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| Pyre in House C, Room 8 (RSY=Pyre 6).
Near east corner of room 8. Artifacts, burnt bone, burnt sticks, and large cinders in a shallow pit dug into surface of layer 3, and covered by layer 2. Some cinders ... 350-325 B.C.-end of 4th c. B.C. |
RSY Grave A.
Under the Roman House with three rooms floored with mosaic near the southwest side of the area. The burial consisted of a pot laid on its side over the bedrock, presumably containing a child ... 7 August 1947 |
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. |
Well (diameter shaft 0.95m) with POU and dumped fillings, separated by about 2.00m. of plain mud apparently fallen from the collapsed sides of the well. The fillings are, however, closely contemporary ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Ca. 73-81/Drain. Fillings associated with the construction of the Great Drain South, especially the fill thrown in behind the east wall of the drain at the time of its building.
Cf. A 20-21:1 and B 19:7 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Grid notation in error as 99/ΚΑ sometimes.
A well (diameter 1.20m; diameter inside tiles at bottom 0.85m) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, at the bottom of the valley, about 10.00m. east of ... 3rd. c. B.C. |
Coins:
1 June 1946 #10 ... 325-200 B.C. |
Simple drawshaft ending in flat floor, no passages. Mixed Hellenistic fill to the bottom. Coins:
15 June 1939 #1-#3 No container ... 15 June 1939 |
Pits at 95/ΚΑ and 97/ΚΑ, in bottom of Post Sullan drain. Sandy filling in two pits in the bedrock, about 2.00m. apart, at the bottom of the so-called Post-Sullan drain, which replaced the abandoned section ... To ca. 86 B.C. |
| (RSY=Pyre 2). Pyre in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, in House B. In northern corner of room. No pit discerned. A deposit of small stones (a marker/) lay 0.30m above the level of the pyre, ... Third quarter of the 4th. century. |
| A compact group of four complete vases and a lamp, found on a house floor; possibly the remains of a sacrificial pyre but without evidence of burning or the characteristic votive vases.
Layer II, "nest ... 425-400 B.C. |
E.L. Smithson: Group H: Collapsed well west of the Great Drain.
First described as 105-107/Protogeometric Pit ... Protogeometric |
Fills from construction and reconstruction of a house. "Brown House" = House A (RSY Hesp. 20) (and pit under Layer 4) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Under the original floor of this house ... Second half of the 5th. c. B.C. |
Scanty debris filling in a pit. The wishbone-handled bowl (P 16753) is of the middle of the third quarter of the 5th. c. century, as are also two red figured fragments, P 25820 and P 25821; the deposit ... Ca. 450-400 B.C. |
Grave (?) under wall 4. Infant burial(?); a kados, P 16747, lying sideways with a tall cylindrical stand, P 16748, set over it as a cover; the upper parts of the pots cut away ... Late 6th. c. B.C. |
Fillings to either side of the Great Drain, in the southern part of the area west of the Areopagus; various levels, late 6th. and early 5th c. B.C. to Sullan destruction. Coins:
26 July 1946 #1-#2
30 July ... Late 6th. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D. |
| Pyre with pots on thick deposit of wood-carbon and ashes. Deposit A 20:3. At right, poros alabastron (ST 339) ... Negative destroyed, copy of neg.=91-16-19(20,21) east 122 ... 2 May 1940 |
| Broken all around. An emblem on wheel has been pressed into the clay. Fill VIII at east; early 5th c. 189 Leica, color slide ... 10 May 1940 |
| Complete in two pieces.
Round bead.
Convex on top, flat on bottom, unpierced.
Light brown glass. Grave, pyre no. 2. 119-124 Leica, XXXIII-22 ... 2-3 May 1940 |
| Complete handle, with part of rim.
A vertical strap handle, with projecting flange just above lower attachment and two knobs and vertical flange on rim.
Greenish blue glass. In late wall on west wall of ... 8 June 1946 |
| Fragment from flaring rim.
Moulded glass; marbled in streaks of brown, yellow, white and blue. Drain-channel tributary to the Great Drain in the area west of the Areopagus. Green sand fill.
