C 14:2: Cistern

According to the excavator " a pre-herulian filling dumped in to fill the cistern some few years after the Herulian destruction". Coins: 10 June 1936 #2-#6 11 June 1936 #1-#19 12 June 1936 #23-#27 P 11936 ... A.D. 267 to mid 3rd c ... P 11936 and L 2555 from passage between cisterns at 106/ΛΓ and 107/ΚΘ but not recored as part of deposit C 14:2, see nb.p. 3559.

C 14:4.3: Stratified Well at 106/ΛΓ Late 3rd c. to First Half of 4th c.

Late 3rd-first half 4th c ... C 14:4.3 ... C 14:4.3

C 14:4.2: Stratified Well at 106/ΛΓ Second Half of 4th c.

Coins: 17 May 1937 #1 ... Second half 4th. c ... C 14:4.2 ... C 14:4.2

C 14:6: Cistern

Cistern through which well G 14:4 was dug. Filling in cistern, early Byzantine, but with various objects resembling those from the upper dumped filling in the well, below the cistern floor (5th c. A.D.) ... Early Byzantine ... Cistern through which well G 14:4 was dug. Filling in cistern, early Byzantine, but with various objects resembling those from the upper dumped filling in the well, below the cistern floor (5th c.

C 14:5: Fill

Patch of early fill, disturbed. 20/9/1962: Tin 145 is checked and is chiefly late archaic, but some of the coarse ware is late 5th with 4th c. B.C., and a few bits are 4th c. A.D ... Late 6th.-early 5th c. B.C ... C 14:5 ... C 14:5

C 14:1.1: Cistern Shaft and Passage

Lower red fill with mixed Hellenistic pottery running into the 2nd. c. Coins: 4 May 1936 #1 ... 1-5 May 1936 ... C 14:1.1 ... C 14:1.1

C 14:7: Pit

Small deposit in bedrock. Coins: 20 April 1936 #2-#3 ... 4th c. B.C. to early 3rd c. B.C ... C 14:7 ... C 14:7

C 14:4.4: POU

Coins: 28 May 1937 #30 29 May 1937 #1 31 May 1937 #1-#3 ... 2nd c ... C 14:4.4 ... C 14:4.4

C 14:4.1: Mouth of well

Dumped fill in mouth of well. Coins: 16 May 1937 #1 ... Early 5th c ... C 14:4.1 ... C 14:4.1

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C 14:3: Sacrificial Pyre

Artifacts, burnt bone, ash, cinders and charcoal in pit in bedrock. The pyre lay directly under mosaic floor A. the deposit is not badly disturbed, however, and it is possible that it was laid immediately ... Early second quarter of 4th c. B.C ... C 14:3 ... C 14:3

C 14:1.2: Cistern Chamber

Turkish fill. Coins: 7 May 1936 #1-#4 ... 5-14 May 1936 ... C 14:1.2 ... C 14:1.2

C 14:4: Well

Well in the bottom of chamber cistern at 106/ΛΓ, stratified. A soft spot in the bedrock at the west side of the well caved in and was packed with typical coarse Roman first century amphoras; the well was ... A.D. 200-150 ... C 14:4 ... C 14:4

C 14:1: Cistern Chamber and Cistern Shaft

Chamber cistern at 95/Κ and Cistern shaft at 95/ΚΕ plus the passage between. System heavily disturbed throughout in Turkish times except for a small amount of red fill on floor of shaft. Coins: 4 May 1936 ... Hellenistic ... C 14:1 ... C 14:1

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C 9:14: Cremation

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 7 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXI: PG). Bones discarded. Disturbed and damaged cremation (originally trench-and-hole), the east end cut away, probably contained the burial urn. JP It consisted ... Late Protogeometric ... C 9:14 ... C 9:14

C 18:14: Great Drain Sand fill

Great Drain sand fill under Roman bath including small area at north end under tiles that was excavated separately. See also A-B 19-20:1 for additional Great Drain sand fill at ca. 70-113/* Subdivisions: ... 30 July-11 August 1947 ... C 18:14 ... C 18:14

C 19:14: Well

Byzantine pottery begins after 4.70m.; above that Roman. Diameter 0.92m; water level -5m. Tiled well; height of tiles 0.62m ... Byzantine re-use of Roman well ... C 19:14 ... C 19:14

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C 9:19: Urn cremation

Rodney S. Young ... Destroyed urn cremation. No remains. Originally assigned as part of Tomb C 9:14 (Grave 7) JP "Large fragments of an urn were found in the packing of a Hellenistic water channel which cut through a LPG ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Originally assigned as part of Tomb C 9:14 (Grave 7) JP "Large fragments of an urn were found in the packing of a Hellenistic water channel which cut through a LPG burial area and obliterated the urn and urn-hole of LPG grave C 9:14." ... P 6723, although surely an urn, rust-stained inside from the iron jewelry and within a meter of Grave C 9:14, is much earlier than the offerings in that grave and must have come from still another burial trench in the line of the water channel; a narrow burned strip along the edge of the channel opposite the fragments may be part of that trench.

