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Filling over bedrock. Coins:
26 May 1938 #7-#10
27 May 1938 #1
28 May 1938 #1 ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
| Cistern B (77/ΛΘ-75/ΜΓ) in section X ... John Travlos ... XIII-5 XIII-5 Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink ... 1937 |
| Cistern D (79/ΜΗ-84/NΣT) in section X ... John Travlos ... Roman Group F. XIII-8 XIII-8 Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink ... 1937 |
Fillings associated with early houses on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus; various levels and dates.
Both houses were built in the 6th century B.C. and destroyed by the Persians; both also have ... 6rd c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D. |
Turkish well at 71/ΚΘ No coins noted ... Turkish |
Rectangular pit at 54/ΛΓ.
The pit's plan is irregular; its measurements approximately 2.00x1.10x1.15m. The wall foundations run a little over a meter deep at 53/ΛΓ-ΛΕ, consist of irregularly shaped and ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. |
Geometric Pit 58/ΛΒ.
It was started as a well, but after 2 meters crumbling bedrock must have discouraged the diggers. It produced only a few sherds, all of which were kept ... Geometric |
Filling of a well on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus, dug early in the 1st c. B.C. [construction fill]; in use into the the 2nd c. A.D.[well fill] (H Ms.) No apparent stratification.
Hellenistic ... 2nd c. A.D. |
Hellenistic construction fill mainly of amphoras used as packing between well tiles and bedrock. Estimated Grid ... 1st c. B.C. |
Estimated Grid ... 2nd c. A.D. |
Hellenistic Fill at 70/ΛΣΤ.
Fill in irregular hollow. Pottery resembles Sullan debris, but lack of late duoviri handles suggests deposit slightly predates the sack. Coins
6 March 1937 #1-#4 ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
Tomb at 53-54/ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ-ΛΗ (Late Roman), on the lower north slope of the Areopagus Nb. says ΛΕ-ΛΗ. Deposit list and deposit DB say: ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ ... 350-400 A.D. |
Appears to be use filling from 3rd c. A.D., pre-Herulian into 4th c. or later. Lined with tiles. Coins:
6 May 1937 #1-#2 (disintegrated) ... Early 3rd-early 6th c. |
Drain Trench at 62/ΜΗ.
The presence of a number of fairly well preserved vases of good quality suggested to the excavator the possibility that the cutting might once have contained a burial. No skeletal ... 325-300 B.C. |
| Grave 3 in notebook. Outside Archaic cemetery, inhumation burial. Deposit list says black glaze pithos (P 8922) containing the bones of a child and four small vases. The pithos lay on its side with the ... Last quarter of 6th century B.C. |
| Pit at 74/ΜΑ (1.10x0.58).
Debris filling containing a quantity of animal bones; probably a household refuse pit Animal bones (domestic animals); cow, pig, goat, sheep, hen, dog, and several varieties ... Ca. 525-470 B.C.
480-440 B.C. |
Well at 73/Μ on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter of 0.90m. It seems to have been abandoned because of the very soft stereo that kept falling in from all sides. Many pieces of terracotta ... Ca. 430-420 B.C. |
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 at 66/ΛΖ. Homogeneous fill.
14 stamped amphora handles. Rhodian and Knidian handles find parallels in Middle Stoa building fill. Type 27 D lamp agrees with this date. Fragments of 50 bowls and one ... 225-175 B.C. |
| Cistern at 75/ΜΓ connected with cistern N 18:3 by tunnel.
Only coin is Bioiotian dating between 220 and 197. Only indications of date are 1st c. lamps, two long-petal bowls, and fragments of early Roman ... 1st. c. B.C. |
| Cistern at 79/ΜΗ.
A well dug through at a later date destroyed all cistern filling.
No filling preserved. No typed list ... Probably 3rd cent. B.C. |
Small deposit of undisturbed filling in pocket in bedrock at 85/ΛΖ ... Second Half of the 6th c. B.C. |
| Cistern at 77/Μ on lower north slopes of the Areopagus. Bottom diameter of 2m connected by tunnel to cistern M-N 18:1.
Only stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 240. Latest coin dates about 200 ... 3rd c. B.C.-196/190 B.C. |
Grave 2.
Shallow cutting, 1.00x0.47m, in bedrock; possibly a child's burial, but no skeletal remains preserved ... Late 5th c. B.C. |
Well dug through N 18:1 (cistern at 79/ΜΗ) on the lower north slopes of Areopagus; the cistern was the northern chamber of a system; the southern chamber is at 84/ΝΣΤ (N 19:1).
A single dumped deposit ... 3rd-4th c. A.D. |
Pocket in bedrock 35/Ε. The filling consisting chiefly of coarse ware and roof tiles; some of the material Archaic, but the deposit as late as the mid-5th c. B.C ... Ca. 500-450 B.C. |
Well at 32/ΣΤ ... Late 6th c. B.C. |
Great Hole at 33/Ζ = Area of early wells Some of the objects may have come from N 18:7 or from a neighboring 7th c, well, not separately cleared, but no definite association is possible ... 7th-5th c. B.C. |
| End of season, general view. Polygonal Building (Two-roomed House) in foreground; along the road, at left, the Southeast Unit; timbers covering well at 66/ΛΖ. Aischinou Street at left with the complex ... Polygonal House (Two-roomed House) and Southwest House (Southeast Unit) in the notebooks (SD). northwest 1297 Horizontal (normal) ... 7 Jun 1957 |
| In right foreground, the Southeast Unit; in right middle ground, the Two-roomed House. At left middle ground, timbers covering well at 66/ΛΖ. End of season ... Southwest House (Southeast Unit) and Polygonal Building (Two-roomed House) in nb. (SD) 1300 Horizontal (normal) ... 6 Jun 1957 |
| Manhole giving access to the Late Roman Water Channel. View from above ... 791 Horizontal (normal) ... 5 Apr 1957 |
| Late Roman water system. Inside channel passage looking north to 25/Γ where passage stops, but channel continues on. White marble block built into wall built across the passage ... north 793 Horizontal (normal) ... 5 Apr 1957 |
| Rectangular pit at 54/ΛΓ. Only the northern half of the pit has been dug. Note the 5th c. B.C. drain in the lower left of the picture ... southwest 1209 Horizontal (normal) ... 16 Apr 1957 |
| Rectangular tone-lined pit (cesspool?) in street just south of the door of the Southeast Unit ... Southwest House in notebooks. (SD) southwest 1253 Horizontal (normal) ... 26 Apr 1957 |
| Plan and section of Cistern System B at 77/Μ (Deposit N 18:3) and 75/ΜΓ (Deposit M-N 18:1) ... John Travlos ... PD 147 389 Horizontal (normal) ... 4 May 1937 |
| Plan and section of Cistern System D at 84/ΝΣΤ (Deposit N 19:1) and 79/ΜΗ (Deposit N 18:1) ... John Travlos ... PD 138 Horizontal (normal) ... 4 Oct 1937 |
| Garbage pit. Deposit M 18:7 ... 175 Horizontal (normal) ... 16 Feb 1937 |
| Late Roman tomb, view looking down from the tower ... no deposit east 621 Horizontal (normal) ... April 1937 |
| Pithos used as a burial urn (P 8922). Deposit M 18:6 ... southwest ... February 1937 |
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