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Containers Lot Α 306-Lot Α 340. Estimated Grid ... Ca. 575-535 B.C ... G/7,8-6/4,5 |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XVI: PG). Bones discarded.
Only the lower portion of the urn-hole was preserved in bedrock, roughly oval in outline, with a maximum preserved width at the top of 0.70m narrowing ... Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 7, pp. 62-65, fig. 2.18, 2.19, pl. V ... Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 325. |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave II: SM).
Unlined trench, roughly the size of the deceased, cut into bedrock to a depth of just over 1.50m. Oriented north-south, the tomb pit measured 1.69m in length (length ... Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric ... Hesperia VII, 1938, pp. 324-325 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 1, pp. 45-49, figs. 2.5-2.7, 3.10, pl. 1 ... Hesperia XIV, 1945, p. 301, no. 54 (AA 9). |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (adult female). (In some records as Grave XXXI).
The tomb was partly destroyed in antiquity; there are sherds of all periods down to Late Roman (and later) note din the fill immediately above it ... Middle Geometric I ... Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 325 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 21, pp. 213-217, 538, figs. 2.126-2.128. |
Well on the north slope of the Areopagus. Unfinished, probably because of hardness of rock, and refilled at once, perhaps with sanctuary dump and with collapsed rock from the shaft itself.
Diameter 1.15m ... 3rd quarter of the 7th c. B.C ... 3rd quarter of the 7th c. B.C. |
Tomb at 53-54/ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ-ΛΗ (Late Roman), on the lower north slope of the Areopagus Nb. says ΛΕ-ΛΗ. Deposit list and deposit DB say: ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ ... 350-400 A.D ... Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 353-355, fig. 41. |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave III: SM).
The close proximity and similarity of this tomb and tomb M 16-17:1 strongly suggests that they were intentionally laid out in relation to one another and were contemporary ... Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric ... Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 325 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 2, pp. 49-52, 527-528, figs. 2.8, 2.9, 3.11, 3.12 ... Hesperia 73 (2004), p. 26, n. 72. |
| Grave V, under room 18 in House 3, plus burned deposit at 94/IΘ. Identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR on Agoraios Kolonos:
In southeast corner of house 3. 35 artifacts, bone and charred material in pit, ... Ca. 300-275 B.C ... Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 354-355 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 21, pp. 123, 124, figs. 1, 50, 51 ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 17, n. 39. |
| A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several ... Ca. 575-480 B.C ... Hesperia 15 (1946), pp. 265-336 ... B.C. cf. Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 363-411. |
Big well at 61/ΙΖ.
A well on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus. Diameter 2m ... Ca. 520-475 and shortly after ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 461-464 ... Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 242-243, figs. 24-25 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375. |
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 ... N 20:7 ... N 20:7 |
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 ... Coins:
31 May 1938 #1
4 May 1938 #1-#7
13 June 1938 #1 |
From kiln in house of 7th c. B.C. (=Building A), to southeast of Tholos. Tholos Trench U, furnace ... 675-625 B.C ... From kiln in house of 7th c. B.C. (=Building A), to southeast of Tholos. |
A very homogeneous dumped filling and no period of use. Apparently a failure as a well.
T 263-T 289 resorted and reduced August 1967. Cf. BI 157 "from behind the curbing of the well by Stoa pier 3." Estimated ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... failure as a well.
T 263-T 289 |
Filling of Middle Drain (Tr. H+F in Section Ζ). Sand and gravel filling of the old course of the west branch of the Great Drain, a large (ca. 1.00m. deep and 1.30m. wide) underground channel in the area ... 150-100 B.C ... 16 April 1937 #1-#3
7 June ... 1937 #1-#21
19 February 1938 #1-#4
21 February 1938 #1-#3 |
A strosis into which were set the foundations of house of 7th c. B.C. to SE of Tholos (=Building A and Trench W, layers h + i) ... 8th-7th c. B.C ... A strosis into which were set the foundations of house of 7th c. B.C. to SE of |
Well at 67/ΛΓ on the northeast slope of the Areopagus. Connected with the same cistern system as O 20:2.
Dug as several fills but probably a continuous accumulation Coin
28 May 1938 #1 (?) Illegible N ... 300-250 B.C ... Lawall (2004), pp. 447-448 ... Agora XXIX, pp. 466-467 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), p. 173. |
Well at 19/ΝΒ, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus ... 550-525 B.C ... -12.7m. |
Investigations in the Hellenistic Metroon, various levels. Stoa Pits A, B, C, D, E, F, H and I (various layers).
Locations include:
SW corner of Primitive Bouleuterion; from contemporary filling alongside ... 8th-6th c. B.C ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 117-138, and 120, fig. 64 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 8-15, fig. 9. |
Archaic house with Distyle Porch (= Building J) in southeast of section: packing beneath floors (Layers a and b of Tholos Trench S.Layer b=Beneath original floor dated to ca. 500 B.C.
Layer a=Between original ... 6th-early 5th c. B.C ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 477-480 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 34-38; p. 41 (plan) ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375. |
Well at 18/ΜΓ, on the lower north slope of the Acropolis, under the course of the later Panathenaic Way, west of the Archaic Building.
Diameter 0.97m. Water level 8m.
At the mouth of the well and to a ... Late 8th to 675 B.C ... S 19:7 ... S 19:7 |
A pit, perhaps a well, extending beneath the foundations of [Building D, the Primitive Bouleuterion] the Hellenistic Metroon. Not completely dug due to its position. A dumped filling so far as dug, apparently ... Ca. 575-525 B.C ... H/6,7-10/16,17 ... -3.7m. |
Well (stone-curbed shaft) near middle of Tholos which served the prior building.
Period of Use dated to ca. 500-480(?) B.C., Upper fill dated to ca. 480-470 B.C. or soon after in Agora XXX (a gradual ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 449, 451 ... Hesperia 8 (1939), pp. 229-232 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4, pp. 30-33 (the second well of Building F). |
| Small pit (in Layer I) = Grave ("Pyre") Identified as pyre by SIR.
Pottery and burning ("pit filled with black") in pit slightly west of Panathenaic Road, dug into layer I (lot AA 180, much earlier 6th ... 275-250 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 66, pp. 177, 178, figs. 4, 118. |
Investigations within the Stoa of Zeus, the north part, various levels.
Notebook references: Stoa Trench E Layers IV and V, Stoa Pits A, B and C, and Layers I and II of area between back wall and retaining ... 5th c. B.C ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 12-20, figs. 3 and 7 ... Hesperia 18 (1949), no. 157. |
Great Drain South (ca. 70-113, from SW edge of section as far north as the Roman Bath) Hellenistic Sand Fill. Silted-up filling of the southern branch of the Great Drain, abandoned due to some damage at ... 4th. c.-86 B.C ... Hesperia 45 (1976), pp. 15-19, pls. 1-4 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 262-263 ... Agora X, pp. 67, 135-136. |
| 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 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 95-96, 129-132 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), p. 21, n. 30. |
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