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C 8:7: Cist grave/adult inhumation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 16 in notebook. Adult skeleton. In some records as Grave XXXIII (JP) ... Middle Geometric I

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C 8:6: Urn cremation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 14 in notebook. Cutting in bedrock. Cremation: bones in pit (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXIV: PG). Bones discarded. [JP] Nb. says at 16-17/ΞΖ and 16/ΞΖ on cards and on deposit list.(SD) ... Early Geometric I

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C 8:10: Pit tomb, adult inhumation.

Homer A. Thompson ... Grave XIII in notebook. Cutting in bedrock. One skeleton. Bones discarded. No offerings. JP ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain)

C 8:8: Pit

Listed in nb. as 15/ΞΤ. Pit with bronze casting debris ... To 3rd quarter of 5th c. B.C ... To 3rd quarter of 5th c. B.C ... ΚΚ:14-15/ΞΘ

C 12:1: Well

(Roman Group J). The upper fill to a depth of ca. 16.00m. was of earth scooped up elsewhere and thrown in ... The latest piece noted from this fill was a TC fragment dated late 4th to 5th(?) c. BC. From ... 2nd.-3rd. c. A.D ... The latest piece noted from this fill was a TC fragment dated late 4th to 5th(?) c. BC. From 16.00m. to the bottom there was a heavy deposit of well pottery. ... Coins: 19 March 1936 #1-#4 21 March 1936 #1-#2 24 April 1936 #5-#6 Coins found in going through earth from well after drying: 2 May 1936 #1 5 May 1936 #1-#3 6 May 1936 #1-#4 11 May 1936 #1-#4 14 May 1936 #1-#4

C 18:14.1: Sand fill north end, under tiles

Great Drain north end, filling under tiles (55-58). Only the finds from 55-58/* are recorded here (as found in the notebooks) although the deposit notebook shows additional finds from the entire sand fill ... 3rd-2nd c. B.C ... These additional finds are recorded separately C 18:14.2 (pf) ... Coins: N 38058, N 38059-60 N 38062, N 38063, 38064, N 38065, N 38066,N 38067-68, N 38069, N 38070, N 38071, N 38072, N 38073, N 38074-75, N 38076-77, N 38078 N 38092-93, N 38094-96, N 38097, N 38098, N 38099, N 38100-06, N 38107, N 38108, N 38109, N 38110, N 38111, N 38112, N 38113-14 55-58/*

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C 11:4: Pit tomb, inhumation of two children

James H. Oliver ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave IX: PG). Two children's skeletons one on top of the other. Cf. PD 329 for PD 430 for second skeleton, same deposit. PG grave about 25m. SW of Cistern A at 46/ΜΔ. [In some records, ... Developed Protogeometric

E 14:7: Well C

Two periods of use. Outside the SW corner of the market square, to the west of the north-south road; lower use of filling, of 1st to early 2nd c. A.D. Coins: 26 May 1937 #1 [to 8.30m.] 9 June 1937 #2-#4 ... 10 -11 June 1935 20 May-20 June 1937 ... Outside the SW corner of the market square, to the west of the north-south road; lower use of filling, of 1st to early 2nd c. A.D ... Coins: 26 May 1937 #1 [to 8.30m.] 9 June 1937 #2-#4 [to 16.00m] 11 June 1937 #31 [to 17.60m] 12 June 1937 #54-#55 [to 18.10] 14 June 1937 #4-#5 15 June 1937 #1 17 June 1937 #12 (earth) 18 June 1937 #1-#3 (earth) 19 June 1937 #1-#3 (earth)

E 14:11.1: Early 5th c. B.C. Fill over Bedrock

Filling over bedrock. Coins: 14 March 1934 #44-#48 ... Early 5th c. B.C. and earlier

E 14:1.1: Upper Roman fill

Both in cistern and in passage 88/ΛΔ-95/ΚΘ-100/ΚΘ. Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.; accumulative fillings of 3rd c. and of late 1st c. B.C.; dumped filling of 4th.c. A.D ... Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D., but with earlier material

F 14:1: Cutting in Stereo at 86/ΣΤ-Ζ

Cutting in stereo. Early 4th c. fill with some Hellenistic-Early Roman disturbance ... Ca. 400-375 B.C.

