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| Rubbish Dump in mouth of abandoned well in Tholos Trench F, Kitchen. Filled with ash, charcoal, broken pottery, roof tiles.
Also from Trench L.
13 March 2014 by Ann Steiner
The deposit has four components ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
A well about 2.00m. SE of the Tholos precinct wall. The presence of the water-clock strengthens the probability, suggested by its location, that the well served one of the public buildings in the neared ... Ca. 410-390 B.C. |
This cutting was filled in at the time Road 6 was laid. Homogeneous dumped fill.
This deposit represents fill which was brought in at the time Road 6 at the west end of the Middle Stoa was laid to fill ... Ca. 480 B.C. |
| An extensive cistern system on the lower north slope of the Areopagus, south chamber with blind tunnel extending further south (south tunnel); north chamber; drawshaft further north, extends to north tunnel ... Ca. 320-240 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. |
A filling lying over a cobbled floor in a house-complex on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus.
Area in front of E-W retaining wall, just above cobble pavement, disturbed by coins and pottery as late ... 375-275 B.C. |
Accumulated debris on the west side of the market square.
Related layers added 1999/2000 (JWH), e.g. "Gravelly layer above burning", "Clearing Classical floor", "Lowest level above bedrock", "Below burning", ... First half of 5th c. A.D. |
Exploration in the area between the east front of the Hellenistic Metroon and the Great Drain, from accumulated road metal of early north-south road.
For levels in the same road further south, see F-G ... 575-525 B.C. |
| Well west of the Eponymous Heroes monument. The shaft was of irregular width (ca. 0.81m where the full circle was first preserved), sunk in soft bedrock clay much of which had collapsed around the top ... Ca. 600-550 B.C. |
Coins:
16 April 1934 #2
17 April 1934 #1 ... Late Roman- Ca. A.D. 400 |
Undisturbed fill at 34-36/I-K (Heliaia Peristyle, west aisle).
Two pieces (T 3662 and SS 14440) are recorded as "undoubtedly from Peristyle fill of third quarter of 4th century B.C." although "from area ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
Homer A. Thompson ... Well at the northwest foot of the Areopagus. Use filling of the Roman period. After the abandonment of the well and the collapse of the well-curb, the upper 2m of the shaft were filled with a dump apparently ... 1st-3rd c. A.D., 5th century |
Well at 62/ΙΑ, 63/ΙΑ, at the northwest foot of the Areopagus. Use filling in the lowest meter of the shaft.
The upper part of the shaft was filled with clay containing only occasional fragments of pottery; ... Ca. 600-540 B.C. |
Cistern at 79/Γ (= 80/Δ) on lower north slope of the Areopagus. Filling of 2nd c. B.C. with some later intrusions (Turkish pottery indicates disturbance).
Single Knidian stamped amphora handle dates around ... Hellenistic-Turkish |
Located beneath line of Poros Gutter, from a square settling basin cut in bedrock at the north end of Trench II, South of Theseion, 1.30m below the modern road surface. The basin is lined with rough-picked ... Last quarter of 5th c. B.C.-early 4th c. B.C. |
Well at 75/ΚΖ (75/ΚΗ, 76/ΚΣΤ-ΚΖ). A dumped filling; an accumulation for the most part of the late 6th and early 5th centuries.
Tiled well; of the lining only a single set of tiles, of unusual make, remained ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. |
Irregular depression in bedrock (ca. 7x5m), ca. 2m deep; area south of E-W Late Roman wall. Dumped filling apparently intended to level off the area. Coins:
11 March 1952 #10
12 March 1952 #1-#5
13 March ... Ca. 400-325 B.C. |
Fill to 6.50m., masses of stone, animal bones and coarse pottery with some unfinished poros sculpture at 6.50m. - a dump of early 3rd c. ... At 6.50m. begins use filling with numerous BHWJs and other water ... Late 1st c. to early 3rd cent. and of 4th and 5th cents |
Water deposit in Polygonal Drain (43-44/Γ-Ζ and martyra)immediately south of the south foundations of the Middle Stoa. Early branch of the original course of Great Drain. P 2248 added to this deposit by ... Ca. 420-390 B.C. |
A tiled well with two periods of use, Byzantine and Late Roman.
Some coarse Byzantine pottery from the upper part. from the lower part, pre-Herulian pottery, lamps and figurines. Also ΑΡ 221 (A 1202) the ... 3rd c. A.D. (before 267 A.D.)
