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Filling over bedrock. Coins:
26 May 1938 #7-#10
27 May 1938 #1
28 May 1938 #1 ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
| 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 |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Garbage pit. Deposit M 18:7 ... 175 Horizontal (normal) ... 16 Feb 1937 |
| Late Roman tomb, view looking down from the tower ... no deposit east 621 Horizontal (normal) ... April 1937 |
| 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 |
| Surface corroded; otherwise apparently intact.
Vertical lugs on outside of mortar. Turkish well. Leica, XXIV-40 ... 12 March 1937 |
| Apparently intact.
Solid hub. Mixed fill. Store in ziplock polyethylene bag and in area with 40% r.h. or lower.
Wear cotton or latex gloves when handling. Leica ... 8 June 1938 |
| Inscribed fragments.
List of names; "POLETAI" record.
Fragment Ζ 331 a), inscribed fragment.
Broken on all sides.
Nine lines of the inscription preserved, with a space between the fourth and fifth.
Fragment ... First half of 4th. century B.C. |
| Neck, lip and two broad vertical handles preserved.
Thin neck, flaring lip with applied ring on lower side, horizontal shoulder; two double grooved strap handles that bend back on themselves where attached ... 12 March 1937 |
| Broad flat bottom; lower part of straight narrow neck preserved.
Greenish glass. Well on lower north slope of Aroepagus.
2nd c. A.D. Leica ... 22 April 1937 |
| Cracked but practically complete.
A wide mouthed jar with flaring lip and globular body. Bottom concave.
Greenish glass, blackened at surface, but apparently solid enough. Late Roman tomb on lower north ... 26 April 1937 |
| Complete circle of base and fragments of side, and two-thirds of rim preserved, the rim not joining the wall and base fragment.
Low ring foot; a sharp moulded ridge around the wall just above the foot; ... 11 May 1937 |
| Athens ... Obv. Head of Athena right, in crested decorated Attic helmet, wearing earring.
Rev. Owl facing, wings closed, olive spray behind on each side. Τριώβολο Αθηνών 5ου αιώνα π.Χ. Coin no. 2. Casts. Room X, ... Ca. 450's - 404 B.C. |
| Alexius I ... Τεταρτηρό: Αλέξιος Ι 1081 1118 μ.Χ. Coin no. 5. C 152 ... 1081-1118 A.D. |
| Venice, Anonymous Colonial ... Ανώνυμο Βενετικό: 17ου αιώνα Coin no. 3. C 85 ... 1691-1710 A.D. |
| Crete ... Antoninus Pius
J. N. Svoronos, Numismatique de la Crète ancienne, Macon 1890, p. 354, no. 126
Obv. ΑΥ ΑΝ[Τ WN] EINOS; laureate head right.
Rev. Κ Κ to left and right of Artemis hastening to right, drawing ... A.D. 138--161: Antoninus Pius |
Mamertinoi ... Calciati I, p. 103, no. 26.
[Heavily Damaged] Coin no. 1. Early Roman fill over bedrock, dump. Head of Apollo l.; behind, lyre. [MAMEPTINωN] Warrior stg., facing; at r., π. 643, 650 ... ca. 220--200 B.C. |
Keos, Federal Coinage ... BMC 1--9.
[ethnic?
Heavily Damaged] Coin no. 5. Room X, Strosis 5. Bearded head (Aristaios) r., laur. KEI or KEIωN Forepart of dog Sirios l., encircled by rays. 1457 ... Second half of 3rd c. B.C. |
| Athens ... Sv. 20.1--33, 35--37
Obv. Head of Athena right in decorated Attic helmet, wearing earring.
Rev. Α Θ Ε to right of owl standing half right, olive branch and crescent moon to left above shoulder. Casts ... Ca. 390-295 B.C. |
Athens, fractional issue.
Obv. Illegible.
Rev. Probably double-bodied owl facing, inscription and symbols illegible. Coin no. 1. Room X, under Cross Wall, Strosis 9. 1494 ... Probably 295-255 B.C. or 330-300 B.C. or later |
| Megara ... Coin no. 7. Surface. Prow l., on which stands a tripod. ΜΕΓ between
Two dolphins swimming r. in circle. Border of dots. 85-11-20 ... last half or third of 4th--early 3rd century B.C. |
Athens ... Sv. 81.9--16; Kleiner 1976, pl. 1:2, 3.
