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A small square well at 37/ΚΑ (about 0.60x0.70m), on the north slope of the Areopagus. Curbed with rough stones.
Filling of a small shallow well which contained nothing from the POU and since no water was ... Ca. 350-320 B.C. |
Coins:
19 May 1938 #1 (illegible)
20 May 1938 #3-#5, #12-#20 (Dump) ... 4th-6th c. A.D. |
| Cistern at 53/ΚΓ and channels. The pottery in the cistern and in the two channels was a thoroughly mixed lot of broken material from 5th c. B.C. to 4th c. A.D. and all seemed the same except the bottom ... 5th c. B.C.-4th c. A.D. |
Pit at 57/ΚΑ; small pit on the lower north slope of the Areopagus, measuring 1.05x0.80mx0.80m deep. There were traces of burning and a few bones in it, since none of them are recognizably human it is probably ... 480 - 470 B.C. |
Well at 55/ΚΕ
Period of Use dated to the last quarter of 5th c. B.C., Upper fill dated to the same (deposited later) in Agora XXX. Coins
1 April 1938 #10 ... Last quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
Well at 56/ΚΖ, just south of the south wall of the northern Late Roman Building ... Second half of 2nd c. - early 3rd c. A.D. |
| Roman Pithos at 38/ΛΔ. Cf. also Ψ734 (P 14037) from late pit at 41/ΛΓ ... Early to Middle Roman |
Deposit at 42/ΙΕ beside rubble wall under modern cellar wall ... 5th c. B.C. |
Manhole at 55/ΚΔ (Same system as O 19:2) ... 8 April 1938 |
Cistern at 63/ΛΑ (part of cistern system 63/ΛΑ-65/ΜΑ-70/ΛΣΤ, consisting of two chambers and a well). Roman upper fill with modern cesspool fill above. Channel finds: MC 517, SS 8078.
Only datable object ... 300-195 B.C. |
Roman Dump/Cesspool ... Second half 1st c.-1st half 2nd c. A.D. |
Cistern at 70/ΛΣΤ in the northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Part of system with two chambers and well. Homogeneous fill.
13 stamped amphora handles. Latest lamp type 46 B. N 72206 (Ω-344), picked up near ... Second half of 3rd c. - Early 2nd c. B.C. |
Well at 67/ΛΓ on the northeast slope of the Areopagus. Connected with the same cistern system as O 20:2.
Dug as several fills but probably a continuous accumulation Coin
28 May 1938 #1 (?) Illegible N ... 300-250 B.C. |
Hole at 65/ΚΔ; small cutting in bedrock with scanty pottery ... 450-400 B.C. |
Patch of burned filling at 66-67/ΚΘ-Λ (or Λ-ΛΑ) Coin
18 May 1938 #10 P 34428 added from Lot Ω 102 ... Early 5 c. B.C. (?) |
| Disturbed pyre dispersed in fill of Room 5, House D.
Pyre pots in very fragmentary condition were noticed by Barbara Tsakirgis in later analysis of pottery that had been excavated in 1938; no mention of ... 14 June 1938 |
Unfinished cistern at 31/ΚΑ ... Ca. 360-325 B.C. |
Destruction debris in Late Roman Buildings on Lower N slope of Areopagus (see summaries under M-Q 17-21).
