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1.00m. of fill at bottom of cistern chamber ... sealed in by 6.00m. of sterile bedrock. Coins:
20 April 1934 #1 ... 310-275 B.C ... Chamber Floor |
Floor of Mudbrick Building.
The material from this deposit comprises what was found on the floor of the Brick Building, as opposed to the fallen brick fill Coins:
24 February 1936 #1-#3 SS 11078-SS 11079 ... To ca. 165 B.C ... Floor of Mudbrick Building |
Kernos Deposit (?): below floor of Building A, over and in cutting at 33/ΚΗ P 30162-P 30172 added on 4 May 1973 ... 4th c. B.C ... Kernos Deposit Below Floor |
Dumped debris filling east of East Building, badly shattered. There is a small amount of disturbance from the filling immediately above, but the bulk of the pottery is consistent, and very close to that ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... Floor |
Room C Fill of Floor at (T/13,14-13/17,19) No information ... Floor |
From disturbances in original floor of Tholos with ash and burning. Probably reflects the military and political conditions of 307 B.C.
The broken pottery, both that left lying on the floor of the building ... Ca. 340-295 B.C ... From disturbances in original floor of Tholos with ash and burning. ... The broken pottery, both that left lying on the floor of the building and that swept up into various neighboring deposits, represents the household equipment of the Tholos during the preceding generation (third quarter of 4th c. |
First half 4th c. B.C ... Pebble and cement floor deposit |
Pit below floor at 69/ΛΗ ... Early Byzantine ... Pit below floor at 69/ΛΗ. |
Pit in floor of House S ... Geometric to mid-5th c ... Pit in floor of House S. |
Filling over Floor of Square Peristyle (beneath Stoa).
122 stamped amphora handles. Many parallels with handles from cistern M 21:1. Latest coin dates ca. 200. latest lamp types 33 A and 34 A. Fragment ... 200 B.C ... Floor |
See also H 12:1. Coins:
22 February 1938 #2-#37 ... 3rd-2nd c. B.C ... Pocket in Floor of Middle Drain |
Pre-Stoa Pit beneath floor of Shop I ... 2nd c. B.C ... Pre-Stoa Pit beneath floor of Shop I |
Fill under Room 7, library of Pantainos Stoa coin deposit
I. Packing beneath original floor.ca. 100 A.D. (Floor A)
II. Packing beneath second major floor. ca. 125-130 A.D. or later (Floor D) A. Walker ... Packing beneath original floor.ca. 100 A.D. (Floor A)
II. Packing beneath second major floor. ca. 125-130 A.D. or later (Floor D) |
Filling on original floor of Primitive Bouleuterion = Building D.
Metroon pit η. H 10:2 is also contemporary with the construction of the building ... Third quarter 6th c. B.C ... Filling on original floor of Primitive Bouleuterion = Building D.
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Construction fill below floor of Brick Building.
Areas involved:
a) Western portion of Room A: packing below floor.
b) Room B: packing below floor of northern,larger room.
c) Fill over water channel in ... First quarter 2nd century, before its end ... Construction Fill Below Floor of Brick Building |
The data in the Deposit Notebook is presented by trench; an attempt is made here to accumulate data from similar layers across the trenches. Subdivisions:
.1=Post Hadrianic cleanup
.2=Marble working waste ... 2nd c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D ... Soundings below floor of South Stoa II. |
Late Roman Building to W of N end of Stoa (from its wall and below floor) Coins:
July 12 1950 #1-#4 ... 11-12 July 1950 ... Wall and Below Floor of Late Roman Building |
Mudbrick Pithos at N/8-6/3.
