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A large chamber cistern filled in the second c. BC when a well (C 9:16) was dug through its floor. Well tiles were run up from the floor of the cistern to just below its neck; a double layer of complete ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
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 |
Gravel above cobbled street surface ... Second half 2nd c. B.C. |
Turkish fill. Coins:
7 May 1936 #1-#4 ... 5-14 May 1936 |
Burned filling over area of NW Temple (apparently Herulian destruction debris) = Trench I, 18-22/ΛΑ-ΜΣΤ and northwest trench, center at 15-19/ΛΣΤ-Μ Coins:
28 March 1933 #25-#28
29 March 1933 #16-#21
30 ... 28-30 March 1933
5-6 April 1933 |
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa ... 1st c. A.D. |
Dumped filling of 6th c. A.D. Coins:
3 May 1939 #1-2 (red earth above well)
9 June 1939 #1
10 June 1939 #1
12 June 1939 #1-#5
13 June 1939 #1
19 June 1939 #1-#2, #3 (Dump)
7 May 1940 #1
9 May 1940 #1
27 ... Early 1st-5th c. A.D. POU |
Containers 1-ca. 139. The well shaft broken out into a large hole so that no sequence could be observed ... Mixed post-Herulian |
Filling between tongue walls to north of main apse in Late Roman complex, equals "Coroplasts' Dump" overlying Odeion south side.
Containers Ο 17-Ο 20 are from "debris of burnt building" [i.e. Odeion ... 267-ca. 350 A.D. |
Water channel on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Coins:
20 February 1936 #1 ... 3rd-2nd c. B.C. |
Lower red fill with mixed Hellenistic pottery running into the 2nd. c. Coins:
4 May 1936 #1 ... 1-5 May 1936 |
Pit (Well?) under Building A, Room 2. Coins:
9 May 1949 #1-#2
11 May 1949 #4
12 May 1949 #3 (not a coin, bronze fragment in lotted metal tins ΠΠ 295). Estimated Grid
Remains of coloring matter found with ... Hellenistic-Early Roman |
Coins:
8 July 1947 #1-#2 ... 150-100 B.C. |
Late fillings over early walls.
Tin 120 sherds put with those from the same fill dug 21 February 1934, just to the south. Coins:
21 February 1934 #3-#7
9 March 1934 #2 ... To 5th c. A.D. |
Early Roman fills E of Stoa (Room 17, Rooms 13-16) xx ... Early Roman |
Pit in floor of cellar of House 634/19. Contents mixed to late Roman. Pottery 4th c. B.C. to 4th c. A.D. discarded ... 25 April 1958 |
Accumulated fillings in the Bouleutrion Plateia beginning in late 5th c. B.C. and continuing into the 3rd c. A.D., reaching a depth of 0.20-0.30m. (Hesp. 6 (1937), p. 168. Subdivisions:
.1=Layer I
.2=Layer ... 5th c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D. |
Accumulated filling over Bouleuterion Plateia, Layer II. Coins:
8 May 1935 #1 ... 1st or 2nd c. A.D. |
Well (Hole) at 19/Ι(ΙΑ). Collapsed well creating a hole above; mixed fill in hole, early Byzantine in well proper. Coins:
26 April 1934 #12
27 April 1934 #28
28 April 1934 #38
1 May 1934 #3 ... Early Byz. |
Pit at 18-20/Λ-ΛΓ.
The cistern S 19:3 and the well S 19:8, together with a Roman well, S 19:1, had collapsed to form a large pit S 19:5. The upper part of the pit was dug to a depth of ca. -8m as deposit ... 7-8 April 1938
28 April-26 May 1938 |
Well at 73/ΜΓ.
The upper walls were of small stones but changed to tiles at a depth of ca. 12m which suggests that it perhaps was originally built in Late Roman times ... Byzantine |
Well cut through cistern at 40/Θ on Kolonos Agoraios (E 11:1). Two use periods plus an upper dumped fill from which the following objects: B 319, I 3994, SS 5745, T 1235. Coins:
6 April 1936 #18-#21
7 ... First half of 1st c. A.D.
4th-early 5th c. A.D. |
"Iron Pit" beneath house 634/20 and in the upper part of a well. Coins:
22 April 1958 #1-#3 (illegible)
23 April 1958 #1
25 April 1958 #1 (illegible) ... 1st C. B.C. |
Coins:
15 March 1934 #6 ... 6th-7th c. A.D. |
Pit in east Terrace.
Cf. container ΝΝ 109 ... 1st. c. B.C. |
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. |
Roman well, stratified.
Finds from the earth (not recorded in a subdivision):
P 7995, P 8036, P 21834, SS 6338, IL 483, IL 486, BI 309, BI 310,
BI 314.
According to the excavator the shaft had been cleaned ... 2nd-4th c. A.D. |
Turkish sherds from this level. No tins of pottery ... August 1951 |
Tins 1-5.
"D" ware; a medallion plate; the jar with flaring mouth and purplish glaze and gouged decoration, a 28 lamp fragment and one fragment of combed ware ... 4th. c. A.D. |
Material from trenches:
c) 46.60-48-60m. from East End of Stoa.
d) 51.00-53.00m. from East End of Stoa.
e) 79.00-81.00m. from East End of Stoa. Coins:
12 July 1960 #1-#2 (illegible)
9 July 1965 #4 ... 2nd c. B.C.-2nd c. A.D. |
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. |
Pit at 36/ΙΖ ... Late Hellenistic to Early Roman |
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1 April 1936 #2
17 April 1936 #1
20 April 1936 #1 Subdivisions:
.1=Layer 2: 3rd. c.-Hellenistic.
.2=Layer 4: B.C.-A.D.: pre-Herulian ... 27 March-22 April 1936 |
Hellenistic Coins:
17 April 1936 #1
20 April 1936 #1 ... 3rd c. |
Chronology based VG's analysis of jars and stamps, 12 June 1957.
P 25802: Pergamene and Arretine fragments, recorded along with the wine jars, but the pottery apparently not kept separate and these pieces ... To ca. 140 B.C. |
Note of 20-III-52 (deposit nb): Have looked up notebook pp. 1101 ff. The fill of this well was certainly Roman, also some part of the fill behind the tiles - but is that only a part tunneled as a passage ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D. |
Pits ( A 19:3, A 19:4, A 19:5, A 19:6 in area 96-100/ΝΕ-ΝΘ (lower east slopes of Hill of the Nymphs, near extreme west edge of excavated area).
Sometimes called as "Pit 2". Pit with reddish black fill ... 350-300 B.C. |
Water channel in north part of section. Pottery late 2nd.-1st. c. B.C. Coins:
14 March 1936 #8 ... Late 2nd.-1st. c. B.C. |
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