[overstruck on ? (N 18:3)] Coin no. 3. Cistern at 77/Μ. Head of Athena r., wearing Corinthian helmet. Α/Ε-Θ
Zeus, nude, standing r., holding thunderbolt in lowered ... ca. 196--190 B.C. |
Boiotian League ... BMC 81--89.
[damaged (N 18:3)] Coin no. 4. Cistern at 77/Μ. Head of Demeter or Kore, three-quarters facing l., wearing wheat wreath. BOIωTωN behind Poseidon stg. l., with trident, resting r. foot on rock ... Later 3rd (or early 2nd?) c. B.C. |
Myrina (Lemnos) ... Cop 988, 990.
[(N 18:3)]
Myrina, Lemnos.
Obv. Head of Athena right, in crested Corinthian helmet.
Rev. ΜΥΡΙ to right inward. Owl facing. Weight: very worn
Coin no. 9. Cistern at 77/Μ. Head of Athena r., ... 386--276/261 B.C. |
Chios ... Mavrogordato 1916, no. 62β; BMC 82--83.
[(N 18:3)]
Obv. Effaced.
Rev. Μ]ΕΝΕΣ
ΧΙ]ΟΣ; above and below amphora.
Badly corroded but little actual wear. Coin no. 15. Cistern at 77/Μ. [Sphinx seated ... 3rd--2nd century B.C. |
| Athens ... Thompson 1942, p. 222, pl. I:5. Casts.
Coin no. 17. Cistern at 77/Μ. Α?ΘE? (above). Piglet stg. r. on ground line. ΕΛΕ (downwards at r.)-ΥΣΙ (upwards at l.) on either side of thick, upright mystic staff ... 261--229 B.C. |
| Athens ... Sv. 107.28--35; Kleiner 1976, pl. 4:93-96
Obv. Head of Artemis right, laureate in border of dots.
Rev. A ΘΕ below cicada. Casts.
Coin no. 1. SW House. Room IX, red earth around well-head. Head of Apollo ... mid-80's--70's B.C. |
| Inscribed fragment.
Broken below; recut (?) above; at center of top a square dowel hole. At top of inscribed face, bit of moulding preserved.
A rectangular Herm-like pillar, smoothly dressed on all four ... 4 March 1938 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face only preserved.
Citation from decree.
Three lines of the inscription preserved within wreath; remains of another wreath with no letters visible.
Pentelic marble. Found ... 10 March 1938 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face, back and bottom preserved.
Damaged along left and right sides; minor fractures.
Five lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble. Found in wall of the modern ... 22 March 1938 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Broken all around. Back covered with hard cement. Surface pitted along left edge and bottom.
In column I, thirty-nine lines of the inscription preserved; in column II, thirty-three ... 22 March 1938 |
| Inscribed fragment from upper left corner of small pedimental stele.
Rough picked back and left edge preserved; at top rough picked surface near corner preserved; elsewhere broken.
Letters on moulding ... 8 February 1952 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face, part of rough picked top and probably bit of rough picked back preserved. Break at top of front suggests crowning moulding broken away.
Surface badly worn; traces of ... 1 April 1952 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Part of smooth top and smooth picked right edge preserved.
On front face, parts of two lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found among marbles, from the area just south ... July 1957 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Broken all around, except left edge.
Pentelic marble. Found in modern house walls, south of the Market Square. Leica ... 21 March 1958 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Broken all around.
Only a small part of face preserved.
Pentelic marble. Finished Found in modern house wall, south of the Market Square. Leica ... 10 April 1958 |
| Inscribed fragment.
One corner of a large base; mouldings chipped off above.
Rough picked face.
Pentelic marble. Found in modern house wall, south of the Market Square. Leica ... 10 April 1958 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face only preserved.
Five lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Finished Found among marbles, from the southeast corner of the Market Square. Leica ... Winter 1956-1957 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face only preserved.
Traces of six lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found in marble dump, in the southeastern part of the Market Square. Leica ... 19 March 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment of stele.
Mended from two fragments.
Top of stele; full width preserved, and rough picked back.
Archonship of Apollodoros.
Twenty lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble ... 319-318 B.C. |
| Inscribed fragment.
Part of moulding above the inscription and left side of the stele preserved.
One line of the inscription preserved, with two letters.
Pentelic marble. Found in a wall of the modern ... 30 November 1937 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Back preserved. Also left side and part of moulding over the inscribed face.
Eight lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble. Found in a wall of the modern house 640/17 outside ... Middle of 2nd c. B.C. |
| Inscribed fragments.
