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Investigations within the Stoa of Zeus, the north part, various levels.
Notebook references: Stoa Trench E Layers IV and V, Stoa Pits A, B and C, and Layers I and II of area between back wall and retaining ... 5th c. B.C. |
| Pit (f) in bedrock used for casting archaic bronze statue for the first Temple of Apollo Patroos (Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 82-84) ... 6th c. B.C. |
| Pit and drain at SE corner of Apollo Temple. Antedates building of Apollo Temple which was assigned to a date 'late in the third quarter' ... 3rd quarter 4th c. B.C. |
Pit (e) in bedrock between Temple of Apollo and Metroon. Not A. Walker coin deposit ... 10 March 1936 |
Ash and Carbon Dump in Corridor directly behind Room C of Brick Building.
This material comprises what appears to have been a household dump associated with the period of use of the Brick Building, but ... To mid-2nd century |
Well or Pit at ΓΓ:65/Ν or ΓΓ:65/ΝΔ (area 64-70/ΝΒ-ΝΖ).
Objects P 14805, P 14939 and P 14940 are noted on page E 19:6 as at top of well at 65/Ν, but are recorded in Deposit E 19:7.
Otherwise, no container, ... 19 April 1936 |
Chamber of water system with one blind tunnel and two cisterns connected by tunnel. Pottery consistent throughout, late Hellenistic. Late 2nd c. B.C.
Ten stamped amphora handles. Most of bowls long-petal ... 100-75 B.C. |
"Red Fill" (extending to bedrock or near, over most of area). Mainly first century after Christ with later disturbance. Coins:
17 April 1936 #10-#13
18 April 1936 #1
20 April 1936 #13-#17
21 April 1936 ... 1st-2nd c. A.D. |
Church of Christ: Grave 1 in notebook. Coins:
18 March 1936 #1-#2
26 March 1936 #1 ... 18, 23, 25 March 1936 |
Church of Christ: Grave 2 in notebook ... 18, 23, 25 March 1936 |
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa.
c) 46.60-48-60m. from East End of Stoa.
d) 51.00-53.00m. from East End of Stoa.
e) 79.00-81.00m. from ... 2nd c. B.C. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 2 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XV: PG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female.
JP
It consists of a roughly rectangular pit or trench cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.35m., measuring ... Late Protogeometric |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 7 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXI: PG). Bones discarded. Disturbed and damaged cremation (originally trench-and-hole), the east end cut away, probably contained the burial urn.
JP
It consisted ... Late Protogeometric |
| Rodney S. Young ... Destroyed urn cremation. No remains. Originally assigned as part of Tomb C 9:14 (Grave 7)
JP
"Large fragments of an urn were found in the packing of a Hellenistic water channel which cut through a LPG ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean |
Cistern shaft southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Unstratified fill.
Ten stamped amphora handles; Type 34A lamp; many fragments of long-petal b suggesting material deposited ca. 140 or later. Cf. Pireus ... Ca. 200-125 B.C. |
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 |
Turkish burial with adult skeletal remains. No lots ... Turkish |
Coins:
29 April 1936 #17 ... Byzantine |
Scanty dumped filling in an abandoned well cutting ... Ca. 425-420 B.C. |
Once vaulted chamber north of Hephaisteion. Grave V in notebook. Vault gone. Five skulls. Pottery discarded. Coins:
17 April 1936 #2 ... 27-28 April 1936 |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 15 in notebook. Burial of child (E.L. Smithson: Grave XIV: PG). Single bone. Nb. says: few bones.