Constructed in conical shape of mudbricks, including the floor. Top cut by modern basement wall. Diameter at floor 1.45m Coin
30 May 1930 #113 ... Byzantine ... Constructed in conical shape of mudbricks, including the floor. Top cut by modern basement wall. Diameter at floor 1.45m |
42-50/Ζ-ΙΑ: below uppermost Byz. Floor at level of top of railroad retaining wall (cf. also 50/Ι: from packing of floor). Coins:
24 March 1936 #18-#22
26 March 1936 #9-#10 ... Early Byzantine ... 42-50/Ζ-ΙΑ: below uppermost Byz. Floor at level of top of railroad retaining wall (cf. also 50/Ι: from packing of floor). |
Stoa of Attalos (Shop VI), between poros orthostates of front wall. No deposit list ... Fill Under Floor of Mudbrick Building Under Stoa of Attalos |
Scanty filling on floor of lower chamber and from mud in north passage. Estimated Grid ... 2nd c. A.D ... Scanty filling on floor of lower chamber and from mud in north passage. |
| Pyre against north face of polygonal wall, Room 2, Classical Building II. No floor preserved above, but the pyre is below floor level 51.820masl, preserved just to the east and above patchy floor with ... Ca. 275-260 B.C ... Pyre against north face of polygonal wall, Room 2, Classical Building II. No floor preserved above, but the pyre is below floor level 51.820masl, preserved just to the east and above patchy floor with plaster at ca. 51.70 |
A large chamber cistern filled in the second c. BC when a well (C 9:16) was dug through its floor. Well tiles were run up from the floor of the cistern to just below its neck; a double layer of complete ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... BC when a well (C 9:16) was dug through its floor. Well tiles were run up from the floor of the cistern to just below its neck; a double layer of complete wine amphorae was packed over the floor around the well tiles to hold them in place. |
| David Scahill ... Below packed clay floors in Room 2 of Classical Building II; bordered on east and south sides by polygonal cross wall and back wall extension for Classical Building. Late Roman wall and drain installation ... LHIII A:1 ... Loose fill of stones and earth with large number of Geometric sherds ranging from Protogeometric to late Geometric in date, from top of cutting extending down into layer of tomb contents. At floor of tomb, concentration of bone fragments and pots, mostly broken in situ, concentrated against the north side of the tomb, with some bone fragments across the middle, and on the south side with more pots. |
Loose filling below earliest Byzantine Floor. Coins:
25 February 1939 #3-#5
27 February 1939 #2-#4 ... To 11th c. A.D ... Loose filling below earliest Byzantine Floor. |
Archaic house with Distyle Porch (= Building J) in southeast of section: packing beneath floors (Layers a and b of Tholos Trench S.Layer b=Beneath original floor dated to ca. 500 B.C.
Layer a=Between original ... 6th-early 5th c. B.C ... Archaic house with Distyle Porch (= Building J) in southeast of section: packing beneath floors (Layers a and b of Tholos Trench S.Layer b=Beneath original floor dated to ca. 500 B.C.
Layer a=Between original and second floor dated to 490-480 B.C. |
Filling in Classical Floor of Agora, to the north of the Temple of Ares; possibly a disturbed pyre ... Early 4th c. B.C ... Filling in Classical Floor of Agora, to the north of the Temple of Ares; possibly a disturbed pyre. |
| Burned deposit: Middle Terrace, south of Archaic cemetery.
RSY: Pyre 10.
Pottery, burnt bone, charred logs, and heavy burning, recovered by tunneling under the cement floor of a Late Hellenistic workshop, ... Ca. 325-300 B.C ... Pottery, burnt bone, charred logs, and heavy burning, recovered by tunneling under the cement floor of a Late Hellenistic workshop, between two lekanai set into the ground and functioning with the cement floor. The lekanai and cement floor are much later than the pyre and therefore unrelated to it. |
Pit under floor of "Storeroom" south of fish mosaic in Roman House H.
Small peanut-shaped pit ca. 0.50x0.90. No association with architecture. Small group of votive miniatures ... 4th c. B.C. ? ... Pit Under Floor of Storeroom South of Fish Mosaic in Roman House H |
| Pyre in House T, Room 2 through floor of second period (RSY=Pyre 5) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
4th. c. BC.
Concentration of artifacts, burnt bone, and charcoal in floor makeup consisting ... 375-350 B.C ... Pyre in House T, Room 2 through floor of second period (RSY=Pyre 5) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
4th. c. ... Concentration of artifacts, burnt bone, and charcoal in floor makeup consisting of earth, dug bedrock, and marble chips, no pit discerned. The pyre was partly covered by a pebble floor associated with phase 3 of the house, but the fill in which it was found cut through a floor associated with the second phase, and it predates the abandonment of the house substantially. |
| Pyre in House T (= House D), Room 2 (5th c.) and fill east of pyre.
Earlier than the other pyres of this house.
Pottery, slivers of burnt bone, and heavy deposit of carbonized material and cinders in ... Ca. 420-410 B.C ... Pottery, slivers of burnt bone, and heavy deposit of carbonized material and cinders in pit in floor sequence, with some pottery and burning found outside pit. The deposit lay under a hard red clay floor, the lowest floor surface preserved in the courtyard. It was probably deposited in the course of the first phase of the house, when the floor was renewed. |
House F, room 4 below floor at -2.00m., fill 4. Deposit created by A.W. and first appears in his thesis (Biblio. below). Coins;
19 May 1949 #1-#16 Cf. coins from 17 June 1949 #1-#4 listed with lot OO 490 ... First quarter 2nd c A.D ... House F, room 4 below floor at -2.00m., fill 4. ... Cf. coins from 17 June 1949 #1-#4 listed with lot OO 490 but "to 10 cm. above floor", nbpp. 3047, 3256. |
| Classical Pyre between floors in Room 2 of Classical Building II.
