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Modern Pithos containing coins ... 23 March 1937 ... Modern Pithos Containing Coins |
The grid area is covered by 'modern bothros' nbp. 375 ... 1 June 1932 ... The grid area is covered by 'modern bothros' nbp. 375. |
Deposit at 42/ΙΕ beside rubble wall under modern cellar wall ... 5th c. B.C ... Deposit at 42/ΙΕ beside rubble wall under modern cellar wall |
Small pocket with R.F. sherds and terracottas, perhaps thrown up by the diggers of a modern well nearby ... Ca. 375-350 B.C ... Small pocket with R.F. sherds and terracottas, perhaps thrown up by the diggers of a modern well nearby. |
Reused as part of a modern cistern; scanty remains of ancient fill towards bottom. No containers of pottery ... 1st c. A.D ... Reused as part of a modern cistern; scanty remains of ancient fill towards bottom. |
Part of cistern system with mouths at 47/ΛΒ, 60/ΜΖ and 51/ΜΓ.
Last 1.50m. of 47/ΛΒ probably cut in modern times, contained modern fill in bottom. Coins:
10 March 1934 #2-#7
12 March 1934 #9-#14
16 March ... Hellenistic and modern ... Hellenistic and modern. |
Ancient fill in cistern tunnel leading to north; contained undisturbed fill which produced late Hellenistic sherds; it had been refilled in modern times ... 2nd c. B.C ... Ancient fill in cistern tunnel leading to north; contained undisturbed fill which produced late Hellenistic sherds; it had been refilled in modern times. |
| Crevice in Rock (Grave?) at 70/ΝΣΤ (below modern surface accumulation).
Identified as a sacrificial pyre, with characteristic banded plates and saucers, by SIR ... 4th c. B.C./300-250 B.C ... at 70/ΝΣΤ (below modern surface accumulation).
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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 ... Part of North side cut away by modern bothros wall. |
Pottery Deposit at 57/ΙΔ (also 57/ΙΣΤ and 63-66/Κ-ΚΕ). Contents of pit range from Mycenaean to Turkish; apparently the dump of a modern antiquities dealer ... Modern Context ... Contents of pit range from Mycenaean to Turkish; apparently the dump of a modern antiquities dealer. |
Modern fill to 21.00m. at which depth a human skeleton weighed down with iron. ER fill from 21.00-28.00m. (bottom). A POU fill with a possible break around 25.00m ... 1st to mid-2nd c. A.D ... Modern fill to 21.00m. at which depth a human skeleton weighed down with iron. |
Cistern system West of Bouleuterion: (see also B: cistern system to West of Tholos). First Chamber from North.
Part of three-chamber cistern system, including also G 11:1, with Byzantine and modern disturbance ... 150-ca. 75 B.C., with Byz. disturbance ... Part of three-chamber cistern system, including also G 11:1, with Byzantine and modern disturbance throughout; The uppermost fill-modern. |
Mudbrick Pithos at N/8-6/3.
Constructed in conical shape of mudbricks, including the floor. Top cut by modern basement wall. Diameter at floor 1.45m Coin
30 May 1930 #113 ... Byzantine ... Top cut by modern basement wall. |
Turkish deposit of 28 gold coins inside a plain pot. Modern Context, just below basement level. Coins:
10 June 1971 #808-#835
In pot, fragments of cloth and bits of paper with Greek writing ... 1818-1819 ... Turkish deposit of 28 gold coins inside a plain pot. Modern Context, just below basement level. |
Containers 1-52. Top to 20.00m. = modern fill.
Note a strong presence of W. Asia Minor (non-export-type) closed vessels here - did owner perhaps come from there? [JWH] Coins:
25 May 1938 #1-#2 ... Late Roman 5th-7th c. A.D ... Top to 20.00m. = modern fill.
Note a strong presence of W. |
Dealer's Dump at 10/Θ.
Debris filling beneath a modern house floor, apparently from the shop of an antiquities' dealer; otherwise unrelated to the Agora area. Compare similar dumps, K 14:1 and N 10:1 ... Modern context ... Modern context |
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, 20m west of the Panathenaic Way; Modern fill in upper 1.65m. with Early Roman dumped fillings below. |
Cistern (and passage) on the north slope of the Areopagus. Fill badly disturbed in modern and Turkish times. The few ancient sherds seem to be chiefly early Roman-1st c. B.C. (p. 256).