11th-12th c. A.D. |
| Thamneus' Cellar, a storage cellar on the north slope of the Areopagus. Lower filling of mid-6th c. B.C., upper filling of last quarter of 6th c. B.C ... 6th c. B.C. |
Roman well re-used in Byzantine times. Subdivisions:
.1=0.00-13.80m.
.2=13.80-23.50m.
.3=23.50-25.00m ... Late 1st-early 2nd, 4th-5th, 11th centuries. |
| Dumped filling mostly of 3rd c. A.D., but dumped as late as 5th century. Nbp. 143: The fill in this cistern was of three kinds: to within .60m. of the floor plain broken bedrock with no sherds; then a ... 10-17 February 1937 |
Coins:
15 March 1934 #6 ... 6th-7th c. A.D. |
7th c. well below east part of Odeion Cavea Trench K). Use filling negligible; dumped filling of the second half of the 7th c. B.C.
Brann Well H. Diameter 1.10m. Cut into bedrock. During excavation seepage ... 650-600 B.C. |
| Use filling of middle of 1st to late 6th c. (Roman Group M); dumped filling of 9th and 10th c. Down to a depth of about 21.00m. the fill of the well contained very few objects, the latest of them being ... 1st-6th 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. |
Appears to be use filling from 3rd c. A.D., pre-Herulian into 4th c. or later. Lined with tiles. Coins:
6 May 1937 #1-#2 (disintegrated) ... Early 3rd-early 6th c. |
Well at 66/ΛΖ. Homogeneous fill.
14 stamped amphora handles. Rhodian and Knidian handles find parallels in Middle Stoa building fill. Type 27 D lamp agrees with this date. Fragments of 50 bowls and one ... 225-175 B.C. |
The cistern at 70/ΝΗ and the channel [65/ΞΑ] between chambers 70/ΝΗ and 63/ΞΒ seem to have a uniform dumped filling of first half 2nd c. A.D ... First half of 2nd c. A.D. |
Well at 75/Ε. Dumped debris of Herulian destruction, including much material from the first half of the 3rd c ... 3rd c. A.D. |
| 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. |
Well at 45/Θ (Skytha Well) near the north side of the market square. No period of use was distinguished, since it was impossible to clear the well to the bottom. The considerable quantity of dumped filling ... Ca. 460-440 B.C. |
Well at 71/ΛΒ (diameter ca. 1.10m) near the east wall of the entrance porch.
Narrows toward bottom, collapsed at top. Six footholds preserved at south, three at north, spaced at ca. 0.50m. Uniform fill ... Late 8th in early 4th c. B.C. |
Well at 16/ΚΗ, in SW corner of Gymnasium complex. Lowest Roman deposit. 9th-10th century Byzantine and Turkish
Coins:
24 April 1935 #3
Envelope 4 in Tin 14 ... 5th c. A.D. - 10th c. A.D. |
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. |
Well dug through N 18:1 (cistern at 79/ΜΗ) on the lower north slopes of Areopagus; the cistern was the northern chamber of a system; the southern chamber is at 84/ΝΣΤ (N 19:1).
A single dumped deposit ... 3rd-4th c. A.D. |
| 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. |
| Well at 52/Ι, on the lower northeast slopes of the Areopagus. It was cut down and re-used in the late Roman period, in connection with the water channel. Use fill of 1st to early 2nd c.
Dump fill 5th to ... Early to Late Roman |
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 |
| 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. |
Well dug through cistern at 64/Γ. Seems to have been stratified; four fills recorded but here treated as one as divisions are rather "arbitrary".
Agora V, p. 126: Constructed in late 1st c.; use filling ... 3rd c. A.D. POU (before 267 A.D.) |
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. |
Well at 74/Ι, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus.
Use fill from early 1st to 3rd c. A.D.
Dump fill from 4th c. A.D. Coins
9 April 1938 #2
9 May 1938 #1 Container 20 (lost) p. 1529 ... 1st c. to 3d c. A.D. |
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. |
Dumped filling of 6th c. A.D. Coins:
3 May 1939 #1-2 (red earth above well)
9 June 1939 #1
10 June 1939 #1
12 June 1939 #1-#5
13 June 1939 #1
19 June 1939 #1-#2, #3 (Dump)
7 May 1940 #1
9 May 1940 #1
27 ... Early 1st-5th c. A.D. POU |
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. |
East-West Street (63-64/ΙΣΤ, etc.)
Packing in line of ancient east-west street along Areopagus north slopes.
Lower fills, predominantly late 6th-early 5th c. B.C.