Below floor at 51.66 7masl. Broken pyre pots in fill of ash and carbon, from 51.541-51.513, resting on next floor at 51.513 masl, next ... Ca. 400-390 B.C ... Classical Pyre between floors in Room 2 of Classical Building II.
Below floor at 51.66 7masl ... Broken pyre pots in fill of ash and carbon, from 51.541-51.513, resting on next floor at 51.513 masl, next to foundation trench of crosswall between rooms 2 and 3. |
NW corner of Civic Offices, lowest layer above Roman road metal[classical floor, see nbp. 1907]. Coins:
12 May 1950 #1-#10 ... Mid 3rd. c. A.D ... NW corner of Civic Offices, lowest layer above Roman road metal[classical floor, see nbp. 1907]. |
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 ... Simple drawshaft ending in flat floor, no passages. |
Pit in floor of cellar of House 634/19. Contents mixed to late Roman. Pottery 4th c. B.C. to 4th c. A.D. discarded ... 25 April 1958 ... Pit in floor of cellar of House 634/19. |
Also noted as 32-33/Μ. The N wall collapsed. A very shallow deposit of ancient fill over its stuccoed floor. Coins:
10 May 1939 #3-#4 ... Hellenistic, 4th-early 3rd, Roman, 4th c. A.D ... A very shallow deposit of ancient fill over its stuccoed floor. |
Deposit of black glazed table ware found with a mass of bones, iron waste and burning. Coins (from above Hellenistic/associated floor):
7 April 1948 #10-#11 ... 375-325 B.C ... Coins (from above Hellenistic/associated floor):
7 April 1948 #10-#11 |
| Handler ... Found in an area of disturbed fill north of a floor surface in Room 4 of the Classical Commercial Building. The floor surface (n. 3 on the west side of Room 4) was preserved at 52.503-52.544 masl., and ... 2nd half 4th c. B.C ... Found in an area of disturbed fill north of a floor surface in Room 4 of the Classical Commercial Building. The floor surface (n. 3 on the west side of Room 4) was preserved at 52.503-52.544 masl., and was excavated in Lot ΒΖ 1758 (2nd half of the 4th c. ... The pyre was located in a shallow channel adjacent to the south face of Wall 4, where the floor surface was not preserved. |
Abandoned digging at 6.25m. due to water level. Tile well could be associated with a bit of late Roman wall to the south, with floor level about one meter above that of pebble floor. Well tiles were not ... 14-22 April 1948 ... Tile well could be associated with a bit of late Roman wall to the south, with floor level about one meter above that of pebble floor. |
Coins
20 May 1957 #1-#55
21 May 1957 #1-#79 P 26235 and P 26236 have nothing to do with the coins. Found in lower floor by pit ... Destroyed 267 A.D ... Found in lower floor by pit. |
| 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 ... 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, the lowest floor that can be associated with the north wall of the room. ... A lekane and the lower part of an amphora set into the floor of this room may have served industrial purposes. |
| David Scahill ... Beneath toichobate floor level in Room 1 of Classical Building II, against the south ashlar wall, ca. 1.50m. east of the southwest corner of the building. Deposit of broken pyre pots in small pit, 1.00m ... Ca. 325 B.C ... Beneath toichobate floor level in Room 1 of Classical Building II, against the south ashlar wall, ca. 1.50m. east of the southwest corner of the building. |
| Coin hoard. Room 2: soft soil north of floor surface. Coins:
23 July 1999 #924-#944. Anonymous folles with the head of Christ on the obverse dating between 770-1059 ... 23 July 1999 ... Room 2: soft soil north of floor surface. |
| Pyre in House N, room 2, layer 5 (RSY=Pyre 8).
