[Agora Deposit] H 17:3: Pit I

Pit I at 45/ΙΘ (= Well) (noted also 4th c. pocket in side of this pit). This is part of the Terracotta Deposit (H 17:4) and the objects listed here are also listed in H 17:4. Containers/lots for this ... Geometric-Protoattic ... Containers/lots for this deposit were determined from the TCD # indicated with the pottery lots (nbpp. 839-847).

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[Agora Deposit] J 1:7: Hellenistic Cistern Shaft

Marcie Handler ... The contents of this Hellenistic cistern shaft were excavated in a series of layers: the preserved top of the shaft, six layers in the shaft and the fill within the tunnel. At the bottom of the shaft on ... POU: Mid-3rd c. BC Dumped fill: after 225 BC ... The shaft was filled with a mixture of pottery, roof tiles (mostly painted), bone, charcoal, and chunks of the shaft lining that must have fallen from the upper portion of the shaft, which is no longer preserved. Joining fragments of pottery and lamps were found in different pottery lots, suggesting that layers that were excavated separately may have been deposited at the same time.

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[Agora Deposit] Q 12:3: Stoa Gutter Well

Well below Stoa Gutter opposite Pier 1. Heavy dumped filling remarkable among Agora well-deposits both for the high quality and the good conditions of pottery of all sorts. It represents the stock of a ... Ca. 520-490 B.C ... Heavy dumped filling remarkable among Agora well-deposits both for the high quality and the good conditions of pottery of all sorts. ... Short period of use, the shaft was abandoned as a well and used as a dumping place for a vast mass of broken pottery ... Fine wares: Lots 419-423. Coarse wares Lots 508-519 and 533-537.

[Agora Deposit] F 19:5: Unfinished Well Shaft

A well on the NW slope of the Areopagus; unfinished well-shaft dug to a depth of only 3.05m., and refilled with broken pottery and other debris. The shaft clearly was begun with the intention of digging ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... A well on the NW slope of the Areopagus; unfinished well-shaft dug to a depth of only 3.05m., and refilled with broken pottery and other debris. ... Lots ΓΓ 502: Top to -1.75m (Fill I), coarse. ... Lots ΓΓ 506-511: Top to -1.75m (Fill I), coarse.

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[Agora Deposit] J 1:1: Coroplast's Dump

Deposit of terracottas, molds and pottery in a shallow pit sloping downward from north to south. This deposit was located beneath a layer of fill under a Late Roman plaster floor (Lots ΒΕ 2093-2095). The ... 1st c. A.D ... Deposit of terracottas, molds and pottery in a shallow pit sloping downward from north to south. This deposit was located beneath a layer of fill under a Late Roman plaster floor (Lots ΒΕ 2093-2095). The deposit was cut at its south end by the Byzantine/Late Roman disturbance excavated in Lots ΒΕ 2087-2088, which explains the presence of terracottas in those contexts.

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[Agora Deposit] H 12:6: Rubbish Dump

Rubbish Dump in mouth of abandoned well in Tholos Trench F, Kitchen. Filled with ash, charcoal, broken pottery, roof tiles. Also from Trench L. 13 March 2014 by Ann Steiner The deposit has four components ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... Filled with ash, charcoal, broken pottery, roof tiles. ... Component 4: The bottom of the well and what is apparently pottery from a very short period of use. ... well shifts into area of well shaft, both at just above the top-most curbing stones (Lots Ζ 687-690) but below the burning that signifies bottom of Kitchen Dump and below those curbing stones (Lots Ζ 686; 691-693).

[Agora Deposit] K 3:1: Frankish Coin Hoard

Michael Laughy ... West and adjacent to Modern Wall 5, we excavated 12th-13th c. A.D. fill, in some places a half meter deep or more. The fill was remarkably uniform in content throughout. Typical pottery included: fine ... 12th-13th c. A.D ... Typical pottery included: fine sgraffito; slip painted ware; inscribed ware; plain glaze; brown and green glaze; polychrome glaze; Byzantine lamp fragments; coarse wares; and cooking wares. ... Coins: ΒΘ-96; ΒΘ-98 -128; ΒΘ-135 -145 Pottery lots: T 141, T 143 Notebook: ΒΘ VIII Baskets: 43, 57; pp. 1557, 1587 X-Section: pp. 1460, 1500 Grid: K/6,9-3/5,9 Elevation: 54.544-54.111m.

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[Agora Deposit] F 13:5: Hellenistic (?) Amphora Deposit

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 ... The line of the pit began to appear at higher elevation while digging disturbed upper fills [Lots Lot Γ 384, 385]. ... Layer II: 56.99-56.78m. Pottery Lots: Γ VII T386 A-D, T387

[Agora Deposit] E-F 12-14: Building Fill in B'

Fillings in and to the north of Building A/Poros Building/Greek Building ("Strategeion"), the accumulation mostly a late archaic dump, but not deposited till near the middle of the century. Most of the ... First half of 5th c. to ca. 460-450 B.C ... These, too, are now incorporated into this building fill deposit, per the pottery lots on p. Β' 1228 ff.

