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Late 3rd-first half 4th c ... C 14:4.3 ... C 14:4.3 |
SS 10172 from fill behind well tiles (second half 4th. c. B.C.)=subdivision .2 ... 3rd c. B.C ... 3rd c. B.C. |
Fillings in an irregular cutting, the context at one end is of the early 5th. c. and at the other end of the second half of the 5th. c ... Early 5th c. B.C ... Fillings in an irregular cutting, the context at one end is of the early 5th. c. and at the other end of the second half of the 5th. c. |
Coins:
17 May 1937 #1 ... Second half 4th. c ... C 14:4.2 ... C 14:4.2 |
House R, fill under drain tiles and fillings associated with house K in industrial area, including what was C 19:15, plus C 19:16 and
C 19:17.
a) House built as dwelling in second half of 5th.c.
b) Used ... Ca. 5th and 4th c. B.C ... Ca. 5th and 4th c. B.C. |
Small pit in bedrock; nothing later than 3rd qtr. 4th. c. B.C ... 3rd quarter 4th c. B.C ... 3rd quarter 4th c. B.C. |
| RSY Grave 51.
The grave lay on the slope of the Areopagus in Roman house O, just east of the line where the hillside is scarped for the foundation of the west wall of the house.
Cutting:the pit cut in ... Archaic period/6th or 7th c ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 109, pl. 48 c, d (Grave 51), plan pl. 33. |
Patch of early fill, disturbed. 20/9/1962: Tin 145 is checked and is chiefly late archaic, but some of the coarse ware is late 5th with 4th c. B.C., and a few bits are 4th c. A.D ... Late 6th.-early 5th c. B.C ... C 14:5 ... C 14:5 |
Marble Chip Fill at 67-69/ΚΑ-ΚΖ (now C 19:5). Asterisk: C 19:15* ... C 19:15 ... C 19:15 |
Cancelled Asterisk: C 19:6* ... Asterisk: C 19:6* |
Cancelled Asterisk: C 19:7* ... Asterisk: C 19:7* |
Pit in House R, West Room. Grouped with and published with C 19:5. Asterisk: C 19:17* ... Grouped with and published with C 19:5 ... Asterisk: C 19:17* |
A large chamber cistern filled in the second c. BC when a well (C 9:16) was dug through its floor. Well tiles were run up from the floor of the cistern to just below its neck; a double layer of complete ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... C 9:7 ... C 9:7 |
Tiled basin at ΚΗ (66-67/ΚΖ). Finds grouped with and published with C 19:5. Asterisk: C 19:16* ... 22 July 1947 ... C 19:16 ... C 19:16 |
Rectangular pit (in Trench IX); dumped filling of late 5th. c. B.C. with some disturbance as late as Early Roman. P 18559 and P 18510 from above this pit ... 5th c. B.C ... 5th c. B.C. |
Tiled well (diameter 0.78, water level -3.50m) at 65/Κ (64/Κ) with poros wellhead. Built as early as 2nd c. Post-Herulian filling.