Middle fills, last quarter of the 5th ... Various levels and dates |
Small Pit or Well at 25/ΚΑ with a small quantity of fine and coarse household pottery, much of it whole, or nearly so ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. |
| Well at 89-90/ΙΗ-ΙΘ (diameter at top 1.10m), between the southeast corner over the mouth of of the Odeion and the Panathenaic Way. the well lay a thin layer of dug bedrock containing a few Hellenistic ... 650-625 B.C. |
South Stoa I: 75-76/ΚΗ-Λ South Shop Building Layer g (O 16:1) and South Stoa I: Stony Fill below floor level (O 16:2). (merged from O 16:1 and O 16:2) Coins:
11 May 1953 #29 (illegible) Merged from two ... Ca. 420-400 B.C. and earlier |
| 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 |
Pit in ancient road, ca. 73/ΜΣΤ The filling of this pit contained quantities of coarse pottery, principally fragmentary amphoras, but including also some glazed and semi-glazed pieces and fragments of ... Ca. 350-325 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. |
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 |
Coins:
19 May 1938 #1 (illegible)
20 May 1938 #3-#5, #12-#20 (Dump) ... 4th-6th c. A.D. |
Well at 55/ΚΕ
Period of Use dated to the last quarter of 5th c. B.C., Upper fill dated to the same (deposited later) in Agora XXX. Coins
1 April 1938 #10 ... Last quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
Well of Christian Lamp; west of Stoa terrace wall near north end. Pottery spread out June 1952. A big amphora was made up (ΣΑ 1780), but nothing else went together. Fill appeared o be all of one period ... Late 5th-early 6th century A.D. |
Building Fill NE of Circular Building 13-17/ΚΓ-ΚΣΤ (Roman Group H)
and Connecting Cut NE of Circular Bldg ... First half 2nd c. A.D. |
Narrow trench in bedrock; one section found to NE of Circular Building west of the Stoa of Attalos, another (Q 8:1) beneath the terrace of the Stoa of Attalos opposite Pier 19. A single filling in both ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. and shortly after |
Dumped debris filling east of East Building, badly shattered. There is a small amount of disturbance from the filling immediately above, but the bulk of the pottery is consistent, and very close to that ... Ca. 470-460 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. |
Tile well at 52/ΛΣΤ, in the northern late Roman building in the room with the apse. The top was covered by a large stone, and the well had never been filled after the last period of use. water stood to ... Late 1st (?) cent.-early 3rd to 6th cent. |
Narrow trench in bedrock. Cf. Section Σ, p. 4358 (nb. XXII) same trench, same filling.
EV notes that the cutting probably.. to the "narrow cutting in bedrock". The filling seemed to be ca. 425-420 B.C ... Third Quarter to Last Quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
Well by Stoa Pier 8.
Mouth of well discovered in 1950 (p. 2287).
Dumped filling in the 4th c. B.C. but the bulk of the material of the 5th c. B.C. Fill contained much wood, bones, Mycenaean, Geometric, ... 5th c. B.C. |
| Well below Stoa Gutter opposite Pier 1.
Heavy dumped filling remarkable among Agora well-deposits both for the high quality and the good conditions of pottery of all sorts.
It represents the stock of a ... Ca. 520-490 B.C. |
Roman Water Mill: construction fill in footing trench of mill race wall Coins:
24 April 1933 #2-#30, #39-#40, #43-#44, #46-#67, #69-#76, #82-#95
25 April 1933 #30, #32-#35, #37-#40, #42-#43, #45, #47 ... 450-475 A.D. |
| Well below Stoa Terrace Fountain.
Heavy dumped filling, including a great variety of figured and plain wares.
Never completed in antiquity because of hard bedrock. Estimated Grid ... 575-550 B.C. |
Cistern at 21/ΙΗ
Period of use fill dated to ca. 375-350 B.C., Upper fill dated to mostly first half of 6th c. B.C. in Agora XXX ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Well to N of Nymphaeum at 115/ΙΣΤ. A good water supply but no evidence for a period of use.
Exceptionally heavy dumped filling, including much fine tableware, many wine- jar fragments and other objects ... Ca. 420-400 B.C. |
Just east of Building II near its south end. The tiles were in place.
Upper filling (to 3.00m.) of Hellenistic-Byzantine dump all discarded.
POU fill a gradual accumulation of typical Justinianian ware ... 6th c. A.D. POU-7th c. A.D. |
Outside the market square, near the southeast corner, on the south edge of the east-west road, where it passes to the south of the Mint.
