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Hellenistic-Early Roman fill over bedrock, along west side of Kolonos Agoraios. Consistent dumped filling; occasionally there is a late Roman fragment intruded from the filling above, but this seems not ... 26-29 February 1936
2-12 March 1936 ... Hellenistic-Early Roman fill over bedrock, along west side of Kolonos Agoraios. Consistent dumped filling; occasionally there is a late Roman fragment intruded from the filling above, but this seems not to affect the deposit which suggests some large scale operation, serving to level the area and to fill in the pits and grave cuttings of earlier periods. |
Pit at 36/ΙΖ ... Late Hellenistic to Early Roman ... Late Hellenistic to Early Roman |
Upper fill early Roman. Lower fill latest Hellenistic.
No house walls clearly associated with it, and apparently no attempt made to assign it to any particular house. Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Lower ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman ... Upper fill early Roman. Lower fill latest Hellenistic.
No house walls clearly associated with it, and apparently no attempt made to assign it to any particular house. |
| Extract from notebook ΠΘ XIX, pp. 3644-3646. Well at 105/ΝΗ (report on sorting of pottery, July 19, 1951 - H.S. Robinson).
"Not a useful well" HSR.
Well dug to 1.50m., vi/9/36; dug from 1.50m. to bottom ... Early Roman; use fillings of 2nd. c. B.C. and 1st. and 4th. c. A.D.; dumped filling of late 4th. c. (HSR)
Fill I: 2nd. c. B.C.
Fill II-V: to second half of 4th. c. A.D.
Fill VI: mixed to Byzantine. |
Nbp. 1740: From the gravel fill at the level of the lowest step, late Hellenistic pottery, higher up (middle to top steps) early Roman. Coins:
23 March 1948 #1-#4
24 April 1948 #1-#33
26 April 1948 #1-#26 ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman ... Nbp. 1740: From the gravel fill at the level of the lowest step, late Hellenistic pottery, higher up (middle to top steps) early Roman. |
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 ... Top fill to 1.00m. = dump of late Hellenistic ware mixed with some Roman of 2nd c. to early 3rd. c. |
Pit (= collapsed cistern). Fill mixed, late Hellenistic to early Roman. The cistern floor has an E-W channel, no doubt running from the pit at 107/Ζ to the well at 107/ΙΓ (B 21:24). Coins:
10 June 1939 ... 150-100 B.C ... Fill mixed, late Hellenistic to early Roman. The cistern floor has an E-W channel, no doubt running from the pit at 107/Ζ to the well at 107/ΙΓ (B 21:24) ... Also from cistern passage north, leading to well B 21:24 (107/ΙΓ: ΝΝ 1694 (SS 9510), ΝΝ 701 ( SS9512), ΝΝ 1863 (B 760), ΝΝ 2316 (P 17408), ΝΝ 2317 (P 17409), ΝΝ 2318 (P 17410). |
| 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 |
Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C.-86 B.C. |
Dumped filling above well, 4th-5th c. A.D., container 699.
A tiled well. Instead of the usual three sections in each ring, there were four. The fourth was extra, making the well larger, more elliptical ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman |
Well at 9/ΙΣΤ-ΙΖ has been cleaned and stripped of its tiles and original filling and bedrock thrown back into shaft.
Joins between sherds from all levels.
No coins or lamps. Containers examined 5 March ... 1st c. B.C ... Material is all Hellenistic, not later than 2nd c. ... (J.W.H).
15 April 1961 VG however continues to regard P 14265 as early Roman, and one of a considerable sequence L.T. |
N-S Cut on 20m. 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 that bordered ... Protogeometric to Late Roman ... Investigations to the northwest of the market square in the area of the road that bordered it to the north.
... Area of Stoa:
Layer I: Early Roman
Layer II: Hellenistic
Layer III: 1st c. ... Plundered trench of early N-S wall: geometric to 4th c. |
Well at 63/ΙΒ (in House H, Room 15). Upper fill mixed Hellenistic to 2nd c. or later. Probably thrown in in Early Roman times when House H was built. Contained many figurines; probably part of Koukla factory ... 12 August 1947 ... Upper fill mixed Hellenistic to 2nd c. or later. Probably thrown in in Early Roman times when House H was built. |
Late Roman, perhaps as late as 7th c., but excavator noted small amount of material made close dating impossible throughout. Nbpp. 2448-2449: The fill of this well throughout is mixed and there are numerous ... Early to Late Roman |
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. ... North of the Hephaisteion. (Roman Group G) ... Dumped filling of late 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
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 ... Layer VI added when the construction of the Roman building above required it. ... As found, it lay beneath the floor of one of the rooms of a Roman Building. It was 1.10m in diameter at top, 3m at bottom. ... Later intrusion represented by type 50B lamp and of late 2nd to early 1st 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. |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ. The filling of the 46/ΙΑ cistern shaft, with the exception of a little Roman at the top, was the same as the bottom fill of 44/ΙΓ - late Hellenistic, running ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C. |
| Well cut into bedrock under late Roman building in ΕΛ. 1.2m in diameter with small cutting of unclear function at south edge about 0.2m wide. Walls cut straight down, tapering near bottom to 0.8m. Footholds ... Late Archaic ... Does not seem to have tapped into a water source, no distinct period of use. There were 14 layers of fill from two periods-the Roman resurfacing of the area using Hellenistic fill (possibly associated with Deposit T-U 21:1, but not kept as such since floors were damaged in area directly above) and dumped fill from the late 6th/early 5th c. ... Layers:
Hellenistic fill under Roman floors
I.(86.34-85.93m) rubble
II.(85.93-85.58m) dark brown rubble
III.(85.57-85.30m) more stony rubble
IV.(85.30-84.80m) very rocky, almost sterile, increase of clay and sand
V.(84.80-84.03m) less rocks, almost sterile, increase of clay and sand
Late 6th/early 5th B.C dumped fills
VI.(84.03-82.64m) mix of clay and sand deposits, dog skulls
VII.(82.64-81.79m) mostly sand
VIII.(81.79-81.39m) light brownish-grey clay, almost sterile
IX.(80.39-80.99m) mix of grey clay, brown clay and sand, much ceramic
X.(80.99-80.24m) sandy, more ceramic
XI.(80.19-77.74m) sandy, enormous stones (some 100kg+). |
Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.
Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C.
Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D ... Objects either from 95/ΚΘ (middle fill) or 88/ΛΔ (lower Hellenistic fill), but uncertain which (they are in the finds lists of both but not assigned to subdivisions PAF) are the following: P 5655, P 5656, P 5657, P 5659, BI 154, S 574, L 1788, IL 193, SS 4091.
... Most of pottery dates in second half of 3rd c. but evidence of disturbance includes coins and Knidian handles, early Roman pottery, lamp, and glass, "Pergamene" ware and fragments of 18 long-petal bowls. ... Subdivisions:
.1=Upper Roman fill
.2=Lower Hellenistic fill
.3=Red earth at bottom=POU |
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