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Filling of early N-S road and related fills, in the area of the Geometric Cemetery south of the Tholos; various levels including plundered foundation trench.
For late, disturbed or uncertain levels over ... 7th-6th c. B.C. |
Area of early road and Geometric Cemetery: late, disturbed or uncertain levels. Includes Geometric/Proto Attic material thrown in the Turkish well at 35/Δ. Includes between road and bedrock in Β'. Four ... 5 May 1934
19-23 March 1935
2 April 1935 |
| Grave 19 in notebook. Bones only AA 3.
Length 2.15m; width 0.63m; depth 0.52m.
Woman' skeleton with head at north. Cover slabs piled at foot of grave, probably by the diggers of Well J 18:8, who rifled ... Late Geometric |
Well 8 (in Tholos), put out of use by a fall of the rock walls and replaced by well G 11:3. Scanty use filling at and near the bottom, separated by a mass of fallen rock from a debris filling in the upper ... Ca. 550-500 B.C. and 480 B.C. |
Rodney S. Young ... Grave 1 in notebook. Slightly disturbed by the digging of Pit A.
A large oil jar/amphora lay on its side with a flat stone stopping its mouth. The three small vases offered at the burial were found, together ... Ca. 600 B.C. |
Grave 2 in notebook. The burial was destroyed by the digging of Pit A, at the edge of which was found a mass of sherds belonging to the grave amphora. Among the sherds were found small cups, fragments ... Late Geometric |
Grave 3 in notebook. Grave partly destroyed by well B. Skeleton and offerings lost. The amphora mouth was doubly stopped by the bases of two other amphoras, one in its neck, the other in its mouth ... 750-725 B.C. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 4 in notebook. Amphora, no other pots but carbonized remains of food offerings. Over urn two stone slabs, on top, mass of small stones containing Late Geometric sherd ... Late Geometric |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 5 in notebook.
The grave had been somewhat disturbed by the digging of Well B. The hydria lay on its side; in it was found the skeleton of a small child lying on its side with the knees drawn up ... Late 8th-early 7th c. B.C. |
| Grave 7 in notebook. Area disturbed in Roman times; outlines of the shaft had been obliterated.
The northwest end, however, was preserved in a cutting in the rock of the sloping hillside. This cutting, ... 750-700 B.C. |
| Grave 7b in notebook. Inhumation in Tholos Cemetery; The skeleton positioned directly below the male in Grave 7, but with direction reversed, i.e., head at southeast end. Most grave offerings at lower ... 750-725 B.C. |
| Grave 8 in notebook.
Inhumation in Tholos Cemetery. Length of shaft 1.75m; Width at upper end 0.95m; Depth from cover 0.70m.
One end cut into sloping rock.
Skeleton of a woman, with head southeast. Most ... 750-725 B.C. |
| Urn Burial in Tholos Cemetery. Grave 9 in notebook.
Amphora containing bones of a small child. Little pots had been put under its neck ... Late 8th-Early 7th c. B.C. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 10 in notebook. No remains. Probably grave of a woman.
Only a small portion of the inhumation pit was preserved at the northeast edge of pit A, a large oval cutting of modern date dug for the construction ... Middle Geometric II |
Grave 11 in notebook. Grave disturbed by diggers of pit A.
Only skull and left arm of man's skeleton remained in position, head toward N.E. Cover slabs were piled near head ... Late Geometric |
Grave 12 in notebook. Probably an adult burial ... Late Geometric |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 13 in notebook.
Two skeletons of small children lay in a pithos which had been put on its side; its mouth was stopped by a stone slab.
Most offerings were inside the pithos, but two kantharoi and ... Late Geometric |
| Grave 14 in notebook.
Length of shaft 2.12m; width 0.46m; depth from cover 0.60m. Man's skeleton stretched NE-SW with head at NE. Offering at foot of shaft, with the skyphos in the mouth of the pitcher ... 750-725 B.C. |
Rodney S. Young ... Grave 15 in notebook.
Skeleton of infant inside the hydria which lay on its side, its mouth stopped by cup; a pitcher stood by the neck of the hydria ... 750-725 B.C. |
| Grave 16 in notebook.
Length of shaft 1.81m; width 0.64m; depth from cover 0.54m.
Skeleton of a woman , head at northwest end. Most of pots piled over feet and legs of skeleton at southeast end.
