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Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. 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. |
Dumped fillings thrown in during second quarter of 1st c. B.C. containing mostly debris resulting from Sulla's sack in 86 B.C.
Agora XXIX, p. 464: Four fills distinguished during excavations ... but seemingly ... Late 2nd c. and early 1st c. B.C. POU; 110-75 B.C. |
Cistern system, 88/ΝΓ (shaft and passages). Apparently a dumped filling of Roman times, drawn mostly from some Hellenistic deposit. Coins:
31 March 1937 #1-#5
1 April 1937 #4-#5
3 April 1937 #1-#2
5 April ... Hellenistic and Roman, 4th c. A.D. |
Built against the south wall of the annex to the Poros Building
west of the Areopagus. At the west the upper layer of marble chips carried against it, the lowest were cut by it.
Part of same system as ... 225-100 B.C. |
Cistern-shaft 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 ... Upper fill, Late Roman with some Hellenistic.
Middle fill, Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C.
Lower fill, 4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment |
Unfinished well, all one fill; solid bedrock at a depth of -2.47m.
It contained masses of broken rooftiles and probably was used as a refuse pit after the sack of Athens by Sulla.
Twenty-three stamped ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
The following objects may be from this level or from the 'Mixed Classical Level at 10/Δ: SS 449, SS 450, SS 451 (nbp. 186, 2819). Coins:
4 March 1933 #1-#6 (cf. #7-#13)
7 March 1933 #39 ... 150-86 B.C. |
| Two joining fragments. None of rim or foot preserved. In the center a circle formed by a high raised ring, from which raised partitions (only one preserved) radiate toward the rim.
Dull black glaze, ... 19 June 1963 |
| Most of rim and minor parts of floor and base missing. Ring foot grooved underneath. Offset rim.
Good black glaze with brown stacking circle on interior and underside of foot also brown.
Attic clay ... 9-15 May 1935 |
Full profile preserved, but only about one-quarter of rim. Restored in plaster. Broad flat rim offset from floor and thickened at edge; ring foot, grooved beneath. Band of poor rouletting on floor.
Metallic ... 9-12 February 1937 |
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