[Agora Deposit] L 3:1: Goat Horn Pit

Michael Laughy ... Debris pit, located in Room 2 of ΒΘ East. Pit measures ca. 2.30 by 1.70m., and nearly a meter deep. The pottery from the pit dates ca. 10th-12th c. A.D. The fill of the pit consisted of soft, black charcoal ... 10th-12th c. A.D ... Pit measures ca. 2.30 by 1.70m., and nearly a meter deep. The pottery from the pit dates ca. 10th-12th c. ... Coins: ΒΘ-130 Finds: ΒΘ 77-81 Pottery lots: T 199, T 200 Notebook: ΒΘ IX Baskets: 40, 50; pp. 1729, 1751 X-Section: p. 1650 Grid: L/2,4-3/14,16 Elevation: 54.086-53.100m.

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[Agora Deposit] U 13:1: Well in Room 6 of Street Stoa U/2,U/3-13/15

Well in Room 6 of Street Stoa U/2,U/3-13/15. Associated with the building lying under the Roman Street Stoa. Its fills divided into 5 separate layers, with the bulk of finds belonging to Layer 1, the ... 14 June-21 August 1973 ... It produced one box of pottery and three catalogued items. ... It produced 12 boxes of pottery and 4 catalogued objects. ... Material in these lots was pulled from other lots of U 13:1 pottery for study purposes JAA 5.12.82. p. 1104

[Agora Deposit] R 13:10: Courtyard Well

Courtyard Well (R/15-13/20). The well went out of use as a result of the Herulian sack of 267 A.D. in the upper part of the well the well-head itself was found, one of the finest in the Agora collection ... 27 June-15 July 1975 ... The contents of the bags seem to correspond to the the second indication. The pottery was washed and re-bagged. ... On the exterior of the bag was written Lot ΡΡ 542-551 and it was stored with the other lots of this deposit.

[Agora Deposit] H-I 14:1: Kleiner Coin Deposit III

Hellenistic fill South of Middle Stoa near NW corner of Heliaea. This fill contained material later in date than that which made up the middle Stoa Building Fill. Only the coins (and a few amphora handles ... To ca. 140 B.C ... See Hesperia 57 (1988), pp. 88-89 for a description of the dating and "The lots collected in Kleiner's Deposit III, however, do not seem to form a logical stratigraphic unit ... " ... Descriptions on coin envelopes: Hell fills of middle stoa and s of drain c (lowest); Hell fill over intermediate strosis + cutting intermed. strosis 22/ΛΒ; 20/ΛΔ Hell fill. Pottery, etc. (e.g. indicated on p. 3270 (4 June 1954)) listed with deposit H-K 12-14.

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[Agora Deposit] J 1:13: Tomb

Marcie Handler ... This deposit is a Mycenaean cist grave with two cover slabs, a type of burial described by Immerwahr in Agora XIII (pp. 103-104). Cist graves appear side by side with chamber tombs in the Mycenaean cemeteries ... LHIIB-LHIIIA:1 ... The fill on top of poros slab (Lot ΒΖ 2135) included pottery dating mostly to the late 8th c. ... The upper fill covering the boulder on the west end of the cutting (Lots ΒΖ 2128 and 2130) dated to ca. 500 B.C., and the fill lying directly on top of the boulder (Lot ΒΖ 2131) dated to the late 8th c.

[Agora Deposit] T 18:2: Well AB in ΕΛ

Well ΑΒ located on the lower terrace to the north of the sanctuary(diameter 1.10m). Foot-holes were cut into the shaft at intervals of ca. 0.40m. The fill consisted mostly of small stones, dug bedrock, ... Second quarter of the 6th century B.C ... Among the pottery, there was about 40% of earlier sherds from the 8th and 7th centuries B.C. and of Corinthian-ware (9.7%). ... Lots not differentiated by level.

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[Agora Deposit] K 3:2: Byzantine Layer with Complete Pots

James Artz Pirisino Daniele Kylindreas Miltiades ... Excavation in Room 3 of ΒΘ West revealed 5 ceramic vessels in a row against the eastern face of Wall 12. 3 complete vessels (ΒΘ 122, 124, and 125) were catalogued, along with the base of a plain glazed ... 9th-11th c. A.D ... Numerous joining sherds were found in ΒΘ Lots 402-404, which could potentially lead to more complete vessels. ... The primary types of glazed Byzantine pottery found in the fill included green and brown painted ware, plain glaze ware, Constantinople white ware, and monochrome glaze. ... We began by excavating the eastern portion of the high baulk (Lots ΒΘ 951, 952, 953, 955).