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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 |
Full profile preserved; missing pieces of rim and floor restored in plaster. High ring foot; flaring floor; low nearly vertical rim. Band of rouletting on floor.
Glaze fired irregularly red, black and ... 9-12 February 1937 |
Full profile preserved; about half of rim missing. Restored in plaster. Low nearly vertical lip; ring foot. Shape similar to P 14402 (Χ 959), but much smaller.
Glaze dull black to brown.
ADDENDA P 14402: ... 9-12 February 1937 |
Ring foot, grooved beneath. Wide offset rim, turned slightly upward at outer edge. Rouletting and traces of stacking in kiln around center of floor. Restored in plaster.
Pink to grayish clay; metallic ... 9-15 May 1935 |
Several joining fragments preserve less than half, but give full profile. Vertical rim, ring foot. Rouletting around center of floor.
Glaze largely fired red; much worn. Catalogued December 1958. Burned ... March 1933 |
Single fragment preserving part of rim and floor of a platter(?). Thickened rim, ridged and grooved around upper and outer faces, both grooves marked by a scraped line at the cente. The floor is divided ... 20 April 1933 |
Fragments of floor, base and rim restored in plaster. Moulded base ring with groove on bottom of ring; upturned rim. Rouletted circle on floor.
Metallic black glaze except for red-brown on floor and bottom ... February-April 1937 |
| About two-thirds of floor and rim missing; restored in plaster. Ring foot with broad groove on resting surface. Floor slopes very slightly upward and at edge curves up into a low vertical rim; a triple ... 28 April-2 May 1939 |
Mended from many pieces, about half of rim and sides missing. Restored in plaster. Deep plate on ring foot; sloping sides; short vertical rim. Band of rouletting on floor, also stacking circle.
Black ... 9-17 March 1938 |
Fragments of rim and floor missing. Narrow rim, upturned, with straight profile; ring foot. Rouletting around center of floor.
Pinkish-buff clay; black glaze. Cistern, containers 1 and 2, upper fill ... 9 April 1949 |
| 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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