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Exploration in the peristyle of the Heliaea (1960); evidence for rebuilding in the third quarter of the 4th c. B.C. with some disturbance as late as 1st-2nd c. A.D. Date of reconstruction ca. 325 B.C ... Ca. 350- 325 B.C. |
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa ... 1st c. A.D. |
A deep pit in bedrock over mouth of well. Context archaic, 6th c.
B.C., but with some traces of later disturbance. Found a circle for a well at the bottom, much water, no sherds.
Lay 2.20m south of Well ... 6th c. B.C. |
Located in Room IV, strosis 3, of SW House. Archaic, later disturbed, filling in and over undug well. See also L-M 17-18:1 where objects SS 14318 and T 3576 are actually from the filling over the undug ... 6th-5th c. B.C. |
| Pyre 1 in Central House, Room XI, strosis 3. Sacrificial pyre with characteristic small vases amid carbonized twigs and bone.
Near north side of courtyard. This pit was cut slightly into strosis 3 (lot ... 1st quarter 4th c. B.C. |
| Pyre 2 in Central House, Room X, under strosis 9. Signs of burning, carbonized food, animal bone.
In room south of courtyard. concentration of artifacts, bone, and charred material in floor makeup, no ... 290-275 B.C. |
A well lined with a very well built stone wall, carefully made and fitted to the curve of the well cutting, with footholds running down its N and S faces. This wall, of small stones, runs to 7.30m. from ... 23-29 March 1937 |
Well on lower slopes of Areopagus.
Diameter ca. 1.50m. Dumped filling of 8th c. at the top. Fill mostly Geometric but containing bits of later (even Roman) pottery. Perhaps cleaned out and refilled with ... 730-700 B.C. |
Late Roman Pit. No clear page reference but see nbpp. 1308-1309 ... 22-29 July 1957 |
| 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 |
Pit in ancient road, ca. 73/ΜΣΤ The filling of this pit contained quantities of coarse pottery, principally fragmentary amphoras, but including also some glazed and semi-glazed pieces and fragments of ... Ca. 350-325 B.C. |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Infant grave near Phaidon street cistern. No offerings.
Roughly rectangular, almost elliptical cutting in bedrock, measuring 0.70m long, 0.35m wide, and 0.40m deep, oriented south-southwest to north-northeast ... Late Helladic III C/Early Protogeometric (date uncertain) |
Filling over bedrock. Coins:
26 May 1938 #7-#10
27 May 1938 #1
28 May 1938 #1 ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
| Tile-lined well. Note fragment of topmost drum with inward inclination. Deposit O 16:3 ... north Horizontal (normal) ... 17 Jun 1955 |
| South terrace: cutting for median wall of shop building at ca. 51/Λ. Cf. nb. p. 3303 ... east Horizontal (normal) ... 8 Mar 1953 |
| Cistern B (77/ΛΘ-75/ΜΓ) in section X ... John Travlos ... XIII-5 XIII-5 Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink ... 1937 |
| Cistern D (79/ΜΗ-84/NΣT) in section X ... John Travlos ... Roman Group F. XIII-8 XIII-8 Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink ... 1937 |
| Iron sword and knives from Protogeometric Burial ... Aliki Halepa-Bikaki ... LXXVII-99 LXXVII-99 ... June 1955 |
Fillings associated with early houses on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus; various levels and dates.
Both houses were built in the 6th century B.C. and destroyed by the Persians; both also have ... 6rd c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D. |
| Use filling of middle of 1st to late 6th c. (Roman Group M); dumped filling of 9th and 10th c. Down to a depth of about 21.00m. the fill of the well contained very few objects, the latest of them being ... 1st-6th c. A.D. |
Containers 106-107. Coins:
16 April 1937 #1-#7 (Dump) ... Mid-1st c. A.D. |
Containers 100-105. Coins:
14 April 1937 #11-#14 ... Late 1st-1st half of 2nd c. A.D. |
Containers 87-99. Coins:
7 April 1937 #30-#31
8 April 1937 #41-#82
9 April 1937 #3-#4 (#4=Dump)
13 April 1937 #1
14 April 1937 #1-#10 ... Late 2nd c. A.D. |
Containers 83-86. Coins:
7 April 1937 #13-#29
8 April 1937 #2-#40
12 April 1937 #2 ... Early 3rd c. A.D. |
Containers 63, 66-82. Coins:
7 April 1937 #1-#12, #32
10 April 1937 #1-#3
12 April 1937 #1 ... Mid-3rd c.-267 A.D. |
Containers 63-67. Coins:
6 April 1937 #4-#5 ... Late 3rd c. A.D. |
Containers 44-62. Coins:
5 April 1937 #3 (disintegrated)
6 April 1937 #2-3, #7
8 April 1937 #1
9 April 1937 #1-#2 ... Early 4th c. A.D. |
Containers 36-40 ... Late 4th c. A.D. |
Containers 23-35. Coins:
6 April 1937 #1, #6 ... 5th. c. A.D. |
Containers 17-22. Coins:
5 April 1937 #1-#2 (disintegrated) ... 2nd half 5th c. A.D. |
Containers 14-16 ... 6th c. A.D. |
Containers 5-13 ... 6th c. A.D. |
Containers 1-4 ... Late 6th c. A.D. |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XVI: PG). Bones discarded.
