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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. |
Corinth ... BMC 423--471.
[(BMC 441)]
Corinth.
Obv. Pegasus left.
Rev. Trident upward, in field right racetorch. Coin no. 10. Cistern at 75/ΟΑ. below Pegasos flying l. Trident upward; at r., race torch. 98, 188 ... late 5th--3rd century 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. |
Dump, Sullen clean-up. Coins:
9 February 1937 #6-#10
10 February 1937 #11-#13
11 February 1937 #16-#20 ... First quarter 1st c. B.C. |
"Not much earlier than middle fill" Coins:
12 February 1937 #5-#7 ... Fourth quarter of 2nd c. B.C. |
Right half of disk and part of rim with two grooves and a trace of decoration outside preserved.
Central figure a draped standing statue on a base, which cuts the figure at about the line of the knees ... 6 February 1937 |
Rectangular.
A slight depression in one side. Cistern, middle fill.
1st c. B.C. Leica, XVIII-95 ... 10 February 1937 |
Square. Cistern, middle fill.
1st c. B.C. Leica ... 11 February 1937 |
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