An iron ... 750 B.C. |
Rodney S. Young ... Grave 17 in notebook. No offerings.
Amphora containing skeleton of small child was laid on its side in pit. RSY
Lot Β 304 Fill over Grave 17 ... Early 6th century B.C (?) |
| Burned Deposit. A thick deposit of ash, cinders and pottery fragments extending alongside wall of cemetery. Character of pottery like the pyre of F 12:2 ... Late Geometric |
| Grave 20 in notebook. Objects recorded in nb. from Grave 21 (earlier and disturbed by Grave 20) are included here. A pyre [using pieces of pots from Grave 21] was probably burned beside grave 20 and some ... Late Geometric |
| Grave 21 in notebook. Grave twice disturbed. Of the skeleton only the thigh bones were found. No offerings.
Objects listed in nb. as from Grave 21 are taken to be with grave 20 (probably pyre objects) ... Late Geometric |
Two narrow trenches at right angles to each other.
Small deposit in bedrock cutting Good black glaze ware ... 430-420 B.C. |
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. |
| 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 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. |
Various layers and dates, primarily from Tholos Tr. L (area of early road drain), Q (area of road) and V (area of road).
Also Room G of Trench V listed with G-H 11-12 probably has road layers (no finds, ... 8th c.-ca. 480 B.C. |
From kiln in house of 7th c. B.C. (=Building A), to southeast of Tholos. Tholos Trench U, furnace ... 675-625 B.C. |
| An area about 10m2. on the lower northwest slopes of the Areopagus, southeast of the archaic fountain house. A dumped fill to the end of the 3rd quarter of the 7th c. B.C., containing many votives, overlying ... 7th c. - 625 B.C. |
Middle Stoa Building Fill.
Cf. also H-I-J 14-15, H-K 12-14 (ask SIR) (unsolved)
This deposit is not definitive and must be considered with the above deposits before details are entered into database; ... Before ca. 150 B.C. |
Middle Stoa Building Fill (with filling to S) (See also Κ: H-I-J 14-15 and Λ: K-M 13-14)
This deposit is not definitive and must be considered with the above deposits before details are entered into database; ... To ca. 180 B.C. |
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. |
Near the SW corner of the market square beneath the north part of the Heliaia (?).
No clear distinction in the filling, either of date or of character, could be observed but the presence of a number of ... Ca. 625-570 B.C. |
| Different plans and sections. Top row: in ΠΘ, storage pit (Deposit B 14:5); in ΓΓ inhumation of a child, (Deposit E 19:2); Protoattic oinochoe fragment P 13284. Bottom row: in ΓΓ inhumation of a male (Deposit ... E. Brann (PD 1040, PD 1053) Piet de Jong (PD 434, PD 435) John Travlos (PD 1065 a, b) ... PD 1053 PD 1040 PD 435 PD 434 PD 1065-a PD 1065-b no grid for Q 17:6; Horizontal (normal) ... 1958 |
| Plan of the Agora indicating wells, graves, and other deposits (Submycenaean, Geometric, Protoattic, and black figure) ... John Travlos Hero Athanassiades ... Scanned. DB: 128.
Oversize, scanned summer 2019.
Negative 83-67bis is 1959 version. 83-67 83-67bis 2002.01.1125 83-67 83-67bis 2002.01.1125 Fragile Torn Stained Dirty Repaired Heavy Tracing Paper Drafting ... 1959
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| Plan of the Agora indicating wells, graves, and other deposits (Submycenaean, Geometric, Protoattic, and black figure) ... John Travlos Hero Athanassiades ... Scanned. DB: 128, see 2002.01.1125
Linked plan is 1961 version.
Negative 83-67bis is 1959 version. 83-67 83-67bis 2002.01.1125 83-67 83-67bis 2002.01.1125 ... 1959
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| Different plans and sections. Top row: in ΠΘ, storage pit (Deposit B 14:5); in ΓΓ inhumation of a child, (Deposit E 19:2); Protoattic oinochoe fragment P 13284. Bottom row: in ΓΓ inhumation of a male (Deposit ... E. Brann (PD 1040, PD 1053) Piet de Jong (PD 434, PD 435) John Travlos (PD 1065 a, b) ... PD 1053 PD 1040 PD 435 PD 434 PD 1065-a PD 1065-b no grid for Q 17:6; Horizontal (normal) ... 1958 |
| Pottery from the 8th and 7th centuries B.C. Figured fragments ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Pottery from the 8th and 7th centuries B.C. Figured fragments ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Plan of the Agora indicating wells, graves and other deposits: Submycenaean, Geometric, Protoattic and Black Figure. Scale 1:500 ... John Travlos H. Athanassiades (Iro Athanassiadou) ... PD 1125 AMS Horizontal (normal) ... 1961 |
| Numerous fragments preserve less than half. Part of rim, wall and bottom, one handle and part of the other preserved.
