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Well under Poros Building Drain at 62/ΛΣΤ, west of the Areopagus. Digging abandoned at 6.10m due to a collapse of the soft bedrock at the west. Small amount of supplementary filling was added in the upper ... Ca. 520-480 B.C. |
Upper fill early Roman. Lower fill latest Hellenistic.
No house walls clearly associated with it, and apparently no attempt made to assign it to any particular house. Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Lower ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman |
Containers 1-3. Coins:
27 September 1947 #1-#2 ... Early Roman |
Containers 6-12 ... Latest Hellenistic |
Shallow pit in bedrock. NB fragment found in gravel to south of pit (ΟΟ 399=P18633) ... Second quarter 5th c. B.C. |
Unfinished well in corridor of Poros Building ... Third quarter 5th c. B.C. |
| Mosaic hall (Room A2) ... north 4329 Horizontal (normal) ... 23 Jul 1968 |
| Civic, Possibly Commercial Unknown Limestone Poor, foundations and lines of walls ... Mid 5th B.C. |
| From rim and wall of a fairly large bowl, moulded.
Bowl with plain slightly out-turned rim. Two grooves around the rim. On the wall a scale pattern formed of oval depressions.
Colorless glass. Agora sample ... 9 July 1947 |
| Fragment from plain rim of open bowl.
On inside lip, bounded by two grooves, with notched ridge below lower one. Smaller sharper groove lower down.
Moulded glass. For context see Hesp. 20 (1951), p. 183 ... 22 April 1948 |
| 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 except for chip from head.
Large-headed hook (if right angle in shaft is original); otherwise a nail.
Head flat. Shaft rectangular in section, tapering to a point, now bent. N.W. room, Poros Building, ... 7 June 1949 |
| Squat truncated pyramid.
The stub of a projecting pin (for handle or attachment ?) on the bottom. M. Farnsworth reports that although the material is bronze, it appears to contain more lead than is usual ... 15 May 1939 |
| Inscribed fragment of Herm of Zeno.
Fragment from the sloping upper part of a portrait herm; left side and inscribed face only preserved.
Herm of Zeno, son of Mnaseas, the Stoic philosopher.
One line of ... 2nd. century A.D. |
| A: a twisting snake (?)
Letters in field giota (Γ) and alpha (Α) at top, sigma (Σ) to right.
B: plain. Entered as coin, no. 8, for the day. Red fill (1).
With coin no. 9. Leica ... 14 May 1947 |
Selected sherds containers #3-#5.
Fragments of two amphora; large one-handed pitcher; unglazed oinochoe etc.
Envelope with intrusion ... Late Hellenistic |
Selected sherds; containers #6-#12.
Stucco fragments from container #1;
Fragments of large unglazed krater; unglazed and semi-glazed bowl; plaster wall fragments ... 27 September-4 October 1947 |
a) Black figure fragments, all noted.
b) Lamp fragments, all noted.
c) and d) Black glaze; semi-glazed and coarse, heavily selected ... To ca. 490 B.C. |
Fine stamped ware: kraters, skyphoi, bolsals, cups, lekythoi, mugs ... Third quarter of 5th B.C. |
Skyphoi; cup base; mug ... Third quarter of 5th B.C. |
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