Tiled well, tiles 0.60m high ... 4th-5th c. A.D ... 4th-5th c. A.D. |
Pit (Well?) under Building A, Room 2. Coins:
9 May 1949 #1-#2
11 May 1949 #4
12 May 1949 #3 (not a coin, bronze fragment in lotted metal tins ΠΠ 295). Estimated Grid
Remains of coloring matter found with ... Hellenistic-Early Roman ... C 17:5 ... C 17:5 |
Well with 4th. c. fill, no well deposit at the bottom. Coins:
2 April 1936 #1
3 April 1936 #8-#19
4 April 1936 #11
8 April 1936 #3-#4
22 May 1936 #5
25 May 1936 #2
27 May 1936 #2
28 May 1936 #2-#5
29 May ... Second half A.D. 4th. c ... Second half A.D. 4th. c. |
This is associated with Building A. It had a circular marble well-head with a rectangular well slab beneath. The construction throughout was of well tiles. It produced little to a depth of -8.60m. Between ... 4th c. A.D ... Between this point and bottom at -9.70m it produced quantities of pitchers and amphorai, many complete, of the 5th-6th c. A.D. |
Lower red fill with mixed Hellenistic pottery running into the 2nd. c. Coins:
4 May 1936 #1 ... 1-5 May 1936 ... C 14:1.1 ... C 14:1.1 |
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 ... 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 ... P 11936 and L 2555 from passage between cisterns at 106/ΛΓ and 107/ΚΘ but not recored as part of deposit C 14:2, see nb.p. 3559. |
Well at 63/ΙΒ (in House H, Room 15). Upper fill mixed Hellenistic to 2nd c. or later. Probably thrown in in Early Roman times when House H was built. Contained many figurines; probably part of Koukla factory ... 12 August 1947 ... C 19:13 ... C 19:13 |
Well (diameter 0.91m, water level -7m) in House H, Room 10 (and pit over). Plain shaft cut in stereo; pit at mouth of well,reused as drainage pit at start of tile drain running west.
Scanty use filling ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... C 19:11 ... C 19:11 |
Cistern System #1a: Shaft (Manhole) at 10/ΞΗ (10-11/ΞΖ-ΞΗ). Filling consistently late Hellenistic in hole and in passage; probably 1st c.
B.C. Coins:
26 May 1936 #1 ... 110-75 B.C ... Filling consistently late Hellenistic in hole and in passage; probably 1st c.
B.C. |
Construction filling of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Patch of stony fill beneath the courtyard. Accumulation of the second quarter of the 5th c., deposited in the last quarter ... Ca. 475-450 B.C. and later ... C 18:7 ... C 18:7 |
(Roman Group J). The upper fill to a depth of ca. 16.00m. was of earth scooped up elsewhere and thrown in ... The latest piece noted from this fill was a TC fragment dated late 4th to 5th(?) c. BC. From ... 2nd.-3rd. c. A.D ... C 12:1 ... C 12:1 |
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 ... 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. |
Great Drain north end, filling under tiles (55-58).
Only the finds from 55-58/* are recorded here (as found in the notebooks) although the deposit notebook shows additional finds from the entire sand fill ... 3rd-2nd c. B.C ... 3rd-2nd c. B.C. |
Cistern through which well G 14:4 was dug. Filling in cistern, early Byzantine, but with various objects resembling those from the upper dumped filling in the well, below the cistern floor (5th c. A.D.) ... Early Byzantine ... Filling in cistern, early Byzantine, but with various objects resembling those from the upper dumped filling in the well, below the cistern floor (5th c. A.D.). |
| Rodney S. Young ... Destroyed urn cremation. No remains. Originally assigned as part of Tomb C 9:14 (Grave 7)
JP
"Large fragments of an urn were found in the packing of a Hellenistic water channel which cut through a LPG ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Originally assigned as part of Tomb C 9:14 (Grave 7)
JP
"Large fragments of an urn were found in the packing of a Hellenistic water channel which cut through a LPG burial area and obliterated the urn and urn-hole of LPG grave C 9:14." ... P 6723, although surely an urn, rust-stained inside from the iron jewelry and within a meter of Grave C 9:14, is much earlier than the offerings in that grave and must have come from still another burial trench in the line of the water channel; a narrow burned strip along the edge of the channel opposite the fragments may be part of that trench.
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Well, neatly stone-curbed to bottom. Diameter 0.70m. The use filling, from about 3.50m to bottom, consisted chiefly of water-jars with a few small vases and some black-figured fragments.
