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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. |
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 |
| Mixed ... Margaret Crosby ... 801 992 ... 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. |
Almost complete pots:
a) Amphora rather like Χ 139,except for tapering body, no rim, no foot.
b) Black glazed oinochoe, like Χ 135 (P 8944); no lip.
c) Black glazed pyxis, like Χ 975.
d) West Slope neck ... |
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. |
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