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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 |
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. |
Sullan debris to last quarter of 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. |
| 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. |
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 |
| 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. |
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. |
Coins:
10 March 1936 #1-#2
11 March 1936 #1 ... 200 to late 1st c. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
South Stoa II Construction Fill.
About 85 stamped amphora handles, many with parallels in building fills of Middle Stoa and Stoa of Attalos. Fragments of long-petal bowls confirm date after mid-2nd c ... To ca. 140 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. |
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. |
Cistern and drawshaft connected by tunnel; used in modern times as cesspool. No stratigraphy noted, but pottery from first five boxes excavated is later than that from boxes 6-18.
11 stamped amphora handles ... Hellenistic and Late Hellenistic |
Trench for foundation of south stylobate of Square Building (between Piers 12-13) ... Late 3rd-early 2nd c. B.C. |
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. |
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 ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.
Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C.
Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D. |
Cumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. 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 |
Accumulated fillings in a system of underground drains at west end of section ΔΔ with northward continuation into and across Section Υ.
The filling in the "underground passages" in section ΔΔ appears to ... 3rd c. B.C.
2nd c A.D. |
Hellenistic Fill at 70/ΛΣΤ.
Fill in irregular hollow. Pottery resembles Sullan debris, but lack of late duoviri handles suggests deposit slightly predates the sack. Coins
6 March 1937 #1-#4 ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
Cistern at 60/ΙΕ; bell-shaped cistern with a channel 1.65m high and 4.60m long, leading to a dead end against bedrock. This channel runs north with a slight curve to the east and looks as though it was ... Second half of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd c. 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. |
| Phaidon Street Cistern: South Chamber.
Connected by tunnel to O 17:5.
Knidian stamped amphora handle; fragments of five long-petal bowls, one made in worn mold. Type 35 A lamp. Coins
9 August 1957 #1-#3 ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
Cistern on the lower Acropolis slopes, west of Panathenaic Way; dumped filling of 1st century B.C.
Bottom diameter 3.90m. Cistern with connecting draw-shaft and a dead end tunnel dates from Late Hellenistic ... 1st century B.C. |
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. |
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 |
Cistern System #3: East Chamber at 69/Λ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/ΛΣΤ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos ... 175-125 B.C. |
Late Roman (3rd c. A.D) with some Hellenistic |
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. |
| Located at the bifurcation of the Panathenaic Way and West Road.Byzantine fill (9th-10th century) in upper 5.70m. with a series of Classical to Hellenistic accumulations below. Coins:
10 July 1971 #861 ... 14 June-27 July 1971 |
Represents excavated levels V-IX. Coins:
5 July 1971 #857 ... Late 5th c.-300 B.C. |
| Hole in bedrock; dumped filling used in leveling.
Probably a natural water line, tending to wash out, has been cut back for various purposes, and finally all filled in to make level bedding for 4th c., ... Ca. 350-270 B.C. |
| Date of filling early third c. B.C.
Little pottery. Seven stamped amphora handles. Latest coin dates in first third of 3rd c. One small fragment of moldmade bowl of undetermined type. Coins:
12 August ... 310-220 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. |
Filling of a well on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus, dug early in the 1st c. B.C. [construction fill]; in use into the the 2nd c. A.D.[well fill] (H Ms.) No apparent stratification.
Hellenistic ... 2nd c. A.D. |
Hellenistic construction fill mainly of amphoras used as packing between well tiles and bedrock. Estimated Grid ... 1st c. B.C. |
Chamber of water system with one blind tunnel and two cisterns connected by tunnel. Pottery consistent throughout, late Hellenistic. Late 2nd c. B.C.
Ten stamped amphora handles. Most of bowls long-petal ... 100-75 B.C. |
| Cistern at 75/ΜΓ connected with cistern N 18:3 by tunnel.
