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Grave in cella of Hephaisteion. Grave XXIX in notebook. No mention of bones. Coins:
25 February 1939 #1 ... 23 February 1939
8 March 1939 |
Well at 69/ΛΕ (diameter 0.95m).
Narrows at bottom. Footholds on east and west. Uniform fill. Bones found in the well make it likely that it had cut through a grave, as it was itself overlain by one ... Late 8th c. B.C ... Hesperia 30 (1961), pp. 125-127 ... Hesperia XXIX, 1960, pp. 413, noted. |
Pit at 79-83/ΜΒ-ΜΖ (or 81/ΜΣΤ=pit under floor of Room 11 in Roman Bldg. 2, 82/ΜΓ, 83/ΜΕ=well at 83/ΜΗ). Purpose of pit obscure. Evidently filled in Hellenistic times and disturbed in Roman times. Coins: ... 275-200 B.C. with later disturbance ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 19 ... Agora XXIX, p. 445. |
Cistern System #1a: Shaft (Manhole) at 10/ΞΗ (10-11/ΞΖ-ΞΗ). Filling consistently late Hellenistic in hole and in passage; probably 1st c.
B.C. Coins:
26 May 1936 #1 ... 110-75 B.C ... Hesperia 46 (1977), pp. 363-364 ... Agora XXIX, p. 439. |
Early Roman well with four fills.
fill 1: well sealed 1st. c. A.D.
fill 2: more bones than pots.
fill 3: nothing later than 1st. c. B.C.=POU
fill 4: similar to fill 3, a little earlier? Coins:
7 May 1940 ... Early Roman ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 279 ... Agora XXIX, p. 438. |
4th century sandy fill west of Peribolos of the Twelve Gods, with animal bones, metal waste and much pottery. Estimated Grid ... 350-325 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 8 (1949), p. 99 ... Agora XXIX, p. 459. |
| Grave over drain A1 (House A). Date based on the fact that the lopas has the upturned handle and the flat rather than domed lid, not found in examples from the later pyres. LT
West of House C. Pottery ... First half of 4th. c. B.c ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 50, pp. 163, 164, fig. 98 ... Agora XXIX, p. 434. |
| Pyre 2 in Central House, Room X, under strosis 9. Signs of burning, carbonized food, animal bone.
In room south of courtyard. concentration of artifacts, bone, and charred material in floor makeup, no ... 290-275 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 58, p. 171, figs. 105, 108 ... Agora XXIX, p. 460. |
| "Perhaps a cremation burial ... " nbp. 811. "Sacrificial pyre, disturbed," GRE, deposit nb.
In room on east side of building. Concentration of artifacts, fragments of bone, and abundant cinders in stratum, ... Early 3rd c. B.C.-Ca. 250 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 23, pp. 128, 129, figs. 53, 54 ... Agora XXIX, p. 450. |
Well at 72/ΟΔ.
Partially excavated to depth of 8m. Turkish fill in upper 3m. Hellenistic fill mostly of roof tiles and coarse pottery. Coin
12 February 1937 #4 (disintegrated) ... 3rd c. B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 79, n. 39 ... Agora XXIX, p. 461. |
| Small pit (in Layer I) = Grave ("Pyre") Identified as pyre by SIR.
Pottery and burning ("pit filled with black") in pit slightly west of Panathenaic Road, dug into layer I (lot AA 180, much earlier 6th ... 275-250 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 66, pp. 177, 178, figs. 4, 118 ... Agora XXIX, p. 471. |
| Pyre in north central room of house, measuring 0.50m east-west by 0.35m north-south. Pottery, bone, and burnt material in pit dug into layer IIb (crushed bedrock floor: lot Ω 464, 4th c.) and covered by ... 350-325 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 60, p. 174, figs. 1, 109, 111, 112 ... Agora XXIX, p. 468. |
| Rubbish Pit . Pit cut through a house floor. In courtyard, beside door to room 3. Artifacts, bone and scattering of large cinders in roughly rectangular pit dug through floor bedding and covered by red, ... 325-300 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 45, p. 158, figs. 1, 4, 78, 90 ... Agora XXIX, p. 437. |
| In room A. Concentration of artifacts and burning in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre lay below a Late Hellenistic fill with a smooth earth surface. It is described as a black patch of earth with sherds, ... 350-250 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 30, pp. 138, 139, figs. 7, 57, 65, 66 ... Agora XXIX, p. 453. |
| Sacrificial Pyre II, Classical Building II.
Found right beneath the stuccoed channel built for sluicing in the 1st c. A.D., and must have been partly disturbed when the channel was constructed. It may ... Ca. 250 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 5, pp. 107, 108, figs. 22, 23, 27, 28 ... Agora XXIX, p. 458. |
| Pyre in layer 8a in SW corner of Room 7 of Greek House δ.
Oval pyre; 0.60 (n-s)x 0.35 (e-w).
The pyre was covered by the surface of layer 8 and extended slightly into layer 9 below it. Small bone fragments, ... 325-300 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 1, pp. 98-100, figs. 6, 7, 15-18 ... Agora XXIX, p. 467. |
| Disturbed pyre containing only a pyxis and a chytridion.
