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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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Handle attachments for bucket; two fragments, a and b.
Both handle attachments are thicker around holes for attachment of handle and thinner at bucket wall. Maximum diameter of hole is 0.014 for each ... 14 April 1937 |
| Two fragments of rim and wall of a deep bowl.
Grooved inside, near rim.
Amber glass. Agora sample no. 310. Central House, room X, cleaning debris over polygonal E.W. wall.
Late 2nd c. B.C. 1152 Leica PD ... 11 March 1957 |
| Rim and wall fragment.
Double groove near rim.
Yellow-brown glass. Central House, room X, cleaning debris over polygonal E.W. wall.
Late 2nd c. B.C. Leica PD 2023-4 ... 11 March 1957 |
| Two joining fragments preserve a large lion's head spout which has the lower jaw, right ear and much of the nose missing. Traces of color in the eyes; a red pupil, surrounded by yellow; inside of the eyelids ... 4 August 1966 |
| Broken at top. worked smooth on front face, left rough-picked on back and sides, bottom also worked smooth. Front face preserves shallow wedge-shaped cutting characteristic of articulation of Eponymoi ... 21 June 1967 |
| 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 |
| Spots made of dot within two concentric circles.
Bone greenish in color. Οστέινο ζάρι. Σχεδόν ακέραιο. Well, container 91. Dec.1, 2003- South Workroom-Case 52-U, Container 3 Leica, LIX-60 ... 8 April 1937 |
| Inscribed fragments.
Fragment Ι 405 a), the rough picked back preserved; other edges broken.
Inscribed stoichedon.
One uniscribed fragment may belongs with fragment a).
Fragment Υ 15 b), belongs with ... 5th. century B.C. |
| Shallow-conical base.
Goblet with tubular edge and a substantial oval bulge on the stem.
Colorless glass.
Similar to G 312 but slightly smaller. G 312-G 316 are part of a set, found together, and differing ... 2 April 1937 |
| Shallow-conical base.
Goblet with tubular edge and a substantial bulge on the stem. Stem slightly twisted.
Colorless glass.
Similar to 312-313, 315-316. G 312-G 316 are part of a set, found together, and ... 2 April 1937 |
| Shallow-conical base.
Goblet with tubular edge and a substantial bulge on the stem. The base only slightly twisted.
Colorless glass.
Similar to G 312-314, G 316; but smaller. G 312-G 316 are part of a ... 2 April 1937 |
| Shallow-conical base.
Goblet with tubular edge and a substantial bulge on the stem. The twisted stem askew, and somewhat higher in proportion to the base.
Colorless glass.
Similar to G 312, but smaller ... 2 April 1937 |
| Slightly broken at pointed end.
Roughly hollowed at other end. Οστέινη σπάτουλα. Well, dump, layer I, containers nos. 106-107. Dec.1, 2003- South Workroom-Case 52-U, Container 3 Leica ... 15 April 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. |
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 |
Athens ... Sv. 88.54 Coin no. 18. Well at 63/ΙΔ, dump. Containers 67-88. Head or bust of Athena r., border of dots. A-θ Owl stg. l.; border of dots. 453, 901-902 ... UNCLASSIFIED / ca. A.D. 264--267 |
Same (Kephallenia) ... BMC 18
Disintegrated. Coin no. 35. Well at 63/ΙΔ, dump. Containers 67-88. Bust of Athena facing. in wreath. 454, 901-902 ... 4th--3rd century 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 of dedication base.
Inscribed face only preserved.
Two lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble.
Roman Imperial period. Found in modern context in the house 639/15, south ... 15 February 1947 |
| Inscribed fragments of grave stele.
Two joining fragments probably preserve original dimensions; chip missing from upper right corner and lower left.
Simple rectangular stele with smooth finished upper ... 10 April 1953 |
| 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 and rough picked back only preserved.
Nine lines of the inscription preserved.
First four letters of line six written in erasure.
Pentelic marble. Finished Found in foundation ... 14 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.
Inscribed face and part of right side only preserved.
Surface heavily worn; partly covered with concrete from use in wall.
Part of citation, with incised wreath.
Pentelic marble. Found ... 19 April 1955 |
| 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.
From upper part of large circular monument.
Inscribed surface only preserved.
Part of one line of the inscription preserved, under sculptured band of fruits and drain.