Only coin is Bioiotian dating between 220 and 197. Only indications of date are 1st c. lamps, two long-petal bowls, and fragments of early Roman ... 1st. c. B.C. |
Baskets 54-56 (containers 48-49). Construction of cistern ... Early 3rd c. B.C. |
| Construction filling of well N 20:3 which was dug through this cistern; a few later sherds at upper levels may result from late repairs to well tiling. Coins:
6 April 1938 #14-#15
8 April 1938 #4 Some ... Second half 1st c. A.D. |
Mouth and upper part of chamber cut away in modern times; two short passages, one to SW, encroaching on Mycenaean chamber tomb; here the builders apparently found the fill too soft for tunneling, so they ... Early third quarter of 3rd c. B.C. |
| Tiled Well at S edge of E-W Road, 73/ΜΗ. Contemporary upper and lower fills separated by layer of sterile mud.
Latest coin dates ca. 200. Koan amphora handle with stamped handle dates slightly after 200 ... 210-160 |
Cistern at 70/ΛΣΤ in the northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Part of system with two chambers and well. Homogeneous fill.
13 stamped amphora handles. Latest lamp type 46 B. N 72206 (Ω-344), picked up near ... Second half of 3rd c. - Early 2nd 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. |
Unfinished cistern at 31/ΚΑ ... Ca. 360-325 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. |
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. |
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 East of Stoa Room 11; no appreciable change in pottery top to bottom; dumped fill of Augustan times. Coins:
4 May 1950 #1-#3
15 May 1950 #1 Estimated Grid ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
Channel J (in ΗΗ)
Cutting that probably originally held a drain. Packed with amphoras and other coarse pottery. It tapped the poros aqueduct wall just East of our explanatory trench at the East end of ... 1st c. B.C. - early 1st. A.D. |
Well C - Passage, belongs with II - Brick Shaft. All dumped fills. No objects catalogued from Well C of section ΟΑ. One object (I 5422) catalogued from modern fill in shaft, one from dump (I 5545). Coins: ... 2nd c. A.D.- Byzantine |
Fill in shaft; upper fill in lower chamber; fill in vaulted chamber. Coins:
29 April 1937 #1-#8
5 May 1937 #1-#27
26 May 1937 #1-#12
27 May 1937 #1-#10
28 May 1937 #1-#6
24 March 1938 #3-#7
12 June 1939 ... Late 4th c. A.D. |
Cistern system, 88/ΝΓ (shaft and passages). Apparently a dumped filling of Roman times, drawn mostly from some Hellenistic deposit. Coins:
31 March 1937 #1-#5
1 April 1937 #4-#5
3 April 1937 #1-#2
5 April ... Hellenistic and Roman, 4th 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. |
Cistern C (pit) in West Room of late Roman House.
Mixed dump of material, with a little Classical, much Roman dating at least as late as 3rd century A.D., and large amount of late Hellenistic. Coins:
1 ... Late Hellenistic and Roman |
Well on the lower west slope of the Areopagus. Tiled well. The tiles were carefully made and clamped together with lead, two clamps at each joint.
Several fills but apparently all 2nd c. Material in lowest ... Late 2nd to early 1st c. B.C. |
Great Drain: fillings in south part of section; Martyrs I, II and III, all layers (essentially no difference in the layers).
Pottery sorted and recorded by H.A. Thompson 12 may 1950: "Having gone through ... Second half of 2nd c. B.C.-Early 1st c. B.C. |
Cistern connected by tunnel to another chamber filled in Byzantine period. Small Hellenistic deposit on floor. somewhat contaminated by Byzantine fill above
No stamped amphora handles later than 3rd c.; ... 250-190 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. |
Water channel in north part of Section: Channel Mouth 4. Coins:
22 February 1936 #16-#18
24 February 1936 #1-#2
Twenty stamped amphora handles; type 38 lamp; type 56 A lamp; over half of bowls long-petal ... 120-86 B.C. |
Both in cistern and in passage 88/ΛΔ-95/ΚΘ-100/ΚΘ.
Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.; accumulative fillings of 3rd c. and of late 1st c. B.C.; dumped filling of 4th.c. A.D ... Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D., but with earlier material |
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 shaft southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Unstratified fill.
Ten stamped amphora handles; Type 34A lamp; many fragments of long-petal b suggesting material deposited ca. 140 or later. Cf. Pireus ... Ca. 200-125 B.C. |
A small concentration of pottery in lowest 1.80m., possibly a use fill. Three fills above, with little pottery, ranging from Hellenistic to late Roman in date. Coins:
26 February 1934 #4-#6
27 February ... 325-200 B.C. |
Stroses I, II, III, IV in Court J (below marble chip layer), House of Greek Mosaic.
No independently datable objects. Estimated Grid ... Early 3rd c. B.C. |
Associated with the Tholos.
Originally a well but after it had been in use for a short time the shaft was partially filled in and the upper part widened to form a large cistern.
The pottery falls into ... 335-250 B.C. |
1.00m. of fill at bottom of cistern chamber ... sealed in by 6.00m. of sterile bedrock. Coins:
20 April 1934 #1 ... 310-275 B.C. |
Part of cistern system with mouths at 47/ΛΒ, 60/ΜΖ and 51/ΜΓ.
Last 1.50m. of 47/ΛΒ probably cut in modern times, contained modern fill in bottom. Coins:
10 March 1934 #2-#7
12 March 1934 #9-#14
16 March ... Hellenistic and modern. |
| Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. Coins:
5 August 1968 #1-#6 (#5 and #6 disintegrated. Missing 19/7/1973)
6 August 1968 #1bis-#25 (#5 in Lot 503 not a coin but bronze bits of nail. #6 not a coin ... 325-275 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 |
Great Drain South (ca. 70-113, from SW edge of section as far north as the Roman Bath) Hellenistic Sand Fill. Silted-up filling of the southern branch of the Great Drain, abandoned due to some damage at ... 4th. c.-86 B.C. |
Cistern on the lower south slope of Kolonos Agoraios; dumped filling, second half of first century after Christ. Coins:
9 June 1937 #3
11 June 1937 #1-#8 ... 50-100 A.D. |
Diameter 0.83m. Water level -4.20m. Tiled well; height of tiles 0.60m. Heavy deposit of pottery throughout; stamped amphora handles, five Knidian; one Rhodian; one Parian. Semi-coarse stamnos; funnel-mouthed ... Ca. 120 B.C. |
Filling in a cistern chamber in the area west of the Areopagus. Main dumped fill of 2nd. c. B.C., with small amount of later material in uppermost 1.00m. A connecting passage contained some material of ... 2nd. c. B.C. |
Grid notation in error as 99/ΚΑ sometimes.
A well (diameter 1.20m; diameter inside tiles at bottom 0.85m) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, at the bottom of the valley, about 10.00m. east of ... 3rd. c. B.C. |
Coins:
1 June 1946 #10 ... 325-200 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 |
In use up to the time of Sulla? Coins:
20 May 1940 # 8-#9
21 May 1940 #1 ... 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. |
A burnt deposit set down into Hellenistic fill in a shaft dug into bedrock. A consistent dumped fill [post AD 150, with Group G, layer III, JWH]. Coins:
27 January 1936 #1-#3
28 January 1936 #1-#7
29 January ... First half of A.D. 2nd c. |
| In area West of the Areopagus. Fills with many figurines and molds, possibly from a terracotta factory.
Twelve stamped amphora handles; no long-petal bowls; Type 54 A lamp Coins:
31 May 1939 #11
1 June ... Mostly 200-150 B.C. |
Cistern with mixed dumped filling uniform throughout cistern and two short blind channels. Coins:
16 May 1939 #6-#7
17 May 1939 #1 ... 6th-1st c. B.C. |
| Second century B.C. fill with early 13th c. A.D. fill in mouth.
The Byzantine objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585.
Lower fill contained bones of many infants and dogs.
The bones from this ... Mid-2nd c. B.C. |
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