Near northern corner of room 6. Artifacts, bone, burnt logs, and cinders in square pit dug from level of layer 5, through layers 5 and 6; thin clay floor ... 325-300 B.C ... Artifacts, bone, burnt logs, and cinders in square pit dug from level of layer 5, through layers 5 and 6; thin clay floor laid over it. Young identified layer 6 as the latest house floor and concluded that this pyre was buried after the abandonment of the house. Layer 4, however, appeared to be a deliberate clay floor, suggesting continued occupation, with the pyre associated with floor renewal. |
| Marcie Handler ... Pyre under floor no. 9 in the center of Room 4. It was adjacent to the southern face of Wall 4, but at lower elevation than the lowest course of the wall foundation (which was found at 52.250 masl.), suggesting ... 375-350 B.C ... Pyre under floor no. 9 in the center of Room 4. ... The oblong pit for Pyre J 2:30 was cut into Floor no 10 (removed in Lot ΒΖ 2122) and was covered by Floor no 9 (removed in Lot ΒΖ 2120), both of which dated approximately to the last quarter of the 5th c. ... The top surface of Floor no 10 was found at 51.977-52.072 masl, and the edges of the cutting for the pyre pit were found at virtually the same elevation (51.933-52.003 masl). |
| Dumped filling mostly of 3rd c. A.D., but dumped as late as 5th century. Nbp. 143: The fill in this cistern was of three kinds: to within .60m. of the floor plain broken bedrock with no sherds; then a ... 10-17 February 1937 ... Nbp. 143: The fill in this cistern was of three kinds: to within .60m. of the floor plain broken bedrock with no sherds; then a layer 15-20 cm. thick with Turkish sherds, and [then] Roman 3rd c. pottery, mostly fragments of micaceous red water jars, over the floor. |
| Pyre in House T, Room 1, Layer 5-6 (RSY=Pyre 3) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
First quarter 4th. c. B.C.
Artifacts, bone, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The pyre was found in digging ... 400-375 B.C.(?) ... Artifacts, bone, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The pyre was found in digging layer 7, probably the floor associated with the second phase of the house. ... The hard red earth under the pyre indicates that it was burnt in situ, but a few centimeters of earth between the floor of the pit and the vessels suggests vessels were cleaned out and then thrown back in. |
Cistern through which well G 14:4 was dug. Filling in cistern, early Byzantine, but with various objects resembling those from the upper dumped filling in the well, below the cistern floor (5th c. A.D.) ... Early Byzantine ... Filling in cistern, early Byzantine, but with various objects resembling those from the upper dumped filling in the well, below the cistern floor (5th c. A.D.). |
| Pyre 2 in Central House, Room X, under strosis 9. Signs of burning, carbonized food, animal bone.
In room south of courtyard. concentration of artifacts, bone, and charred material in floor makeup, no ... 290-275 B.C ... In room south of courtyard. concentration of artifacts, bone, and charred material in floor makeup, no pit discerned; pots not clearly clustered. The objects were found in digging a hard floor with a white clay surface (strosis 9, lot Φ 217), the earliest floor associated with phase 3 of the house and probably dating in the second quarter of the 4th c. ... The alternative is to downdate the floor, which is difficult to reconcile with the other stratigraphy in the house. the date of the pyre indicates that it could be associated with the abandonment of the house, which took place in the first half of the 3rd c. |
Filling associated with construction of Poros Building. A small amount of fragmentary pottery found in the clay filling of the original floor; perhaps deposited as late as ca. 425-400 B.C. Cf. 18:4 and ... Ca. 475-450 B.C. or later ... A small amount of fragmentary pottery found in the clay filling of the original floor; perhaps deposited as late as ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Original bottom of pithos was damaged (probably by ground water) and a second, higher bottom consisting of squarish terracotta tiles laid. Fill above second, higher floor was unusually rich in pottery ... Byzantine ... Fill above second, higher floor was unusually rich in pottery and was thus given a deposit number. |
| 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 ... Room 6 is defined by the street wall (Wall A) on the west, Wall 7 on the east, Wall 9 on the south (preserved only as a stub on the east side of the area), and possibly Wall 8 or Wall 6 on the north.
2.5 meters SW of the pyre, a patch of floor surface at J/10-1/20 at 52.188 masl. was found. This small patch of floor may represent the floor surface that originally overlaid the pyre deposit. |
House C, Room 4 (Pottery dump of stamnos wall and fill below floor). Coins:
1 July 1947 #13
2 July 1947 #1
Coins from House IV:
14 May 1947 #1-#2
19 May 1947 #6-#7
20 May 1947 #32 ... First half 3rd c. B.C ... House C, Room 4 (Pottery dump of stamnos wall and fill below floor). |
South House, Room 12, over pebble mosaic floor. Herulian destruction debris in a house. Coins:
29 April 1956 #1-#7
2 May 1956 #1-#3
9 May 1956 #1
26 May 1956 #1-#4
2 June 1956 #1-#4 PD 1350 ... 9 May 1956 ... South House, Room 12, over pebble mosaic floor. Herulian destruction debris in a house. |
| Pyre in House C, Room 8 (RSY=Pyre 6).
