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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. |
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) |
| 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
| 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 |
| Plan of two Geometric graves: at right, a disturbed inhumation with only the upper part of the body preserved (Deposit E 14:12) partly overlying the grave of a youth (Deposit E 14:13) ... Piet de Jong ... PD 412 southwest ... 1934 |
Hellenistic filling at NE corner of section. Estimated Grid ... Hellenistic |
| Inscribed fragments.
Fragment Δ 382, inscribed stele with outline of pediment cut in preserved top.
Broken into seven pieces. Upper left corner, bottom, and a section from both right and left sides missing ... Late 3rd. century A.D. |
| Inscribed fragment.
Small parts of two finished faces are preserved. If projected these would meet in acute angle.
The smaller, ca. 0.115X0.085m. has remains of four lines of an inscription.
The larger, ... 1931 |
| Fragment of inscribed columnar base for dedication.
Front and left surfaces of the capital preserved, of abacus from corner for distances indicated by "W" and "T" measurements.
Top surface rough picked ... 1931 |
| Fragment from left side of inscription.
Front and left surfaces preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found in the wall of a modern house, in the southeast corner of the Market Square. Leica ... 180-190 A.D. |
| Fragments from upper part of inscribed stele with relief above.
Fragment Δ 75 a), broken all around save front and back.
The better preserved surface shows legs and feet apart of frontal figure standing ... 100-150 A.D. |
| Inscribed fragment of large columnar grave monument.
Small portion of curved surface preserved, covered with inscription.
Hymettian marble. Found in late Byzantine-Turkish context, in the southwest corner ... 13 February 1932 |
| Fragment of slab with inscribed band on one edge.
The height, though uneven, may be approximately complete; upper and lower surfaces fairly smooth. Back and sides sloping.
The inscription is on a smooth ... 13 February 1932 |
| Fragment from left side (?) of inscription.
Back rough picked.
Otherwise only inscribed surface preserved, which however gives the left margin of inscription. The third line is apparently a later interpolation ... 2nd. century A.D. |
| Pointed tack with four-faced shaft and hollow rounded head like a mushroom. Hellenistic fill to west of terracotta drains. Leica, Various vii-83 ... 2 April 1934 |
| The hub solid. Cistern, lower earth in north passage.
Fill 3rd c. B.C. Leica ... 22 May 1935 |
| The hub solid.
Cf. B 233 (Γ 1297) from the same cistern system. B 233 and B 234 are from the same cistern system. Cistern in late Roman fill. Leica, 5-297 ... 25 May 1935 |
| Triangular leaf shaped head.
At the back, hole for shaft, beside which is preserved a barb. Floor of south room of S.W. building.
Late 6th - early 5th c. B.C. Leica, Various vii-92 1967 ... 12 March 1934 |
| Complete with solid hub.
Uninscribed. Disturbed deposit. Leica ... 2 March 1933 |
| Surface damaged, point missing.
Shaft ovoid in section, blade long and flat. Trench A, embedded in road II a. Approximately 55% RH, free of insects etc. Polyethylene ziplock bag sealed. 5133 Leica ... 8 August 1968 |
| Shaft is preserved, blade broken away.
Shaft is circular in section, pointed at end. Marble Worker 's House. Below floor IV, layer XVIII. 5051, 5071 Leica ... 14 August 1968 |
| Inscribed.
Broken at one end. Surface highly polished.
Tool is rectangular in section, sharpened to point (probably repeatedly) at preserved end. Light incised lines separate letters.
Reverse has several ... 3 August 1968 |
| Complete.
Round shallow bowl. Pointed handle with transverse grooves just above the bowl. Well. Black fill. Leica, Various vii-78 ... 26 February 1934 |
| Mended from two fragments, the point lacking.
The head is shaped like a Corinthian capital, with leaves under the corners, and a square abacus. On the abacus is seated a winged Eros, with legs crossed ... 21 March 1934 |
| Fragment of inscription.
