Section Φ Season of 1937 ... Eugene Vanderpool ... In antiquity the area included in Section Φ lay outside the Agora proper and were apparently occupied only by houses and small buildings. The earliest period of which any considerable remains were found ... 25 Jan-17 Jun 1937 ... From the Roman period a house was partly cleared. ... Numerous traces of dark age habitation were found, but few from the Byzantine period, and some from the Turkish period.