Near east corner of room 8. Artifacts, burnt bone, burnt sticks, and large cinders in a shallow pit dug into surface of layer 3, and covered by layer 2. Some cinders ... 350-325 B.C.-end of 4th c. B.C ... These strata lay above the first floor of the third phase of the house. The hard baked floor of the pit indicated burning in situ, with charred sticks 0.06 and 0.10m in diameter preserved; some of the pottery is burnt. |
| Pyre in House C, Room 12 (RSY=Pyre 9) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Notebook refers to House N.
Beside west wall of room 12. Pottery, burnt bone, and cinders in a roughly round pit; disturbed ... Ca. 250 B.C ... It lay ca. 0.15m below the level of a terazzo floor in this room, associated with phase 3, but no floor levels were preserved over the pyre.
... The fire-hardened floor of the pit suggests burning in situ; the pottery also shows signs of burning. |
| Grave (?). Identified as pyre by SIR.
Pyre pots dispersed in fill over a pebble floor, with pottery ranging from the 5th c. B.C. to 3rd c. A.D. (lot ΑΑ 168), and lying directly below modern fill. No burning ... 400-350 B.C ... Pyre pots dispersed in fill over a pebble floor, with pottery ranging from the 5th 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 ... Identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR on Agoraios Kolonos:
In southeast corner of house 3. 35 artifacts, bone and charred material in pit, in floor sequence. The pottery and burnt deposit lay in the lowest 0.08m of the pit, which was filled with earth and topped with a broken tile. The pyre lay below two floors: a lower floor not closely datable and an upper floor with pottery largely of the 3rd c. |
| Located in Tholos Trench E, beneath floor, beneath layer III.
Diameter 1m. Cf. P 4952 with fragment from this deposit and E-F 12-14.2.
Similar the well filling, H 6:5 Originally called H 12:5
Ann Steiner ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... Located in Tholos Trench E, beneath floor, beneath layer III.
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| Laura Gawlinski ... Coin hoard of Athenian tetradrachms. Dug into fill under floor (floor level not preserved) on east side of Strategeion near the NE corner of room formed by the eastern poros block wall and an east-west ... Second half of 4th c. B.C ... Dug into fill under floor (floor level not preserved) on east side of Strategeion near the NE corner of room formed by the eastern poros block wall and an east-west polygonal crosswall. |
| Pyre in House N, room 4 (RSY=Pyre 7), in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Pottery, mall pieces of calcined bone, log, wood cinders, and charcoal in diamond-shaped pit in floor sequence. The pyre ... Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C ... Pottery, mall pieces of calcined bone, log, wood cinders, and charcoal in diamond-shaped pit in floor sequence. The pyre came to light just below the surface of layer 4, with the pit going down into layer 5, the floor associated with phase 3 of the house. ... The pyre seems to have been dug into layer 4, which was then patched and continued in use. A new floor was not laid, however, so the pyre may have been buried between the abandonment of the house and its collapse. Reddening of the floor of the pit indicates burning in situ.
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Filling behind retaining wall of Stoa of Zeus. The remains of unfired clay adhering to the interior of various pieces make it probable that the material in this filling is a mass of debris from the floor ... Ca. 435-425 B.C ... The remains of unfired clay adhering to the interior of various pieces make it probable that the material in this filling is a mass of debris from the floor of a pottery-works destroyed by subsequent building. |
Brian Martens ... This deep stratum (ca. 030m) is delayed Persian destruction cleanup deposited in the 470s B.C. it contains about one generation's worth of pottery, almost exclusively dating between about 500-470 B.C ... 29 June-19 July 2017
12–15 July 2022 ... The dump of pottery raised the floor level of the building; atop J 1:18 was a layer of crushed bedrock and a renewed floor surface.
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| Eugene Vanderpool Homer A. Thompson ... Mycenaean Tomb to NW of Pier 19 (Burial 7).
The chamber was roughly square in shape (2.70m wide by 2.10m deep), oriented northeast to southwest across in transverse axis. The entrance was at the northwest ... Myc. II-IIIA:1 ... The entrance was at the northwest side where a row of sizable fieldstones rested on the floor of the tomb and indicated the lowest course of the original blocking wall of the doorway (0.80m wide). At the inner northeast corner of the chamber the side wall began to arch over at a height of about 0.60m above the floor. Despite the disturbance of the area, the burial layer was remarkably well preserved, with the remains of four interments and their offerings |
A circular pit below Byzantine floor. It Is 1.28m deep and its bottom rests upon virgin soil, a gray clay formed by the disintegrated native rock. It is constructed for about 0.30m at the top with tiles, ... 12th c. A.D ... A circular pit below Byzantine floor. It Is 1.28m deep and its bottom rests upon virgin soil, a gray clay formed by the disintegrated native rock. |
S.W. of Archaic Temple : Pocket in bedrock. The pocket was cut through a red clay floor. 71 sherds.
