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Square pit in bedrock southwest of the Hephaisteion. Many marble chips from the construction of the temple of Hephaestus were found here together with a large quantity of pottery and other objects ... Ca. 450 B.C.
Ca. 390-380 B.C ... Marble Chips Pit |
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa ... 2nd c. A.D ... Marble working waste |
Pit with marble chips (disturbed); working chips of the Hephaisteion construction. A few vases apparently contemporary with the building of the temple ... 5th c. B.C. to ca. 450 but disturbed ... Pit with marble chips |
Well in Marble-Saw Shed. No distinct use filling. Estimated Grid ... Submycenaean ... Well in Marble-Saw Shed. No distinct use filling. |
Pithos in NW corner (room) of Poros Building. Marble chips ... Mid-4th c.? ... Marble chips. |
Marble Chip Fill at 67-69/ΚΑ-ΚΖ (now C 19:5). Asterisk: C 19:15* ... Marble Chip Fill at 67-69/ΚΑ-ΚΖ (now C 19:5). |
Stroses I, II, III, IV in Court J (below marble chip layer), House of Greek Mosaic.
No independently datable objects. Estimated Grid ... Early 3rd c. B.C ... Stroses I, II, III, IV in Court J (below marble chip layer), House of Greek Mosaic.
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An unfinished well in the northwest room of the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus. Dumped filling. Chips from marble-working, variety of plain and figured wares ... Ca. 400-385 B.C ... Chips from marble-working, variety of plain and figured wares. |
Slag pit in front of South Stoa II. The filling consisted ... of a very miscellaneous lot of stone and marble. ... In among the stones was a loose filling of ash and charcoal and iron slag ... (nbpp. 6510, ... Second half 1st c. A.D ... The filling consisted ... of a very miscellaneous lot of stone and marble. ... In among the stones was a loose filling of ash and charcoal and iron slag ... |
| "Koumanoudes' Well.
Tile-lined well (diam. 0.85m) at SE corner of courtyard of Roman House E, at top built wall of stones and mortar, bedrock at bottom. Coin
7 August 1971 #495-#500
13 August 1971 #507 ... 28 July-6 August 1971 ... Layer 4:16.20-16.66 Construction; marble working chips, plaster, pumice. |
Tiled Well in Square Building Foundations, equipped with evenly spaced hand-holds, with a good supply of water. There was no period of use represented and the dumped fill consisted mostly of chunks of ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C ... There was no period of use represented and the dumped fill consisted mostly of chunks of bedrock, with many fragments of pebble mosaic and a few marble chips; the pottery was extremely scanty and very fragmentary. the well had been intentionally filled and carefully covered over a large slab in preparation for the foundations of the Square Building over it ... 31 August 1954 the marble slab (I 6694) was found pp. 4107-4109 |
| Well in East Colonnade of Roman House H. Diameter 0.80m, lined with field stones set in mortar. used as a cistern as well.
No useful pottery dates. Capital from colonnade A 3866 and part of shaft found ... 29 July 1970 ... Three marble heads found at -4.65m to -5.25m suggest change from Pagan to Christian in early 6th c. ... See also Q 21:4 from same house. Marble heads (S 2354-2356) deliberately discarded before house went out of use. |
Well at west side of Theseion Plataea, partly cleared to a depth of ca. 5.30m. Dumped filling, apparently the debris from a sculptor's workshop, as indicated by both the quantity of marble chips in the ... Second quarter 4th. c. B.C ... Dumped filling, apparently the debris from a sculptor's workshop, as indicated by both the quantity of marble chips in the filling and a number of unfinished small sculptures. |
| Pyre in Room 1, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 11).
Early in the third quarter of the 4th. c. B.C.
In courtyard. Artifacts, bone, and cinders in irregular pit in floor sequence. The pit had been dug into ... 350-330 B.C ... The pit had been dug into a marble-and limestone-chip layer over bedrock, and was covered by a Late Hellenistic layer with tile fragments. It may be associated with the abandonment of the house, since the marble-and limestone-chip layer was laid down during the structure's last phase. |
Child's burial in south wall of Marble Worker's House.
Bones examined 20 June 1975 and found to be an immature animal, not human (canid-puppy?).
Identified as pyre by SIR. Set into a shallow roughly ovoid ... Late 4th c ... Child's burial in south wall of Marble Worker's House.