Only the lower portion of the urn-hole was preserved in bedrock, roughly oval in outline, with a maximum preserved width at the top of 0.70m narrowing ... Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (adult female). (In some records as Grave XXXI).
The tomb was partly destroyed in antiquity; there are sherds of all periods down to Late Roman (and later) note din the fill immediately above it ... Middle Geometric I |
Big well at 61/ΙΖ.
A well on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus. Diameter 2m ... Ca. 520-475 and shortly after |
Well at 69/ΚΔ (Well G: PG, ELS).
Diameter 0.75m. Fairly but not perfectly evenly cut; no foot-holds in sides. Very little water gathered. The well produced a small amount of pottery, the bulk of it coming ... Protogeometric |
Turkish well at 71/ΚΘ No coins noted ... Turkish |
Rectangular pit at 54/ΛΓ.
The pit's plan is irregular; its measurements approximately 2.00x1.10x1.15m. The wall foundations run a little over a meter deep at 53/ΛΓ-ΛΕ, consist of irregularly shaped and ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. |
| Contents of Pithos Y; probably belonging to sacrificial pyre III.
In northern corner of courtyard. Characteristic pyre pottery in fill of one of two pithoi set into the floor of the courtyard as part ... 400-350 B.C. |
Geometric Pit 58/ΛΒ.
It was started as a well, but after 2 meters crumbling bedrock must have discouraged the diggers. It produced only a few sherds, all of which were kept ... Geometric |
Pocket in bedrock at 62/ΚΑ ... Early 5th c. B.C. |
Filling of a well on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus, dug early in the 1st c. B.C. [construction fill]; in use into the the 2nd c. A.D.[well fill] (H Ms.) No apparent stratification.
Hellenistic ... 2nd c. A.D. |
Hellenistic construction fill mainly of amphoras used as packing between well tiles and bedrock. Estimated Grid ... 1st c. B.C. |
Estimated Grid ... 2nd c. A.D. |
Hellenistic Fill at 70/ΛΣΤ.
Fill in irregular hollow. Pottery resembles Sullan debris, but lack of late duoviri handles suggests deposit slightly predates the sack. Coins
6 March 1937 #1-#4 ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
Tomb at 53-54/ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ-ΛΗ (Late Roman), on the lower north slope of the Areopagus Nb. says ΛΕ-ΛΗ. Deposit list and deposit DB say: ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ ... 350-400 A.D. |
Appears to be use filling from 3rd c. A.D., pre-Herulian into 4th c. or later. Lined with tiles. Coins:
6 May 1937 #1-#2 (disintegrated) ... Early 3rd-early 6th c. |
Drain Trench at 62/ΜΗ.
The presence of a number of fairly well preserved vases of good quality suggested to the excavator the possibility that the cutting might once have contained a burial. No skeletal ... 325-300 B.C. |
| Grave 3 in notebook. Outside Archaic cemetery, inhumation burial. Deposit list says black glaze pithos (P 8922) containing the bones of a child and four small vases. The pithos lay on its side with the ... Last quarter of 6th century B.C. |
| Pit at 74/ΜΑ (1.10x0.58).
Debris filling containing a quantity of animal bones; probably a household refuse pit Animal bones (domestic animals); cow, pig, goat, sheep, hen, dog, and several varieties ... Ca. 525-470 B.C.
480-440 B.C. |
Well at 73/Μ on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter of 0.90m. It seems to have been abandoned because of the very soft stereo that kept falling in from all sides. Many pieces of terracotta ... Ca. 430-420 B.C. |
Well at 73/ΜΓ.
The upper walls were of small stones but changed to tiles at a depth of ca. 12m which suggests that it perhaps was originally built in Late Roman times ... Byzantine |
Well at 66/ΛΖ. Homogeneous fill.