Pentelic marble ... January 1956 |
| Inscribed fragment of columnar grave monument.
Part of inscribed face and of top surface preserved.
Hymettian marble. Found in demolition of the house 639/17. Leica ... January 1956 |
| 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.
Inscribed face only preserved.
One row of letters remain; above them, traces of a moulding.
Hymettian marble. Found in the wall of the modern house 638/8, southwest of the church of ... 21 September 1935 |
| Inscribed block; grave stone.
Apparently a large building block, reused.
On the bottom, with respect to the inscription, are traces of anathyrosis; a little original surface also probably preserved on ... 23 September 1935 |
| Inscribed fragment of columnar grave monument.
The top preserved, and the ring around the column.
Broken below; the surface rubbed in place.
Below the letters, part of an amphora, in low relief.
Most ... 2nd.-1st. centuries B.C. |
| Inscribed fragment of columnar grave monument.
Part of top preserved, and of ring.
Surface badly worn in parts.
Three lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found in the wall of the modern ... 16 October 1935 |
| Inscribed fragments.
Prytany list. Honorary monument (?)
Fragment Τ 32 a), inscribed face only preserved.
Three lines of the inscription preserved.
Fragment ΜΜ 7 b), part of cylindrical base with a band ... 180-192 A.D. |
| Fragment of inscribed Herm.
Both sides preserved; broken at bottom, and at neck. The figure was male, nude, with a bit of drapery over the left shoulder. Surfaces somewhat worn.
Inscription at top of shaft ... 7 December 1935 |
| Considerable part of body missing. Badly bent and very fragile. Four large fragments of rim and wall, more recently broken off, are extant.
One handle attachment for iron handle preserved. Well. Container ... 6 April 1937 |
| Somewhat bent. Handle missing (traces of iron rust at point of attachment).
Holes in body. Well. Container 85. Leica ... 7 April 1937 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face only preserved.
Three lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found in Byzantine context in a well, outside the Market Square on the south. Leica ... 24 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 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 fragments of base.
Six joining and several (uninscribed) non-joining fragments of a large base, the top smoothed, and the two sides; back and bottom broken.
Finished along the top (front and ... 17 November 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.
Inscribed face only preserved.
Dedication.
Three lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble. Found in the wall of the modern house 639/15, at the north foot of the Areopagus ... 11 October 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment of grave stone.
Roughly picked top; otherwise broken.
One line of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble.
ADDENDA Joins with I 4296. Found in the wall of the modern house 639/19, ... 16 October 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment of grave stele.
Broken off at the bottom. A plain rounded pediment like top preserved.
Three lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble. Found in the wall of the modern house ... 17 October 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Inscribed face and top, rough picked, preserved.
The inscription on a smooth band slightly sunken below the heavily toothed surface.
One line of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian ... 14 November 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment of grave stele.
Rounded top and back preserved. Bottom broken.
Two lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble. Found in the wall of the modern house 639/19, at the north foot ... 17 November 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment of circular grave monument.
Broken all around; probably an elaborate columnar grave monument.
Fillet, roughly dressed; above it on a similar surface, part of an inscription; below it, ... 1 December 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment of grave stone.
Top and sides, and part of back (?) preserved; bottom broken away.
Two lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble. Found in the wall of the modern house 639/18, ... 4th. century B.C. |
| Inscribed fragment of grave stone.
Left side and top preserved; otherwise broken.
Three lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble. Found in the wall of the modern house 639/18, at the north ... 2 December 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Rough picked top, and right side preserved; probably also the bottom (?).
Pentelic marble. Found in the wall of the modern house 639/18, at the north foot of the Areopagus. Leica ... 2 December 1936 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Right side, smooth dressed along front edge, heavily picked behind, preserved, and back (?).
Nineteen lines of the inscription preserved, one to four letters in each.
Pentelic marble ... Late 5th. century B.C. |
| Inscribed fragment of grave stone.
Rough picked back and top preserved; broken at the bottom.
A heavy moulding broken off above the inscription.
Two lines of the inscription preserved.
Hymettian marble ... 3rd. century B.C. |
| Inscribed fragment of stele.
Top and right side preserved.
Remains of a moulding at the top, both on face and right side.
The second line of the inscription has been erased; part of first line only preserved ... 31 December 1936 |
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