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| Located at the bifurcation of the Panathenaic Way and West Road.Byzantine fill (9th-10th century) in upper 5.70m. with a series of Classical to Hellenistic accumulations below. Coins:
10 July 1971 #861 ... 14 June-27 July 1971 |
| Cistern on lower north slope of Areopagus.
Latest of thirteen amphora handles dated ca.199; twelve legible coins, the latest dating ca. 196-190. Three intrusive pieces:two semiglazed fragments and piece ... 260-190 B.C. |
| Pyre 2 in Central House, Room X, under strosis 9. Signs of burning, carbonized food, animal bone.
In room south of courtyard. concentration of artifacts, bone, and charred material in floor makeup, no ... 290-275 B.C. |
South Stoa II Construction Fill.
About 85 stamped amphora handles, many with parallels in building fills of Middle Stoa and Stoa of Attalos. Fragments of long-petal bowls confirm date after mid-2nd c ... To ca. 140 B.C. |
| Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter at bottom -3.20m Upper fill: Latest coins ... Second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. |
Cistern at 70/ΛΣΤ in the northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Part of system with two chambers and well. Homogeneous fill.
13 stamped amphora handles. Latest lamp type 46 B. N 72206 (Ω-344), picked up near ... Second half of 3rd c. - Early 2nd c. B.C. |
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. |
Unfinished cistern at 31/ΚΑ ... Ca. 360-325 B.C. |
Layer 7 in South Peristyle of court of Roman House Ε. Irregular cutting in bedrock with sand, gravel, fallen bedrock. Some burning ... 275-250 B.C. |
| Dog's Grave, the bones carefully disposed. It contained a small amount of contemporary pottery in the fill, of which some deposited nearby, may have been intended as offerings ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
Bottle-shaped cistern at R/1-13/14,15, probably associated with the building which lies under the Northwest Stoa. Single dumped fill. Coins
11 June 1975 #822
11 July 1975 #864 July 1997 samples taken by ... 300-265 B.C. |
Tile-lined Well in NE room (R/18,19-13/20).
Homogenous dump ... 350-325 B.C. |
Well at 19/Λ.
The bottom of this well contained a considerable quantity of dug bedrock which had fallen in before the well came into use; over this was a fill with oinochoae representing the POU. The presence ... 340-325 B.C. |
Drawshaft of a complex cistern system with two chambers (D 11:4, E 11:1), two more drawshafts (D 11:3, D 12:2), and two blind tunnels, all of which were filled later than D 11;2. Coins:
26 March 1936 #1 ... 300-215 B.C. |
Cistern with considerable dumped fill at the north foot of Kolonos Agoraios. It may have been abandoned ca. 295-295 B.C.; it will have been filled by 280 B.C.
Multiple vessels share same stamps, and painted ... Ca. 325-250 B.C. |
Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.
Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C.
Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D. |
Well associated with the Tholos, with scanty use fill but primarily dumped filling. Coins:
5 April 1934 #1-#4
10 April 1934 #1-#2
11 April 1934 #1
12 April 1934 #1
18 April 1934 #1-#2
19 April 1934 #1-#5 ... Ca. 350-294 B.C. |
Cistern at 9/Β (10/Β on plan), at the NW foot of the Areopagus, some 200m to the west of the Coroplast's Dump. It had evidently belonged to one of the small houses in that thickly populated residential ... Second half 4th c. B.C. |
Rectangular shaft at northwest foot of Areopagus; dumped filling of second half of 4th c. B.C. Pit at 16/Δ-Ε recorded one time as an extension of shaft 17/Δ-Ε (see L 506 and nb.p. 395), but items from ... Ca. 325-275 B.C. |
| Although separated by a sterile rocky fill the two use fillings are apparently one continuous accumulation (GRE).
Packing around well includes SS 14261, P 25943-P 25953. These are not given a subdivision ... 350-300 B.C. to ca. 225 B.C. |
A well toward the south end of Kolonos Agoraios. Period of use fill dated to ca. 325-260 B.C. and upper fill dated to ca. 250-225 B.C. in Agora XXX.
Diameter 1.10m, water level 6.90m.