Some finds labeled ... 1st c. B.C ... Fill badly disturbed in modern and Turkish times. |
| Grave (?). Identified as pyre by SIR.
Pyre pots dispersed in fill over a pebble floor, with pottery ranging from the 5th c. B.C. to 3rd c. A.D. (lot ΑΑ 168), and lying directly below modern fill. No burning ... 400-350 B.C ... (lot ΑΑ 168), and lying directly below modern fill. No burning or bone was recorded. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 9 (E.L. Smithson: Grave XVIII: PG). Bones discarded.
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Roughly circular pit, about 0.59m in diameter, cut into soft bedrock to a depth of 0.42m. Tomb encountered only about 0.12-0.15m below the ... Protogeometric ... Tomb encountered only about 0.12-0.15m below the modern surface of Plateia Theseiou. |
| 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 ... The north half was cut away by a modern cellar wall and only 0.20-0.10m of fill was left. |
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 upper fill with modern cesspool fill above. |
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 ... Top to -12.85: Modern Cesspool. |
Mouth and upper part of chamber cut away in modern times; two short passages, one to SW, encroaching on Mycenaean chamber tomb; here the builders apparently found the fill too soft for tunneling, so they ... Early third quarter of 3rd c. B.C ... Mouth and upper part of chamber cut away in modern times; two short passages, one to SW, encroaching on Mycenaean chamber tomb; here the builders apparently found the fill too soft for tunneling, so they walled up the end of the passage with stones, including the inscription I5986, then stuccoed the inside of the passage; the other to E. |
Rodney S. Young ... Grave 1 in notebook. Slightly disturbed by the digging of Pit A.
A large oil jar/amphora lay on its side with a flat stone stopping its mouth. The three small vases offered at the burial were found, together ... Ca. 600 B.C ... A bit of plaster A 443 probably a modern intrusion (RSY). |
| Disturbed pyre in NE stoa area.
In western room of westernmost shop building. A patch of ash i or at the level of layer 2 (lot Ι 189d), partially destroyed by modern wall. Pottery from layer 2 dates ... 400-350? ... A patch of ash i or at the level of layer 2 (lot Ι 189d), partially destroyed by modern wall. Pottery from layer 2 dates at least as late as the early 4th c. |
Located beneath line of Poros Gutter, from a square settling basin cut in bedrock at the north end of Trench II, South of Theseion, 1.30m below the modern road surface. The basin is lined with rough-picked ... Last quarter of 5th c. B.C.-early 4th c. B.C ... Located beneath line of Poros Gutter, from a square settling basin cut in bedrock at the north end of Trench II, South of Theseion, 1.30m below the modern road surface. |
The filling from top to bottom uniform, yielding small bits of ancient worked marbles and pottery of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. mixed with undecorated coarse ware, probably of Byzantine times ... 5th c. A.D.-Byz ... Apparently cleaned out and refilled in modern times. |
"Fauvel Collection"
Collector's dump? Debris in the cellar of a modern house, probably once that of F.S. Fauvel.
The collection included vases of all periods, from Geometric to Turkish; a number of the ... Modern Context ... Modern Context |
Digging terminated at 14.50m. due to falling bedrock. Scanty pottery remains at 10.00m. In the mouth and upper part of the shaft was a heavy dumped filling of much shattered fragments, for the most part ... Last quarter of 5th c. B.C ... Coins:
3 June 1932 #3 [a modern coin which the 'workmen deny fell in today'] |
| Mycenaean Small Chamber tomb.