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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 ... Subdivisions:
.1=Post Hadrianic cleanup
.2=Marble working waste
.3=Iron working waste
.4=Industrial period
.5=Construction fill of South Stoa II
.6=Drain and drain channels/trenches at Stoa back wall |
This is associated with Building A. It had a circular marble well-head with a rectangular well slab beneath. The construction throughout was of well tiles. It produced little to a depth of -8.60m. Between ... 4th c. A.D ... It had a circular marble well-head with a rectangular well slab beneath. |
| Well at 99/ΜΕ.
Just outside of SE corner of Fountain House. This well was used in at least two periods; the marble well curb of the second period, certainly Byzantine, was found in place. The fill was ... 5 May 1952
5-14 July 1952 ... This well was used in at least two periods; the marble well curb of the second period, certainly Byzantine, was found in place. |
Well in Byzantine Room 9. Excavation of the well terminated at 49.00m. due to cave-in danger. Topped by a stone sill and marble putael, the upper part of well is of Byzantine-period stone masonry; lower ... Byzantine ... Topped by a stone sill and marble putael, the upper part of well is of Byzantine-period stone masonry; lower part lined with tiles.
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House R, fill under drain tiles and fillings associated with house K in industrial area, including what was C 19:15, plus C 19:16 and
C 19:17.
a) House built as dwelling in second half of 5th.c.
b) Used ... Ca. 5th and 4th c. B.C ... House R, fill under drain tiles and fillings associated with house K in industrial area, including what was C 19:15, plus C 19:16 and
C 19:17.
a) House built as dwelling in second half of 5th.c.
b) Used as marble-workers' shop from beginning of 4th. c. to near middle of century. ... Most of the material comes however from the second and third phases noted above: either the marble-workers' shop, or the heavy filling of dumped earth and marble chips thrown in over the area when the level was raised for the remodelling of the building at about the middle of the 4th c. |
| Pyre in cut in E-W street, layer 7 (Pyre 14). North edge of Piraeus street, west of the Great Drain Bridge, in the area west of Areopagus.
RSY-Pyre.
Pottery, a little burnt bone, and patches of charcoal ... 250-240 B.C ... The pyre was uncovered in digging a thin layer rich in marble chips. Cinders were found spread through layer 7 beyond the shallow pit, demonstrating that they were somewhat dispersed before the pit was covered over by that layer. The excavator interpreted the successive thin layers of marble chips as road-building material. |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Ovoid pit cut into bedrock or sterile fill just north of preserved floor surfaces in the so-called Strategeion. Length (west-east) 2.6m; widens at 1.25m from the east scarp so that at west pit is 0.75m ... 4th B.C ... Uncovered directly under smaller pit of marble chip debris (see Lot Γ 383; Basket 4, p. 3985). Although marble chips were found scattered throughout fill of amphorae pit, these pits were distinct: Find Γ 2854, Amphora, was uncovered beneath hard fill that made up the northeast bottom edge of the marble chip pit. |
| Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. Coins:
5 August 1968 #1-#6 (#5 and #6 disintegrated. Missing 19/7/1973)
6 August 1968 #1bis-#25 (#5 in Lot 503 not a coin but bronze bits of nail. #6 not a coin ... 325-275 B.C ... Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. |
Sculptor's Workshop at 37-40/Β-ΣΤ Coins
20 April 1933 #1-#20
21 April 1933 #37-#41
24 April 1933 #97-#100
1 May 1933 #5-#8
4 May 1933 #2
12 May 1933 #8-#9
15 May 1933 #8
S 343, S 407-S 413, S 390: Fragments ... Ca. 267 A.D ... Several stone grinders, probably marble polishers to be associated with the workshop ( Ι 1434-Ι 1435, and fragments of pumice in Lot Ι 203g and Lot Ι 204d). |
| Well in West Colonnade of Roman House H. Covered by a large handsome marble well-head, apparently reused. Cut through bedrock. Diameter ca. 1.20m, water at -3.60m.
Two distinct POU fills. One at ca. -4.50m ... June-August 1970 ... Covered by a large handsome marble well-head, apparently reused. |
| Anne McCabe ... Adjacent to the SW face of Byzantine Wall 14. The circular cutting, 0.90m in diameter, appeared at 53.504m under a layer of loose rubble (Lot 481). Wall of the well roughly built, consisting at the top ... 11-19 July 2006
24 June-21 July 2009 ... Wall of the well roughly built, consisting at the top of several courses of large tiles (placed horizontally) and flat stones, including marble blocks. Lower down, from 52.621m, large segments of terracotta well lining tiles are interspersed with other building materials. |
"Debris Pit" beneath starting line in Panathenaic Way.
Dug as
Trench B (1971), pp. 1631-1649 (notebook not seen, PF);
finds record both Layer 28 and beneath Layer 28.
