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| 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 ... A well dug through at a later date destroyed all cistern filling.
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| Pit and drain at SE corner of Apollo Temple. Antedates building of Apollo Temple which was assigned to a date 'late in the third quarter' ... 3rd quarter 4th c. B.C ... Antedates building of Apollo Temple which was assigned to a date 'late in the third quarter'. |
Deposit alongside Greek House I, perhaps giving the construction date of the second phase. Deposit list title it as : outside of east wall of Roman House H ... Last quarter of the 4th c. B.C ... Deposit alongside Greek House I, perhaps giving the construction date of the second phase. |
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 ... M.C. suggests date as second half of 6th c. |
Well in street leading to Roman Agora. Not excavated below 2.10m.
This has the same date as the latest pieces in R 13:1 (JWH). Coins:
6 August 1946 #1-#3 Estimated Grid ... Ca. 40-50 A.D ... This has the same date as the latest pieces in R 13:1 (JWH). |
House C, Room 5, small hoard. Deposit created by A.W. and first appears in his thesis (Biblio. below).
"Another small hoard or purse of Herulian date", A.Walker (1980), p. 127. Coins:
23 June 1947 #7-#13 ... Ca. 267 A.D ... "Another small hoard or purse of Herulian date", A.Walker (1980), p. 127. |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 10 in notebook *(E.L. Smithson : Grave VI: PG). Bones discarded. Multiple inhumation of two children in an unlined trench in bedrock. No offerings. Nb. says two skeletons.
JP *Note in nb.: we continue ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 26. In some records as Grave I ter. Bones discarded.
Notebook says: child bones (no skull), no offerings.
Circular cutting in bedrock, about 3m south of D 6:3. Neg. KK 234 ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Circular cutting. Grave 24 in notebook. In some records as Grave IV bis. Baby's bones: discarded. No offerings. Negs. KK 99, KK 100, X-61 ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 22 in notebook. No offerings. Disturbed grave of baby ... LH IIIC/EPG (date uncertain) ... LH IIIC/EPG (date uncertain) |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 18 in notebook.
Adult inhumation; skeletal material; no offerings. Submycenaean?
JP In some records as Grave XIX bis. (see Agora XXXVI, Tomb 31, p. 284) ... LH IIIC/EPG (date uncertain) ... LH IIIC/EPG (date uncertain) |
Well (diameter 0.98m) in House H, Room 13.
Two dumped fills apparently of the same date, but separated by a clay deposit of over 2.00m.
Cf. Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 253. (noted) Subdivisions:
.1=Upper ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... Two dumped fills apparently of the same date, but separated by a clay deposit of over 2.00m.
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| Date of filling early third c. B.C.
Little pottery. Seven stamped amphora handles. Latest coin dates in first third of 3rd c. One small fragment of moldmade bowl of undetermined type. Coins:
12 August ... 310-220 B.C ... Date of filling early third c. |
| Herm head deliberately buried in a pit with coins of the 2nd half of the 4th c. Head found at an elevation of 51.907. Bottom of the pit at 51.637 m. Coins:
27 June 1972 #199-#205
Bits of bronze, iron ... 2nd half 4th c. B.C ... In both a good run of coins with a concentration in and cut off at the date-bracket 383-395 A.D. ... There is consequently every reason to date the deposit and strosis just after the date of the latest coins in them. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 8 in notebook. Bones discarded. Fragments of an iron pin found on the chest and a fragment of a Protogeometric krater base found beside the body were not inventoried.
JP
Unlined roughly rectangular ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) |
| Homer A. Thompson ... Grave XIII in notebook. Cutting in bedrock. One skeleton. Bones discarded. No offerings.
JP ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) |
Fill against back wall foundations of Royal Stoa I/6,9-4/8,14. Dug separately, these many fills contain material which joined horizontally and vertically all along back wall of Royal Stoa. Fill seems to ... 2nd/3rd quarters of 5th c.-420s ... Fill seems to date as late as the 420s.during mending. |
| Phaidon Street Cistern: North Chamber
Sullan destruction debris. One of two chambers connected by tunnel.
Two latest coins date to 87/86. Gray ware lamp of first quarter of 1st c. A.D. indicates disturbance ... 2nd c. B.C ... Two latest coins date to 87/86. Gray ware lamp of first quarter of 1st c. |
| Lucy Talcott ... Light-boned person. Bones discarded. No grave goods ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) |
Well in Room 5 of Roman House H.
Under cement border of andron of Greek House G. Diameter 1.10m, cut through bedrock. water at ca. 3.55m. Hand or foot holes along one side.
0-7.25m crushed bedrock fill ... 5th c. B.C ... Upper fill seems to date largely to the second quarter of the 5th c. ... There is no intrusive period of use of fill, though P 28780 and P 28781 from near bottom suggest a date of ca. 500 B.C. for the lower fill. |
South Stoa II Construction Fill.
About 85 stamped amphora handles, many with parallels in building fills of Middle Stoa and Stoa of Attalos. Fragments of long-petal bowls confirm date after mid-2nd c ... To ca. 140 B.C ... Fragments of long-petal bowls confirm date after mid-2nd 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 ... Only indications of date are 1st c. lamps, two long-petal bowls, and fragments of early Roman brittle ware. |
| Grave VII in notebook = RSY Grave 21. PD 731-k ... Date uncertain, presumably 7th. or 6th. c. B.C ... Date uncertain, presumably 7th. or 6th. c. |
A well (diameter 1m) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, in the area later occupied by House C. Water level 1.50-2.m Dumped filling of broken bedrock with considerable fragmentary pottery in ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... No evidence of period of use and no distinction in date in the filling. |
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 ... Type 27 D lamp agrees with this date. Fragments of 50 bowls and one mold. |
| Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 2 (bis). Cut into by builders of I 5:2. No remains.
