I 16:4: Well

Well at 62/ΙΑ, 63/ΙΑ, at the northwest foot of the Areopagus. Use filling in the lowest meter of the shaft. The upper part of the shaft was filled with clay containing only occasional fragments of pottery; ... Ca. 600-540 B.C ... Well at 62/ΙΑ, 63/ΙΑ, at the northwest foot of the Areopagus. ... The upper part of the shaft was filled with clay containing only occasional fragments of pottery; at the top a small supplementary filling of the Roman period; cf. T 80 from Roman fill above well.

I 16:1: Well

Homer A. Thompson ... Well at the northwest foot of the Areopagus. Use filling of the Roman period. After the abandonment of the well and the collapse of the well-curb, the upper 2m of the shaft were filled with a dump apparently ... 1st-3rd c. A.D., 5th century ... Well at the northwest foot of the Areopagus. Use filling of the Roman period. After the abandonment of the well and the collapse of the well-curb, the upper 2m of the shaft were filled with a dump apparently dug up from nearby. ... Subdivisions: .1=Upper fill=Dump .2=Second POU .3=First POU Container 86 at unknown depth therefore no subdivision assigned.

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T 15:2: Pit Grave, Adult Inhumation

John Camp ... Protogeometric grave (female inhumation) located about 0.60m northwest of T 15:1. It consisted of a roughly rectangular pit, with the corners slightly rounded, oriented approximately north-south. The pit ... "Submycenaean"/Early Protogeometric ... Protogeometric grave (female inhumation) located about 0.60m northwest of T 15:1. ... The pit was cut to a depth of at least 0.45m at the south end and 0.25m at the north on account of the sloping bedrock. The original depth of the tomb would have been at least slightly greater, since the bedrock around it was leveled in Late Roman times, if not earlier.

D 4:1: West Chamber

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 ... 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. ... North of the Hephaisteion. (Roman Group G).

E-F 2-3:2: Fill

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 ... Investigations to the northwest of the market square in the area of the road running out of the square and of the stoa that bordered it to the north; explanatory cut at the west boundary of the excavated area. ... Area North of Stoa: Layer I: early Roman Layer II: late 3rd-early 4th c.

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M 17:3: Damaged Urn Cremation

Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (adult female). (In some records as Grave XXXI). The tomb was partly destroyed in antiquity; there are sherds of all periods down to Late Roman (and later) note din the fill immediately above it ... Middle Geometric I ... The tomb was partly destroyed in antiquity; there are sherds of all periods down to Late Roman (and later) note din the fill immediately above it. ... As preserved, the tomb consisted of a roughly oval cutting, 1.40m long, oriented southeast to northwest. The cinerary urn, probably once stood in a shallow sinking a little in from the northwest end (cf. trench-and-hole). the cutting itself proved to be an enlargement of the mouth of the filled in Protogeometric well M 17:5. ... The cinerary urn, contained the cremated remains of an adult female, aged ca. 30 years at death according to Angel, but aged 40-50 years at death in the more recent reanalysis.

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N 21-22:1: Tomb of the Ivory Pyxides

Mycenaean Chamber Tomb occupies a considerable part of the western half of section ΕΕ; lies about half way up the north slope of the Areopagus towards its eastern end, just below the highest point of the ... Myc. III A:1 ... It was originally several meters longer but its northern end was cut off by a late Roman retaining wall. ... It is not symmetrically set with the dromos, but it is set at a slight angle. ... Group of objects: a) on the east bench, a little north of its center (BI 511, P 15234-15239) b) on the floor in the northeast corner of the chamber just to the left of the door (B 704, P 15358-15359) c) on the floor of the chamber, about 0.40m from the south wall, near its mid-point (B 705, BI 513, BI 514, BI 530 d) on the floor in the northwest part of the chamber, at the foot of the bench about midway between the grave and the north wall of the chamber (J 64, J 65, J 68)