14 stamped amphora handles. Rhodian and Knidian handles find parallels in Middle Stoa building fill. Type 27 D lamp agrees with this date. Fragments of 50 bowls and one ... 225-175 B.C. |
| Cistern at 75/ΜΓ connected with cistern N 18:3 by tunnel.
Only coin is Bioiotian dating between 220 and 197. Only indications of date are 1st c. lamps, two long-petal bowls, and fragments of early Roman ... 1st. c. B.C. |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave III: SM).
The close proximity and similarity of this tomb and tomb M 16-17:1 strongly suggests that they were intentionally laid out in relation to one another and were contemporary ... Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric |
Rectangular cutting at 58-60/ΚΘ-Λ, probably a plundered wall trench ... 350-290 B.C. |
| Homer A. Thompson ... Cremation burial (trench-and-hole) under S. edge of E-W Street, northern burial. In some records as Grave XLVII.
The western part of the offering trench of the tomb was lost to a Turkish cess pit, and ... Middle Geometric I |
| Homer A. Thompson ... Cremation burial (trench-and-hole) under S. edge of E-W Street, southern burial. In some records as Grave XLVI.
Neat trench, rectangular as preserved, but may have originally been square, cut partly through ... Early Geometric I |
Pit in colonnade of south Stoa I, north of S. half of room 4. Estimated Grid |
Modern fill to 21.00m. at which depth a human skeleton weighed down with iron. ER fill from 21.00-28.00m. (bottom). A POU fill with a possible break around 25.00m ... 1st to mid-2nd c. A.D. |
Turkish Pit at 78/ΚΒ Sgraffito bowl x3
Painted bowl
Impressed bowl
Green-glazed bowl
Kioutakia bowl
Kioutakia egg cup
Bronze buckle No coins noted ... Turkish |
Turkish well at 78/ΚΖ Turkish bowl ... Turkish |
| Cistern at 79/ΜΗ.
A well dug through at a later date destroyed all cistern filling.
No filling preserved. No typed list ... Probably 3rd cent. B.C. |
Small deposit of undisturbed filling in pocket in bedrock at 85/ΛΖ ... Second Half of the 6th c. B.C. |
| Cistern at 77/Μ on lower north slopes of the Areopagus. Bottom diameter of 2m connected by tunnel to cistern M-N 18:1.
Only stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 240. Latest coin dates about 200 ... 3rd c. B.C.-196/190 B.C. |
Grave 2.
Shallow cutting, 1.00x0.47m, in bedrock; possibly a child's burial, but no skeletal remains preserved ... Late 5th c. B.C. |
Well dug through N 18:1 (cistern at 79/ΜΗ) on the lower north slopes of Areopagus; the cistern was the northern chamber of a system; the southern chamber is at 84/ΝΣΤ (N 19:1).
A single dumped deposit ... 3rd-4th c. A.D. |
Pocket in bedrock 35/Ε. The filling consisting chiefly of coarse ware and roof tiles; some of the material Archaic, but the deposit as late as the mid-5th c. B.C ... Ca. 500-450 B.C. |
Well at 32/ΣΤ ... Late 6th c. B.C. |
Great Hole at 33/Ζ = Area of early wells Some of the objects may have come from N 18:7 or from a neighboring 7th c, well, not separately cleared, but no definite association is possible ... 7th-5th c. B.C. |
| End of season, general view. Polygonal Building (Two-roomed House) in foreground; along the road, at left, the Southeast Unit; timbers covering well at 66/ΛΖ. Aischinou Street at left with the complex ... Polygonal House (Two-roomed House) and Southwest House (Southeast Unit) in the notebooks (SD). northwest 1297 Horizontal (normal) ... 7 Jun 1957 |
| In right foreground, the Southeast Unit; in right middle ground, the Two-roomed House. At left middle ground, timbers covering well at 66/ΛΖ. End of season ... Southwest House (Southeast Unit) and Polygonal Building (Two-roomed House) in nb. (SD) 1300 Horizontal (normal) ... 6 Jun 1957 |
| Manhole giving access to the Late Roman Water Channel. View from above ... 791 Horizontal (normal) ... 5 Apr 1957 |
| Late Roman water system. Inside channel passage looking north to 25/Γ where passage stops, but channel continues on. White marble block built into wall built across the passage ... north 793 Horizontal (normal) ... 5 Apr 1957 |
