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| Pit (f) in bedrock used for casting archaic bronze statue for the first Temple of Apollo Patroos (Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 82-84) ... 6th c. B.C ... 6th c. B.C. |
Flower Pot Pits. Coins:
10 March 1936 #2
11 March 1936 #9
12 March 1936 #1
13 March 1936 #1-#3, #7
14 March 1936 #1, #9
2 April 1936 #1
7 January 1937 #1-#2
8 January 1937 #1
12 January 1937 #1-#2 ... 9-18 March 1936
1-2 April 1936
7-12 January 1937 ... April 1936 #1
7 January 1937 #1-#2
8 January 1937 #1
12 January 1937 #1-#2 |
Filling accumulated between the time of the Persian sack and the building of the Stoa.
Cf. Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 14-18 and H 6:5 ... H 5-6.2 ... H 5-6.2 |
Deposits containing much ash and charcoal, probably to be associated with the Persian sack. Layers IV-VI of trial pit between Stoa piers IV and V ... 1st quarter 5th c. B.C ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 12-14, fig. 6. |
| Pit and drain at SE corner of Apollo Temple. Antedates building of Apollo Temple which was assigned to a date 'late in the third quarter' ... 3rd quarter 4th c. B.C ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 101-102 ... Hesperia 78 (2009), pp. 389-396. |
Fills associated with construction of New Bouleuterion, i.e. inside porch, unused foundation trenches on west side and south side ... Down to last quarter of 5th c. B.C ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 153-156. |
A very homogeneous dumped filling and no period of use. Apparently a failure as a well.
T 263-T 289 resorted and reduced August 1967. Cf. BI 157 "from behind the curbing of the well by Stoa pier 3." Estimated ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... H 6:5 ... H 6:5 |
Undisturbed filling to E of Archaic Temple in Eleusinion; fill consisted of a layer of working chips of Kara limestone above a layer of mud brick ... Late 6th c. B.C. and earlier ... Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 359 ... Agora XXXI, pp. 144-145. |
Filling behind retaining wall of Stoa of Zeus. The remains of unfired clay adhering to the interior of various pieces make it probable that the material in this filling is a mass of debris from the floor ... Ca. 435-425 B.C ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 19-21 and 49-53. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 6 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXII: PG). Bones discarded. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole).
JP
Roughly rectangular trench cut through hard earth into bedrock to a depth of about 0.35m, approximately ... Late Protogeometric ... ΠΘ:6/ΝΖ |
Investigations in the Hellenistic Metroon, various levels. Stoa Pits A, B, C, D, E, F, H and I (various layers).
Locations include:
SW corner of Primitive Bouleuterion; from contemporary filling alongside ... 8th-6th c. B.C ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 117-138, and 120, fig. 64 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 8-15, fig. 9. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 4 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XX: PG). Bones discarded. Grave of older child.
JP
Rectangular pit, cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.26m, approximately 0.97m long and 0.36m wide. Tomb oriented ... Late Protogeometric ... Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 368 and fig. 31 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 51, pp. 352-358, figs. 2.180, 2.247-2.250, pl. IV. |
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Coins:
23 March 1936 #5-#6
31 March 1936 #3
30 April 1936 #1
1 May 1936 #6
2 May 1936 #2
5 May 1936 #8
6 May 1936 #15-#16
14 May 1936 #5-#8 (#6 N 51520 is from ... 50 B.C-3rd c. A.D ... #5-#6
31 March 1936 #3
30 April 1936 #1
1 May 1936 #6
2 May 1936 #2
5 May 1936 #8
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| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 23 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave IV: SM). Few bones: discarded. JP says 46/ΜΖ-MΗ
Negs. KK 99, KK 100, KK 101, X-61, X-62, X-63 PD 433 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 364, 366, fig. 28 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 36, pp. 289-293, figs. 2.193-2.198, pl. 1. |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 15 in notebook. Burial of child (E.L. Smithson: Grave XIV: PG). Single bone. Nb. says: few bones.
Skull fragment, few ribs and fingers (bones discarded). Negs. KK 24 and KK 30 431 ... Developed to Late Protogeometric ... F 9:1 ... F 9:1 |
Undisturbed filling inside foundations of small Rectangular Building = Temple of Zeus and Athena. Household pottery, both fine and coarse, and other objects, together with working chips from the construction ... Ca. 375-350 B.C ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 88-90 ... Hesperia 24 (1955), p. 186. |
Burnt Layer inside retaining wall of Middle Stoa Terrace (Θ) and NW Corner of Middle Stoa, burnt debris inside terrace retaining wall (Ζ). Coins Ζ: Coins Θ:
1 June 1951 ... Mid-3rd c. A.D ... Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 115 ... Agora XXXIII, pp. 361-362 ... Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 110. |
Associated with the Tholos.
