|
|
Cistern shaft southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Unstratified fill.
Ten stamped amphora handles; Type 34A lamp; many fragments of long-petal b suggesting material deposited ca. 140 or later. Cf. Pireus ... Ca. 200-125 B.C. |
Digging abandoned at 17.10m.
Nbp. 2863: The fill in the mouth to -6.50 was a dump of mixed hellenistic and late roman sherds. From -6.50 to -11.00m. small stones with a few late roman sherds 4th-5th c ... 4th-5th c. A.D. |
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. |
A small concentration of pottery in lowest 1.80m., possibly a use fill. Three fills above, with little pottery, ranging from Hellenistic to late Roman in date. Coins:
26 February 1934 #4-#6
27 February ... 325-200 B.C. |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Burial of a woman (young adult female ca. 18-20); precise dating difficult due to disturbance by later features, but the amount of Neolithic and Geometric pottery extracted from the trench is significant ... Prehistoric |
Disturbed burial set into a cutting in hardpan. No lot ... 2nd half of 5th c. B.C. |
| "Perhaps a cremation burial ... " nbp. 811. "Sacrificial pyre, disturbed," GRE, deposit nb.
In room on east side of building. Concentration of artifacts, fragments of bone, and abundant cinders in stratum, ... Early 3rd c. B.C.-Ca. 250 B.C. |
Dump, 4th c. Cut through a cistern which was probably constructed in the 4th c. B.C, near the southwest corner of the market square. Coins:
25 May 1935 #1 (with L 1809) (disintegrated) Subdivisions:
.1=Upper ... Second half 1st c.-end 2nd c. |
Coins:
25 May 1935 #1 (with L 1809) (disintegrated) |
Coins:
25 May 1935 #2
28 May 1935 #1-#3
29 May 1935 #1-#3
30 May 1935 #1-#2 ... 2nd c. A.D. |
Coins:
31 May 1935 #1 ... 1st c. A.D. |
Coins:
1 June 1935 #1-#11
3 June 1935 #1-#14 Estimated Grid ... 1-3 June 1935 |
Well near southwest corner of market square; successive use fillings, and dumped filling.
Lower use filling, second half of 4th century B.C.
Main use filling, second quarter of 2nd century B.C. to shortly ... 10 April-31 May 1935 |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Coin hoard of Athenian tetradrachms. Dug into fill under floor (floor level not preserved) on east side of Strategeion near the NE corner of room formed by the eastern poros block wall and an east-west ... Second half of 4th c. B.C. |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Ovoid pit cut into bedrock or sterile fill just north of preserved floor surfaces in the so-called Strategeion. Length (west-east) 2.6m; widens at 1.25m from the east scarp so that at west pit is 0.75m ... 4th B.C. |
Cutting in stereo. Early 4th c. fill with some Hellenistic-Early Roman disturbance ... Ca. 400-375 B.C. |
Small compact deposit. Cutting. High proportion of good black glaze; 21 loom weights (19 pyramidal, 2 lentoid); a very large red-figured skyphos somewhat recalls the style of earlier work of the Dinos ... Ca. 430-420 B.C. |
Rectangular pit over bedrock in north part of E. Building. Broken jars and household basins with a few black glazed and black-figured fragments (uninventoried). The figured pieces indicate the lower limit ... Late 6th-ca. 480 B.C. |
Trench at 11/ΚΕ cut into the stereo (length 1.40m, width 0.50m). Coins:
5 April 1932 #5 (illegible).
Red figure pottery; coarse ware ... Mid-5th c. B.C. |
Coins:
26 April 1932 #1
27 April 1932 #1-#2
Only the pottery from last 1.00m of fill retained. Finds recorded in both Δ and Δ'. See Δ nbp. 114 for division of Δ into two parts, northern (Δ) and southern ... 4th c. A.D. |
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. |
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 |
Well just outside the southwest corner of the market square ... Late 7th-early 6th c. B.C. |
Actually 1 meter into section Δ, the well lies under a filling of primarily Hellenistic date which had been thrown in as underpinning for the support of a 2nd c. A.D. Roman tile-mosaic floor.
