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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. |
Top fill to 1.00m. = dump of late Hellenistic ware mixed with some Roman of 2nd c. to early 3rd. c. Intermediate fill 1.20-2.00m. = dump with tiles and stucco, almost no sherds. Coins:
6 February 1937 ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D. |
Stratified well; very late Roman verging on Byzantine. Coins
19 April 1939 #1-#8
22 April 1939 #1-#2
25 April 1939 #1
15 May 1939 #1 Subdivisions:
.1=0.00-15.25m.
.2=15.25-21.00m.
.3=21.00-22.00m ... 3rd-5th c. A.D.
9th c A.D. |
Containers 43-47. Coins:
22 April 1939 #1-#2
25 April 1939 #1
15 May 1939 #1 ... 3rd c. A.D. |
Baskets 1-21 (containers 1-20). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from level .1, are from depths within the .2 range:
MC 318, MC 433-MC 437, T 1309, T 1394, T 1396, IL ... 110 to early 1st c. A.D. |
Baskets 22-53 (containers 21-47). Abandonment of cistern. Includes finds from NW channel leading out of 84/ΝΣΤ (containers 50-51). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from ... 125-86 B.C. |
Cistern at 60/ΙΕ; bell-shaped cistern with a channel 1.65m high and 4.60m long, leading to a dead end against bedrock. This channel runs north with a slight curve to the east and looks as though it was ... Second half of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd c. B.C. |
'Mouth and upper passage' on deposit list. Containers 1 and 2. Pottery in mouth of cistern in upper tunnel. Coins:
5 May 1939 #1
9 May 1939 #10-#11
12 May 1939 #4 ... 1st c. with earlier material |
'Lower fill' on deposit list. Containers 8-33, (34 mouth of lower passage). Coins:
9 May 1939 #1-#3, #5, #7, #9
10 May 1939 #1
11 May 1939 #1-#2
12 May 1939 #1-#2
13 May 1939 #2-#3(?)
15 May 1939 #1-#6 ... Ca. 250-215 B.C. |
| Tiled Well at S edge of E-W Road, 73/ΜΗ. Contemporary upper and lower fills separated by layer of sterile mud.
Latest coin dates ca. 200. Koan amphora handle with stamped handle dates slightly after 200 ... 210-160 |
Filling over bedrock. Coins:
26 May 1938 #7-#10
27 May 1938 #1
28 May 1938 #1 ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
Hoard below surface at 10/ΙΖ A. Walker coin deposit ... 225-250 A.D. |
With cistern at 17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ (P 10:2), two chambers connected by a passage.
18/Π went out of use first and was closed off from 17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ; filled up at one time with material dating between 350 and 300 B.C ... 325-285 B.C. |
Destruction Layer, Brick Building.
It represents material from the layer of fallen brick covering the floor and wall socles of the Brick Building and therefore marking the destruction of the structure ... To ca. 165 |
First trial east Stoa colonnade, N. of S. wall III, layer 12.
Note quantities of cattle bones, the knuckles sawn off and many worked bits. Evidently a bone implement factory near by. [nbp. 2139] Coins: ... Late 3rd c.-earliest 4th c. A.D. |
No period of use. Below the upper (Early Roman) dump extending down to ca. 6.10m. was a dumped fill of broken pottery in great quantity, including a high proportion of red-figured fragments. Masses of ... Ca. 430-400 B.C.
Late 1st c. B.C.-mid 1st c. A.D. |
Deposit in bedrock cuttings, probably from a household. (Panathenaic Way Cut III, E1 and E2).
E1: Mixed 7th-5th c. B.C.
E2: Late Geometric-Early 6th c. B.C. Coins:
19 May 1959 #5-#7 ... 5th c. B.C and earlier |
Well outside market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way. Accumulated use filling from first half of 1st c. A.D. to early 3rd c. Top to 14.65m. 4th c. dump; nothing significant catalogued ... POU First half of 1st c.-early 3rd c. A.D. |
Klepsydra: Filling in antechamber, behind the parapet of the Klepsydra. Dated to the time of the rebuilding of the springhouse after the Sullan sack, but containing earlier material. Coins:
31 May 1938 ... Second quarter of 5th c. to middle of 1st c. B.C. |
Well C - Passage, belongs with II - Brick Shaft. All dumped fills. No objects catalogued from Well C of section ΟΑ. One object (I 5422) catalogued from modern fill in shaft, one from dump (I 5545). Coins: ... 2nd c. A.D.- Byzantine |
Fill in shaft; upper fill in lower chamber; fill in vaulted chamber. Coins:
29 April 1937 #1-#8
5 May 1937 #1-#27
26 May 1937 #1-#12
27 May 1937 #1-#10
28 May 1937 #1-#6
24 March 1938 #3-#7
12 June 1939 ... Late 4th c. A.D. |
Coins:
29 February 1936 #3
2 March 1936 #1
3 March 1936 #7
5 March 1936 #4-#5
6 March 1936 #1-#3 ... 29 February-6 March 1936 |
Pocket of soft fill in bedrock at corner of Late Roman house, with a hoard of lead tokens. No pottery catalogued.
