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Disturbed burial set into a cutting in hardpan. No lot ... 2nd half of 5th c. B.C. |
Well in Marble-Saw Shed. No distinct use filling. Estimated Grid ... Submycenaean |
| Homer A. Thompson ... Grave XIII in notebook. Cutting in bedrock. One skeleton. Bones discarded. No offerings.
JP ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) |
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. |
Grave south of Hephaisteion. Grave I in notebook.
Four sets of lower leg bones. No offerings. No sherds. Lot 227 ? ... Byzantine |
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 |
Pit in bedrock (disturbed child's grave?). No bones or ashes. No lots.
No coins listed. P 14520 was certainly from the north end, doubtless a grave offering; few sherds (first half of 5th century) came ... Late 6th - early 5th c. B.C. |
| Child grave. Grave 21 in notebook. No burning. No offerings. Covered by a 5th c. filling disturbed in Turkish times. Neg. ΚΚ 83, shows skeleton. Possibly discarded? ... 27 March 1936 |
Well behind Stoa Shop 18 (Well G: EB). Provides useful antecedents for many later shapes both black and plain.
Diameter at bottom 0.88m. Eight pairs of footholds preserved. The influx of water during excavation ... 650-625 B.C |
| Grave 1 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXV: PG). No remains. Probable trench-and-hole.
JP
Roughly circular pit measuring 0.39m in diameter cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.72m. Pyre refuse-described ... Late PG/EG I |
Eugene Vanderpool Homer A. Thompson ... Mycenaean burial (no offerings) in NW corner of Stoa Terrace (original north end).
" It consisted merely of an adult skeleton lying in an extended position with head to east and the left leg slightly flexed ... Mycenaean or Protogeometric |
| Grave south of Hephaisteion. Grave II in notebook. One skeleton. No objects. Pottery in container 201 from filling around grave II ... 12 March 1936 |
Well at 19/ΚΔ, beneath the west colonnade of the Square Market Building in the northeast corner of the Agora. Diameter ca. 1.25m. Water level ca. -3.50m. The construction of the well was rather careless, ... Ca. 580-560 B.C. |
| Child burial at SE corner of original North Extension of Stoa Terrace.
A tiny skeleton.
No furniture. See neg LXV-55 and ΣΑ 749.
Bones not found (2022) ... Mycenaean(?) |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Mycenaean Grave under Stoa Terrace, at original north end of Stoa; and PG vases on patches of stones over this burial, and to NE (formerly P 8:7). Cf. Q 8:13. No remains. In some records as Grave XLV ... 1 December 1953 |
Grave in south peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave LXIV in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
13 March 1939 #21-#23
14 March 1939 #7 Neg. KK 395 ... 13-15 March 1939 |
Narrow trench in bedrock; one section found to NE of Circular Building west of the Stoa of Attalos, another (Q 8:1) beneath the terrace of the Stoa of Attalos opposite Pier 19. A single filling in both ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. and shortly after |
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. |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Infant grave near Phaidon street cistern. No offerings.
Roughly rectangular, almost elliptical cutting in bedrock, measuring 0.70m long, 0.35m wide, and 0.40m deep, oriented south-southwest to north-northeast ... Late Helladic III C/Early Protogeometric (date uncertain) |
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. |
| Homer A. Thompson ... PG grave to NW of Stoa Pier 19 (Tomb no. 5 in notebook). In some records as Grave XLII.
It consisted of a rectangular pit, oriented north-south, cut into bedrock. The sides of the pit were lined and the ... Earlier-Developed Protogeometric ... PG grave to NW of Stoa Pier 19 (Tomb no. 5 in notebook). ... The skeleton of a child (7-8 years at death) was found on its back in a fully extended supine position, head to the south, filling the cist almost entirely. ... This grave is exhibited in the Agora museum. |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 16 in notebook. Adult skeleton.
In some records as Grave XXXIII (JP) ... Middle Geometric I |
| Sacrificial pyre in Poros Building, NW Room (RSY= Pyre 1).