Originally a well but after it had been in use for a short time the shaft was partially filled in and the upper part widened to form a large cistern.
The pottery falls into ... 335-250 B.C ... F 12:3 ... F 12:3 |
Packing under cobblestones 7 or 8 meters west of the Temple of Hephaistos. A similar filling found in a small hole in bedrock three or four meters north of the Temple. The high quality of the pottery from ... Ca. 500-440 B.C ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 344-345 ... Hesperia Suppl. 5, p. 126 ... Hesperia Suppl. 8, p. 397, under no. 7 c. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 20 (E.L. Smithson: Grave X: PG). Bones discarded. Pit tomb, inhumation (on bier or in coffin?), perhaps of a child. Little ash and carbon in the filling, but the grave offerings were unburned.
JP ... Developed Protogeometric ... Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 368 "Six vases were secured from an adult's ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 43, pp. 307-313, figs. 2.209:a, 2.212-2.215, pl. II. |
Investigations within the Stoa of Zeus, the north part, various levels.
Notebook references: Stoa Trench E Layers IV and V, Stoa Pits A, B and C, and Layers I and II of area between back wall and retaining ... 5th c. B.C ... H 5-6 ... H 5-6 |
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 ... Coins:
1 August 1931 #5-#6
3 August 1931 #14
4 August 1931 |
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 ... Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 165-166 ... Hesperia 53 (1948), pp. 343-351, pl. 67:3, 10-16 (selection of pottery) ... Lawall (2004), pp. 447-448. |
| A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several ... Ca. 575-480 B.C ... Hesperia 15 (1946), pp. 265-336 ... B.C. cf. Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 363-411 ... numbers, as follows (6 tins).
a) |
Filling of Middle Drain (Tr. H+F in Section Ζ). Sand and gravel filling of the old course of the west branch of the Great Drain, a large (ca. 1.00m. deep and 1.30m. wide) underground channel in the area ... 150-100 B.C ... Hesperia 45 (1976), pp. 11-15, pls. 1-4. Pillaging fill of Building F ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 111-121 ... Agora X, pp. 136, 137. |
Accumulated fillings in the Bouleutrion Plateia beginning in late 5th c. B.C. and continuing into the 3rd c. A.D., reaching a depth of 0.20-0.30m. (Hesp. 6 (1937), p. 168. Subdivisions:
.1=Layer I
.2=Layer ... 5th c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D ... F-G 10-11 ... F-G 10-11 |
| Use filling of middle of 1st to late 6th c. (Roman Group M); dumped filling of 9th and 10th c. Down to a depth of about 21.00m. the fill of the well contained very few objects, the latest of them being ... 1st-6th c. A.D ...
5 April 1937 #1-#3
6 April 1937 #1-#7
7 ... 1937 #1-#82
9 April 1937 ... Use filling of middle of 1st to late 6th c. (Roman Group M); dumped filling of |
Pit at 79-83/ΜΒ-ΜΖ (or 81/ΜΣΤ=pit under floor of Room 11 in Roman Bldg. 2, 82/ΜΓ, 83/ΜΕ=well at 83/ΜΗ). Purpose of pit obscure. Evidently filled in Hellenistic times and disturbed in Roman times. Coins: ... 275-200 B.C. with later disturbance ... 1937 #1
6 March 1937 #1-#3
9 ... 1937 #4
3 April 1937 #4-#6
5 April 1937 #3-#4
6 April 1937 ... Pit at 79-83/ΜΒ-ΜΖ (or 81/ΜΣΤ=pit under floor of Room 11 in Roman Bldg. 2, 82 |
Accumulated filling over Bouleuterion Plateia, Layer II. Coins:
8 May 1935 #1 ... 1st or 2nd c. A.D ... F-G 10-11.2 ... F-G 10-11.2 |
Unfinished well cut in bedrock to the southwest of the Tholos; dumped filling containing much material of the 7th c. B.C. but extending into the 6th ... 7th-ca. 570 B.C ... into the 6th. |
| Grave VII in notebook = RSY Grave 21. PD 731-k ... Date uncertain, presumably 7th. or 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 102-103, fig. 15 and pl. 46 e-f (Grave 21). |
| 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 ... Coins:
12 March 1937 #5-#8
13 March 1937 #1-#8
15 March 1937 #1-#5
16 March |
| 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 ... Agora VIII, pp. 126-127 ... Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 305, no. 82 (Grave XXXI) ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), p. 98 and figs. 1, 29-30, 68 (Grave XXI). |
| Cistern at 77/Μ on lower north slopes of the Areopagus. Bottom diameter of 2m connected by tunnel to cistern M-N 18:1.
