Agora Deposit: I 13:4
Title:   Geometric Well in Middle Stoa
Category:   Well
Description:   Located in Middle Stoa, west, south aisle, beneath pressure pipe (cf. A 4900). The siting of the well is remarkable in its proximity to Well I 13:3, also Geometric in date, which was found in 1968 only some 1.70m to the northwest (under the Klepsydra Drain).
Diameter of just over 0.80m. with handholds cut into the west and east sides of the shaft at meter-long intervals all the way down.
The filling coincided with, or soon followed, the destruction of a nearby cemetery of cremation burials.
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), p. 38, n. 129.
    D'Onofrio (2007), p. 91.
Chronology:   Second half of 8th c B.C.
Date:   10-23 July 1996
1997 (Lot ΜΣ 516)
Section:   ΜΣ
Grid:   I/11,12-13/15
Elevation:   -9.25m.
Masl:   -9.25m.
References:   Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013)
Image: 2012.82.1481 (96-50-15)
Image: 2012.82.1482 (96-50-16)
Image: 2012.82.1483 (96-50-17)
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