Kernoi and many lead ... Ca. 325-260 B.C. |
Cistern in Room 12, House C=House N.
Simple flask-shaped chamber with draw shaft, in House M, Room 1; no tunnels. Excavated as single fill, but later analysis of material suggested two fills. Coins:
24 ... 4th. c. B.C. |
| Pyre in House C, Room 8 (RSY=Pyre 6).
Near east corner of room 8. Artifacts, burnt bone, burnt sticks, and large cinders in a shallow pit dug into surface of layer 3, and covered by layer 2. Some cinders ... 350-325 B.C.-end of 4th c. B.C. |
Grid notation in error as 99/ΚΑ sometimes.
A well (diameter 1.20m; diameter inside tiles at bottom 0.85m) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, at the bottom of the valley, about 10.00m. east of ... 3rd. c. B.C. |
Pit (= collapsed cistern). Fill mixed, late Hellenistic to early Roman. The cistern floor has an E-W channel, no doubt running from the pit at 107/Ζ to the well at 107/ΙΓ (B 21:24). Coins:
10 June 1939 ... 150-100 B.C. |
| Burned deposit: Middle Terrace, south of Archaic cemetery.
RSY: Pyre 10.
Pottery, burnt bone, charred logs, and heavy burning, recovered by tunneling under the cement floor of a Late Hellenistic workshop, ... Ca. 325-300 B.C. |
Tiled well, ca. 30m south of the Tholos. Associated with Building D. Hellenistic Group A with Late Roman fill in upper 3.00m. Objects A 245 and P 4597 are from fill on floor around well-head, contemporary ... 325-260 B.C. |
Tiled well near the SW corner of the market square between the Southwest Fountain House and the Great Drain, three fills noted: lower fill of earth and stones with a few fragments only of coarse pottery ... 4th-2nd c. B.C.
100-70 B.C. |
Shallow pit containing pottery, burning and tiny fragments of bone. A dumped group of pottery in an amphora pit, ca. 1.00 m. in diameter, 0.60m. in depth. Many tiny fragments of bone were in the fill ... 375-325 B.C. |
Cistern-system west of the Stoa of Zeus. Two chambers connected by a tunnel, each with two fills. Lower fill in south chamber contemporary with upper fill in north chamber, at the end of the 4th c. B.C ... Ca. 375-160 B.C. |
| An extensive cistern system on the lower north slope of the Areopagus, south chamber with blind tunnel extending further south (south tunnel); north chamber; drawshaft further north, extends to north tunnel ... Ca. 320-240 B.C. |
A filling lying over a cobbled floor in a house-complex on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus.
Area in front of E-W retaining wall, just above cobble pavement, disturbed by coins and pottery as late ... 375-275 B.C. |
| Sides approaching the vertical; high base, rising in the center; no handle.
Outside the rim, which slopes downward only very slightly, a broad groove.
Once covered with thin black glaze, now very largely ... 4 April 1933 |
Bulging sides; no handle or knob; no separate top or rim, but simply two grooves, the inner somewhat sunk, around the filling hole.
Ring base, rising within.
Fine self slip, somewhat peeled, outside; inside ... 4 April 1933 |
Bulging body; no knob or handle.
Three grooves round a very small rim.
Low base nearly flat, rising only on the inside.
Outside unglazed, slipped; inside black glaze.
Type VIIB of Corinth collection, ... 4 April 1933 |
Intact.
Raised base; much carbon around nozzle.
Inner edge of filling hole thickened. Glazed inside only.
Type VIIB of Corinth collection, type 25A' of Agora collection.
ADDENDA Compare type X of Corinth ... 6 April 1936 |
Chip missing from end and under side of nozzle.
A single groove near outside of broad insloping rim. No handle or knob. Raised base; grooved beneath.
Brown glaze on inside only.
Graffito crudely scratched ... 7 April 1936 |
Intact save for chip from nozzle.
No handle or knob.
Black glaze on inside only.
Burned around wick hole.
Type VIIB of Corinth collection, type 25A' of Agora collection. Cistern, main chamber. Leica, ... 8 April 1936 |
| The tip of the nozzle broken away, partly at least in antiquity, for it is heavily blackened. Minor chips; otherwise intact.