Herulian debris: cf. D 10:1, D 11:7 Coins:
25 May 1935 #8 Estimated Grid
No pottery catalogued ... 25 May 1935 |
Stratified well with POU first half of 1st c. - mid 3rd c. A.D. and dumped fills of 4th and 5th-6th c. A.D.
Finds from upper fills "earth": BI 315, L 2549.
Finds from lower fills "earth": BI 302, BI 316, ... 1st to 3rd century and late 3rd to 6th century. |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ. The filling of the 46/ΙΑ cistern shaft, with the exception of a little Roman at the top, was the same as the bottom fill of 44/ΙΓ - late Hellenistic, running ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C. |
Abandoned digging at 6.25m. due to water level. Tile well could be associated with a bit of late Roman wall to the south, with floor level about one meter above that of pebble floor. Well tiles were not ... 14-22 April 1948 |
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. |
House F, room 4 below floor at -2.00m., fill 4. Deposit created by A.W. and first appears in his thesis (Biblio. below). Coins;
19 May 1949 #1-#16 Cf. coins from 17 June 1949 #1-#4 listed with lot OO 490 ... First quarter 2nd c A.D. |
House C, Room 5, small hoard. Deposit created by A.W. and first appears in his thesis (Biblio. below).
"Another small hoard or purse of Herulian date", A.Walker (1980), p. 127. Coins:
23 June 1947 #7-#13 ... Ca. 267 A.D. |
Two chambers connected by a tunnel, all filled at the same time, but with slight Hellenistic disturbance. Chamber A, to west at 14/ΛΗ, B to east at 14-15/ΛΒ on grid for section RR.
Cistern system ca. 20.00m ... Ca. 325-275 B.C. |
Grave in north peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LX in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
11 March 1939 #9-#11 Neg. 397 ... Byzantine |
Water channel in north part of Section: Channel Mouth 4. Coins:
22 February 1936 #16-#18
24 February 1936 #1-#2
Twenty stamped amphora handles; type 38 lamp; type 56 A lamp; over half of bowls long-petal ... 120-86 B.C. |
Well at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Use filling of 1st c. A.D.; dumped fillings of 3rd c. and of early Byz. times. Coins:
15 June 1937 #1-#2 (earth)
16 June 1937 #14-#20 (earth)
17 June 1937 ... 1st c. A.D.=POU |
Coins:
9 June 1937 #1
10 June 1937 #1-#11
11 June 1937 #1-#30
12 June 1937 #1-#13 (from earth of 11 June) ... 2nd c. A.D. |
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 ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C.-86 B.C. |
Use filling of early to late 2nd c. A.D., and dumped filling of late 2nd c. Coins:
16 April 1948 #1-#6
17 April 1948 #5
28 April 1948 #1 ... POU 2nd c. A.D. |
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 |
Well at 96/Ι in arm of cistern at 94/Θ (F 15:2). Probably the rebuilding of an earlier well.
P 3149, P 3150, P 3154 are jars from packing in cistern arm; construction fill - early Roman.
P 4588 is listed ... Second half of 3rd c. A.D.=POU |
Bottle-shaped cistern with dumped fillings on NW slopes of Areopagus; appears not to have been finished in antiquity: the walls and floor show no traces of stucco.
Lower filling, ca. 375-340 B.C.
Upper ... Ca. 375-275 B.C. |
| Unfinished well-shaft with debris filling (apparently of the Sullan sack), on the lower NW slopes off the Areopagus. Abandoned due to poor quality of bedrock.
Three closely contemporary fills, considered ... End 2nd c. B.C.-second quarter 1st c. B.C. |
| Extract from notebook ΠΘ XIX, pp. 3644-3646. Well at 105/ΝΗ (report on sorting of pottery, July 19, 1951 - H.S. Robinson).
"Not a useful well" HSR.
Well dug to 1.50m., vi/9/36; dug from 1.50m. to bottom ... Early Roman; use fillings of 2nd. c. B.C. and 1st. and 4th. c. A.D.; dumped filling of late 4th. c. (HSR)
Fill I: 2nd. c. B.C.
Fill II-V: to second half of 4th. c. A.D.
Fill VI: mixed to Byzantine. |
Coins:
9 April 1937 #1-#2
10 April 1937 #1-#2
12 April 1937 #1 Fill III (ca. 21.30m., cont. 4) period of disuse, to end 3rd. c. A.D.
Fill IV (20.20-21.00m., cont. 1-3) another period of use, 4th. c.