Skull fragment, few ribs and fingers (bones discarded). Negs. KK 24 and KK 30 431 ... Developed to Late Protogeometric |
Built largely of tiles, upper part missing, plaster lined and broken through near the bottom on the north. Probably filled up at one time during the Turkish period. Preserved height 1.65m. Coins:
5 February ... Turkish |
Well 6 = Pit 6 under Church but it antedates the church. Late Byzantine or early Turkish. Coins:
17 March 1936 #4-#5
18 March 1936 #5 ... Late Byzantine |
North of east branch of Great Drain. Coins:
21 June 1973 #1 ... 4th c. A.D. |
Pit at 18/ΚΔ-ΚΕ Coins:
22 April 1936 #67-#73
24 April 1936 #2-#3 ... 22-24 April 1936 |
Byzantine Well at 22/ΜΕ ... 24 February 1936
16 June 1951 |
Pithos at 19/ΜΔ Coins:
10 February 1936 #1-#2 ... 8-10 February 1936 |
Well at 40/Λ, in the "plataia" ca. 600m north of the terrace wall and ca. 10m east of the Valerian wall. Top diameter of 1.00m, bottomm diameter 0.95m
The shallowness of the shaft, and the fallen condition ... 550-500 B.C. |
Continuous filling over its mouth and in it to a depth of -7.30m. Clearly the fill thrown in at the time of Archaic Building, to raise the ground level. The last few centimeters of the well represented ... 550-500 B.C. |
Well at 53/ΛΖ ... Byzantine |
Undisturbed filling to E of Archaic Temple in Eleusinion; fill consisted of a layer of working chips of Kara limestone above a layer of mud brick ... Late 6th c. B.C. and earlier |
Well in the southeast corner of the section, at 58/ΝΑ. It must have been originally made in the Roman period to judge from the character of the curbing tiles. It was however cleaned out and reused in ... 10th-Early 11th c. A.D. |
Two chambers connected by a tunnel, all filled at the same time, but with slight Hellenistic disturbance. Chamber A, to west at 14/ΛΗ, B to east at 14-15/ΛΒ on grid for section RR.
Cistern system ca. 20.00m ... Ca. 325-275 B.C. |
Flower Pot Pits. Coins:
10 March 1936 #2
11 March 1936 #9
12 March 1936 #1
13 March 1936 #1-#3, #7
14 March 1936 #1, #9
2 April 1936 #1
7 January 1937 #1-#2
8 January 1937 #1
12 January 1937 #1-#2 ... 9-18 March 1936
1-2 April 1936
7-12 January 1937 |
It seems possible that the well ... was originally associated with the late Roman reconstruction of the Stoa, being later carried up to serve the Byz. houses. [Nbp. 364] Coins:
6 March 1939 #1-#9 ... Late 4th-early 5th century |
Cistern with considerable dumped fill at the north foot of Kolonos Agoraios. It may have been abandoned ca. 295-295 B.C.; it will have been filled by 280 B.C.
Multiple vessels share same stamps, and painted ... Ca. 325-250 B.C. |
Cistern System #3: East Chamber at 69/Λ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/ΛΣΤ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos ... 175-125 B.C. |
Cistern System #3: West Chamber at 69/ΛΣΤ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/Λ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos. Upper fill of early 1st ... 175-125 B.C. |
Within the precinct of the Hephaisteion, about 10m. north of the north stylobate of the temple.
Flask-shaped pit (W. (bottom) 3.14 x 2.73m) probably originally intended as a cistern; used for dumping ... Ca. 375-310 B.C.-Byzantine |
Coins:
27 May 1936 #1-#2 ... 25-27 May 1936 |
Joins occur between this pit and the cistern in section ΛΛ (87/ΛΕ)
(E 5:3). Coins:
16 May 1936 #6 ... Byzantine |
Same filling as Theseion Street Deposit D 7:2 but separate list.
Perhaps also P 7904. Area disturbed by Turkish (50-56/ΜΓ-ΜΣΤ).
This is 3-4 m. west of Hephaisteion, and the hole was probably filled at ... Ca. 500-470 B.C. |
Grave north of Hephaisteion. Grave IX in notebook.
Bundle of bones. A bronze ring, not inventoried ... 18 May 1936 |
Grave north of Hephaisteion. Grave XIII in notebook. One damaged skeleton. No pottery, no coins ... 20 May 1936 |
Grave south of Hephaisteion, in Byzantine cistern. Grave III in notebook. Disturbed. One skeleton ... 30 March 1936 |
| Grave south of Hephaisteion. Grave II in notebook. One skeleton. No objects. Pottery in container 201 from filling around grave II ... 12 March 1936 |
Water channel in north part of Section: Channel Mouth 4. Coins:
22 February 1936 #16-#18
24 February 1936 #1-#2
Twenty stamped amphora handles; type 38 lamp; type 56 A lamp; over half of bowls long-petal ... 120-86 B.C. |
Original filling completely removed by construction of well dug through it. Filling eliminated by digging of E 11:2. Dumped filling. Coins:
28 March 1936 #1
31 March 1936 # 4-#5
2 April 1936 #2-#6
3 April ... 4th c. A.D. |
Well cut through cistern at 40/Θ on Kolonos Agoraios (E 11:1). Two use periods plus an upper dumped fill from which the following objects: B 319, I 3994, SS 5745, T 1235. Coins:
6 April 1936 #18-#21
7 ... First half of 1st c. A.D.