POU is 15.80-16.35m ... First half of 1st c. A.D. |
| Inscriptions as found used as cover slabs for the Southwest Fountain House drain ... southwest 2812 Horizontal (normal) ... 27 Jul 1968 |
| Inscriptions as found used as cover slabs for the Southwest Fountain House drain ... southwest 2814 Horizontal (normal) ... 23, 27 July 1968 |
| Context pottery from the Triangular Sanctuary at the southwest entrance to the Agora. Late 5th c. B.C. fragments from lower road levels outside and upper fill inside the Hieron ... Horizontal (normal) |
| Case 13. Late Geometric period. Pithos burial of an infant (Deposit D 16:3). Third quarter of 8th c. B.C. Cf. Hesperia 19 (1950,) pp. 330-331 and pl. 104 a, b ... August 1958 |
| Case 9. Early Geometric (900 B.C.) cremation burial of a warrior craftsman. Deposit D 16:4 ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1962 |
| Cistern Ε (94/Θ) in Section Γ ... Charles S. Spector ... Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink ... 1934 |
| Cistern (88/ΛΔ-95/ΚΘ-100/ΚΘ) in section Γ ... John Travlos ... Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink ... 1950 |
Great Drain: fillings in south part of section; Martyrs I, II and III, all layers (essentially no difference in the layers).
Pottery sorted and recorded by H.A. Thompson 12 may 1950: "Having gone through ... Second half of 2nd c. B.C.-Early 1st c. B.C. |
Carefully cut in bedrock with firm footholds on either side. The use filling is represented by a few fragments of water jars (uninventoried), indicating a short period of use. The dumped filling, below ... Ca. 470-425 B.C. |
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 ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.
Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C.
Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D. |
Cumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C. |
Late 4th-early 3rd c. 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:
24 May 1937 #1
27 May 1937 #1
31 May 1937 #1
2 June 1937 #1 ... Byzantine |
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. |
Containers 24-72.
Masses of pottery; including many BHWJ's; lamps XVIII and XXIV
Coins:
12 June 1937 #14-#53
13 June 1937 #1-#7 (from earth of 12 June)
13 June 1937 #8
14 June 1937 #1-#3
15 June 1937 ... First half 1st c. A.D. |
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 |
Late Roman (3rd c. A.D) with some Hellenistic |
Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C. |
4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment |
Rectangular shaft cut in rock with NE-SW orientation. Upper part of grave cut into fill over bedrock; this fill later swept away. Paving of small stones. Few human teeth and ribs.
(Dimensions: L. 1.62m, ... 725-200 B.C. |
Found in 13/06/1935.
Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup, perhaps in one of the public buildings near the SW corner of the square ... Ca. 520-490 B.C. |
Upper fill was early Roman dated by AWP to the 1st c. A transitional fill was later assigned to the upper level.
Nbp. 2913: The history may have been that the well was cleaned out at the time that it was ... 3rd-2nd century B.C and Roman date. |
Coins:
19 May 1936 #1-#2 ... 1st c. A.D. |
Late 4th to early 3rd c. B.C. |
Two periods of use.
Outside the SW corner of the market square, to the west of the north-south road; lower use of filling, of 1st to early 2nd c. A.D. Coins:
26 May 1937 #1 [to 8.30m.]
9 June 1937 #2-#4 ... 10 -11 June 1935
20 May-20 June 1937 |
Top to 13.15m. called Byzantine by excavator; 13.15m.-18.10m., 6th c. 18.00-19.00 period of disuse, brick and tile fragments ... 5th-6th and 9th-10th c. A.D. |
Coins perhaps Hadrian 117-138 A.C.
No XXVII lamps and no XX catalogued (but excavator notes their presence in fill) ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
Dug as Tholos Trench V, Room E, burnt filling of plundered wall trench of S wall of court. See also lot Ζ 484 ... Late 6th c. B.C. |
Various layers and dates, primarily from Tholos Tr. L (area of early road drain), Q (area of road) and V (area of road).
Also Room G of Trench V listed with G-H 11-12 probably has road layers (no finds, ... 8th c.-ca. 480 B.C. |
Archaic house with Distyle Porch (= Building J) in southeast of section: packing beneath floors (Layers a and b of Tholos Trench S.Layer b=Beneath original floor dated to ca. 500 B.C.