Objects: loom weights; lamp.
Early ware: Gray Minyan; Mycenaean; Protogeometric-Late Geometric; Subgeometric; ... Early 6th c. B.C. and earlier ... The pocket was cut through a red clay floor. |
Chamber cistern at 95/Κ and Cistern shaft at 95/ΚΕ plus the passage between. System heavily disturbed throughout in Turkish times except for a small amount of red fill on floor of shaft. Coins:
4 May 1936 ... Hellenistic ... System heavily disturbed throughout in Turkish times except for a small amount of red fill on floor of shaft. |
Cistern with two fills. Lower fill in cone on floor, with dumped upper fill above. Coins:
27 April 1940 #3-#5
14 May 1940 #5-#6
15 May 1940 #3-#7
17 May 1940 #11-#13
20 May 1940 # 8-#9
21 May 1940 #1 ... Late Hellenistic ... Lower fill in cone on floor, with dumped upper fill above. |
| Pyre in Horos Terrace Trench, East end, set into Strosis 5.
In room 1 (court), near north wall. Concentration in stratum, no pit discerned; described as a "little nest of pots" within layer V (Lot ΜΣ ... 350-325 B.C ... Concentration in stratum, no pit discerned; described as a "little nest of pots" within layer V (Lot ΜΣ 115), which overlay the hard strosis 5, the uppermost preserved floor of the house. Very fragmentary pyre material was found both above and below the hard floor (Lot ΜΣ 130, Lot ΜΣ 132), as well as in other floors, suggesting that pyres had been buried repeatedly here.
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| Sacrificial Pyre I, Classical Building II.
The pyre was set through the original floor level of the northern room of the Classical Building and apparently is the remainder of a ritual conducted when the ... Ca. 375-350 B.C ... The pyre was set through the original floor level of the northern room of the Classical Building and apparently is the remainder of a ritual conducted when the old floor was raised. |
Destruction Layer, Brick Building.
It represents material from the layer of fallen brick covering the floor and wall socles of the Brick Building and therefore marking the destruction of the structure ... To ca. 165 ... It represents material from the layer of fallen brick covering the floor and wall socles of the Brick Building and therefore marking the destruction of the structure. ... Presumably the Brick Building was demolished for that very reason, although it may be noted that in some areas there was a layer of ash and carbon over the floor of the Brick Building and so the immediate cause of destruction may have been fire. |
| John Camp ... Protogeometric Grave about 0.60m to the southeast of T 15:2.
Unlined roughly rectangular-elliptical pit, oriented north-south, neatly cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.70m, with rounded corners. The pit ... Early-Developed Protogeometric ... The pit measured 1.70m long by about 0.67=0.72m wide; its floor is at 68.40masl. Within the pit, the skeleton of a woman, aged about 40-44 years at death, within significant osteoarthritis and degenerative joint disease, was placed on the floor of the tomb, on her back, in a fully extended supine position, arms by the side of the body, head to the south. |
Fills from construction and reconstruction of a house. "Brown House" = House A (RSY Hesp. 20) (and pit under Layer 4) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Under the original floor of this house ... Second half of the 5th. c. B.C ... Under the original floor of this house were sherds including two red figured pieces (P 17137, P 19880). The filling of the floor levels of the house after its plan was changed and it was reconstructed yielded fragments of various coarse amphoras and black glazed table ware; four sherds incised with the letter kappa suggest that this is the initial of the owner of the house of the second period.
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Classical commercial building, room 3, against south wall. Small fragments of pottery dispersed in fill overlying two floor levels (at 51.897 and 51.941 masl). Five objects of pyre type: ribbon-handled ... 4th c. B.C ... Small fragments of pottery dispersed in fill overlying two floor levels (at 51.897 and 51.941 masl). |
South Stoa I: 75-76/ΚΗ-Λ South Shop Building Layer g (O 16:1) and South Stoa I: Stony Fill below floor level (O 16:2). (merged from O 16:1 and O 16:2) Coins:
11 May 1953 #29 (illegible) Merged from two ... Ca. 420-400 B.C. and earlier ... South Stoa I: 75-76/ΚΗ-Λ South Shop Building Layer g (O 16:1) and South Stoa I: Stony Fill below floor level (O 16:2). |
Bottle-shaped cistern with dumped fillings on NW slopes of Areopagus; appears not to have been finished in antiquity: the walls and floor show no traces of stucco.