Left side, and back, rough picked preserved; other edges broken.
Part of eight lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found in late Roman context, outside the Market ... 1st. century A.D. |
| Fragment of inscribed base; grave monument (?).
Upper left corner of base, broken below, behind, and to the right.
Mouldings below.
Part of four lines of the inscription; non-stoichedon.
Pentelic marble ... 29 September 1933 |
| Inscribed fragment.
The back rough picked; the edges broken.
Sixteen lines of the inscription preserved, with a space between the fifth and sixth.
Pentelic marble. Found in disturbed earth, outside the ... 2nd. century A.D. |
| Fragment of inscribed stele.
Part of a pediment preserved, broken off at the right and behind; rough picked on the top. Close to the apex, part of an acroterion.
Inscribed below the pediment, the inscribed ... 122/1 B.C. |
| Chipped all around; back and bottom broken off, but the inscription complete.
Sanctuary of Apollo Xanthos. Found in Hellenistic context, in the channel of a well outside the Market Square, to the southwest ... Ca. 400 B.C. |
| Broken on all sides.
Parts of four lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble. Found in mixed Hellenistic and Roman context, outside the Market Square, to the southwest, in the disturbed area ... 4th. century B.C. |
| Inscribed fragments.
Fragment Ζ 348 a), part of the left side preserved (?); otherwise broken all round. Surface somewhat eaten away at left.
Two lines of the inscription and traces of a third above preserved ... a) (Ζ 348) 31 March 1933
b) (Ν 530) 7 April 1936 |
| Moulded.
On body (?) raised horizontal bands; on rim, leaf pattern in relief.
Opalescent white glass. Cistern shaft.
1st c. B.C. Leica, XXXIII-28 PD 505, PD 2023-33 ... 14 May 1935 |
| Two rim and three plain fragments of a bowl with plain rim. The fragments do not certainly all belong together.
Two shallow grooves below rim inside. Agora samples no. 282. Cistern shaft.
1st c. B.C. 1706, ... 17 May 1935 |
| Ribbed outside, and with a groove below the rim inside. Assigned to E 14:1 by GRE. Cistern filling on south slope of Kolonos, apparently intruded from filling immediately above. Lower fill.
50-25 B.C ... 30 May 1935 |
| From an open bowl with flaring rim.
Below rim outside, shallow parallel grooves; ribs in relief on body.
Brownish amber, somewhat iridescent. Cistern filling on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Lower Hellenistic ... Card: 1st c. A.D. |
| The bottom of a square bottle.
A circular break at the center suggests that it was on a stem. Letters in relief on the bottom running around.
Greenish glass.
Well B.
4th-5th c. A.D. Leica, 79-11-17(18) ... 21 May 1937 |
| No edges preserved.
The glass was blown into a mold which left on the outside a raised ornament of large drops alternating with smaller round projections.
From an almond bassed beaker.
Thin fabric of pale ... May-June 1937 |
| Rim fragment from a fairly shallow bowl.
Plain rim with two grooved lines below on interior.
Thick pale purple molded glass. Agora sample no. 303. Poros Building (Strategeion ?). Stone packing for missing ... June 1949 |
| Narrow neck with flat lip; angular strap handle, and part of horizontal shoulder preserved.
Greenish blue glass. East-west Street, road fill 4.
2nd-3rd c. A.D. 3490 Leica ... 13 October 1949 |
| Part of the lip and side wall remains.
Steep wall, slightly flaring lip. There are two shallow grooves around the outside of the lip, and at least three farther down on the side wall. The bowl was probably ... 3-12 March 1934 |
| Two contiguous, and one non-contiguous fragments.
Flaring lip; vertical loop handle on neck below lip. The body thread wound horizontally.
Thin fabric, greenish gray and transparent; little oxydized. 95/Δ'* ... 2 April 1934 |
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