Over 130 coins came from this filling, of which some 51 survived in a condition to permit accurate ... 6th c. A.D. |
| Late Roman water system. Detail of brick work in the vault of the Late Roman well chamber; looking up from the floor of the chamber. Cf. well (Deposit N 19:2) in Section Ω at 52/Ι, nb. pp. 1357-1359 ... 789 Horizontal (normal) ... 5 Apr 1957 |
| Southeast corner of the Aiakeion after removal of the Hellenistic fill. Front foundation of the South Stoa II in lower left ... south 3424 Horizontal (normal) ... 29 Jul 1960 |
| West side of the building. Modern masonry supports remains of the aqueduct (marked "XX") ... northeast 3436 Horizontal (normal) ... 29 Jul 1960 |
| Poros Aqueduct at the southwest corner of the "Heliaia" (now identified as the Aiakeion). Foundation for south wall of the "Heliaia" in middle right ... southwest 3447 Horizontal (normal) ... 29 Jul 1960 |
| Late Roman Fortification Wall overlying the foundations of the Propylon of the Eleusinion. The stele marked "C" is I 4713. Cf. 1997.15.0121, for a view after removal of the wall ... west 229 Horizontal (normal) ... 6 Jun 1959 |
| Late Roman Fortification Wall overlying the foundations of the Propylon. Arrows mark the corners of the Propylon. A) Fragment (I 4720m) from the Bouleutic list of 304/3; B) Dedicatory statue base, I 4850; ... I 4850 and I 4713 were found in section ΘΘ. (SD) east 227 Horizontal (normal) ... 6 Jun 1959 |
| General view of the Propylon after removal of the Post-Herulian Wall. Cf. 1997.15.0119, for a view of the Propylon before removal of the wall ... west 539 Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Sep 1959 |
| The arrows mark the limits of the Propylon. To the left, Late Roman Fortification Wall with early peribolos wall behind it. At right, the inscribed stele I 4713. In the foreground, pavement of the Panathenaic ... east 537 Horizontal (normal) ... 28 Aug 1959 |
| Southeast corner of a pit for the cellar of a modern house (House 4) cut into the temple. Foundation block for the south wall of the temple in background. In right foreground, a Turkish pit at 12/ΙΗ ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1937 |
| Foundation of soft yellow poros ... north 45 Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Apr 1959 |
| Foundation of soft yellow poros ... east 47 Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Apr 1959 |
| Foundation of soft yellow poros ... west 49 Horizontal (normal) ... 22 Apr 1959 |
| Foundation of soft yellow poros after removal of fill in footing trench. Stone packing in trench remains, including the large block in the lower right corner of the picture ... east 103 Horizontal (normal) ... 7 May 1959 |
| View with modern roads over foundations of soft yellow poros ... east 321 Horizontal (normal) ... 27 Jun 1959 |
| Light yellow poros foundation, blocks in the western part ... east 319 Horizontal (normal) ... 27 Jun 1959 |
| Portrait herm (S 2056), head of boy (S 2057) and a statuette of Apollo (S 2058), lying as found in front of the great northern Retaining Wall of the Eleusinion ... south 274 Horizontal (normal) ... 16 Jun 1959 |
| Portrait busts (S 2062 and S 2063) as found. View showing the great north Retaining Wall of the Eleusinion. Blocks above and to the left belong to the Archaic Temple ... southwest 275 Horizontal (normal) ... 17 Jun 1959 |
| Portrait busts S 2062 and S 2063 as found ... east 276 Horizontal (normal) ... 17 Jun 1959 |
| Portrait busts S 2062 and S 2063 as found ... southwest 277 Horizontal (normal) ... 17 Jun 1959 |
| Marble head as found in the Late Roman Fortification Wall. Cf. 1997.15.0298, for a detailed view ... northeast 214 Horizontal (normal) ... 1937 |
| Marble head as found in the Late Roman Fortification Wall ... northeast Horizontal (normal) ... 1937 |
| Marble statue in situ in a Byzantine wall ... west 476 Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Mar 1938 |
| Marble statue as found in a Byzantine wall ... north 455 Horizontal (normal) ... 10 Mar 1938 |
| Marble statue in situ in a Byzantine wall ... northeast 409 Horizontal (normal) ... 10 Mar 1938 |
| Inscribed stele in situ in the Late Roman Fortification Wall ... east Horizontal (normal) ... 1938 |