No notebook account of excavation exists. The pyre may have been located at the edge of an ancient road. There is no record of bone or burning ... 350-325 B.C. (?) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 64, p. 177, fig. 116 ... Agora XXIX, p. 470. |
| Pyre in Room 8 of Roman House H. Concentration of artifacts, bone, and flecks of carbon in stratum, no pit discerned. the pyre lay within a red fill apparently contemporary with it, but with some later ... 300-290 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 62, pp. 175, 176, figs. 1, 6, 109, 114 ... Agora XXIX, p. 470. |
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 ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 92, n. 88 ... Agora XXIX, pp. 471-472. |
| Pyre in layer "9d" in SW corner of Room 6 of Greek House δ. Ashes and fragments of small bones ... Ca. 225 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 2, pp. 100-101, figs. 4, 15, 19, 20 ... Hesperia 42 (1973), p. 141 ... Agora XXIX, p. 467. |
Shaft fill, not mouth fill, of drawshaft at 42/Θ. This is part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ.
Thirteen stamped amphora handles; fragments of Arretine pottery; over half of bowls long-petal ... 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D ... Hesperia 23 (1954), p. 98, n. 56 ... Agora XXIX, p. 441. |
Well on the north slope of the Areopagus; depth at 9.65m; scanty dumped fillings. From about 3.20m to the bottom, little but tile fragments appeared; in the fillings above, the lower is characterized by ... Ca. 350-290 B.C ... Hesperia 18 (1949), p. 343, no. 148 ... Agora XXIX, p. 457. |
Tile-lined Well in NE room (R/18,19-13/20).
Homogenous dump ... 350-325 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 23 (1989), p. 70 ... Agora XXIX, p. 471. |
| Grave 4 in notebook: urn burial. Lower part of a storage jar (P 15407) containing the bones of a small child along with a black glazed kantharos (P 15409) and a banded pelike (P 15408) ... 325-300 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 131, n. 136 ... Agora XXIX, p. 456. |
Well at west side of Theseion Plataea, partly cleared to a depth of ca. 5.30m. Dumped filling, apparently the debris from a sculptor's workshop, as indicated by both the quantity of marble chips in the ... Second quarter 4th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 48 (1979), pp. 215-216 (Deposit IV) ... Agora XXIX, p. 439. |
| Pyre in layer 2a in Room 9 SE of Greek House δ. Sand, gravel, ashes, iron nails, carbon, some bones partially cut away by foundation trench of SYPE wall.
Coin
1 July 1971 #459 ... 260-200 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 3, pp. 101-102, figs. 51, 21 ... Agora XXIX, p. 467. |
| 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. ? ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 70, pp. 181, 182, fig. 123 ... Agora XXIX, p. 471. |
House N, Room 4, Pit through layers 5-6. Debris filling, mixed context. Estimated Grid ... Late 4th. c. B.C. into early 3rd c. B.C ... Hesperia 18 (1949), p. 342, under no. 140 ... Agora XXIX, p. 438. |
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 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 182 ... Agora XXIX, p. 443. |
Well on the lower west slope of the Areopagus. Tiled well. The tiles were carefully made and clamped together with lead, two clamps at each joint.
Several fills but apparently all 2nd c. Material in lowest ... Late 2nd to early 1st c. B.C ... Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 304 ... Agora XXIX, p. 444. |
Cistern shaft southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Unstratified fill.
Ten stamped amphora handles; Type 34A lamp; many fragments of long-petal b suggesting material deposited ca. 140 or later. Cf. Pireus ... Ca. 200-125 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 100, n. 117 ... Agora XXIX, p. 447. |
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 ... Hesperia 75 (2006), p. 367 ... Agora XXIX, p. 466. |
South Stoa I: 75-76/ΚΗ-Λ South Shop Building Layer g (O 16:1) and South Stoa I: Stony Fill below floor level (O 16:2). (merged from O 16:1 and O 16:2) Coins:
11 May 1953 #29 (illegible) Merged from two ... Ca. 420-400 B.C. and earlier ... Hesperia 23 (1954), p. 42 ... Agora XXIX, p. 465. |
From disturbances in original floor of Tholos with ash and burning. Probably reflects the military and political conditions of 307 B.C.
The broken pottery, both that left lying on the floor of the building ... Ca. 340-295 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 59-60, 135 ... Agora XXIX, p. 453. |
| Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. Coins:
5 August 1968 #1-#6 (#5 and #6 disintegrated. Missing 19/7/1973)
6 August 1968 #1bis-#25 (#5 in Lot 503 not a coin but bronze bits of nail. #6 not a coin ... 325-275 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), p. 87, n. 157 ... Hesperia 43 (1974), p. 194-245 ... Agora XXIX, p. 451. |
A 3rd. c. B.C. cistern and an unfinished rectangular cutting of the 2nd c. B.C. which destroyed some of its upper part. These two features are combined in this deposit; the following objects are identified ... 3rd-2nd c. B.C ... Hesperia 75 (2006), pp. 364-365 ... Agora XXIX, p. 460. |
Rectangular cutting at 58-60/ΚΘ-Λ, probably a plundered wall trench ... 350-290 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 23 (1989), p. 70 ... Hesperia 48 (1979), p. 218 (deposit XIX) ... Agora XXIX, p. 463. |
Cistern in Room 12, House C=House N.
Simple flask-shaped chamber with draw shaft, in House M, Room 1; no tunnels. Excavated as single fill, but later analysis of material suggested two fills. Coins:
24 ... 4th. c. B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), pp. 154, 160 ... Hesperia 75 (2006), p. 366 ... Agora XXIX, p. 437. |
| (Grave XXIX: EG).
Rectangular cutting with remains of charred human bones and both burned and unburned pottery fragments. Bones discarded.
Rectangular trench cut through earth into bedrock, oriented east-west ... Middle Geometric I |
Kitchen Dump in Tholos Trench T ... 375-350 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 132-134 ... Agora XXIX, p. 453. |
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