Only stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 240. Latest coin dates about 200 ... 3rd c. B.C.-196/190 B.C ... Agora X, pp. 68, 137 ... Hesperia 31 (1962), p. 246, no. 10. |
| Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. Coins:
5 August 1968 #1-#6 (#5 and #6 disintegrated. Missing 19/7/1973)
6 August 1968 #1bis-#25 (#5 in Lot 503 not a coin but bronze bits of nail. #6 not a coin ... 325-275 B.C ... F/7,8-16/2,3 |
Evidence of stratification into five layers, although joins between the layers. Layer VI added when the construction of the Roman building above required it. No subdivisions assigned.
Flask-shaped cistern ... Early 3rd-late 2nd c. B.C ... -4.82m. |
| Upper mixed dumped fill (last quarter 3rd c.-4th c.) with Roman POU below 10.40m. Coins:
16 February 1937 #1 (disintegrated)
17 February 1937 #1 (disintegrated)
8 April 1937 #5-#10 (dump)
9 April 1937 ... 2nd half of 1st c.-first half of 3rd c. A.D ... Hesperia 90 (2021), pp. 360, 361, fig. 1 ... Hesperia 83 (2014), p. 146, 147, figs. 3, 4. |
A cistern leading to the east of the road leading from the southwest corner of the market square. Filled all at one time, last quarter of 2nd. c. B.C. (nbp. 493).
Included are the Hellenistic finds from ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... Coins:
6 March 1934 #1 (well 96/Ι in north cistern ...
12 March 1934 #1-#6 |
The West Chamber of a double cistern lying between the northeast corner of the Theseion and the Annex to the Stoa of Zeus Eleftherios. ... Both chambers went out of use as water containers simultaneously ... 225-165 B.C ... F 6:3 ... F 6:3 |
| Located in Tholos Trench E, beneath floor, beneath layer III.
Diameter 1m. Cf. P 4952 with fragment from this deposit and E-F 12-14.2.
Similar the well filling, H 6:5 Originally called H 12:5
Ann Steiner ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 126-128 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375. |
| Grave V in notebook = RSY Grave 5. PD 731-c, Ptg. 244 ... Second quarter of the 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 88-89, fig. 7 and pls. 38 f, 39 a (Grave 5) ... Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 303, fig. 43. |
| Grave V, under room 18 in House 3, plus burned deposit at 94/IΘ. Identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR on Agoraios Kolonos:
In southeast corner of house 3. 35 artifacts, bone and charred material in pit, ... Ca. 300-275 B.C ... F 5:2 ... F 5:2 |
The East Chamber of a double cistern lying between the northeast corner of the Theseion and the Annex to the Stoa of Zeus Eleftherios. ... Both chambers went out of use as water containers simultaneously ... Ca. 200 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), pp. 18, 74, 100, nn. 19, 117 ... Agora XXII, pp. 100, 109 ... Agora XXIX, pp. 452-453 under G 6:2. |
Essentially uniform fill of III-IV c. A.D. with a Byzantine upper fill. Coins:
14 June 1937 #1-#3
15 June 1937 #2
16 June 1937 #1
17 June 1937 #1-#2
18 June 1937 #1-#4
19 June 1937 #1-#4
9 June 1938 #1-#3 ... Late 3rd-mid-4th c. A.D ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), pp, 3, 8. |
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 ... F-G 12:1 ... F-G 12:1 |
| Grave XIV in notebook = RSY Grave 13. PD 731-f ... Late 6th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 95-96, fig. 10 and pl. 43 a (Grave 13). |
| 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 filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second ... Subdivisions:
.1=upper fill (Group F)
.2=middle fill
.3=lower fill. |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 1. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female 30-40 years old).
Mentioned as Grave XVII in Deposit list.
Consisted of a roughly circular pit, approximately 0.30-0.40m in diameter, cut into ... Late Protogeometric ... F 16:3 ... F 16:3 |
| David Scahill ... Roman temple north. Adult male inhumation. Pit tomb, partially stone-lined ... Late Mycenaean or Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... J/4,6-2/18 |
| This filling is the largest deposit of its time found in the Agora. It may be compared with H 6:5 and with N 7:3.
Dug in soft bedrock to a depth of 11.40m; footholds cut on opposite sides of the shaft ... Ca. 490-450 B.C ... Agora IV, pp. 238-239 ... Hesperia 83 (2014), p. 200, table 2 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375. |
| Second century B.C. fill with early 13th c. A.D. fill in mouth.
The Byzantine objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585.
Lower fill contained bones of many infants and dogs.
