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South Stoa II Construction Fill.
About 85 stamped amphora handles, many with parallels in building fills of Middle Stoa and Stoa of Attalos. Fragments of long-petal bowls confirm date after mid-2nd c ... To ca. 140 B.C ... Fragments of long-petal bowls confirm date after mid-2nd c. ... Most of bowls figured; one mold. |
Water channel in north part of section, giving access to water system. Channel Mouth 1. Six stamped amphora handles; two-thirds of bowls long-petal ... Late 2nd century-Early 1st c. B.C ... Six stamped amphora handles; two-thirds of bowls long-petal. |
A well behind the Stoa of Zeus. Noted as the finding place of the bronze head of Nike, B 30.
Two Rhodian stamped amphora handles. Fragments of only two bowls ... 260-210 B.C ... Fragments of only two bowls. |
Water channel in north part of section. Coins:
20 February 1936 #2-#3
Five stamped amphora handles; Type 48 A lamp; one-third of bowls long-petal; one long-petal mold ... Second half of 3rd c.-Early third quarter of 2nd c ... Coins:
20 February 1936 #2-#3
Five stamped amphora handles; Type 48 A lamp; one-third of bowls long-petal; one long-petal mold. |
Cistern at 53/ΝΕ, bottle-shaped, stucco-lined, in the east aisle of the peristyle of Roman House H (courtyard of Greek House G, just west of andron).
Lower diameter 2.73m.
Homogenous fill all apparently ... Into early 2nd century B.C ... Particularly fine series of Megarian bowls. Pottery similar to H.A.T.' ... No long petal-Megarian bowls from within cistern. |
Cistern System #3: West Chamber at 69/ΛΣΤ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/Λ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos. Upper fill of early 1st ... 175-125 B.C ... E 6:2 (upper fill): Three Knidian amphora handles; type 51 C lamp; long-petal bowls.
E 6:1 and E 6:2 (lower fill): Joins between objects in both chambers and tunnel between them indicate fill the same. Twenty stamped amphora handles; long petal bowls; figured bowls with thick walls and small indistinct figures must date in second quarter of 2nd c. |
Water channel in north part of Section: Channel Mouth 4. Coins:
22 February 1936 #16-#18
24 February 1936 #1-#2
Twenty stamped amphora handles; type 38 lamp; type 56 A lamp; over half of bowls long-petal ... 120-86 B.C ... Coins:
22 February 1936 #16-#18
24 February 1936 #1-#2
Twenty stamped amphora handles; type 38 lamp; type 56 A lamp; over half of bowls long-petal. |
Built against the south wall of the annex to the Poros Building
west of the Areopagus. At the west the upper layer of marble chips carried against it, the lowest were cut by it.
Part of same system as ... 225-100 B.C ... [Nbp. 3001]
Upper fill: two stamped amphora handles; one-third of bowls long petal.
Lower fill: Bronze coin from Histiaia (?); no long-petal bowls; bowls of M Monogram Class; pottery probably a contemporary household dump. |
Cistern and drawshaft connected by tunnel; used in modern times as cesspool. No stratigraphy noted, but pottery from first five boxes excavated is later than that from boxes 6-18.
11 stamped amphora handles ... Hellenistic and Late Hellenistic ... No stratigraphy noted, but pottery from first five boxes excavated is later than that from boxes 6-18.
11 stamped amphora handles. Bowls are from worn molds, of poor workmanship, probably dating in second quarter of 2nd c. ... Upper part of fill contained fragments of long-petal bowls, "Pergamene" plate, Roman lamp, suggesting cistern remained open into third quarter of 2nd century and beyond. |
| Phaidon Street Cistern: South Chamber.
Connected by tunnel to O 17:5.
Knidian stamped amphora handle; fragments of five long-petal bowls, one made in worn mold. Type 35 A lamp. Coins
9 August 1957 #1-#3 ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... Knidian stamped amphora handle; fragments of five long-petal bowls, one made in worn mold. |
| Tiled Well at S edge of E-W Road, 73/ΜΗ. Contemporary upper and lower fills separated by layer of sterile mud.
Latest coin dates ca. 200. Koan amphora handle with stamped handle dates slightly after 200 ... 210-160 ... A.D. indicates contamination. Bowls of coarse workmanship , unlike those of early 2nd c. contexts; none from fresh molds, some from very worn molds. No long-petal bowls. This suggests date in second quarter of 2nd c. |
Shaft fill, not mouth fill, of drawshaft at 42/Θ. This is part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ.
Thirteen stamped amphora handles; fragments of Arretine pottery; over half of bowls long-petal ... 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D ... Thirteen stamped amphora handles; fragments of Arretine pottery; over half of bowls long-petal. |
| Phaidon Street Cistern: North Chamber
Sullan destruction debris. One of two chambers connected by tunnel.
Two latest coins date to 87/86. Gray ware lamp of first quarter of 1st c. A.D. indicates disturbance ... 2nd c. B.C ... Half of bowls long-petal. |
Tiled well near the SW corner of the market square between the Southwest Fountain House and the Great Drain, three fills noted: lower fill of earth and stones with a few fragments only of coarse pottery ... 4th-2nd c. B.C.
100-70 B.C ... Most of bowls long-petal.
Middle fill: No coins or datable stamped amphora handles. ... Long-petal bowls found at all depths, suggesting fill was dumped rather that accumulated over a period of time. Most of bowls long-petal. |
At 67/ΙΗ, at the northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Cistern with drawshaft, 4.60m deep. The drawshaft had been cleared to bottom in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, and some of the fill in the main ... Most second half of 3rd c. B.C ... Large numbers of bowls (49). No long-petal bowls. |
| Stucco-lined bottle-shaped cistern, with tunnel and subsidiary manhole, in SW Baths, Room Α 10. Homogeneous dumped fill, mostly of mold-made bowls and and molds for terracotta figurines. Sixteen stamped ... 225-190 B.C ... Homogeneous dumped fill, mostly of mold-made bowls and and molds for terracotta figurines. ... Large number of bowls (ca. 40) resemble those in M 21:1 and P 21:4. |
Chamber of water system with one blind tunnel and two cisterns connected by tunnel. Pottery consistent throughout, late Hellenistic. Late 2nd c. B.C.
Ten stamped amphora handles. Most of bowls long-petal ... 100-75 B.C ... Most of bowls long-petal. |
| 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 ... Only indications of date are 1st c. lamps, two long-petal bowls, and fragments of early Roman brittle ware. |
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 ... Moldmade bowls with thick walls and small indistinct figures similar to those on bowls in G 5:3 and some examples in Thompson's Group C. No long-petal bowls. |
| Komos Cistern at 66/Κ, on the north slope of the Areopagus. Homogeneous fill.
Thirty-four stamped amphora handles. Eight Histiaian tetrobols, dating 170-160 at the earliest, found near top, possibly an ... Last quarter of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd century B.C ... Largest group of moldmade relief ware, consisting of fragments of 183 bowls, one moldmade jug and nine molds. At least 119 bowls are products of Workshop of Bion; only 15 made by Workshop A. Great similarity among bowls, many with same stamps. |
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