Against east wall of room 5 west. artifacts, bone, carbon and ash in pit in floor sequence. the pyre lay below a floor covered with marble dust, ... Middle of 4th c. B.C. |
| Grave 7b in notebook. Inhumation in Tholos Cemetery; The skeleton positioned directly below the male in Grave 7, but with direction reversed, i.e., head at southeast end. Most grave offerings at lower ... 750-725 B.C ... Hesperia 14 (1945), pp. 305-307, no. 83, figs. 7, 8, pl. ... Agora VIII, p. 127. |
| Marcie Handler ... The Pyre was revealed in a layer of 4th c. fill in the north end of Room 6, just south of Wall 8. Room 6 is defined by the street wall (Wall A) on the west, Wall 7 on the east, Wall 9 on the south (preserved ... 4th c. B.C. |
Well at 8/ΙΑ-ΙΒ, beneath the north colonnade of the Square Peristyle, just west of the north end of the Stoa of Attalos. Quite uniform fill. Diameter 1.15m. No P.O.U. Coins:
4 April 1938 #39 ... 650-600 B.C.
5th c. B.C. |
Well by Stoa Pier 8.
Mouth of well discovered in 1950 (p. 2287).
Dumped filling in the 4th c. B.C. but the bulk of the material of the 5th c. B.C. Fill contained much wood, bones, Mycenaean, Geometric, ... 5th c. B.C ... Well by Stoa Pier 8.
Mouth of well discovered in 1950 (p. 2287).
... ; 2 one-handlers 9for one, cf. Agora XII, no. 755, first to second quarter of 4th c. ... B.C.); fish-plate (Cf. Agora XII, no. 1070); lamp (Howland Type 21B).
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Two chambers connected by a tunnel, all filled at the same time, but with slight Hellenistic disturbance. Chamber A, to west at 14/ΛΗ, B to east at 14-15/ΛΒ on grid for section RR.
Cistern system ca. 20.00m ... Ca. 325-275 B.C. |
Accumulated debris on the west side of the market square.
Related layers added 1999/2000 (JWH), e.g. "Gravelly layer above burning", "Clearing Classical floor", "Lowest level above bedrock", "Below burning", ... First half of 5th c. A.D. |
| Eugene Vanderpool Homer A. Thompson ... Mycenaean Grave to W. of "Court Room" below Stoa Terrace with "Ballot Box" (Grave XXIX).
Unusual type, conforming neither to our pit nor to our cist graves, and consisted of two parts. The outer part was ... Mycenaean III A-B |
| Pyre in Room 8 of Roman House H. Concentration of artifacts, bone, and flecks of carbon in stratum, no pit discerned. the pyre lay within a red fill apparently contemporary with it, but with some later ... 300-290 B.C. |
Alison Frantz ... Vases from "Child's Grave" disturbed by the Late Hellenistic cistern. No remains. JP
But see P 27110 ... Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 18 in notebook.
Adult inhumation; skeletal material; no offerings. Submycenaean?
JP In some records as Grave XIX bis. (see Agora XXXVI, Tomb 31, p. 284) ... LH IIIC/EPG (date uncertain) ... Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 305, no. 81, pl. LII and p. 307, fig. 8 (left) (AA 2) ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 31, pp. 284-285, fig. 2.186. |
| Homer A. Thompson ... Child's grave, Geometric.
The bones of a child about one month old had been placed into P. 25787, which was lying on its side. The upper side of the pot was cut away in later times. The mouth was closed ... Late 8th c. B.C. |
Well at 67/ΛΓ on the northeast slope of the Areopagus. Connected with the same cistern system as O 20:2.
Dug as several fills but probably a continuous accumulation Coin
28 May 1938 #1 (?) Illegible N ... 300-250 B.C. |
Well with 4th. c. fill, no well deposit at the bottom. Coins:
2 April 1936 #1
3 April 1936 #8-#19
4 April 1936 #11
8 April 1936 #3-#4
22 May 1936 #5
25 May 1936 #2
27 May 1936 #2
28 May 1936 #2-#5
29 May ... Second half A.D. 4th. c. |
Grave in west peristyle of Hephaisteion. Grave XLIII in notebook. No mention of bones; pottery Turkish. Coins:
8 March 1939 #21 ... 11 March 1939 |
| Grave in opisthodomos of Hephaisteion. Grave XLIX in notebook.
No mention of bones. Coins:
9 March 1939 #8-#13 Neg. KK 365 ... 9 March 1939
16 March 1939 |
Top fill to 1.00m. = dump of late Hellenistic ware mixed with some Roman of 2nd c. to early 3rd. c. Intermediate fill 1.20-2.00m. = dump with tiles and stucco, almost no sherds. Coins:
6 February 1937 ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D. |
Sand fill N of Base A.
... Because of the uncertainty of ground level contemporary with Base A and of the possibility of missing a continuous strosis or disturbance in this soft sandy fill, I have kept ... Last quarter 2nd-first quareter 3rd c. A.D. |
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