Flat rim, lug handles pierced. Band of dark glaze around rim, bottom and body. Well ... 20 April 1959 |
Mended from many pieces; one handle, parts of body and rim missing and restored. Profile complete except for center of floor.
Short rays above base. Glazed band on underside of foot.
Yellowish-white ... July 1952 |
Mended from many pieces; foot, one handle, parts of body and rim restored in plaster.
Short rays at base of wall. Glazed all over except between handles. Traces of white lines outside, just below rim ... July 1952 |
Mended from many pieces; one handle and piece of rim missing and restored. Flat bottom base; shallow, pointed body; slight flare in rim; handles pressed on.
Covered with glaze except for rim, handle zone ... July 1952 |
Mended from four pieces; part of body and rim restored in plaster. Low disk foot; pointed body; flaring, offset rim; band handle attached at rim.
Glazed all over except for foot, reserved circle on floor ... July 1952 |
Fragment from neck; part of lower circumference preserved, including shoulder joint. Slight flare.
At bottom one heavy, above this, two light glaze bands. Above, to left the two ends of a loop or double ... July 1952 |
Wall fragment preserving broken profile with lower part set out from upper. On outside, the offset is scalloped, on inside there is a groove.
Soft gray core between black surfaces. Polished inside and ... July 1952 |
Two non-joining fragments from a closed pot only preserved.
a) Mended from two pieces, convex. Standing on glaze band, to right, large loop; center, large long hatched triangle; to left, hooked spiral ... July 1952 |
Mended from many pieces; parts of body restored in plaster. Ring foot; round body, wide neck, continuous profile; trefoil mouth; rolled handle rising above rim.
Outside covered with glaze. Band of applied ... July 1952 |
| Section of rim, body, and one handle, preserved; mended from many pieces; foot and one handle missing; restored in plaster. High flaring rim, set on pointed bowl; rim drawn in where it meets sides; rolled ... July 1952 |
Mended from many pieces; small parts of body restored in plaster. Large hydria on low vertical ring foot; balloon body; neck profile continuous with body; spreading rim, flattened; rolled vertical handle ... July 1952 |
| Mended from many pieces; parts of rim, body, one handle restored in plaster. Flaring ring foot; ovoid body; short neck; rolled rim; band handles at shoulder.
Light buff clay. Covered inside and out with ... July 1952 |
From neck and shoulder of an oinochoe(?). Glazed inside. Above, tongues; below, scale pattern. Red for alternate tongues and alternate rows of scales. Careful incision. Pale buff clay; rather dull black ... 10 June 1953 |
Fragments of mouth missing, otherwise intact. Flat bottom; deep ovoid body; trefoil mouth; rising double-rolled handle.
On shoulder, a pair of grazing deer; diamond, chevron and water bird ornament. Band ... 8 December 1953 |
| Fragments of mouth missing, otherwise intact. Flat bottom; deep ovoid body; trefoil mouth; rising double-rolled handle.
On shoulder, three running dogs, right, pursuing a hare. Zigzag and double axe as ... 8 December 1953 |
One handle and some of mouth missing. Low false ring foot; neck flares to plain rim, flattened on top. Band handles from neck.
Brown micaceous clay. Unglazed. Well, under rubble wall of predecessor of ... 9 December 1953 |
Mended from several pieces; small parts of rim and upper wall missing. Deep flat-bottomed cup with flaring rim; band handle from rim.
Streaky red glaze. Reserved: inside of rim and outer edge; narrow ... 8 December 1953 |
From side of large pot; bit of inner edge of rim preserved, otherwise broken all around. Horizontal loop handle set just below rim.
Bands of matte red below handle, at side of it and on it.
Rather gritty ... 21 April 1953 |
Mended from two pieces; cracked. Hollow flaring base. Concave bottom of open bowl, glazed inside. Outside, broad, widely spaced bands.
