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N-S Cut on 50m. line (area of Road, area of Stoa, area N of Stoa) various levels and dates over the three areas.
Investigations to the northwest of the market square in the area of the road running out ... Prehistoric to Roman |
Evidence of stratification into five layers, although joins between the layers. Layer VI added when the construction of the Roman building above required it. No subdivisions assigned.
Flask-shaped cistern ... Early 3rd-late 2nd c. B.C. |
| Grave V, under room 18 in House 3, plus burned deposit at 94/IΘ. Identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR on Agoraios Kolonos:
In southeast corner of house 3. 35 artifacts, bone and charred material in pit, ... Ca. 300-275 B.C. |
Pit on north slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Traces of burning in the dirt fill; mixed in with this many fragments of fine pottery ... Ca. 450-420 B.C. |
Figurine Deposit in Roman Building 4, Room 20, strosis 1. Coins:
13 April 1937 #1 ... To 4th c. A.D. |
Coins:
10 April 1937 #5 ... 4th-3rd c. B.C. |
Bits of broken molds and iron waste; no objects catalogued ... 4th-3rd c. B.C. |
| Cistern (81/M-87/ΛΕ) in section ΛΛ ... John Travlos ... XIII-7 XIII-7 Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink ... 1937 |
| Cistern (98/Η) in section ΛΛ ... John Travlos ... Pencil drawing. Dirty Cartridge Paper Pencil ... 1937 |
Hellenistic cistern, part of the same system as 94/ΝΣΤ (D 4:1) and connected with it by a passage. Later cleaned out for reuse and filled with destruction debris of the late 4th c. A.D. Coins:
23 March ... Second half 4th c. A.D. |
Cistern connected by tunnel to another chamber filled in Byzantine period. Small Hellenistic deposit on floor. somewhat contaminated by Byzantine fill above
No stamped amphora handles later than 3rd c.; ... 250-190 B.C. |
The following pieces from E 6:4 exhibit joins with pottery from this cistern and could be listed here as well: P 7836-P 7839.
Cf. Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 19, n. 51. Coins:
15 March 1937 #1
16 March ... Mid-Late Byz. |
Drain channel system along the line of an ancient north-south road, the channel in part at the surface and in part tunneled and accessible by shafts. Over a considerable part of this channel the hard water ... 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D. |
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 |
Cistern-chamber on the northwest side of Kolonos Agoraios, 10 to 12m west of the end of the Hellenistic Building. Dimensions at bottom 2.50m x 2.75m.
The west chamber of a cistern system composed of two ... Use filling early 1st-2nd c. B.C. |
Coins:
16 April 1937 #1-#2
17 April 1937 #1 ... Early 1st (or 2nd) c. B.C. |
| Includes finds from layer II and III of cistern passage. Coins:
1 April 1937 #1 (east end of passage)
14 April 1937 #2-#8
15 April 1937 #1-#7
16 April 1937 #1 ... Second half 1st c. A.D. |
Includes finds from layer II and III of cistern passage. Coins:
1 April 1937 #1 (east end of passage)
8 April 1937 #8-#10
9 April 1937 #4
10 April 1937 #1-#4
12 April 1937 #1
13 April 1937 #4 ... Late 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
Stuccoed pit, 2m x 2.50 m, rock-cut. Coins:
26 March 1937 #1 (not a coin) ... Ca. 400-350 B.C. |
Cistern system, 88/ΝΓ (shaft and passages). Apparently a dumped filling of Roman times, drawn mostly from some Hellenistic deposit. Coins:
31 March 1937 #1-#5
1 April 1937 #4-#5
3 April 1937 #1-#2
5 April ... Hellenistic and Roman, 4th c. A.D. |
| Casting pit ... north 748 Horizontal (normal) ... 9 April 1937 |
| Casting pit ... north 746 Horizontal (normal) ... 9 April 1937 |
| Plan and section of the cistern at 81/Μ ... PD 142 116 Horizontal (normal) ... 1937 |
| Grave 1. Turkish (?). Skeleton AA 21 ... Cf. notebook ΛΛ I, pp. 98-99. northwest Horizontal (normal) ... 13 Feb 1937 |
| Grave 1. Turkish (?). Skeleton AA 21 ... Cf. notebook ΛΛ I, pp. 98-99. northwest 98 Horizontal (normal) ... February 1937 |
Essentially uniform fill of III-IV c. A.D. with a Byzantine upper fill. Coins:
14 June 1937 #1-#3
15 June 1937 #2
16 June 1937 #1
17 June 1937 #1-#2
18 June 1937 #1-#4
19 June 1937 #1-#4
9 June 1938 #1-#3 ... Late 3rd-mid-4th c. A.D. |
| Second century B.C. fill with early 13th c. A.D. fill in mouth.
The Byzantine objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585.
Lower fill contained bones of many infants and dogs.
The bones from this ... Mid-2nd c. B.C. |
| Handle, triangular in section.
Sharply curved and worked with petals and scalloped tie-band around the middle. The top ends in a lion 's head; the other end was fitted to a small curved object, probably ... 14 June 1938 |
| Large guard for the hilt of a sword, inlay carving of palmettes at the top on either side. Traces of iron pins and silver (?) which must have been carefully picked out. Inscibed beneath.
Mr. Gejvall considers ... 13 June 1938 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Broken on all sides.
Part of a moulding is preserved over the inscription.
Hymettian marble. Found in a marble dump, in the northwestern corner of the Market Square. Leica ... 19 October 1933 |
| Inscribed fragment.
Broken on all sides.
To the right of the piece, one line of the inscription, and a trace of a second.
Pentelic marble. Found in a marble dump, southeast of the Stoa of Zeus. Leica ... 2 January 1934 |
| Three joining fragments preserve the profile nearly complete. Several small pieces do not join.
Flat-bottomed moulded bowl with rounding walls and flaring rim. Decoration of circular and elongated indentations, ... 13 February 1937 |
| Moulded.
Fragment a) comes from the lower wall, with part of a small flaring ring foot. On the wall above, a moulded ridge, then a band of oval depressions.
Fragment b) seems to come from another base: ... 13 February 1937 |
| A small fragment on which appears to be inscribed a letter in relief.
Shaft, channel F. Water deposit.
2nd and early 3rd c. A.D. Leica PD 505 ... 16 February 1937 |
| The base of a flat dish.
Slightly raised ring. Channel F, water deposit. Leica, XXXIII-27 PD 505 ... 8 March 1937 |
| About one fourth preserved.
Open bowl on high ring, and with out-turned, flattened rim.
Glass has a faint greenish tinge; heavily oxidized. Modern filling. Leica, XXXIII-26 PD 505, PD 2023-9 ... 11 March 1937 |
| Fragmentary neck of vase, part of the narrow neck, with flaring rim thickened at the edge, and of the shoulder, with downwards start of wall preserved.
Pale yellowish green glass; thin fabric. Over a Roman ... 29 April 1937 |
| Stamped fragment.
Six petalled rosette, in concave bottom.
Greenish glass. Over a Roman house on the north slope of Kolonos Agoraios, room 24, strosis 5, by channel. Found with G 114.
6th c. A.D. Leica ... 29 April 1937 |
| A solid shaft square in section, twisted.
Broken at both ends and heavily corroded. Many similar fragments left in container ΛΛ 366. Well.
Late Hellenistic. 1488, 1576 Leica ... 13 June 1938 |
| Broken at both ends and heavily corroded.
Massive rod shaped in form of bead and reel; slightly flattened on one side. Many similar fragments left in container ΛΛ 366. Well.
Late Hellenistic. 1488, 1576 ... 13 June 1938 |
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