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| Margaret Crosby ... This report is a summary of the excavations taken place in 1937 as well as in 1946.
Some pottery indicate habitation in the area from the Geometric period. Two shallow graves of the 6th and 5th centuries ... 27 May-21 Jun 1946 |
| Margaret Crosby ... The area signified as Section Χ lays outside the Agora proper and no signs of any public buildings were found. The area seems to have been used for private houses from the end of the 6th c. B.C. Apart ... 25 Jan-18 May 1937 |
| Mixed ... Margaret Crosby ... 801 992 ... 1937 |
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. |
| 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. |
Use filling of first half of 1st c.; dumped filling of late 1st c.(?). This well, near its mouth, cuts off the end of the upper passage of the cistern at 53/Ε. Subdivisions:
.1=Dumped filling
.2=POU ... First half of 1st c. A.D. POU |
All finer wares; lamps etc ... 2-5 April 1937 |
All coarse wares. Resorted 1997, by SIR ... 2-5 April 1937 |
a) Top fill selected; piece of water pipe [as late as early 3rd c. A.D. Herulian destruction ?]
b) Middle fill
c) Coarse selected Resorted 1997, by SIR. |
a) Fragments of lamps, unguentaria, gray ware, blister ware.
b) West Slope, Pergamene.
c) Black glazed plates, rims, bases.
d) Black glazed jugs etc..
e) Loom weights, terra-cottas. Fragments of two unguentaria ... |
a) White ground lagynoi (middle and bottom fill).
b) Megarian bowls (middle and bottom fill).
c) Fragments of coarse painted ware (middle fill).
d) Fragments of bronze, lead etc. (middle and bottom fill) ... |
Transport amphora fragments. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
Transport amphora fragments, one with collar rim. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
Transport amphora fragments, including large piece of cylindrical like Χ 140. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
Selected coarse wares: water-jars, lagynoi, bases. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
Selected coarse wares: lekanai, storage, kraters. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
Fragments of braziers and cooking pots; cooking ware. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
a) All glazed sherds, including lamps and unguentaria.
b) Coarse selected. Resorted 1997, by SIR.
AS-993 taken July 1997 by SIR. |
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