There is no doubt that the pottery from the well is "stratified" ... Early 1st to 6th c. and of 8th c. A.D. |
Well G, just south of Room D. It was finally filled in the 6th c. A.D. with some attractive sculpture. Its contents suggest that the building was not used for metal work, but was purely domestic containing ... 3rd-6th c. A.D. |
Well at 19/ΝΒ, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus ... 550-525 B.C. |
East (service) courtyard. A break ca. 540 was followed by an accumulation of nearly a meter of snail shells, and on top a small amount of pottery running down to the end of the 6th century. Coins(?): cf ... POU mid 3rd to late 6th c. |
Shallow Pit at ca. 6/ΘΗ.
Small finds catalogued as Ω for the 1957 season, with reference to other sections, nbp (ΑΑ). 1462.
No other reference ... 3th c. B.C. ? |
Well behind Stoa Shop 18 (Well G: EB). Provides useful antecedents for many later shapes both black and plain.
Diameter at bottom 0.88m. Eight pairs of footholds preserved. The influx of water during excavation ... 650-625 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. |
Thra (ΘΡΑ) Well (East of Stoa Room 2). Heavy dumped filling, including figured, black and plain wares, and also a quantity of animal bones, mostly skulls of oxen. On many of these the horns had been sawn ... Ca. 520-480 B.C. |
Well in Stoa Shop 2. Diameter at top 1.20m. P 2527, P 25280 and P 25281 found at the bottom indicated a short period of use. The dumped filling above consisted in large part of clay of different colors, ... Ca. 525-500 B.C. |
| Well in Stoa Shop 3. Diameter at top 1.20m. The mouth o the well was overlaid by a large conglomerate block placed by the Stoa builders to seal it. Masses of pottery including many water-jars filled the ... Ca 520-480 B.C. |
No period of use. Below the upper (Early Roman) dump extending down to ca. 6.10m. was a dumped fill of broken pottery in great quantity, including a high proportion of red-figured fragments. Masses of ... Ca. 430-400 B.C.
Late 1st c. B.C.-mid 1st c. A.D. |
Well in street leading to Roman Agora. Not excavated below 2.10m.
This has the same date as the latest pieces in R 13:1 (JWH). Coins:
6 August 1946 #1-#3 Estimated Grid ... Ca. 40-50 A.D. |
Well at 21/Ε (beneath Library of Pantainos).
The clearing of the well was abandoned because of a cave-in of the rock walls. Heavy dumped filling, the proportion of fine black table ware high ... Ca. 440-425 B.C. |
Well A
Mostly uniform dumped fill. use level probably late. The well head (A 2753) had evidently been broken up and thrown in as soon as the well went out of use. Dumped filling, second quarter of 7th ... 7th century B.C. |
Drain at 7/ΙΘ-ΚΑ ... Early Roman |
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. |
Well in Coletti Garden.
Diameter 1m. There were no traces of hand holes in its walls. At 5.2m depth below datum on the S-E side of the shaft, a small underground stream emptied into the well. The stratigraphy ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Well at 9/ΛΔ, left unfinished. Coins
27 May 1938 #1 (sand at top) M.C. suggests date as second half of 6th c. (March 1956), p. 1052.
No containers ... 550-500 A.D. |
A well outside the market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way; Diameter 1.10m ... 600-550 B.C. |
Well outside market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way. Accumulated use filling from first half of 1st c. A.D. to early 3rd c. Top to 14.65m. 4th c. dump; nothing significant catalogued ... POU First half of 1st c.-early 3rd c. A.D. |
Well ΑΒ located on the lower terrace to the north of the sanctuary(diameter 1.10m). Foot-holes were cut into the shaft at intervals of ca. 0.40m. The fill consisted mostly of small stones, dug bedrock, ... Second quarter of the 6th century B.C. |
North of Eleusinion: Fill in Room 3 of Roman Building. 614 sherds (6 miniature shapes, 20 intrusive sherds).
Objects : terracottas; loom weights; spindle whorls; disks; handmade tray; lamps.
Early ware ... First half of 6th c. B.C.-Mixed Fill to ca. 480 B.C. |
Well at 15/ΙΕ = Pocket in side of Turkish Pit at 15/ΙΔ.
Shallow well on the lower slopes of the Acropolis, east of the Panathenaic Way, in the area later occupied by the Archaic Building.
Located 3.5m ... 700-675 B.C. with intrusions |
Klepsydra: Filling in antechamber, behind the parapet of the Klepsydra. Dated to the time of the rebuilding of the springhouse after the Sullan sack, but containing earlier material. Coins:
31 May 1938 ... Second quarter of 5th c. to middle of 1st c. B.C. |
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 |
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