The cist measures 1,90m E to W, 0.75-0.90m N to S, max. depth -1.30m. Nothing was found in it; cleaned in modern times and used as a cesspool. Some of the SW part of it had ... Myc. IIIA, early 14th c ... Nothing was found in it; cleaned in modern times and used as a cesspool. ... All that remains of the chamber is a small segment with a maximum preserved dimension of 1.20m, which is bordered on the north by a modern wall and on the east by a cesspool. ... It must have been from the north as the hill slopes downward in this direction, but everything was cut away in modern times if not earlier. |
Well C - Passage, belongs with II - Brick Shaft. All dumped fills. No objects catalogued from Well C of section ΟΑ. One object (I 5422) catalogued from modern fill in shaft, one from dump (I 5545). Coins: ... 2nd c. A.D.- Byzantine ... One object (I 5422) catalogued from modern fill in shaft, one from dump (I 5545). |
Cistern and drawshaft connected by tunnel; used in modern times as cesspool. No stratigraphy noted, but pottery from first five boxes excavated is later than that from boxes 6-18.
11 stamped amphora handles ... Hellenistic and Late Hellenistic ... Cistern and drawshaft connected by tunnel; used in modern times as cesspool. |
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 ... 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 (of which 49 fragments of plemochoai), 3 objects, 1 bone. |
| Identified as Pyre by SIR.
Debris filling of the middle of the 4th c. B.C. including the remains of a sacrificial pyre.
Objects dispersed in red-clay fill uncovered in removal of modern staircase. A broken ... 4th c. B.C. disturbed ... Objects dispersed in red-clay fill uncovered in removal of modern staircase. A broken drain tile "immediately above" this area suggested to the excavator that the deposit may have been washed in. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 10 in notebook. No remains. Probably grave of a woman.
Only a small portion of the inhumation pit was preserved at the northeast edge of pit A, a large oval cutting of modern date dug for the construction ... Middle Geometric II ... Only a small portion of the inhumation pit was preserved at the northeast edge of pit A, a large oval cutting of modern date dug for the construction of a circular wall at its center, later used as a cess- pit. |
Michael Laughy ... Debris pit, located in Room 2 of ΒΘ East. Pit measures ca. 2.30 by 1.70m., and nearly a meter deep. The pottery from the pit dates ca. 10th-12th c. A.D. The fill of the pit consisted of soft, black charcoal ... 10th-12th c. A.D ... Lot T 199:
coarse body sherds, handles, rims; base; amphora handle; combed ware; ridged ware; cooking ware; monochrome glaze; polychrome sgraffito (late Byz); monochrome sgraffito (12th - 13th c and 13th - 14th); monochrome with tripod still on sherd (13th c onwards); slip painted ware; green and brown glaze (Late Byzantine); slip painted (Early Modern)
(mostly 12th-14th c. A.D., but one suspicious piece Early Modern sherd, and one Turkish pipe)
sherds: 486
"classical black glaze": 17
Lot T 200:
coarse rims, handles; lamp fragments; Turkish pipe fragments; combed ware; ridged ware; cooking ware; Turkish imitation marbled ware; porcelain; monochrome glaze; inscribed sgraffito; slip painted.
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| Well A, early 5th c. B.C. Near the Agora Boundary Stone, northwest corner of Middle Stoa; diameter at top 0.92m, widening to 1.15m and more below. Shaft neatly faced with stones to a depth of 0.70m below ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... Sides coated with heavy water deposit, suggesting some length for the POU; modern water level at 1.75m.
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| Laura Gawlinski ... Bronze foundry north of bridge on Piraeus street, east of Great Drain.
Keyhole-shaped bronze casting pit, cut into bedrock.
2016: Continuation of the excavation of a rectangular pit with foundry debris, ... Late 6th-early 5th c. B.C.
(Late Archaic/ Early Classical) ... Appears to be cut into fill at south, but that area is disturbed by a modern water pipe from the landscaping of the Agora. ... We reached a maximum depth of 59.781m by the end of the 2016 season, but more remains to be excavated.
2017-2018: Upper level disturbed by modern water pipe at southwest and Wall A (probably Hellenistic) at east. |
| Brian Martens ... Located in the southern section of Room I, now bound by the scarp of Wall U at the north,, the scarp of Wall L at the east,, and a modern pit at the south. At its now low elevations, excavated in the 2015 ... Third quarter of 5th c. B.C ... Located in the southern section of Room I, now bound by the scarp of Wall U at the north,, the scarp of Wall L at the east,, and a modern pit at the south. |
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