| Rectangular pit at 54/ΛΓ. Only the northern half of the pit has been dug. Note the 5th c. B.C. drain in the lower left of the picture ... southwest 1209 Horizontal (normal) ... 16 Apr 1957 |
| Rectangular tone-lined pit (cesspool?) in street just south of the door of the Southeast Unit ... Southwest House in notebooks. (SD) southwest 1253 Horizontal (normal) ... 26 Apr 1957 |
| Turkish water channel under Phaidonos Street. At right, wall of Late Roman Building (?). Under south end of wall is south chamber of Phaidon Street cistern (Deposit O 17:6). Below to left of N. end is ... For cistern cf. p. 1306. For the grave cf. p. 1314. For the channel, see summary in notebook Ω pp. 1897-1898, 1904-1907. south 1394 Horizontal (normal) ... 24 May 1957 |
| Plan and section of Cistern System B at 77/Μ (Deposit N 18:3) and 75/ΜΓ (Deposit M-N 18:1) ... John Travlos ... PD 147 389 Horizontal (normal) ... 4 May 1937 |
| Plan and section of Cistern System D at 84/ΝΣΤ (Deposit N 19:1) and 79/ΜΗ (Deposit N 18:1) ... John Travlos ... PD 138 Horizontal (normal) ... 4 Oct 1937 |
| Lime pit. Note entrance at upper left of pit circle ... Nb. says at 51/ΙΖ (SD) southeast 1248 Horizontal (normal) ... 26 Apr 1957 |
| Garbage pit. Deposit M 18:7 ... 175 Horizontal (normal) ... 16 Feb 1937 |
| Sacrificial pyre in the Northeast Unit, central part of Room XI. Deposit L 17:4 ... Central House in the notebooks (SD). 1503 Horizontal (normal) ... 5 May 1958 |
| Drawing of two burials. At left: in Section ΚΚ, pit tomb, child inhumation at 46/ΜΖ-Η (Deposit D 7:1). At right: in Section Φ, pit tomb, adult inhumation at 67/Ι (Deposit M 16-17:1) ... Piet de Jong ... PD 433 PD 436 no mention of artist in PD book for 433. Piet de Jong for 436 ... March 1936 |
| Late Roman tomb, view looking down from the tower ... no deposit east 621 Horizontal (normal) ... April 1937 |
| Objects found in a Roman well (Deposit M 17:1): from left to right, miniature kantharos (P 9914), small unglazed cup (P 9916), unfinished marble statuette (S 903), wide-mouthed jug (P 10047) and small ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Jun 2000 |
| Objects found in a Roman well (Deposit M 17:1): lamps (left, L 2915; right, L 2914), pear-shaped jug (P 9798) and marble pestle (ST 185) ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Jun 2000 |
| Pithos used as a burial urn (P 8922). Deposit M 18:6 ... southwest ... February 1937 |
| Pithos used as a burial urn (P 8922). Deposit M 18:6 ... north 93 ... 8 Feb 1937 |
| Damaged urn cremation. Deposit M 17:3. Fragments of pot in position. In foreground, the modern well with plank across it. Upper left in heavy shadow, part of bedrock cutting which later proved to be the ... southwest ... 26 Feb 1937 |
| Damaged urn cremation. Deposit M 17:3. Fragments of pot in position. Lower right, the modern well. Heavy shadow at left: part of bedrock cutting which later proved to be the mouth of a Protogeometric well ... west ... 26 Feb 1937 |
| Damaged urn cremation. Deposit M 17:2. A skyphos (P 9324) and lower part of the large urn (P 9325) set in a hole cut for it in the bedrock ... northwest Horizontal (normal) ... 8 Mar 1937 |
| Damaged urn cremation. Deposit M 17:2. A skyphos (P 9324) and the lower part of a large urn (P 9325) set in a hole cut for it in the bedrock ... south Horizontal (normal) ... 8 Mar 1937 |
| Adult inhumation. Legs only exposed, pithos (P 32505) and basin fragments (P 10583) still in place. Deposit M 16-17:1 ... west 685 Horizontal (normal) ... 27 May 1937 |
| Adult inhumation. Basin and pithos fragments removed. Stone over head and jug (P 10582) exposed. Deposit M 16-17:1 ... west 686 ... 26 May 1937 |
| Adult inhumation. The whole skeleton revealed. Jug (P 10582) in situ. Deposit M 16-17:1 ... west 687 ... 27 May 1937 |
| Adult inhumation, pit tomb. The whole skeleton revealed. Jug (P 10582) in situ. Deposit M 16-17:1 ... southwest 688 Horizontal (normal) ... 26 May 1937 |
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