Pinkish-buff clay; glaze much peeled. White surface. Scratches on ... 21 June 1955 |
| Belly-handled amphora.
a) Curved belly piece preserving handle attachment. Hatching on handle. To left, panel with concentric circles.
b) Curved piece, to left, panel with concentric circles, cross in ... (June 1955) |
| Many fragments. Handle and base missing. Banded up to shoulder. Then solid, except for neck panel with grazing horse, head in outline.
Late Geometric.
ADDENDA In all respects = horse on Benaki amphora, ... (June 1955) |
Part of rim, wall and one handle stub of a small skyphos. Reserved band at level of handles.
Incised in large letters on side:
Dull reddish-brown glaze. Hollow with silt over niche of Mycenaean Tomb ... 13, 23 June 1951 |
| Mended from many pieces; parts of rim and wall, a little of base and all of one handle missing. High stand, flaring below, wheel ridged above; deep tapering bowl; vertical rim; double horizontal handles ... 26 June 1951 |
About half of mouth and neck preserved and one handle stub, of a large amphora with thickened rounded rim. On one side of the neck, a bird to left, in outline, with checkerboard wing.
Soft pink to gray ... 4 July 1951 |
| Small piece from the rim of a pyxis or bowl. Rim turns sharply inward; flanged as for lid. Outside, head of a long-necked bird; hook spirals. Dull glaze inside. Red on top of the rim. Fill over bedrock, ... 6 June 1951 |
| Most of one handle and fragments of body, foot, and rim missing. Flat bottom and low slightly flaring rim. Narrow reserved band just below glazed edge of rim, outside and in; undecorated handle zone, handles ... 14-19 June 1951 |
| One fragment mended from three pieces, of rim and shoulder, another, non-joining of spring of handle. Short straight rim, and horizontal band handle with a raised end against wall of vase. Glazed inside; ... 14-19 June 1951 |
| Truncated wedge of plate's bottom and side preserved. Flat floor, heavy thickened rim, concave on outer face; small lug at top of rim. Coarse micaceous clay, reddish-brown. Bottom of plate inside and one ... 14-19 June 1951 |
| One edge preserved, and a little of the smooth-finished back surface. The thickness decreases from the edge inwards. A vent hole(?) ca. 0.007m. in diameter, runs through the piece lengthwise, a little ... 14-19 June 1951 |
| About two-thirds of rim and body, half of foot, and one handle missing.
Flat bottom; straight rim tilted slightly outward. Glazed outside except bottom, inside of handle, stripe just below edge of lip, ... 14-19 June 1951 |
| Apparently from the same pot as P 1694 - P 1695.
Mended from two fragments.
On the flange, one dot rosette and part of another preserved, bordered by a plain band along the lower edge. Checkerboard band ... 2 April 1932 |
| Mended from many fragments; handles, most of one side and pieces from the other missing. Restored in plaster. Ring foot.
Large reversed Σ pattern around upper part; below this, a diamond chain; around ... 31 March 1932 |
| a) mended from three pieces, b) from two, c) from four.
a) above four narrow bands, two legs of animal walking right, drawn solid; between them, a spiral, in front of them a diamond.
c) part of the animal's ... 6 April 1932 |
| Edge preserved, with tooth pattern between bands. Above, zone of waterbirds feeding; one bird and parts of two others preserved, heads in outline, bodies fired red. At inner edge of fragment, a reddish-black ... 15 April 1932 |
| One leg preserved complete, with a small part of the bowl and the attachment at the top.