Trench I, pit 16a, (1973), pp. 3010-3022 ... 2 August 1971
4-6 July 1973
27 June-11 July 1980 ... -Comes down on masses of rubble, architectural fragments worked and unworked pieces of poros marble, stones, roof tiles. |
Double Well by Entrance to Square Building (Well B)
Wall A (R 9:2) was Late Geometric or transitional well, into one-half of which a bothros had been sunk in Turkish times (16th c. A.D.)-R 9:3.
This bothros ... ca. 17th century A.D ... In dark brown fill, it contained many household utensils (spoons, a wooden bowl fragment, a saucepan and an iron knife), quantities of pottery and a fragment of marble capital Balance of pottery discarded. |
Unfinished well, south of the annex to the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus. The shaft was apparently never used as a well. The lower dumped filling contained a quantity of clean red clay, as if from ... Ca. 350-325 B.C ... The lower dumped filling contained a quantity of clean red clay, as if from an industrial establishment; also some marble chips and a scattering of pottery fragments. |
| 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 ... Concentration of artifacts, burnt bone, and charcoal in floor makeup consisting of earth, dug bedrock, and marble chips, no pit discerned. |
Well by Stoa Pier 3.
Mouth was discovered in 1950 (p. 2273). Between first and second POU; no joins between the groups, which were separated by nearly sterile fill. No apparent chronological difference ... Mid-2nd c. B.C ... Immediately above this lower filling came a meter of fill containing many buff poros chips, some marble chips and a large number of water-jars, but no other vase-shapes, apart from chance sherds. ... Above this clay layer, for the lower 60cm of the unlined part of the shaft, the loose broken bedrock fill continued, followed by a meter of buff poros chips filling, with some marble chips and many water-jars, a second "workmen's period". An Unfinished marble mortar and a ladle-like object of marble also came from this filling. |
| Pyre in Room 2, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 12).
In courtyard. Artifacts, bone, ash, carbon, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The rectangular pit was cut into a white strosis with marble chips (ΠΠ ... 315-300 B.C ... The rectangular pit was cut into a white strosis with marble chips (ΠΠ 282), filled with red earth, and the surface then trodden hard. |
| Plundered Chamber Tomb. (Tomb XII). A few meters SE of the great white marble altar. The chamber is an irregular rectangle, oriented roughly N-S, with dromos leading in at a very gentle slope from the ... LH III A ... A few meters SE of the great white marble altar. The chamber is an irregular rectangle, oriented roughly N-S, with dromos leading in at a very gentle slope from the north. |
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 ... At the west the upper layer of marble chips carried against it, the lowest were cut by it.
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| Pocket with burning at 60/ΚΗ. "Is this perhaps a disturbed pyre burial." [Nbp. 2928].
Identified as pyre by SIR.
Near north end of corridor, beside its west wall. Concentration of artifacts, tiny scraps ... 4th c. B.C ... Concentration of artifacts, tiny scraps of bone, and carbon in stratum, no pit discerned. the objects lay under an uneven strosis level with the bottom of the rebuilt west wall of the corridor, perhaps dug into a layer topped with marble chips. The pyre postdates the 4th century reconstruction of the Poros Building. |
Well in Room 1 of south aisle of Stoa. The well is lined with bricks and tile. This lining is preserved to a level of 52.733 m., which is approximately the same as the level off the late threshold of the ... 5th-6th c. A.D ... Little pottery, many stones and bricks (presumably from the collapsed collar, some pieces of marble moulding. Pottery dated in the 5th century with a few 6th c. sherds. |
| 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. |
| The pit consists of an unlined, circular shaft measuring 1.10m. in diameter and at least 2.23m. in depth. The sides of the shaft have roughly cut hand-/foot-holds at irregular intervals and locations ... Late Roman to end of 4th c. A.D ... A.C. and included a great deal of tile and debris (e.g. bones with cut marks, painted plaster, fragments of marble plaques and vessels). |
| A well in the courtyard (Room 8) of a Byzantine House of Period II. The well was covered by a large squared poros wellhead and a marble puteal (apparently neither inventoried). Within the well shaft, the ... 14 July-9 August 1989
2-13 July 1990 ... The well was covered by a large squared poros wellhead and a marble puteal (apparently neither inventoried). |
| Pyre /Burial (?) disturbed, in the area of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. In northeast corner of room 4 west.
Concentration of artifacts, tiny slivers of bone, and burning in a layer of fill ... Early 4th c. B.C ... There is no evidence of marble-working in this room
Small deposit in a filling containing carbon and bits of bone (missing). |
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