| Marble stele in situ in the Late Roman Fortification Wall ... east 279 Horizontal (normal) ... 18 Feb 1938 |
| West face of the Late Roman Fortification Wall south of the Hypapanti Gate. Above and right of center, an inscribed epistyle block built into the wall ... Prob. looking southeast (SD) southeast Horizontal (normal) ... June 1938 |
| Statue base signed by Theoxenos the Theban, found incorporated into the east face of the Late Roman Fortification Wall. Compare with 1997.15.0353, for earlier view with inscription still in place in the ... south Horizontal (normal) ... 8 Jul 1955 |
| General view of the Late Roman Fortification Wall from north of the Hypapanti Gate. At left, built into an earlier building (Building F=Stoa) and partly covered by the east face of the Post-Herulian Wall ... south 1567 Horizontal (normal) ... 8 May 1938 |
| General view of the Late Roman Fortification Wall from north of the Hypapanti Gate. In foreground, at left, built into an earlier building (Building F=Stoa) and partly covered by the east face of the Post-Herulian ... south 1566 Horizontal (normal) ... 8 May 1938 |
| Looking at the east face of the Late Roman Fortification Wall with the west wall of Building F (Stoa) and in center background the inscribed bases I 5423 and I 5486 over I 5407 (note that I 5423 has been ... northwest 1569 Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jun 1938 |
| Looking at the east face of the Late Roman Fortification Wall with the west wall of Building F (Stoa) and in center background the inscribed bases I 5423 and I 5486 over I 5407 (note that I 5423 has been ... west 1570 Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jun 1938 |
| Northwest corner of Building F (Stoa) and the Late Roman Fortification Wall. At extreme right, the Propylon. In the center, the back of the stele I 4713 ... Cf. notebook ΘΘ index p. 191, Building B=Propylon. southwest 1573 Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jun 1938 |
| Looking at the east face of the Late Roman Fortification Wall with the west wall of Building F (Stoa) and in center background the inscribed bases I 5423 and I 5486 over I 5407 (note that I 5423 has been ... west 1571 ... 2 Jun 1938 |
| Looking at the east face of the Late Roman Fortification Wall with the west wall of Building F (Stoa) and in center background the inscribed bases I 5423 and I 5486 over I 5407 (note that I 5423 has been ... south 1572 Horizontal (normal) ... 2 Jun 1938 |
| West face of the Late Roman Fortification Wall before statue base I 4922 was removed: a large square block with a crack down through the middle at approximate center of picture. To the right of it, is ... east 372 Horizontal (normal) ... June 1937 |
| West face of the Late Roman Fortification Wall before statue base I 4922 was removed: a large square block with a crack down through the middle at approximate center of picture. To the right of it, is ... east Horizontal (normal) ... 25 May 1938 |
Middle Helladic Gully ... Middle Helladic |
South Tunnel: Bone Factory. Starts at 4-6/Μ and runs south to well. Coin
14 March 1938 #33 Lot ΑΑ 19, does it belong here? ... Second half of 2nd c. A.D. |
Well at 19/ΛΓ.
The cistern S 19:3 and the well S 19:8, together with a Roman well, S 19:1, had collapsed to form a large pit S 19:5.
Top to -8.5m: Byzantine dump to 11-12th c. A.D.
-8.50m to -15.00m: 4th ... Mid 3rd century A.D. |
Cistern at 6/ΛΓ.
Hellenistic lower fill, with mixed Hellenistic and late Roman fill above, and Byzantine fill in mouth. Coins
1 June 1938 #1-#8
2 June 1938 #1-#6
3 June 1938 #1-#3
4 June 1938 #1-#2
6 June ... 2nd century, with Byzantine disturbance |
Cistern at 17-18/ΛΑ (Coroplasts' Dump) outside the market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way.
Upper and lower fill distinguished during excavation, but material from both appears to ... To ca. 330-320 B.C. |
Rodney S. Young ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXVI:PG). Early fill over bedrock. No remains.
Two fragmentary unburned vases were found together on bedrock, beneath Roman and Byzantine fill. Disturbed earth over bedrock for several ... Early Protogeometric |
Pit at 18-20/Λ-ΛΓ.
