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[Agora Deposit] J 1:13: Tomb

Marcie Handler ... This deposit is a Mycenaean cist grave with two cover slabs, a type of burial described by Immerwahr in Agora XIII (pp. 103-104). Cist graves appear side by side with chamber tombs in the Mycenaean cemeteries ... LHIIB-LHIIIA:1 ... Two slabs: a worked, flat, roughly rectangular poros limestone slab on the east (which had collapsed in the tomb,, sloping down to the north), and an unworked boulder with a naturally flat top surface and uneven underside on the west (it was still in situ). ... B.C. and an Ostrakon of Xanthippos (ΒΖ 1983), providing a terminus post quem of 484 B.C for the fill that collapsed on top of the slab. The upper fill covering the boulder on the west end of the cutting (Lots ΒΖ 2128 and 2130) dated to ca. 500 B.C., and the fill lying directly on top of the boulder (Lot ΒΖ 2131) dated to the late 8th c.

[Agora Deposit] T 20:3

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 ... 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 of the ground surface of the sanctuary in the 7th century, pressed into the high bedrock.

[Agora Deposit] C 18:4: Construction Fillings

Fillings below the courtyard floor of the Poros Enclosure west of the Areopagus. The lowest layer, over bedrock, is of the archaic period and may have accumulated on the spot before the start of building ... First half of 5th c. B.C ... The lowest layer, over bedrock, is of the archaic period and may have accumulated on the spot before the start of building operations. The upper layers also contain archaic material, but are a dumped filling brought in to level the area at a date not earlier than 460-450. ... Subdivisions: .1=layer 1, surface .2=layer 2 .3=layer 3

[Agora Deposit] E 5:4: Channel F, water deposit

Drain channel system along the line of an ancient north-south road, the channel in part at the surface and in part tunneled and accessible by shafts. Over a considerable part of this channel the hard water ... 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D ... Drain channel system along the line of an ancient north-south road, the channel in part at the surface and in part tunneled and accessible by shafts. Over a considerable part of this channel the hard water deposit at the bottom, belonging to the period of use, is consistently of the second and early third centuries, although coins of Gallienus in the upper part of the filling show that the channel was not abandoned before the time of the Heruli.