Lower filling, ca. 375-340 B.C.
Upper ... Ca. 375-275 B.C ... Bottle-shaped cistern with dumped fillings on NW slopes of Areopagus; appears not to have been finished in antiquity: the walls and floor show no traces of stucco.
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Square Peristyle (Square Building) Constructions fill + other (square peristyle area); fragmentary and with some earlier material but in the main, where undisturbed, a homogenous deposit. Coins:
26 May ... Βefore 300 B.C ... Cutting floor of Square Building |
Stoa Construction Fills (n.b. for all Stoa and pre-Stoa fills later than construction filling of Square Peristyle see P-R 6-12)
Over 100 stamped amphora handles in fill. No long-petal bowls, but one fragment ... Before ca. 150 B.C ... No long-petal bowls, but one fragment in fill over floor of Square Peristyle, directly under fill of Stoa of Attalos and possibly intrude from it. |
Roman Water Mill: Destruction fill on floor and in pit. Includes also fill from mill drain and in manhole at 14/ΛΣΤ, plus gravel fill of gully formed after construction and probably after destruction of ... Second half 6th c. A.D ... Roman Water Mill: Destruction fill on floor and in pit. Includes also fill from mill drain and in manhole at 14/ΛΣΤ, plus gravel fill of gully formed after construction and probably after destruction of mill. |
| Sacrificial Pyre = Pit in floor (identified as pyre by SIR); with the characteristic small plates and saucers. "Saucer Grave" at 12/ΚΑ.
Dimensions: 2m (length)x 0.70 (width).
North of north wall of building ... First half 4th c. B.C ... Sacrificial Pyre = Pit in floor (identified as pyre by SIR); with the characteristic small plates and saucers. ... Long, narrow pit containing pottery and ash dug into a hard floor or surface and aligned with north wall of Building E. |
| Rubbish Pit . Pit cut through a house floor. In courtyard, beside door to room 3. Artifacts, bone and scattering of large cinders in roughly rectangular pit dug through floor bedding and covered by red, ... 325-300 B.C ... Pit cut through a house floor. In courtyard, beside door to room 3. Artifacts, bone and scattering of large cinders in roughly rectangular pit dug through floor bedding and covered by red, Hellenistic fill, below a layer of decayed mudbrick. |
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 ... Small Hellenistic deposit on floor. somewhat contaminated by Byzantine fill above
No stamped amphora handles later than 3rd c.; latest lamp type 45C; fragments of many bowls (ca. 40), similar to those in M 21:1 and P 21:4. |
| Sacrificial Pyre II, Classical Building II.
Found right beneath the stuccoed channel built for sluicing in the 1st c. A.D., and must have been partly disturbed when the channel was constructed. It may ... Ca. 250 B.C ... It may have been deposited when Floor 7 went out of use. |
Associated with the Tholos.
Originally a well but after it had been in use for a short time the shaft was partially filled in and the upper part widened to form a large cistern.
The pottery falls into ... 335-250 B.C ... Subdivisions:
.1=top group
.2=chamber floor group
.3=bottom group POU |
Cistern chamber at 52/Θ (53/Θ). Part of the H-I 16-17 system.
Cf. S.E. Tunnel (container 147) and west and north passages (container 156).
Upper fill: (packing for LR mosaic floor)
Lower fill: Hellenistic ... Hellenistic-Late Roman ... Upper fill: (packing for LR mosaic floor)
Lower fill: Hellenistic |
A shallow tiled well or reservoir set inside the South Stoa against its back wall. Its location in relation to the wall of the Stoa, and the fact that a lead pipe set through the latest floor of the Stoa ... 5th - 6th c. A.D ... Its location in relation to the wall of the Stoa, and the fact that a lead pipe set through the latest floor of the Stoa leads to it, shows that it was built while the Stoa was still in use, that is before 267 A.D. |
Flask-shaped cistern (1959) (Cistern under Room 4 in NE corner of Section). Upper filling soft silt with a little pottery. Lower filling hard silt, almost no pottery.
1.35m in diameter at the floor with ... End of the 4th c. B.C ... Lower filling hard silt, almost no pottery.