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B 21:7: Inhumation, probably of a female

Grave X in notebook = RSY Grave 14. PD 731-g ... Ca. 525-500 B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 96, fig. 11 and pl. 43 b-c (Grave 14).

A 14:1.3: Fills III, IV, V

Coins: 9 April 1937 #1-#2 10 April 1937 #1-#2 12 April 1937 #1 Fill III (ca. 21.30m., cont. 4) period of disuse, to end 3rd. c. A.D. Fill IV (20.20-21.00m., cont. 1-3) another period of use, 4th. c. Fill ... To second half of 4th. c. A.D.

E 14:7.1: Upper fill

Top to 13.15m. called Byzantine by excavator; 13.15m.-18.10m., 6th c. 18.00-19.00 period of disuse, brick and tile fragments ... 5th-6th and 9th-10th c. A.D.

E 14:14: Cutting in Bedrock

The almost complete red figure hydria set into this cutting suggests the possibility of a 5th c. burial put into a much earlier grave cutting; however, the remainder of the filling appears thoroughly disturbed ... 450-425 B.C- Late Roman disturbance

B 14:1: Well

The well had two upper fills and a stratified deposit at the bottom. The well deposit is divided into two parts, 3rd. c. and 2nd. c. (with perhaps late 1st. c.).; dumped filling of 5th century. Coins: ... 1st.-3rd. c. A.D ... The well deposit is divided into two parts, 3rd. c. and 2nd. c. (with perhaps late 1st. c.).; dumped filling of 5th century ... Coins: 1 April 1937 #2 2 April 1937 #2-#3 3 April 1937 #1 14 April 1937 #1 13 May 1937 #1-#6 25 May 1937 #1-#5 (from the dump, probably belonging to bottom deposit)

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J 2:14: Well at the Northeast Corner of Classical Building

A well at the northeast corner of Classical Building, behind back wall. Dumped fill appears to have occurred as a single event as there are joining sherds throughout. POU date ca. first half 5th c. B.C.; ... 5th c. B.C.

B 14:1.1: Dump

From the mouth to 10.50m. a fill of earth with mixed sherds, Roman 4th. c. to geometric. Probably dumped in to fill the well. From 10.50-17.75m. the fill was of broken bedrock, with a few sherds scattered ... 5th. c ... From the mouth to 10.50m. a fill of earth with mixed sherds, Roman 4th. c. to geometric. ... These were late Roman probably of the 4th. c ... Coins: 1 April 1937 #2 2 April 1937 #2-#3 3 April 1937 #1 14 April 1937 #1

E 14:2: Well D

Well at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Use filling of 1st c. A.D.; dumped fillings of 3rd c. and of early Byz. times. Coins: 15 June 1937 #1-#2 (earth) 16 June 1937 #14-#20 (earth) 17 June 1937 ... 1st c. A.D.=POU ... Use filling of 1st c. A.D.; dumped fillings of 3rd c. and of early Byz. times ... Coins: 15 June 1937 #1-#2 (earth) 16 June 1937 #14-#20 (earth) 17 June 1937 #1-#11 (earth) 18 June 1937 #4-#5 (earth) 19 June 1937 #4-#6 (earth)

B 14:2: Well on South Slope of Kolonos Agoraios

Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Use filling of late 1st. to late 2nd. c. A.D.; dumped filling of 4th. c. A.D. Coins: 24 April 1937 #2 27 April 1937 #6-#12 28 April 1937 #2 29 April 1937 #2 8 May ... 1st.-4th c. A.D.

E 14:8: "Boar Lid Hole"

Pit in deep depression in bedrock. Also includes containers from early fill under late Roman floors down to bedrock at 81-83/ΚΗ-ΛΒ. Notebook cites early fill, ca. 6th. c., with some obviously late disturbance ... 7th c. to ca. 575 B.C.

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B 21:14: Inhumation, probably a female

Grave XXVI in notebook = RSY Grave 12 ... Ca. 525-500 B.C. or sightly later

A 14:2.1: Upper Fill (post-Herulian) not shelved as group

"baskets" 1-5 Coins: 22 April 1937 #7 23 April 1937 #17-#18 24 April 1937 #1 coins from Dump: 28 May 1937 #31-#32 ADDENDA Top-early 4th. c. consistent with coins of Licinius and Maximinus in good condition ... post-Herulian