The bones from this ... Mid-2nd c. B.C ... Coins:
14 June 1937 #4
15 June 1937 #1
24 June 1938 #1-#2 |
A well (diameter 1.10m) at the east edge of the valley road leading from the SW corner of the Agora, about 90m SW of the Tholos. The mouth of the well was subsequently covered by the east wall of the Great ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 440, 442 ... Agora XXX, pp. 361-362 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375. |
Well (stone-curbed shaft) near middle of Tholos which served the prior building.
Period of Use dated to ca. 500-480(?) B.C., Upper fill dated to ca. 480-470 B.C. or soon after in Agora XXX (a gradual ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 449, 451 ... Hesperia 8 (1939), pp. 229-232 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4, pp. 30-33 (the second well of Building F). |
Well at 115/ΣΤ (all the 5th c. fills of 116/ΣΤ). The lower part of the shaft contained a heavy deposit of pottery and other objects of the late archaic period, both coarse and finer wares; probably a post-Persian ... Ca. 500-480 B.C.-Roman ... Coins:
7 June 1937 #1-#6 ...
Top to -6.50m, 4th c. dump, |
| 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 ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 95-96, 129-132 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), p. 21, n. 30. |
| David Scahill ... At northeast corner of Classical Building II; on south side of dromos of Tomb K 2:5, and separated from it by ca. 0.6m of bedrock. Chamber cut through bedrock. The northeast corner of chamber defined ... LHIII A:1 ... Hesperia 89 (2020), pp. 617-619 ... Hesperia 72 (2003), p. 264, fig. 28. |
May be of Hellenistic origin when cistern system went out of use.
For a general note on the cistern see Nb. ΟΕ III, pp. 246 ff.
Objects from B 586 various depths (no subdivision): S 2324-S 2330,
P 34894, ... Late 2nd-early 6th c. A.D ... Hesperia Suppl. 4, p. 101. |
| Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 2. Adult female inhumation. Grave extending under the south retaining wall of the Temenos of the Royal Stoa. It is oriented ne-sw, with head at sw. Grave built of slabs of schist, with packing of ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Hesperia 87 (2018), pp. 215-277, figs. 1-24 ... Hesperia 44 (1975), pp. 370-374, pls. 83a, 84 a-f ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 63, pp. 420-427, 549-550, figs. 2.290, 2.293, 2.294, |
Cistern-chamber on the northwest side of Kolonos Agoraios, 10 to 12m west of the end of the Hellenistic Building. Dimensions at bottom 2.50m x 2.75m.
The west chamber of a cistern system composed of two ... Use filling early 1st-2nd c. B.C ... -6.15m. |
| Marcie Handler ... Continued from 2000 season, 10-12 July 2000; BZ XXIII p. 4472.
The hoard was originally excavated during the 2000 season (Lot BZ 1049, 5th-6th centuries AD), from a higher elevation through a gap in the ... 10-12 July 2000
21-22 July 2003 ... 5th-6th centuries AD), from a ... F until this season of ... Room F. 53.084-53.275m. |
| Mycenaean tomb: Myc. III A:1-2.
SAI
Small rectangular chamber, 2.30m wide by 1.80m deep,, entered from the east through a dromos 1.10m wide which contracted to a doorway 0.92m. wide. the doorway preserved ... 2nd half of 14th c ... Hesperia 17 (1948), pp. 163-165 ... Agora XIII, pp. 178-180, 274, pls. 37, 76, 82 (Tomb V). |
N-S Cut on 50m. line (area of Road, area of Stoa, area N of Stoa) various levels and dates over the three areas.
Investigations to the northwest of the market square in the area of the road running out ... Prehistoric to Roman ... Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 339. |
| Well west of the Eponymous Heroes monument. The shaft was of irregular width (ca. 0.81m where the full circle was first preserved), sunk in soft bedrock clay much of which had collapsed around the top ... Ca. 600-550 B.C ... Hesperia 39 (1970, pp. 190-192, n. 56 ... Hesperia 37 (1968), p. 68. |
| Pit (6x10) in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Large cutting in bedrock with 540 ostraka, mainly of the late eighties of the 5th. c. B. C. Much pottery, principally of the early ... Ca. 500-450 B.C ... Agora XXV, pp. 20-22, 163 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 253 ... Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 193. |
| Well in Room 6 of Street Stoa U/2,U/3-13/15.
Associated with the building lying under the Roman Street Stoa. Its fills divided into 5 separate layers, with the bulk of finds belonging to Layer 1, the ... 14 June-21 August 1973 ... Well in Room 6 of Street Stoa U/2,U/3-13/15 |
Well in house R of industrial area west of the Areopagus. This well, originally tiled, was abandoned and filled at the time of the conversion of the house into a stone-cutters' workshop.
Tiled well but ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 242-243 ... Hesperia 84 (2015), p. 476. |
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