| White Ground Cup Fragment ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Handle: Stamped ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Miniature Jug with Glaze Decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Miniature Jug with Glaze Decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| White Ground Pyxis ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| White Ground Lagynos ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lagynos ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lagynos ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| White Ground Bowl with Lid Fragments ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl with Relief Decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lagynos Fragment with Paint Decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| White Ground Lagynos Fragment ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Cup Fragments ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Bowl Fragment ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
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 |
Coins:
10 March 1936 #1-#2
11 March 1936 #1 ... 200 to late 1st c. |
Upper fill was early Roman dated by AWP to the 1st c. A transitional fill was later assigned to the upper level.
Nbp. 2913: The history may have been that the well was cleaned out at the time that it was ... 3rd-2nd century B.C and Roman date. |
Late 4th to early 3rd c. B.C. |
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 ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C.-86 B.C. |
Well near southwest corner of market square; successive use fillings, and dumped filling.
Lower use filling, second half of 4th century B.C.
Main use filling, second quarter of 2nd century B.C. to shortly ... 10 April-31 May 1935 |
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. |
| Extract from notebook ΠΘ XIX, pp. 3644-3646. Well at 105/ΝΗ (report on sorting of pottery, July 19, 1951 - H.S. Robinson).
"Not a useful well" HSR.
Well dug to 1.50m., vi/9/36; dug from 1.50m. to bottom ... Early Roman; use fillings of 2nd. c. B.C. and 1st. and 4th. c. A.D.; dumped filling of late 4th. c. (HSR)
Fill I: 2nd. c. B.C.
Fill II-V: to second half of 4th. c. A.D.
Fill VI: mixed to Byzantine. |
Coins:
22 April 1937 #1-#5 Containers 7-5 ... Second half of 1st. c. A.D. POU |
Water channel in north part of section, giving access to water system. Channel Mouth 1. Six stamped amphora handles; two-thirds of bowls long-petal ... Late 2nd century-Early 1st c. B.C. |
The East Chamber of a double cistern lying between the northeast corner of the Theseion and the Annex to the Stoa of Zeus Eleftherios. ... Both chambers went out of use as water containers simultaneously ... Ca. 200 B.C. |
The following objects may be from this level or from the 'Mixed Classical Level at 10/Δ: SS 449, SS 450, SS 451 (nbp. 186, 2819). Coins:
4 March 1933 #1-#6 (cf. #7-#13)
7 March 1933 #39 ... 150-86 B.C. |
| White-ground pyxis, drawing of pattern ... PD 901-260 AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| White-ground pyxis, drawing of pattern ... PD 901-104 AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| White-ground pyxis, drawing of pattern ... PD 901-109 AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Pyxis with paint decoration ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Drawing of pyxis with paint decoration ... Ptg. 161 AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Two lagynoi ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Hellenistic pots ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lagynos ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Hellenistic pots ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Lagynos with paint decoration ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 44. Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Mar 2012 |
| Lagynos with paint decoration ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 44. Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Mar 2012 |
| Lagynos with paint decoration ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 44. Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Mar 2012 |
| Lagynos with paint decoration ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 44. Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Mar 2012 |
| Lagynos with paint decoration ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 44. Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Mar 2012 |
| Lagynos with paint decoration ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 44. Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Mar 2012 |
| Lagynos with paint decoration ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 44. Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Mar 2012 |
| Lagynos with paint decoration ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 44. Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Mar 2012 |
| Lagynos with paint decoration ... Angelique Sideris ... Museum object.
Stoa Gallery-Case No. 44. Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Mar 2012 |
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