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Thessalian League ... Gallienus
cf. Rogers, nos. 126, 127; Cop 355, 356
Obv. ΑΥΤΚΙΙΟ Λ ΓΑΛ[ΛΗΝΟ] Radiate, draped bust of Gallienus right.
Rev. ΘΕΣΣΑΛ[ΩΝ] Thessalian Pallas fighting right. Weight: extremely worn
Coin no. 2 ... Possibly A.D. 253--268: Gallienus |
[by size and fabric this coin could be Athenian (Agora XXVI, Periods III and IV)] Worn illegible. Worn illegible ... 28 Apr 1939 |
Stratified well; very late Roman verging on Byzantine. Coins
19 April 1939 #1-#8
22 April 1939 #1-#2
25 April 1939 #1
15 May 1939 #1 Subdivisions:
.1=0.00-15.25m.
.2=15.25-21.00m.
.3=21.00-22.00m ... 3rd-5th c. A.D.
9th c A.D. |
Modern fill to 21.00m. at which depth a human skeleton weighed down with iron. ER fill from 21.00-28.00m. (bottom). A POU fill with a possible break around 25.00m ... 1st to mid-2nd c. A.D. |
Pocket in bedrock 35/Ε. The filling consisting chiefly of coarse ware and roof tiles; some of the material Archaic, but the deposit as late as the mid-5th c. B.C ... Ca. 500-450 B.C. |
Well at 32/ΣΤ ... Late 6th c. B.C. |
Great Hole at 33/Ζ = Area of early wells Some of the objects may have come from N 18:7 or from a neighboring 7th c, well, not separately cleared, but no definite association is possible ... 7th-5th c. B.C. |
Early Roman, late 1st c. A.D. with some later fragments. Coins:
31 May 1938 #1-#12
1 June 1938 #1-#5
2 June 1938 #1-#2 ... Late 1st c. B.C. |
Dealer's Dump at 10/Θ.
Debris filling beneath a modern house floor, apparently from the shop of an antiquities' dealer; otherwise unrelated to the Agora area. Compare similar dumps, K 14:1 and N 10:1 ... Modern context |
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 |
| Initially was recorded as disturbed saucer grave, but identified as pyre by SIR.
Found by gardener washing out of scarp during the winter rains. The location is just south of an east-west road; there ... 1962 |
The pottery of the first six meters (containers 1-3 of 117 containers total) contains a good deal of unglazed early Byzantine along with very late Roman. Below this begins a great mass of Roman pottery ... 4th-6th c. A.D. POU |
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. |
Filling over bedrock. Coins:
26 May 1938 #7-#10
27 May 1938 #1
28 May 1938 #1 ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
Pit at 36/ΙΖ ... Late Hellenistic to Early Roman |
Coins:
19 May 1938 #1 (illegible)
20 May 1938 #3-#5, #12-#20 (Dump) ... 4th-6th c. A.D. |
| Roman Pithos at 38/ΛΔ. Cf. also Ψ734 (P 14037) from late pit at 41/ΛΓ ... Early to Middle Roman |
Deposit at 42/ΙΕ beside rubble wall under modern cellar wall ... 5th c. B.C. |
It may perhaps be assumed that in the 5th c. the Romans cleaned the well to 25.30m., thus removing 2nd c. and subsequent fill, and then began to reuse the shaft. Coins
20 May 1938 #6
21 May 1938 #1
25 ... POU 1st c. and 5th-6th c. A.D. |
Well at 30/ΛΣΤ Coins (none useful)
25 May 1938 #3-#6
26 May 1938 #3-#4 ... Early 3rd cent and of 4th-6th cent. A.D. |
Well at 19/ΝΒ, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus ... 550-525 B.C. |
Well at 15/ΝΒ Coin
18 April 1938 #1 ... 18-20 April 1938 |
| Mended from several fragments; mouth and some of body missing.
Vertical ribbing on body. Small, high foot. Surface decorated with yellow lines.
Glass dark blue. Soft fill beside late Roman wall, outside ... 14 June 1938 |
| Broken all around.
Plain, transparent glass with dark blue dots and wavy lines. Assigned to subdivision .2 as listed in deposit notebook for layer II. Well, dump. 1110 Leica, 79-11-15 ... April 1939 |
| Base broken at stem.
A roughly circular base with thin stem.
Purplish glass. Well. Container 6. 1117 Leica ... 29 April 1939 |
| Intact.
Out-turned lip, flat on top. Tall neck; squat body. Slightly concave bottom.
Pale blue-green glass. Well. Container 15. 1117 Leica PD 505 ... 2 May 1939 |
| Mouth and some of neck missing.
Narrow neck merging into drop-shaped body. Rounded bottom. Well. Container 22. 1117 Leica ... 2 May 1939 |
| A single fragment preserves round mouth with out-turned lip, neck, doubled vertical handle and some of rounded body.
Light greenish-blue glass. Well. Dump. 1117 Leica ... April-May 1939 |
| A single fragment preserves the handle and the immediately adjacent part of the body.
Broad vertical handle, forming a small loop. Thumb-rest on top, in part broken off. Well. Dump. 1117 Leica PD 2023-21 ... April-May 1939 |
| A single fragment preserves the spreading foot, the thin short stem and a little of the lower part of the body.
Greenish glass. Well. Dump. 1117 Leica PD 505 ... April-May 1939 |
Rather chipped around edge.
Somewhat corroded.
Pierced hub. Well.
1st-2nd c. A.D. 1117 Leica ... 2 May 1939 |
Somewhat chipped around edge.
Hub pierced. Well, dump.
1st-2nd c. A.D. 1117 Leica ... April-May 1939 |
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