Fill ... To second half of 4th. c. A.D. |
Cistern system on Kolonos Agoraios; shaft leading to chamber (76/ΝΘ) Coins:
4 June 1936 #1-#4 ... 3rd. c. |
Cistern system on Kolonos Agoraios, shaft into south passage (81/ΝΘ). The fill again seemed to be a dumped fill; probably rather late 3rd. c. Coins:
8 June 1936 #1-#3 ... Late 3rd. c. |
Fillings in a well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. The shaft reached a depth of 20.28m., but produced no use filling. The lower part, from water level at 12.60m. to bottom, provided only mud and gravel ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
The well had two upper fills and a stratified deposit at the bottom. The well deposit is divided into two parts, 3rd. c. and 2nd. c. (with perhaps late 1st. c.).; dumped filling of 5th century. Coins: ... 1st.-3rd. c. A.D. |
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Use filling of late 1st. to late 2nd. c. A.D.; dumped filling of 4th. c. A.D. Coins:
24 April 1937 #2
27 April 1937 #6-#12
28 April 1937 #2
29 April 1937 #2
8 May ... 1st.-4th c. A.D. |
| Herulian Debris in a house on the lower slopes of the Hill of the Nymphs: House P = South House; Room 2 = Dining Room; Room 3 = Kitchen; Room 18; Room 23; Room 24. Coins:
9 August 1947 #1-#37, #47-#49 ... Mid 3rd c. A.D. |
Tiled well (diam. 0.78m); height of tiles 0.61m. Water level -5m. Well found at bottom of Byzantine pit, uppermost tiles cut down. Coins:
7 July 1947 #1-#2 ... Post-Herulian |
Cistern System #1b: Shaft/manhole and gallery at 18-19/ΞΑ-ΞΓ.
Objects divided between the two features, shaft and gallery, according to deposit notebook list, not according to remarks on cards. 22 February ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
Coins:
22 February 1936 #4-#13
26 February 1935 #1-#2
27 February 1936 #1-#4
28 February 1936 #3-#5 |
Cistern System #1f: Shaft at 1/ΝΘ = Well A. Scanty dumped filling. Coins:
19 February 1936 #2-#3
20 February 1936 #16-#20
21 February 1936 #5-#7
22 February 1936 #1 ... Mid-4th to 3rd c. B.C. |
Well cut through cistern at 6/ΝΕ (C 9:7).
The stele I 3244 in position in the cistern over the mouth of the well is listed with the cistern deposit C 9:7. Coins:
26 February 1936 #2-#4
27 February 1936 ... A.D. 1st |
A well on Kolonos Agoraios. The upper dumped filling, a heavy deposit of pottery, was separated from the lower filling of similar character by several meters of plain mud. No use filling. Coins:
8 April ... Ca. 375-325 B.C. with disturbance of 250-225 B.C. |
Late Roman mixed destruction fill.
The fill in both the staircase and the cistern chamber was the same mixed destruction fill containing a large quantity of Hellenistic pottery mixed in with late 3rd-early ... 4th. c. A.D. |
According to the excavator " a pre-herulian filling dumped in to fill the cistern some few years after the Herulian destruction". Coins:
10 June 1936 #2-#6
11 June 1936 #1-#19
12 June 1936 #23-#27 P 11936 ... A.D. 267 to mid 3rd c. |
Well in the bottom of chamber cistern at 106/ΛΓ, stratified. A soft spot in the bedrock at the west side of the well caved in and was packed with typical coarse Roman first century amphoras; the well was ... A.D. 200-150 |
Coins:
28 May 1937 #30
29 May 1937 #1
31 May 1937 #1-#3 ... 2nd c. |
Stratified well. Coins:
22 July 1947 #1 Subdivisions:
.1=top to -5.20m.
.2=5.20-7.80m.
.3=7.80-10.30m ... Second half 1st-early 3rd c. A.D. |
Investigations to the south of the Metroon, in the passageway between the Metroon and the Tholos; accumulated layers, from the Geometric and earlier periods to the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.
Cf. Hesperia ... Geometric to second c. B.C. |
Homer A. Thompson ... Well at the northwest foot of the Areopagus. Use filling of the Roman period. After the abandonment of the well and the collapse of the well-curb, the upper 2m of the shaft were filled with a dump apparently ... 1st-3rd c. A.D., 5th century |
Coins:
8 June 1932 #2-#9
9 June 1932 #1-#14
10 June 1932 #1-#13
11 June 1932 #1-#9
13 June 1932 #1-#3, #6 (dump) ... 1st-3d c. A.D. |
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