Layer a=Between original ... 6th-early 5th c. B.C. |
| Athens ... Hoard. Provisional conservation no. 9. polished Finished Coin hoard on east side of Strategeion. 3381 ... 21 July 2005 |
| Cf. Hesperia 80 (2011), p. 240, n. 29. polished Finished Coin hoard on east side of Strategeion. 3381 ... 21 July 2005 |
Nbp. 3104: When dug, the fill of the well divided itself into 3 deposits.
Objects catalogued from the "earth" are: L 4838, P 21602, P 21603, P 21604. Dumped filling of Turkish times. Coins:
17 May 1937 ... Late 6th-7th c. A.D. |
Nbp. 3104: Container includes a miscellaneous accumulation of Greek and Roman pottery with some fragments of Byzantine brown glaze. No joins were observed between this layer and Layer II ... 16-24 May 1937 |
Nbpp. 3104-3105: Represents well deposit; the [baskets] from this layer showed no stratification. Containers marked "earth" presumably represent primarily Layer II.
... it is presumed that the sherds of ... Late 6th-7th c. |
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 |
Construction and upper fills. Well at 116/ΣΤ, cut less than one meter from a shallower and older well at 115/ΣΤ [D 15:1]. ... a fall of loose fill occurred from the earlier into the later well ...
Filling ... 2nd c. A.D. plus 6th c. A.D. |
A small flask-shaped cistern on the lower southeast slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Lined with hydraulic cement and containing a large quantity of glazed table ware and a fair amount of coarse ware; a homogeneous ... 350-325 B.C. |
Lower filling mostly of second half of 4th c. B. C. and earlier, but perhaps dumped in 3rd c. B.C. Upper filling mixed to Roman (4th c. A.D.). Pottery in container (9-22-58) is mostly second half of 4th ... Ca. 375-325 B.C. with late-3rd-century disturbance |
Pottery discarded ... Mixed to Roman, 3rd c. A.D. |
Green and sandy fill in foundation. Coins:
15 May 1936 #1-#5 ... 4th c. B.C. |
| Grave 2 in notebook. Child of about two (or 10?) months, body placed in plain pithos, which rested on its side at the bottom of a pit; the mouth closed with a stone slab.
The burial forms a group with ... 750-725 B.C |
| Evelyn Lord Smithson ... Grave 3: (Grave XXVII: EG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult male. Carbonized figs and grapes included in inventoried objects (no number). [JP]
"Craftsman-Warrior" tomb: combination of weapons and ... Early Geometric I |
Pit in deep depression in bedrock. Also includes containers from early fill under late Roman floors down to bedrock at 81-83/ΚΗ-ΛΒ. Notebook cites early fill, ca. 6th. c., with some obviously late disturbance ... 7th c. to ca. 575 B.C. |
Large pit in the bedrock over Wells H and I. Fill of the pit thrown in after filling of Well H, containing almost entirely coarse ware. First 4m of Well I, filling the same. Below that Well I fill similar ... Late Roman- 1st c. A.D. (mainly early ?) |
Abandoned digging at 12.85m. due to collapse of side walls. Well H contents probably thrown in to Well I during cleaning in early Roman times; the pottery from the two wells is similar. Cf. E 14:6 ... 350-250 B.C. |
Fillings associated with Southwest and North Buildings (78-99/ΙΣΤ-ΚΘ) and early walls to west of Great Drain.
pottery p. 1189, vol VII ... Subdivisions:
.1=Filling over bedrock.
.2=Fillings behind retaining ... Various levels and dates |
Filling over bedrock. Coins:
14 March 1934 #44-#48 ... Early 5th c. B.C. and earlier |
Fillings behind retaining wall and in road.
SW Building, rooms 3, north, south. Coins:
13 March 1934 #1, #2
14 March 1934 #37
15 March 1934 #37-#38
24 March 1934 #31 ... 6th c. B.C. and earlier |
Dumped fillings probably to be associated with the construction of the Great Drain in this area.
Green fill under North Building ... Ca. 400 B.C. |
Fillings associated with reuse of walls in north part of area.
Red fill under and in North Building ... 5th c. B.C. with Hellenistic/ Roman disturbance as late as 3rd c. A.D. |
Late fillings over early walls.
Tin 120 sherds put with those from the same fill dug 21 February 1934, just to the south. Coins:
21 February 1934 #3-#7
9 March 1934 #2 ... To 5th c. A.D. |
| Geometric Burial. Burial B in notebook.