Upper filling, ... Use filling of ca. 575-550 B.C ... Upper filling, second half of 6th c. B.C. |
| Located in House H, Room 13 on the lower northwest slope of the Areopagus ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... C 19:3 ... C 19:3 |
Small deposit in bedrock. Coins:
20 April 1936 #2-#3 ... 4th c. B.C. to early 3rd c. B.C ... 4th c. B.C. to early 3rd c. |
Coins:
29 May 1947 #1
30 May 1947 #7-#9
31 May 1947 #1-#8
2 June 1947 #1-#3 ... Early 2nd c.-mid-3rd c ... C 20:1.3 ... C 20:1.3 |
Filling over and in manhole of South West Drain. Coins:
27 April 1948 # 73-#76 ΠΠ-706 and ΠΠ-707 from the environs of the "manhole" down to west Great Drain packing ... To mid-3rd c. A.D ... C 15:2 ... C 15:2 |
Pit in floor of House S ... Geometric to mid-5th c ... C 18:12 ... C 18:12 |
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 ... C 8:2 ... C 8:2 |
Fillings below the courtyard floor of the Poros Enclosure west of the Areopagus. The lowest layer, over bedrock, is of the archaic period and may have accumulated on the spot before the start of building ... First half of 5th c. B.C ... First half of 5th c. B.C. |
Surface layer ... First half of 5th c. B.C ... C 18:4.1 ... C 18:4.1 |
Coins:
28 May 1937 #30
29 May 1937 #1
31 May 1937 #1-#3 ... 2nd c ... C 14:4.4 ... C 14:4.4 |
Irregular pit in bedrock; deposit chiefly of terracotta figurines, with a small amount of pottery ... 6th c. B.C ... C 9:15 ... C 9:15 |
Cistern System #1e: Shaft at 11/ΞΑ.
Agora XXIX: "Well (not cistern shaft, as in Agora XII) ... Communicates with water system through small hole (see C 8:1) probably fortuitously. Single fill, mostly of ... 350-300 B.C ... C 8:5 ... C 8:5 |
Listed in nb. as 16-17/ΞΖ. Pit with furnace debris ... 5th c. B.C. - Hellenistic ... C 8:9 ... C 8:9 |
Dumped fill in mouth of well. Coins:
16 May 1937 #1 ... Early 5th c ... Early 5th c. |
No objects catalogued ... Late 4th c. B.C ... C 17:6 ... C 17:6 |
POU 3.50-10.30m. dumped filling of 5th or 6th century. Coins:
10 May 1949 #1
16 May 1949 #1
17 May 1949 #1-#2
19 May 1949 #1-#2
20 May 1949 #1-#12
21 May 1949 #1-#4 from dump
23 May 1949 #1-#3 from dump ... 3rd-5th c. A.D ... C 18:1 ... C 18:1 |
Cistern with mixed dumped filling uniform throughout cistern and two short blind channels. Coins:
16 May 1939 #6-#7
17 May 1939 #1 ... 6th-1st c. B.C ... C 20:3 ... C 20:3 |
Cistern System #1c: Shaft (well) at 25/ΞΑ. Began as a manhole but opened up by early-mid Byzantine as a well ... Late 12th c. A.D ... C 8:3 ... C 8:3 |
Roman well, stratified.
Finds from the earth (not recorded in a subdivision):
P 7995, P 8036, P 21834, SS 6338, IL 483, IL 486, BI 309, BI 310,
BI 314.
According to the excavator the shaft had been cleaned ... 2nd-4th c. A.D ... 2nd-4th c. A.D. |
Tins 1-5.
"D" ware; a medallion plate; the jar with flaring mouth and purplish glaze and gouged decoration, a 28 lamp fragment and one fragment of combed ware ... 4th. c. A.D ... 4th. c. A.D. |
One fragment of "A" ware; no "D" ware or gouged ware; several basket-handled water jars and two amphorae ... 2nd. c. A.D ... C 13:2.6 ... C 13:2.6 |
Early 3rd c. A.D ... C 18:2.1 ... C 18:2.1 |
Deposit in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, underlying a Roman bath. Pottery examined in June 1955; latest pieces noted: one fragment Pergamene and one fragment brittle ware; no certainly post-Sullan ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... C 18:3 ... C 18:3 |
First half of 5th c. B.C ... C 18:10 ... C 18:10 |
| Pit with traces of burning ... Probably 3rd qtr. 5th c. B.C ... Probably 3rd qtr. 5th c. B.C. |
Late 5th c. B.C ... C 19:9.3 ... C 19:9.3 |
Tins 8-12.