Fragment Ψ 63, only left side and back preserved. The stele was opisthographic, but the reverse is now so worn as to be illegible.
Eighteen lines of the inscription preserved.
Joins ... 428/7 B.C. |
| Inscribed fragment.
Top, back and right side of a large stele.
Reused as threshold block; inscribed surface of the stele very badly preserved.
Twenty-seven lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic ... 1 December 1937 |
| Inscribed fragment of grave stele.
Part of a pedimental top and a much battered head turned to right, preserved. High relief; inscription on mouldings.
Two lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic ... 26 October 1937 |
| Inscribed fragments.
Face dressed with tooth chisel.
Fragment Ψ 8 a), top preserved; otherwise broken.
Twelve lines of the inscription preserved.
Fragments Ψ 12 b and c), insribed face only preserved ... a) (Ψ 8) 15 November 1937
b-c) (Ψ 12b and Ψ 12c) 16 November 1937
d) (Ψ 28) 18 November 1937
e) (Ψ 33) 24 November 1937
f) (Ψ 49) 25 November 1937
g) (Ψ 55) 30 November 1937
h) (Ψ 61) 30 November 1937 ... |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face only preserved.
A bit of relief and a series of mouldings above the inscribed face.
Six lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found in wall of the modern ... 16 May 1938 |
| Rectangular.
On the top a raised letter gamma (Γ), and a small oval impression, uncertain. The bottom plain; slightly depressed. Cistern.
3rd c. B.C. Leica ... 22 February 1937 |
| A. a large stamped epsilon.
B. plain. Cistern. Leica ... 22 February 1937 |
| Inscribed fragment of columnar monument, the inside hollowed out to form a basin.
Inscription written on rough picked erased surface.
Two lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble. Found in ... 18 March 1937 |
| Inscribed fragments.
Fragment ΟΑ 33 a), inscribed face, possibly traces of right side and back, preserved.
Two lines of the inscription preserved.
Fragment Ψ 148 b), inscribed face only preserved.
Three ... 5th. century B.C. |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face and left edge only preserved.
Seven lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Finished Found in a Byzantine well, at the north foot of the Areopagus. Leica, ... 5 March 1937 |
| Inscribed fragment of crowning member of grave monument.
Broken at both ends and at back below.
One line of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Finished Found in modern wall, at the north foot ... 1 February 1937 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face, original left edge and perhaps right preserved.
Surface and back worn.
Seven lines of the inscription preserved; stoichedon.
Pentelic marble. Found in marble pile, on ... 2 February 1937 |
| Inscribed fragment of grave stele (?).
Inscribed face, rough picked back, top and right face preserved.
Left face also has been cut down, but not original surface.
Four lines of the inscription preserved ... 5 February 1937 |
| Inscribed fragments.
List of names, arranged by tribes: names from Aigeis, Pandionis, and Leontis.
Fragment X 39, inscribed face, left face and original back preserved.
Eleven lines of the inscription ... Mid. 3rd. century B.C. |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face and right face and back only preserved.
Eight lines of the inscription preserved; stoichedon.
Hymettian marble. Found in modern wall, on the north slope of the Areopagus ... 16 February 1937 |
| Inscribed fragment of base (?).
Bottom, dressed smooth, and top, somewhat rougher, preserved.
One line of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found in the wall of the modern house 634/2, on the ... 27 October 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment grave monument.
Upper right corner preserved.
Plain flat moulding separates inscribed face from antefixial ornaments.
Two lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found in ... 1 October 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment of small grave stele.
Broken off at the top; decorated down center with two cylinders.
Inscription around the decoration, two letters preserved on each side; two lines at the bottom ... 9 October 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment from upper part of a stele.
Part of the pediment top preserved, and the left margin. Back broken away.
Preamble of decree; archonship of Olympiodoros.
Seven lines of the inscription ... 293/2 B.C. |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face only preserved.
Inscribed surface considerably eroded.
Two lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found in the wall of the modern house 639/5, on the north ... 9 November 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment of grave stele.
A small pedimental stele, complete.
One line of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble. Found in the wall of the modern house 639/10, on the north slope of Areopagus ... 2nd. century B.C. |
| Inscribed fragments.
Fragment (Χ 10), right margin, part of pediment, and back are preserved.
Preamble from a honorary ephebic decree; archonship of Polyeuktos.
Seven lines of the inscription preserved, ... 243/2 B.C. |
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