3rd c. A.D ... 10 June 1946 |
| Broken into five pieces and very fragmentary.
Inscribed. From the "dump". Store in ziplock polyethylene bag and in area with 40% r.h. or lower.
Wear cotton or latex gloves when handling. Do not bang around ... 25 October 1947 |
| Complete.
A solid, low cylindrical trunk, surmounted by a convex top of larger diameter.
To the top is affixed a round loop, in which is fastened a ring. Fill VI. 178 Leica ... First half of 5th c. B.C. |
| Block of bronze shaped like a truncated pyramid.
All faces plain.
Possibly a weight. House N, room 2, layer 7 c. Store in ziplock polyethylene bag and in area with 40% r.h. or lower.
Wear cotton or latex ... 2 October 1947 |
| Hub not pierced.
Intact. Late Roman water channel.
Late Roman fill. 1757 Leica, XLV-42 ... 22 May 1939 |
| Gela ... Χάλκινο: Γέλα 5ος αιώνας π.Χ. Coin no. 1. Casts. Black fill of gravel and broken stereo. Horned head of river god r.; behind, wheat grain. Border of dots. ΓΕΛΑΣ above
Bull walking l. In exergue, three ... Ca. 420-405 B.C. |
Corinth ... BMC 446ff.; Corinth VI, p. 15..
[Kleiner 1976, p. 19, no. 157.(A-B 19-20:1)] Coin no. 11. Great Drain. Hellenistic sand fill. below Pegasos flying l. Trident upward; to l., A or δ; to r., uncertain symbol ... late 5th-3rd century B.C. |
Corinth ... BMC 423ff.; Corinth VI, pp. 14-15..
[Kleiner 1976, p. 19, no. 159.(A-B 19-20:1)] Coin no. 5. Great Drain. Hellenistic sand. below Pegasos flying l. Trident upwards; at l. and r., uncertain letters and/or ... late 5th-3rd century B.C. |
Megara ... BMC 30-34.
[Kleiner 1976, p. 19, no. 143.(A-B 19-20:1)] Coin no. 13. Great Drain. Hellenistic sand. MEγA above Prow l. Tripod between two dolphins upward; border of dots. 1543, 1904, 8004 ... second quarter 3rd century B.C. |
| Athens ... Sv. -.
[obv. die D;Kleiner 1976, p. 17, no. 105. (A--B 19--20:1)] Coin no. 15. Drain sand fill Hellenistic. Head of Athena r., wearing Corinthian helmet. A-θ Owl stg. r., facing, on thunderbolt; border ... 229--ca. 224/3 B.C. |
Megara ... Coin no. 1. Hoard IGCH 157. Hard red earth with cinders south of Southern pier. MEγ below Prow l. Tripod between two dolphins upward; border of dots ... second quarter 3rd century B.C. |
| Inscribed fragment.
Rough broken edges all around.
The sides, except for chip at upper left corner, and diagonal break at lower left, are probably the original edges of stone as inscribed; the slightly ... Ca. 400 B.C. |
| Inscribed fragment.
Part of right side preserved.
Stoichedon.
Pentelic marble. Finished Found in Byzantine context east of the Great Drain, in the industrial area. 3918 Leica, 88-3-6 ... 31 March 1947 |
| Large flat square weight.
Corners slightly up-turned.
In low relief on the top, a cross; possible traces of letters between the arms.
(Four minae drachmas in the Attic-Euboic standard would equal 1724 ... 23 May 1939 |
| A thick square one.
Astragalos in relief on top. Letters at top and bottom; legible only H and I.
(Three minae in the Attic-Euboic standard would equal 1293 gms.). Hole in bedrock at bottom of drain: Hellenistic ... 23 May 1939 |
| A square one, fairly thick, with a depression in its upper face.
(Thirty-three drachmas in the Attic-Euboic standard would equal 142.2 gms., thirty-five drachmas equal 151.9 gms.). Hole in bedrock at bottom ... 23 May 1939 |
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