The cistern S 19:3 and the well S 19:8, together with a Roman well, S 19:1, had collapsed to form a large pit S 19:5. The upper part of the pit was dug to a depth of ca. -8m as deposit ... 7-8 April 1938
28 April-26 May 1938 |
Well at 9/ΛΔ, left unfinished. Coins
27 May 1938 #1 (sand at top) M.C. suggests date as second half of 6th c. (March 1956), p. 1052.
No containers ... 550-500 A.D. |
Well at 18/ΜΓ, on the lower north slope of the Acropolis, under the course of the later Panathenaic Way, west of the Archaic Building.
Diameter 0.97m. Water level 8m.
At the mouth of the well and to a ... Late 8th to 675 B.C. |
Well at 19/Λ.
The bottom of this well contained a considerable quantity of dug bedrock which had fallen in before the well came into use; over this was a fill with oinochoae representing the POU. The presence ... 340-325 B.C. |
Well at 5/ΚΘ. Digging abandoned at -7.20m for fear of collapse.
Upper 50cm, fill in broken in mouth, very late Roman (4th-7th. c. A.D.)
Fill below 50cm to 6.50mL late roman with some earlier material (from ... 4th-7th century A.D. |
Geometric Well on the west side, in the line of the Roman Panathenaic way; 3.70m below paving block of street that overhangs well. It was neatly cut, 1.05m. in diameter, but it was dug only to a depth ... Late Geometric, end of 8th century B.C. |
A well outside the market square to the southeast, 20m west of the Panathenaic Way; Modern fill in upper 1.65m. with Early Roman dumped fillings below. Coins:
9 May 1939 #37 (dirt pile)
10 May 1939 #53 ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
A well outside the market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way; Diameter 1.10m ... 600-550 B.C. |
Well outside market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way. Accumulated use filling from first half of 1st c. A.D. to early 3rd c. Top to 14.65m. 4th c. dump; nothing significant catalogued ... POU First half of 1st c.-early 3rd c. A.D. |
Well at 37/Α, on the lower Acropolis slopes, west of the Panathenaic Way ... 600-550 B.C. |
Well at the southeast corner, almost on the line of the east-west street. Upper Fill: Late Roman dumped fill.
Lower Fill: Dark Age: ca. 7th c. A.D.
Coin
30 March 1939 #34 ... 7th-Late 6th century |
Well at 73/Δ Coins:
24 April 1939 #1 (stuck to sherd in bottom container) A box (4B) and three tins of pottery have been kept (T5-T7). The rest discarded ... Byzantine |
North of Eleusinion: Fill in Room 3 of Roman Building. 614 sherds (6 miniature shapes, 20 intrusive sherds).
Objects : terracottas; loom weights; spindle whorls; disks; handmade tray; lamps.
Early ware ... First half of 6th c. B.C.-Mixed Fill to ca. 480 B.C. |
North of Eleusinion: Loose fill in pit outside Roman Building. 14 inventoried items, 22 objects, 325 sherds.
Objects : terracottas; handmade object; large figurine; lamps.
Early ware : Gray Minyan; Mycenaean; ... 6th c. B.C. and earlier. |
Continuous filling over its mouth and in it to a depth of -7.30m. Clearly the fill thrown in at the time of Archaic Building, to raise the ground level. The last few centimeters of the well represented ... 550-500 B.C. |
Turkish Pithos at 4/ΙΖ ... Turkish |
Well at 15/ΙΕ = Pocket in side of Turkish Pit at 15/ΙΔ.
Shallow well on the lower slopes of the Acropolis, east of the Panathenaic Way, in the area later occupied by the Archaic Building.
Located 3.5m ... 700-675 B.C. with intrusions |
Well at 53/ΛΖ ... Byzantine |
Cistern at 27/ΚΔ Coins:
22 April 1937 #9
23 April 1937 #1 ... 10th or 11th c. |
Disturbed "Votive Deposit" at 27-28/ΙΖ-ΙΗ
Reddish fill in five circular cutting in bedrock, considered by the excavators to have been one deposit. Fill was disturbed in later periods, probably by construction ... 7th c. B.C, with intrusions |
Trial trench IV. A thin strip of undisturbed fill excavated on the north side of the upper terrace, just inside the line of the Archaic peribolos wall.