4th-early 5th c. A.D. |
A circular cutting in bedrock ... Late 6th-early 5th c. B.C. |
Found in 13/06/1935.
Dumped filling in an unfinished well originally dug only to a depth of 5.50m. Probably a post-Persian cleanup, perhaps in one of the public buildings near the SW corner of the square ... Ca. 520-490 B.C. |
Upper fill was early Roman dated by AWP to the 1st c. A transitional fill was later assigned to the upper level.
Nbp. 2913: The history may have been that the well was cleaned out at the time that it was ... 3rd-2nd century B.C and Roman date. |
Coins:
19 May 1936 #1-#2 ... 1st c. A.D. |
Coins:
9 April 1937 #3-#4
10 April 1937 #3-#4
12 April 1937 #2
13 April 1937 #1-#3 ... Ca. 300-140 |
A well on the lower south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Last quarter of the 5th. c. B.C. But upper fill dated to 3rd. to mid-2nd. century B.C. and lower fill dated to ca. 425-400 B.C. in Agora XXX. Coins: ... 425-400 B.C. |
Turkish well at 14-15/ΛΓ Marbles from walls not included ... April 1936 |
Destruction debris in L.R. water basin, 6th-7th c. A.D, set against back wall of South Stoa II ... 6th c. or 7th c. A.D. |
Lower red fill with mixed Hellenistic pottery running into the 2nd. c. Coins:
4 May 1936 #1 ... 1-5 May 1936 |
Turkish fill. Coins:
7 May 1936 #1-#4 ... 5-14 May 1936 |
According to the excavator " a pre-herulian filling dumped in to fill the cistern some few years after the Herulian destruction". Coins:
10 June 1936 #2-#6
11 June 1936 #1-#19
12 June 1936 #23-#27 P 11936 ... A.D. 267 to mid 3rd c. |
| Artifacts, burnt bone, ash, cinders and charcoal in pit in bedrock. The pyre lay directly under mosaic floor A. the deposit is not badly disturbed, however, and it is possible that it was laid immediately ... Early second quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
Well in the bottom of chamber cistern at 106/ΛΓ, stratified. A soft spot in the bedrock at the west side of the well caved in and was packed with typical coarse Roman first century amphoras; the well was ... A.D. 200-150 |
Patch of early fill, disturbed. 20/9/1962: Tin 145 is checked and is chiefly late archaic, but some of the coarse ware is late 5th with 4th c. B.C., and a few bits are 4th c. A.D ... Late 6th.-early 5th c. B.C. |
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 |
Small deposit in bedrock. Coins:
20 April 1936 #2-#3 ... 4th c. B.C. to early 3rd c. B.C. |
Excavations in Byzantine Building ... 2nd quarter 4th c. B.C. |
East Chamber of Cistern System #2. The fill in layers, but probably a destruction fill with layering not significant. Coins:
4 May 1936 #1-#6
5 May 1936 #1-#7
6 May 1936 #2-#6
LRD pottery and gouged ware ... Late 5th-early 6th c. A.D. |
West Chamber of Cistern System #2. This chamber filled earlier than the East Chamber. No stratification but at 3.80m. considerable pottery of the late 5th c. B.C., as in 60/ΛΗ cistern, presumably a portion ... First half of 3rd c. A.D. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Disturbed burial (no remains), probably an infant pot inhumation.
Inhumation grave 17 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave XIX: PG).
Shallow oval cutting containing a banded amphora on its side, mouth ... LPG |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 18 in notebook.
Adult inhumation; skeletal material; no offerings. Submycenaean?
