| Title: | Well by Stoa Pier 3. | |
| Category: | Well | |
| Description: | Well by Stoa Pier 3. Mouth was discovered in 1950 (p. 2273). Between first and second POU; no joins between the groups, which were separated by nearly sterile fill. No apparent chronological difference between the two groups. Interesting well because of its probable connection with the building of the Stoa of Attalos. It contained a great deal of water throughout the digging, and it started to fill up after excavation. The large numbers of water-jars found in it suggests that it must have been a good source of water in antiquity and it seems probable that it served as water-supply for the workmen engaged in building the Stoa. It lined with tiles for the lower four meters, six rows an all; above the tiles it continued as a neatly cut circular shaft about 1.10m in diameter, with regular footholds on the SW and NE sides. In the lowest fifty centimeters the fill was of reddish mud,, containing a quantity of household utensils, fragments of metal, wood and bone, and even a hazel-nut and some shells. This filling probably belongs to a time before the building of Stoa, when the well served some nearby house or shop. Immediately above this lower filling came a meter of fill containing many buff poros chips, some marble chips and a large number of water-jars, but no other vase-shapes, apart from chance sherds. This may be called the first "workmen's period." Above this filling, to the top of the tiles, the well contained broken bedrock, along with a few chips and pebbles, topped by a layer 50 cm deep of hard-packed dark blue clay, forming a lid, as it were, over the lower, tiled part of the well. Above this clay layer, for the lower 60cm of the unlined part of the shaft, the loose broken bedrock fill continued, followed by a meter of buff poros chips filling, with some marble chips and many water-jars, a second "workmen's period". An Unfinished marble mortar and a ladle-like object of marble also came from this filling. The four meters above this were again filled with loose bedrock and a few stone chips. Above this, for nearly a meter, the well shaft was obstructed by large rocks, covered by a meter of hard-packed greenish fill containing some coarse sherds and tile fragments, mostly earlier than the pottery in the lower parts of the well, and not joining with any of it. It seems probable that both the rocks and the green fill were thrown in when the construction of the Stoa had advanced to a point where it was necessary to abandon the use of teh well, and to fill it up. | |
| Bibliography: | Agora XXIX, pp. 469-470. | |
| Agora XXVII, p. 231. | ||
| Agora XXXIII, p. 373. | ||
| Chronology: | Mid-2nd c. B.C. | |
| Date: | 10-19 April 1951 | |
| Section: | ΣΑ | |
| Elevation: | -12m. | |
| References: | Publication: Agora XXVII Publication: Agora XXIX Publication: Agora XXXIII Publication Pages (4) Objects (16) |
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