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| The well (at 52/Ι in Section Ω) that supplied the Late Roman Water Channel. The area in front of the chamber was used by those coming to the well ... southeast 992 Horizontal (normal) ... 21 May 1957 |
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. |
Dealer's Dump at 10/Θ.
Debris filling beneath a modern house floor, apparently from the shop of an antiquities' dealer; otherwise unrelated to the Agora area. Compare similar dumps, K 14:1 and N 10:1 ... Modern context |
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 |
A small square well at 37/ΚΑ (about 0.60x0.70m), on the north slope of the Areopagus. Curbed with rough stones.
Filling of a small shallow well which contained nothing from the POU and since no water was ... Ca. 350-320 B.C. |
Coins:
19 May 1938 #1 (illegible)
20 May 1938 #3-#5, #12-#20 (Dump) ... 4th-6th c. A.D. |
| Roman Pithos at 38/ΛΔ. Cf. also Ψ734 (P 14037) from late pit at 41/ΛΓ ... Early to Middle Roman |
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. |
Containers 1-52. Top to 20.00m. = modern fill.
Note a strong presence of W. Asia Minor (non-export-type) closed vessels here - did owner perhaps come from there? [JWH] Coins:
25 May 1938 #1-#2 ... Late Roman 5th-7th c. A.D. |
Containers 53 (transitional)-69. Coins:
20 May 1938 #6
21 May 1938 #1
26 May 1938 #1-#2 ... Early Roman 1st 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. |
Well at 19/ΝΒ, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus ... 550-525 B.C. |
| Macedonian League ... Cop 1372, 1373 AλEχANδPOY Head of Alexander wearing lion's skin r. KOINON MAKEδONωN B NEω Horseman r. 85-24-32 ... 3rd century after Christ |
| The well (at 52/Ι in Section Ω) that supplied the Late Roman Water Channel. The area in front of the chamber was used by those coming to the well ... AMS southeast 992 Horizontal (normal) ... 21 May 1957 |
Sample of clay: a little of this taken by M F (?) for chemical analysis, July 1939, p. 874 ... Middle of 6th B.C. |
Fragmentary black glazed pots; figurine fragments; lamp fragments; loom weights ... Mid 4th B.C. |
Glazed fragments ... Mid 4th B.C. |
Fragmentary pots; coarse and fine ... Mid 4th B.C. |
Coarse fragments; transport amphoras ... Mid 4th B.C. |
Coarse fragments; transport amphoras ... Mid 4th B.C. |
Coarse fragments; transport amphoras; mortars; heavy basins; roof-tiles ... Mid 4th B.C. |
Coarse fragments; bases of closed shapes; fragments of water jars; table amphoras ... Mid 4th B.C. |
Coarse Fragments; lekanai; cooking ware ... Mid 4th B.C. |
Rim Fragments of Large Pithos ... Mid 4th B.C. |
Fragments of Several Grey Amphorae ... Mid 4th B.C. |
Glass fragments ... Early-Middle Roman |
Some later scraps; lamp fragments Type 20, 24 and 25 ... Early Roman |
Selected sherds; graffito fragments; figurine fragments; lamp fragments Type 20, 25 and 27 ... Early Roman |
Larger and plainer fragments ... Early Roman |
Large and plainer pieces ... Early Roman |
Disturbed ... Early Roman |
Fragments of amphorae with dipinti ... Early-Middle Roman |
Coarse early Byzantine ... Latest Roman-Early Byzantine |
Stones; a few Sherds; pots begin again ... 19 May 1938 |
This tin fell of shelf in earthquake September 1999, contents of box remained together, but rest were found on the floor accompanied by the internal label. A few scraps from tin Ψ 119 and Ω 257, may now ... May 1938 |
Containers 19-22: many pots catalogued; the remainder packed of in one tin in field ... 13-14 May 1938 |
Figurine fragments ... 16-17 May 1938 |
In envelope in tin selected scraps from dump: lamps; figurines etc ... 17-18 May 1938 |
A few scraps from Ψ 119 and Ω 257, may now be mixed in. JWH October 1999. p. 906.
Tin 119 displaced by earthquake September 1999. A few pieces from here may now have been put back in container T 86 (JWH) ... 26 May 1938 |
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