JP In some records as Grave XIX bis. (see Agora XXXVI, Tomb 31, p. 284) ... LH IIIC/EPG (date uncertain) |
Water channel in north part of section. Hellenistic and Early Roman pottery. No inventoried finds ... 13-14 March 1936 |
Water channel in north part of section. Pottery late 2nd.-1st. c. B.C. Coins:
14 March 1936 #8 ... Late 2nd.-1st. c. B.C. |
Scanty debris filling in a square pit with 4th. c. sherds at bottom. Notebook says 36-38/ΝΑ-ΝΒ and T 81 ... 1st. qtr. 4th. c. B.C. |
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Coins:
23 March 1936 #5-#6
31 March 1936 #3
30 April 1936 #1
1 May 1936 #6
2 May 1936 #2
5 May 1936 #8
6 May 1936 #15-#16
14 May 1936 #5-#8 (#6 N 51520 is from ... 50 B.C-3rd c. A.D. |
Cistern system on Kolonos Agoraios; shaft leading to chamber (76/ΝΘ) Coins:
4 June 1936 #1-#4 ... 3rd. c. |
Mixed filling in a well cut rectangular pit. Debris of the second half of the 5th. c., deposited as late as the second quarter of the 4th. c. B.C ... 4th c. B.C. and earlier |
Filling in a sizeable pit. The objects, along with the dimensions of the cutting from which they came, might suggest offerings in a disturbed grave but there was no evidence of skeletal remains ... Ca. 430-415 B.C. |
Well near west edge of level area south of the Hephaisteion. Dumped filling thrown in near end of 4th. c. but by far the greater part belonging to the 30 years before 350 B.C.
Diameter of shaft 0.98m ... Ca. 380-350 B.C. |
Pit along house wall foundations to south = footing trench. Uncertain context, possibly no later than ca. 425 B.C ... 450-400 B.C. |
Part of cistern system 76/ΝΖ-76/ΝΘ-81/ΝΘ on Kolonos Agoraios with lower dumped filling of 3rd. c. B.C. and upper dumped filling of first half of 1st. c. A.D. Coins:
4 June 1936 #5
5 June 1936 #3
6 June ... 3rd. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D. |
Coins:
4 June 1936 #5
5 June 1936 #3 Estimated Grid ... 3rd. c. B.C. |
Well with overflow into cistern system. Probably Hellenistic in origin. POU late 1st. c. to early 3rd. c. Dumped filling of 4th. (and 5th.?) c.
Abandoned at 22.50m. because of water. Coins:
21 May 1937 ... Late 1st. c.-4th. c. A.D. (and 5th c. A.D.?) |
Cistern at 78/ΜΑ and shaft at 85/Ν. Coins:
18 May 1936 #2-#3 ... Ca. 320-340 A.D. |
Dumped filling in the upper part of a well, to a depth of 6.65m. (the excavation could not be completed and the use filling was not reached). Homogeneous fill dumped from nearby. Coins:
1 June 1936 #1 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Fillings in a well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. The shaft reached a depth of 20.28m., but produced no use filling. The lower part, from water level at 12.60m. to bottom, provided only mud and gravel ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
A well toward the south end of Kolonos Agoraios. Period of use fill dated to ca. 325-260 B.C. and upper fill dated to ca. 250-225 B.C. in Agora XXX.
Diameter 1.10m, water level 6.90m.
Kernoi and many lead ... Ca. 325-260 B.C. |
The well had two upper fills and a stratified deposit at the bottom. The well deposit is divided into two parts, 3rd. c. and 2nd. c. (with perhaps late 1st. c.).; dumped filling of 5th century. Coins: ... 1st.-3rd. c. A.D. |
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Use filling of late 1st. to late 2nd. c. A.D.; dumped filling of 4th. c. A.D. Coins:
24 April 1937 #2
27 April 1937 #6-#12
28 April 1937 #2
29 April 1937 #2
8 May ... 1st.-4th c. A.D. |
POU = 10.00-11.30m.
"The well is important because it gives us a terminus post quem for Building D." (nbp. 3346)
Shallow well, producing little water or trouble, but a great quantity of coarse late Roman ... Ca. A.D. 300-370 and Ca. A.D. 400 |
| 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. |
Cleaning over bedrock along west side of Kolonos Agoraios. Context Protogeometric-Geometric disturbed. Objects from ΠΘ 24-28/ΝΗ-ΞΔ are added because P 8141 is published in Hesp. Suppl. 20, p. 153 as this ... To 2nd. c. B.C. |
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 |
Cistern System #1a: Shaft (Manhole) at 10/ΞΗ (10-11/ΞΖ-ΞΗ). Filling consistently late Hellenistic in hole and in passage; probably 1st c.
B.C. Coins:
26 May 1936 #1 ... 110-75 B.C. |
Cistern System #1b: Shaft/manhole and gallery at 18-19/ΞΑ-ΞΓ.
Objects divided between the two features, shaft and gallery, according to deposit notebook list, not according to remarks on cards. 22 February ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
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