27 lamp fragments, a "D" ware plate and an early (?) gouged jug, micaceous water jars and amphorae. Some joins were noted between fills III and IV, but in general the fills are distinct ... Mid-3rd. c. A.D ... Mid-3rd. c. A.D. |
| Artifacts, burnt bone, ash, cinders and charcoal in pit in bedrock. The pyre lay directly under mosaic floor A. the deposit is not badly disturbed, however, and it is possible that it was laid immediately ... Early second quarter of 4th c. B.C ... Early second quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
Second half 2nd c. A.D ... Second half 2nd c. A.D. |
Second half 1st c. A.D ... Second half 1st c. A.D. |
Second half of 6th c. B.C ... C 18:8.1 ... C 18:8.1 |
Coins:
31 May 1947 #1-#4 ... Post-Herulean, end 3rd c ... C 20:1.2 ... C 20:1.2 |
Cistern System #1d: Manhole at 24/ΝΘ. Coins:
29 February 1936 #3
2 March 1936 #1 ... Byzantine with 4th c. to Hellenistic ... C 8:4 ... C 8:4 |
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 ... Mid-4th to 3rd c. B.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 ... C 18:2 ... C 18:2 |
Listed in nb. as 15/ΞΤ. Pit with bronze casting debris ... To 3rd quarter of 5th c. B.C ... To 3rd quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
A burnt deposit set down into Hellenistic fill in a shaft dug into bedrock. A consistent dumped fill [post AD 150, with Group G, layer III, JWH]. Coins:
27 January 1936 #1-#3
28 January 1936 #1-#7
29 January ... First half of A.D. 2nd c ... C 9:1 ... C 9:1 |
| Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C ... Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C. |
Second half-early 3rd. c. A.D ... Second half-early 3rd. c. A.D. |
Tins 6-7.
The mending of pottery revealed a break at about 19.60, although the nature of the pottery seems about the same: "A" and "D" ware, gouged ware, flaring-mouthed jars, micaceous water jars and ... Late 3rd.-early 4th. c. A.D ... -early 4th. c. A.D. |
Coins:
26 May 1936 #2-#3
Fragments of "A" ware and of micaceous water jars; no basket-handled water jars; and a lead seal with the name and portrait of Hadrian ... Late 2nd.-early 3rd. c. A.D ... -early 3rd. c. A.D. |
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 ... C 19:9 ... C 19:9 |
Great Drain fills, including "packing over elliptical tiles" and "gravel fills". The central drain area covered by the sections below; other sections are with other deposits. Coins:
9 May 1947 #2-#5
16 ... 1st c. A.D ... 1st c. A.D. |
A tiled well with POU from 9.30-10.80m. and dumped fill above 9.30m. The dumped fill differs from lower fill only in the less frequent appearance of fragments of micaceous water jars and the occurrence ... 3rd c. A.D. with destruction at 267 A.D ... C 17:3 ... C 17:3 |
Water channel in north part of section, giving access to water system. Channel Mouth 1. Six stamped amphora handles; two-thirds of bowls long-petal ... Late 2nd century-Early 1st c. B.C ... Late 2nd century-Early 1st c. B.C. |
"Oinophorus Well".Tiled well in House H (diameter 0.80m, water level -4.70m). Height of tiles 0.64m Heavy well deposit; lamps,, type XXVII; many basket-handled water jars; oinophoros with labors of Herakles ... Use filling of early 2nd-mid.-3rd c. A.D ... Use filling of early 2nd-mid.-3rd c. A.D. |
First half of 5th c. B.C ... C 18:4.2 ... C 18:4.2 |
| 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 ... The se pots, all unburned and clustered together, would have been placed in the area immediately above the feet of the deceased.
c) in the lowest 0.30m, very damp earth with very little ash, much heavy black matter "of a different character", from that in the layer above.