Possible contents in I 4-5:1 Layer C (= layer 6, lower building fill), catalogued as ΒΓ 2065 - ΒΓ 2125 ... Middle Helladic or later Bronze Age (date uncertain) ... Middle Helladic or later Bronze Age (date uncertain) |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Infant grave near Phaidon street cistern. No offerings.
Roughly rectangular, almost elliptical cutting in bedrock, measuring 0.70m long, 0.35m wide, and 0.40m deep, oriented south-southwest to north-northeast ... Late Helladic III C/Early Protogeometric (date uncertain) ... Late Helladic III C/Early Protogeometric (date uncertain) |
Near the SW corner of the market square beneath the north part of the Heliaia (?).
No clear distinction in the filling, either of date or of character, could be observed but the presence of a number of ... Ca. 625-570 B.C ... No clear distinction in the filling, either of date or of character, could be observed but the presence of a number of water jars of various sorts, many of them from the lower levels, suggests that the well was in fact used. |
| Rodney S. Young ... RSY/JP Disturbed Geometric burial over "Sacrificial Pit VI" (Grave B 21:22). Grave IX in notebook. Bones discarded?
Pottery found in the upper filling of a sixth century cremation pit, which had perhaps ... Middle Geometric II/Transitional to Late Geometric ... Excavation date more likely 31 May 1939 (p. 1929). |
Associated with the Tholos.
Originally a well but after it had been in use for a short time the shaft was partially filled in and the upper part widened to form a large cistern.
The pottery falls into ... 335-250 B.C ... The pottery falls into three distinct groups ... however, the groups are fairly closely contemporary in date. |
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 ... No skeletal remains were found; the content is however unusually consistent in date for a dumped filling. |
Eugene Vanderpool Homer A. Thompson ... Mycenaean burial (no offerings) in NW corner of Stoa Terrace (original north end).
" It consisted merely of an adult skeleton lying in an extended position with head to east and the left leg slightly flexed ... Mycenaean or Protogeometric ... According to Papadopoulos "a Mycenaean date for the tomb cannot be established and remains a possibility, and a Protogeometric date, on the basis of the evidence, cannot be categorically dismissed."
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House K: Brown fill (publ. House U). Filling between terrace wall and house wall at the extreme west end of the Areopagus; a brown gravelly filling of early Roman date found here undisturbed but occurring ... Early Roman ... Filling between terrace wall and house wall at the extreme west end of the Areopagus; a brown gravelly filling of early Roman date found here undisturbed but occurring also throughout this general vicinity, sometimes with later intrusions. |
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 ... 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. ... Bedrock and fill with significantly less inclusions (also Hellenistic in date) found beneath. |
| A well in the industrial area of the Areopagus, about 7.00m. west of the West Bath, to a depth of 14.60m. This well was the direct successor to A 17:1, replacing it when it collapsed. The use filling at ... Second quarter 6th. c ... The earth filling of the top 1.90m., where the walls of the well had broken out to form a pit, contained very scanty pottery, of the same date as that of the use filling. ... Dumped filling of same date. |
| A closely compacted group of 431 bronze coins found at ca. 52.50m., against the east brick wall. No sign of a container. Others dribbled down against the channel wall in a restricted area to as deep as ... Late Roman ... Others dribbled down against the channel wall in a restricted area to as deep as 52.07. Their date suggests a later deposition: the latest coins dating to the reign of Leo I, come into the 470's. |
| Pithos ay the bottom of the north slope of the Areopagus with single fill; Part of Hellenistic Group D.
One stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 146. Latest coin dates in first two decades of 2nd ... 160-130 B.C ... Latest coin dates in first two decades of 2nd c. many long-petal bowls indicate date somewhat after ca. 145 for closing of deposit. |
| Shallow pit below layer I in Stoa Shop VI (Pyre)
Diameter 0.90; D. 0.15m Under shop VI of the Stoa of Attalos Pottery, ash, burning and packing of small stones in pit in stratum. The pyre was covered by ... Ca. 350 or 325 B.C. ? ... The pyre must date at least as late as layer II, and probably not too much later. No contemporary structures, wells, or cisterns were preserved in this area, but it is about 10m south of the mudbrick commercial building that functioned in the second quarter of the 2nd c., and had a predecessor of unknown date. One pot shows signs of burning. |
Cistern at 65/ΚΗ (and Channel). Cistern in the northwest room of the annex to the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Part of the same system as D 17:4 and D 17:5, the chambers connected by long tunnels ... 300-250 B.C ... Two fills of distinctly different earth but with no apparent difference in date. [Agora XXIX] |
Actually 1 meter into section Δ, the well lies under a filling of primarily Hellenistic date which had been thrown in as underpinning for the support of a 2nd c. A.D. Roman tile-mosaic floor.
POU is 15.80-16.35m ... First half of 1st c. A.D ... Actually 1 meter into section Δ, the well lies under a filling of primarily Hellenistic date which had been thrown in as underpinning for the support of a 2nd c. |
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