Decorated with elongated bird, which has an extremely long neck, twisted back on itself; head painted in outline ... 19 April 1932 |
| a) mended from three fragments, preserves part of the rim decorated with groups of cross stripes, on flat top. Outside, vertical panels: hatching, zigzag, and large guilloche, separated by narrow bands ... 18, 21 May 1932 |
Lip, one handle, much of neck and many wall fragments missing; body restored in plaster. Much weathered and chipped. Eggy body on high, nearly vertical ring foot; short straight neck. Broad handles, neck ... 11-24 May 1938 |
Fragment from a large stand, preserving right edge. Center, part of a figure with arm and hand reaching across fragment to right; below a head, left, with large eye and elaborate helmet or headdress. Horizontal ... 12-21 May 1938 |
From the neck of a large closed pot. At left, a tall narrow plant or tree, made of spirals flanking a stem. At right, what appears to be mane and part of the neck of a horse, right; filling, a swastika ... 12-21 May 1938 |
An edge preserved at lower right. From a handle of a krater. In a panel on the outside, a bird and filling ornaments. Disturbed fill. Leica, 81-598 ... June 1938 |
| A number of joining fragments preserve part of the body of a large pithos around which run two slightly raised bands averaging about 0.04m. wide. The bands are decorated with a geometric pattern of impressed ... September 1932 |
| The front of the trefoil mouth missing; restored in plaster. Low flat base, a cross on the bottom, Rounded body, and tall, slightly concave neck. On the body, four sets of concentric circles, overlapping ... 15 March 1938 |
| Fragments of the lip missing; restored in plaster. Vertical ring foot and plump ovoid body; wide neck, slightly concave, flaring to a rounded lip. Band handles, shoulder to halfway up neck. The body glazed ... 15 March 1938 |
Two non-joining fragments from rim of large krater.
a) The long neck of a horse and part of a dot rosette.
b) A dot rosette, a star and other decoration.
On top of rim, groups of strokes.
Interior black ... 25 May 1937 |
| Mouth, most of handle, and most of bottom missing. Restored in plaster. Concave bottom; squat body, lower and upper parts meeting at sharp angle; narrow upward-tapering neck. On body, bands; on neck, bands ... 14 March-21 April 1936 |
| Neck and part of shoulder; mouth and handle missing. In panel on front of neck, two facing birds feeding; double chevron column between them. Below, bands. On body, wide and narrow glaze bands.
Bluish-black ... 14 March-21 April 1936 |
| About one-third of upper part of neck and mouth. One fragment does not join. Wide band of glaze around mouth. Fine vertical line of this glaze at middle of front. Around lip, set about 0.02m. below, a ... 14 March-21 April 1936 |
| Part of neck and trefoil mouth; filled out with plaster. Horizontal band above and below neck; rim glazed. On front of neck four-legged frog-like animal; vertical zigzags to sides.
Pinkish-buff clay, ... 14 March-21 April 1936 |
| Restored in plaster. Flat bottom. High vertical band handles. Inside, streaky brownish glaze. Outside, unglazed(?). Finished Geometric well. Leica, 81-361, 82-107 ... 14 March-21 April 1936 |
| The handle broken off but mended; two chips missing from the back of the lip; in the front of the shoulder, a small hole. Otherwise intact.
Flat-bottomed oinochoe with slight base-like projection; high ... 2 March 1935 |
| Mended from many pieces; a few small bits missing from the wall. Flat-bottomed kantharos with convex-concave body ending in a plain rim. Two high vertical handles. Lower body glazed; above the glaze, three ... 2 March 1935 |
| a) Part of P 25263 (ΟΕ 282). A portion of a frieze with panels of circles separated from another panel by a band of hatched lines; the second panel with a lozenge in the middle and parallel lines; below ... 16 June 1931 |
| Part of the side, narrowed at the middle, and a bit of the flat under-surface. On the outside, three wide bands, the upper and lower of purple paint, the middle one of black glaze partly fired red and ... 11 July 1931 |
| Joins P 214.
Three fragments joined, preserving nearly half of the circumference of the cup at the rim, and part of the body. The body was rounded, pinched in toward the top and flaring above to form a ... 11 February 1932 |
| To the left of the fragment, a large motif formed of boxed squares. In the cnetre, the lower part of the body and jointed legs (extremities missing) of a bird(?) or horse(?) with filling ornament ("running ... 13 February 1932 |
| Trefoil lip. Lip to body handle broken away. Jug leans forward, right, from flat but not level base. Squat body tapers to thickish neck. Decoration in horizontal bands of brown glaze; a reserved band at ... 2 March 1932 |
| Fragment from rim and wall.
Pattern in narrow stripes of brown glaze, the shoulder frieze including an hourglass motif in solid color. Lattice triangle and butterfly ornament. Inside covered with red ... 31 March 1932 |
| Thick semi-cylindrical fragment, from stand or neck of large pot. Three legs and the underpart of the body of a beast are preserved; animal proceeding left.
Coarse pinkish-buff clay, with slightly lighter ... 1 April 1932 |
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