1.35m in diameter at the floor with short blind extensions toward NW and SE. |
| A flask-shaped storage pit or cellar, cut in the rock at the south edge of the levelled top of Kolonos Agoraios. Filled late in first quarter of 6th. c. B.C. (2.95m from east to west by 2.70m from north ... First quarter 6th. c. B.C ... Original mouth probably cut away. Floor rather uneven. |
| David Scahill ... Behind northeast corner of Classical Building; east wall C. Below Hellenistic levels and early Classical pit. Chamber cut through bedrock, depth ca. 0.90m., diameter ca. 2m., roughly square in shape, angling ... LH III A:1 ... At the floor of the tomb, bone fragments, broken pottery, two figurines and bronze implements along south wall. ... Two distinct clay layers at floor; fine orange layer in northern half, dark brown layer in southern half. |
Well cut through the floor of a cistern. Apparently a dumped fill in an unused well. Coins:
16 March 1934 #15 (illegible)
17 March 1934 #2
19 March 1934 #1-#4
20 March 1934 #1-#3
22 March 1934 #1
23 March ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D ... Well cut through the floor of a cistern. |
Dealer's Dump at 10/Θ.
Debris filling beneath a modern house floor, apparently from the shop of an antiquities' dealer; otherwise unrelated to the Agora area. Compare similar dumps, K 14:1 and N 10:1 ... Modern context ... Debris filling beneath a modern house floor, apparently from the shop of an antiquities' dealer; otherwise unrelated to the Agora area. |
| Disturbed Pyre at 59/ΚΗ (ΚΖ), in the area of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus.
Against east wall of room 5 west. concentration of artifacts, ash, carbon and a few bones in stratum, no pit discerned ... 3rd c. B.C ... The contents rested on or above a layer that is said to be at about the same level as the pebble mosaic floor, and thus the pyre probably postdates the laying of that floor. |
| Disturbed Mycenaean chamber tomb.
It was the first Mycenaean burial found in the Agora. It is situated about 20m due south of Tomb VII, only a few meters beyond the south edge of the Augustan foundation ... Myc. IIIA (1st half of 14th c.) ... Shear in his Annual Report wrote "the scant remains of three skeletons lying close together just beneath the floor level of the classical period." |
"South Triangle" abandonment filling over Brown House (House A) in the industrial area. Layers 1-3 and layer 4, to floor of second period. As late as the 3rd. c. B.C. but composed largely of earlier material ... 3rd c. B.C. and earlier ... Layers 1-3 and layer 4, to floor of second period. |
Rodney Young ... Grave. RSY Grave 50. Outside archaic cemetery on the lower slopes of the Hill of the Nymphs, cremation burial. Roughly square pit (0.80x1.00m). This pit contained a heavy deposit of cinders and ash; its ... Beginning of the last quarter of the 6th century ... This pit contained a heavy deposit of cinders and ash; its walls and floor were reddened and hardened by fire, which must have burned on the spot. |
| Homer A. Thompson ... PG grave north of Stoa Pier 19 (Grave 6). In some records as Grave XLIII.
Unlined rectangular pit cut into a shallow depression in bedrock that was formed by the collapse of the roof of Mycenaean Chamber ... Developed Protogeometric ... Traces of a layer of white clay remained on the floor of the pit and on the collapsed bedrock around it. ... On the floor of the pit, " a few bones and the skull" of the deceased were encountered, the cranium evidently at the south end of the grave. |
| Pyre(?) in House N, S.W. Room. (=House C, Room 10)
In room 10. Vessels from an earlier pyre were found dispersed in the makeup of the latest "floor" in the room, with tile fragments trodden into its surface ... First quarter of the 4th c. B.C ... Vessels from an earlier pyre were found dispersed in the makeup of the latest "floor" in the room, with tile fragments trodden into its surface. ... However that may be, it was subsequently disturbed and some of the objects tossed into later floor makeup/debris. |
| Listed in notebook as at 6/ΛΗ but later found to be at 12/ΛΗ.
Originally B 16:1.
Large cistern distinguished by a short (1.75m) blind tunnel running SW from its floor, and a shallow (ca. 0.80m originally) ... Ca. 150 B.C ... Large cistern distinguished by a short (1.75m) blind tunnel running SW from its floor, and a shallow (ca. 0.80m originally) settling basin just south of the cistern mouth. |
| Marcie Handler ... The pyre was revealed under a layer of mixed fill with pottery dating from the 3rd century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. Five pots were immediately visible (BZ 1318-1321, 1333) in a shallow pit surrounded ... 23 June-4 July 2006 ... The original floor surface above the pyre must have been disturbed some time in the early Roman period, and no floor surface was found between this pyre and the remains of pyre J 2:24, which was found lower down and slightly to the east. |
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