The glaze badly worn on the left side, elsewhere chipped; slightly metallic ... 370-275 B.C. |
End of nozzle, handle and part of one side broken away.
Black glaze save on bottom of raised base.
Type 25A of Agora collection, type VII of Corinth collection.
Cf. Agora IV, nos. 267-284, pp. 67-69, ... 13-18 April 1934 |
Intact.
Small lamp with no knob; raised base; sides rather straight.
Scraped groove around rim.
Glaze red to brown.
Type VIIA of Corinth collection, type 25A of Agora collection.
ADDENDA E.M.: Found ... 8 June 1938 |
| Left side of body broken off. Horizontal band handle broken away.
Body narrows slightly toward top. Medium wide rim, down sloping; set off from body by wide deep groove.
Long nozzle, flat on top; rather ... 24 February 1932 |
Top of standard of small lamp. No handle.
Somewhat curving body, with greatest diameter below center.
On top, groove with small inner raised edge around central opening.
Small nozzle, with large wick hole ... 2 March 1932 |
Left side broken away; lamp mended from two fragments.
Narrow rim, sloping; set off by deep groove from well rounded body.
Nozzle, flat on top, with letter "Δ" incised in the dry clay, on top of nozzle; ... 15 March 1932 |
Body with nearly vertical sides, curving in rapidly to base from point of greatest circumference.
Broad top; meets sides at an angle; filling hole, surrounded by narrow insloping rim set off by broad groove ... 5 April 1932 |
Horizontal band handle broken away.
Body with slightly profiled sides, sloping in to top.
On rim, narrow band, set off from body by groove.
Rather small nozzle; flat on top.
Small base, rising inside ... 18 April 1932 |
Ball-shaped body; slightly flattened on top.
Rim consits of narrow raised band round filling hole, set off from body by a broad and a narrow groove.
Neither handle or knob.
Rather small, deep nozzle and ... 22 April 1932 |
Handle broken off.
Body, drawn more sharply toward the very small top.
Rim very narrow, surrounded by a high ridge and a groove.
Very narrow, deep nozzle; flat on top.
Horizontal band handle, broad; attachments ... 21 May 1932 |
| The horizontal handle at the back missing.
Low base; grooved rim; no lug.
Unglazed.
Type VII of Corinth collection, type 25A' of Agora collection. Finished Grave. Pyre 6. 4155, 4306 Leica, XXIX-84 ... 23 April 1947 |
| Complete.
Low raised base; no handle or lug.
Rounded body; groove around rim.
Black glaze inside only.
Type VIIB of Corinth collection, type 25A' of Agora collection. Finished Middle Terrace, burned deposit ... 22 May 1940 |
Complete.
Low base; no handle; groove outside slightly raised rim.
Outside unglazed; wash of brownish-red glaze inside.
Pinkish-buff clay.
Type VII of Corinth collection, type 25A' of Agora collection ... 18 June 1946 |
The bootom missing. No handle.
Red glaze inside only.
Pinkish-buff clay.
Type VIIB (?) of Corinth collection, type 25A' of Agora collection. Cistern; lower Hellenistic fill. Leica, L-81 PD 635-86 ... 22 May-6 June 1935 |
High base. Back of body broken away.
Rounded body. Two grooves around central opening.
Red glaze inside only.
Pinkish-buff clay.
Type VIIB of Corinth collection, type 25A' of Agora collection. Cistern; ... 22 May-6 June 1935 |
| Intact but chipped.
Rounded body on false ring base. Depressed ring around small filling hole.
Nozzle flat on top.
Glazed inside only; dripped from nozzle.
Burned.
Type 25A' of Agora collection. Central ... 5 May 1958 |
Preserved is about two-thirds of body without base and nozzle. Strap handle missing.
Globular body, deep groove between body and rim, which slopes inward. Concentric shallow grooves just outside deep groove ... 21 July 1970 |
| Rotroff, S ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The second of two volumes on the Hellenistic fine ware unearthed in excavations in the Athenian Agora, this book presents the Hellenistic wheelmade table ware and votive vessels found between 1931 and ... 1997 |
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