F 19:3: Well

Unfinished well, all one fill; solid bedrock at a depth of -2.47m. It contained masses of broken rooftiles and probably was used as a refuse pit after the sack of Athens by Sulla. Twenty-three stamped ... Early 1st c. B.C.

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F 20:1: Pyre

Identified as Pyre by SIR. Debris filling of the middle of the 4th c. B.C. including the remains of a sacrificial pyre. Objects dispersed in red-clay fill uncovered in removal of modern staircase. A broken ... 4th c. B.C. disturbed

G 19:2: Constructed Basin

Basin in rock at NW corner of Church of St. Athanasius. Walls lined with small stones and bricks and covered with plaster or mortar. Dimensions length 1.99, width 0.37, depth 0.77. Coins: 1 April 1939 ... 3rd c. A.D.

S 21:1: Well at 35/ΙΘ

A well outside the market square to the southeast, 20m west of the Panathenaic Way; Modern fill in upper 1.65m. with Early Roman dumped fillings below. Coins: 9 May 1939 #37 (dirt pile) 10 May 1939 #53 ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D.

S 21:2: Well at 20/ΙΕ

A well outside the market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way; Diameter 1.10m ... 600-550 B.C.

S 22:2: Well at 43/ΙΕ

Well at the southeast corner, almost on the line of the east-west street. Upper Fill: Late Roman dumped fill. Lower Fill: Dark Age: ca. 7th c. A.D. Coin 30 March 1939 #34 ... 7th-Late 6th century

S 23:1: Byzantine Well

Well at 73/Δ Coins: 24 April 1939 #1 (stuck to sherd in bottom container) A box (4B) and three tins of pottery have been kept (T5-T7). The rest discarded ... Byzantine

T 26:4: Well 17 in ΟΑ

Well 17: Neolithic ... Neolithic

T 26:5

Well 20: Neolithic ... 14-15 April 1939

T 26:6

Well 21: Neolithic ... 17-19 April 1939

U 26:1: Oinochoe Deposit

Washed-in filling at the base of the Acropolis cliffs, some 7m. east of the Klepsydra; the fill was characterized by teh fragments of a series of red-figured oinochoai of special shape, of the late 5th ... Late 3rd c. B.C.

U 26:2: Well 18 in ΟΑ

Well 18 ... Neolithic

U 26:3: Pit in Bedrock Below Balanos' Road

Pit in bedrock below Balanos' road = gully Coin 20 June 1939 #1 12 April 1939 #2-#4 14 April 1939 #4-#5 20 April 1939 #1-#2 ... Hellenistic

U 26:4: Latest Mycenaean Well C in OA

Well 19: Latest Mycenaean. Near Klepsydra. Diameter mouth 1.25-1.35m., narrowing about a third of the way down and becoming rectangular, 0.90-1.0 to a side. Muddy at m; water collecting rapidly at 8.m ... Late Mycenaean

U 26:5: Well 22 in ΟΑ

Well 22: Neolithic ... Neolithic

V 24:1: Mycenaean Well in OA

Well 15: Mycenaean. It was situated about 35 meters down the slope northwest of the exit of the Mycenaean Fountain. Well circular or roughly oval in section. Diameter max. width to -4.0: ca. 1.50, below ... Late Mycenaean

N 17:1: Well

Stratified well; very late Roman verging on Byzantine. Coins 19 April 1939 #1-#8 22 April 1939 #1-#2 25 April 1939 #1 15 May 1939 #1 Subdivisions: .1=0.00-15.25m. .2=15.25-21.00m. .3=21.00-22.00m ... 3rd-5th c. A.D. 9th c A.D.

N 17:1.1: Well at 18/Η

Containers 1-11 ... 9th c. A.D.

N 17:1.2: Well at 18/Η

Includes a transitional layer 15.25-16.50m. Containers 12-42. Coins: 19 April 1939 #1-#8 (#2-#8 from dump) ... 4th-5th c. A.D. POU

N 17:1.3: Well at 18/Η

Containers 43-47. Coins: 22 April 1939 #1-#2 25 April 1939 #1 15 May 1939 #1 ... 3rd c. A.D.

N 17:2: Well

Modern fill to 21.00m. at which depth a human skeleton weighed down with iron. ER fill from 21.00-28.00m. (bottom). A POU fill with a possible break around 25.00m ... 1st to mid-2nd c. A.D.

D-E 18-19: Road

West Road and Drain. (Road, drain and closely related cuts.) Packing in line of ancient road running along the northwest shoulder of the Areopagus. Includes excavation of 1957 titled "Road Area to North", ... Late 6th c. B.C. - Roman

B 22:5: Pit

Pit in east Terrace. Cf. container ΝΝ 109 ... 1st. c. B.C.

N 21:3: Cistern

Cistern (and passage) on the north slope of the Areopagus. Fill badly disturbed in modern and Turkish times. The few ancient sherds seem to be chiefly early Roman-1st c. B.C. (p. 256). Some finds labeled ... 1st c. B.C.

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N 21:6: Disturbed inhumation

Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave. Bones discarded. Burial lies over dromos of Mycenaean chamber tomb N 21-22:1. The roots of a tree had upturned the bones, but the head probably lay at the northeast ... Middle Geometric II

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E 19:4: Crevice in Rock

Crevice in Rock (Grave?) at 70/ΝΣΤ (below modern surface accumulation). Identified as a sacrificial pyre, with characteristic banded plates and saucers, by SIR ... 4th c. B.C./300-250 B.C.

E 19:7: House Fillings

Exploration of area of small early house walls on the NW slopes of Areopagus. Considerable deposits of late 6th-early 5th c. B.C., but some later (all periods) and some early levels, disturbed. Objects ... Late 6th-Early 5th c. B.C.

E-F 2-3:2: Fill

N-S Cut on 50m. 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 running out ... Prehistoric to Roman

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A 18:3: Sacrificial Pyre in NN

Sacrificial pyre, disturbed; a small pyxis (P 14864) is close to that from B 18:4. First half of 4th. c. B.C., perhaps first quarter. West of House C. Pottery and cinders in pit in stratum. The pyre was ... First half 4th. c. B.C.

A 18:7: Pit/Drain A

A drain pit with red gravely fill. Coins: 5 April 1939 #1-#8 Pottery continuing to at least 3rd c. A.D. ADDENDA: See also tins Lot ΝΝ 70, ΝΝ 71. ADDENDA: P 14822 probably also belongs ... Mixed Hellenistic to Roman.