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All three from different pots, but one example of archaic mending.
Orange buff clay. Oscar Broneer, Nb. No. 5.
Aglaurion, ca. 14m. 76 ... 7-10 July 1937 ... AP 3007 c ... AP 3007 c |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 2 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XV: PG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female.
JP
It consists of a roughly rectangular pit or trench cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.35m., measuring ... Late Protogeometric ... C 9:9 ... C 9:9 |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 7 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXI: PG). Bones discarded. Disturbed and damaged cremation (originally trench-and-hole), the east end cut away, probably contained the burial urn.
JP
It consisted ... Late Protogeometric ... C 9:14 ... C 9:14 |
Ca. 480 B.C ... C 18:4.3 ... C 18:4.3 |
Debris filling in a pit cut in bedrock at W side of House H, Room 10 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... C 19:4 ... C 19:4 |
Turkish fill. Coins:
7 May 1936 #1-#4 ... 5-14 May 1936 ... C 14:1.2 ... C 14:1.2 |
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 ... C 14:4 ... C 14:4 |
16 March 1957 pottery discarded nb.p. 122 ... 20-21 June 1947 ... C 15:1 ... C 15:1 |
| North of House G (RSY=Pyre 13).
Concentration of artifacts, small pieces of bone, and burnt material in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre is cut by the trench of a wall of a Roman house to north. It ... 290-250 B.C ... C 17:2 ... C 17:2 |
Pocket of pottery to south of grave at 36/ΛΔ; uncertain context. Terracotta figurines resembling those from the Coroplast's Dump (S 19:3) No containers (cf. O 18:2).
T 2468, T 2476, ST 412 from Hellenistic ... 350-320 B.C ... C 17:7 ... C 17:7 |
Near the Poros Enclosure. Diameter 0.76m. water level -1.20m. Plain shaft sunk in the stereo ... 14-22 July 1947 ... C 18:5 ... C 18:5 |
Well M: EG, under the south court of the Poros Building.
Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 144 (noted) ... Middle Geometric ... C 18:6 ... C 18:6 |
Ca. 575-550 B.C ... C 18:8.2 ... C 18:8.2 |
Geometric ... C 18:9 ... C 18:9 |
Ostrakon deposit, sand fill in a shallow channel in bedrock at the bottom of the Great Drain in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of Nymphs.
This group of ostraka may well come from a single ... Ca. 490-480 B.C ... C 18:11 ... C 18:11 |
Great Drain sand fill under Roman bath including small area at north end under tiles that was excavated separately.
See also A-B 19-20:1 for additional Great Drain sand fill at ca. 70-113/* Subdivisions: ... 30 July-11 August 1947 ... C 18:14 ... C 18:14 |
Coins:
30 July 1947 #3-#11
31 July 1947 #4-#19
1 August 1947 #1-#9
4 August 1947 #1-#20
5 August 1947 #3-#20
6 August 1947 #1-#38
7 August 1947 #1-#21
8 August 1947 #1-#41
9 August 1947 #3-#6
57-59/*
66-67/* ... 28-31 July 1947
6-9 August 1947 ... C 18:14.2 ... C 18:14.2 |
Well, unfinished?
The shallow depth, small diameter, lack of water and any use fill make it possible that this was not a well, although the character of the cutting is difficult to explain otherwise. The ... Ca. 440-420 B.C ... C 19:8 ... C 19:8 |
A supplementary fill dumped when the original had settled ... To ca. 390 B.C ... C 19:9.1 ... C 19:9.1 |
To ca. 410 B.C ... C 19:9.2 ... C 19:9.2 |
Well (diameter 0.98m) in House H, Room 13.
Two dumped fills apparently of the same date, but separated by a clay deposit of over 2.00m.
Cf. Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 253. (noted) Subdivisions:
.1=Upper ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... C 19:10 ... C 19:10 |
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