Probably this small patch of clay represents part ... Protoattic |
Laura Gawlinski ... Pebble floors of Roman date covered the northern half of a 6x6m square trench in ΕΛ, bounded to the west by the post-Herulian Wall and to the east by a wall from Byzantine Building D (Wall A) to the east ... Hellenistic/ 220-150 B.C. |
Pocket on the line of the early (Archaic) peribolos wall at entrance on the south side. Uncatalogued material: 215 sherds, 186 + frags. plemochoai and 4 objects.
Classical Ware : black glaze; mug; rilled-rim ... 3rd quarter 4th c. B.C. |
Fill around the upper block of the southwest corner of the early (Archaic) peribolos wall, south of the Propylon, and hard fill at the side of a trench for a modern wall.
Uncatalogued material: 181 sherds ... 2nd c. B.C. |
Kernos Pit #2 at 33/ΛΑ. P 30175-P 30186 (ΙΙ 635-ΙΙ 646) added on 7 May 1973 ... Early 4th c. B.C. |
| Well cut into bedrock, associated with late Roman building G in ΕΛ 1.2m in diameter, narrows to 0.5m at bottom. Disturbed by later pits at top. Excavated from 85.77-79.25m (6.52m), but bedrock at 85.91m ... Late 4th/early 5th AD |
Lower fill may be original. Part of North side cut away by modern bothros wall. Fragments of Pilgrim Jug of Grey Ware, related to Turkish Grey Ware? ... 12th or 13th c. A.D. |
Undisturbed filling to E of Archaic Temple in Eleusinion; fill consisted of a layer of working chips of Kara limestone above a layer of mud brick ... Late 6th c. B.C. and earlier |
Two pebble floors of Roman date, broken into at the SE and north, covered a 6x5m trench in ΕΛ, bounded by the unexcavated east trench and a wall from Byzantine Building D (Wall A). Under these pebble floors ... 220 - 150 B.C. |
| Section Ω. Section of water channel at 55 ΝΣ' ... D.B ... Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink ... 1957 |
| Cistern D (79/ΜΗ-84/NΣT) in section X ... John Travlos ... Roman Group F. XIII-8 XIII-8 Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink ... 1937 |
Well dug through cistern at 64/Γ. Seems to have been stratified; four fills recorded but here treated as one as divisions are rather "arbitrary".
Agora V, p. 126: Constructed in late 1st c.; use filling ... 3rd c. A.D. POU (before 267 A.D.) |
Dumped fillings thrown in during second quarter of 1st c. B.C. containing mostly debris resulting from Sulla's sack in 86 B.C.
Agora XXIX, p. 464: Four fills distinguished during excavations ... but seemingly ... Late 2nd c. and early 1st c. B.C. POU; 110-75 B.C. |
Well at 74/Ι, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus.
Use fill from early 1st to 3rd c. A.D.
Dump fill from 4th c. A.D. Coins
9 April 1938 #2
9 May 1938 #1 Container 20 (lost) p. 1529 ... 1st c. to 3d c. A.D. |
Cistern at 60/ΙΕ; bell-shaped cistern with a channel 1.65m high and 4.60m long, leading to a dead end against bedrock. This channel runs north with a slight curve to the east and looks as though it was ... Second half of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd c. B.C. |
At 67/ΙΗ, at the northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Cistern with drawshaft, 4.60m deep. The drawshaft had been cleared to bottom in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, and some of the fill in the main ... Most second half of 3rd c. B.C. |
| Margaret Crosby ... Grave, disturbed.
Rectangular cutting in bedrock 1.70m long and 0.60m deep. The north half was cut away by a modern cellar wall and only 0.20-0.10m of fill was left. A the bottom there was a thick layer ... 510 - 490 B.C. |
Dumped filling of 6th c. A.D. Coins:
3 May 1939 #1-2 (red earth above well)
9 June 1939 #1
10 June 1939 #1
12 June 1939 #1-#5
13 June 1939 #1
19 June 1939 #1-#2, #3 (Dump)
7 May 1940 #1
9 May 1940 #1
27 ... Early 1st-5th c. A.D. POU |
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