Overlay E 14:13. Skeleton lay on smoothed bedrock, head southward, arms folded on chest, hands below chin. Legs, cut off by later disturbance, probably bent, with ... Late Geometric |
| Geometric burial. Burial A in notebook.
Shaft in bedrock dug to 0.30m, oriented NE to SW. Upper part was disturbed by Grave XXIV. Skeleton of youth. L. as it lay 1.34m. Pots laid across grave at feet of ... 750-725 B.C. |
The almost complete red figure hydria set into this cutting suggests the possibility of a 5th c. burial put into a much earlier grave cutting; however, the remainder of the filling appears thoroughly disturbed ... 450-425 B.C- Late Roman disturbance |
Well shaft cut through a cistern channel which was then packed with three amphorae (P 3123, P 3125, P 4201) of 1st or at latest early 2nd c. A.D. (These three amphorae could be considered with F 15:2) ... 3rd-4th c. A.D. |
Part of cistern system at 94/Θ. Coins:
12 March 1934 #7-#9
14 March 1934 #38-#41 ... 275-200 B.C. |
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. |
| Stuccoed wall of a Roman house ... north 2686 Horizontal (normal) ... 20 March 1937 |
| Grave XXVII. North-south section. Grave D 16:4 ... John Travlos ... PD 884 Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1952 |
| Geometric oinochoe (left, P 20183) and globular pyxis with lid (right, P 20182) from the grave of a young man (Deposit D 16:4). In front, carbonized figs and grapes found in the grave ... I presume they are the figs and grapes mentionned in Hesperia XXI, pp. 280-281. (SD) Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Jun 2000 |
| Geometric wares from the grave of a young man (Deposit D 16:4). From left to right: kantharos (P 20180), oinochoe (P 20178) and goblet (P 20179). In front, cup (P 20181) ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Jun 2000 |
| Late Geometric graves: a disturbed inhumation (Deposit E 14:12) and the grave of a youth (Deposit E 14:13). P 3647 in situ ... The pots are connected with E 14:13, E 14:12 has no objects. east ... 25 Apr 1934 |
| Late Geometric graves. Disturbed inhumation (Deposit E 14:12) and the grave of a youth (Deposit E 14:13). Oinochoe with lid (P 3647) in situ ... The pots are connected with E 14:13, E 14:12 has no objects. southeast ... 25 Apr 1934 |
| Graves after cleaning. At top right, a disturbed inhumation with only the upper part of the body preserved (Deposit E 14:12); in center, the inhumation of a youth (Deposit E 14:13) with pots in situ: an ... The pots are connected with E 14:13, E 14:12 has no objects. south ... 25 Apr 1934 |
| Geometric grave after cleaning. Detail to show pattern of P 3647 left in earth after removal of vase. Deposit E 14:13 ... southeast ... 25 Apr 1934 |
| Lower part of Geometric graves after cleaning. Deposits E 14:12 and E 14:13. Pots in situ: an aryballos (P 3644), a skyphos (P 3645), one-handled cup (P 3646) and an oinochoe (P 3647) ... The pots are connected with E 14:13, E 14:12 has no objects. southwest ... 25 Apr 1934 |
| Upper part of Geometric graves after cleaning. Deposit E 14:12 and E 14:13. Pots in situ: an aryballos (P 3644), a skyphos (P 3645), one-handled cup (P 3646) and an oinochoe (P 3647) ... The pots are connected with E 14:13, E 14:12 has no objects. southwest ... 25 Apr 1934 |
| North-south section through the grave (Deposit D 16:4). Cremation burial of a warrior, about 900 B.C. (Grave XXVII) ... John Travlos ... PD 884 PD book doesn't give a date. Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1955 |
| Plan and east-west section of burial amphora and grave offerings as found. Deposit D 16:4. (Grave XXVII) ... John Travlos ... PD 881 PD book doesn't give a date. Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1955 |
| In right background, pithos child burial (Deposit D 16:3). In foreground, east wall of the Great Drain. In center a large stone slab and packing of small stones but this proved not to be a grave ... east 3117 ... 28 Jun 1949 |
| A pithos child burial (Deposit D 16:3) at rear center with cutting for an urn cremation (Deposit D 16:2) at 58/Ε in right foreground. West corner of House G in right background, east wall of the Great ... east 3096 ... 27 Jun 1949 |
|
|
