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| Section ΠΠ - plan and two sections of Bronze Casting Pit ... W.B. Dinsmoor, Jr ... From ΠΠ notebooks. 87-429 87-429 Dirty Heavy Tracing Paper Drafting Ink ... 1973 |
| Section ΠΠ - plan and two sections of Bronze Casting Pit ... W.B. Dinsmoor, Jr ... From ΠΠ notebooks. 87-429 87-429 ... 1973 |
| Debris filling in a bronze casting pit and workshop, characterized by mold fragments but including also a few plain vases and fragments of wine jars. Third quarter of 4th. c. BC.
The pit was cut into the ... Ca. 350-325 B.C. |
| Filling in eastern channel at W. end of casting pit A 16:1. Early Roman (1st c. A.D.) but with some later disturbances (3rd. and 4th. c. A.D. and Byz.). P 25747 (VG thinks strayed from A 16:1)
Estimated ... 1st. c. A.D. |
| Hole (Well) and adjoining water channel with 4th c. pottery, probably a dumped fill.
At a depth of about -5.70m we started yielding some very crude potsherds, clearly not made on the wheel (maybe Prehistoric) ... Prehistoric-Roman |
| Listed in notebook as at 6/ΛΗ but later found to be at 12/ΛΗ.
Originally B 16:1.
Large cistern distinguished by a short (1.75m) blind tunnel running SW from its floor, and a shallow (ca. 0.80m originally) ... Ca. 150 B.C. |
According to dates of finding: 'Mixed Greek and Roman'. |
Chronology based VG's analysis of jars and stamps, 12 June 1957.
P 25802: Pergamene and Arretine fragments, recorded along with the wine jars, but the pottery apparently not kept separate and these pieces ... To ca. 140 B.C. |
| General view of the area cleared to ancient levels. At center, casting pit (Deposit A 16:1); at right, well at 4/ΜΗ; in background, rooms of the South House ... Cf. "Excavation summary 1948" for miscellaneous name of South House in notebooks. (SD) east 2283 Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Apr 1956 |
| Near views of casting pit area cleared to ancient levels (Deposit A 16:1); in foreground (right of center) well at 3/ΜΒ (Deposit A 16:3) ... east 2285 Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Apr 1956 |
| Near views of casting pit area cleared to ancient levels (Deposit A 16:1); at upper left, well at 4/ΜΗ ... west 2286 Horizontal (normal) ... 14 Apr 1956 |
| Cistern with storage amphorae as found. View showing mouth of passage leading off to the southwest ... south 2306 Horizontal (normal) ... 30 Apr 1956 |
| Cistern with storage amphorae as found. View looking down from northwest side ... southeast 2307 Horizontal (normal) ... 30 Apr 1956 |
| Bronze casting pit, 4th c. B.C. Deposit A 16:1. Cf. Hesperia 26 (1957), pl. 28, b ... east 2290 Horizontal (normal) ... 2 May 1956 |
| Cistern passage with two amphorae at far end, upside down, as found ... 2308 Horizontal (normal) ... 9 May 1956 |
| View showing settling basin and, at the bottom, the entrance to a short blind tunnel ... south 2310 Horizontal (normal) ... 14 May 1956 |
| View of the casting pit showing the cutting in bedrock floor. Deposit A 16:1 ... east 2291 Horizontal (normal) ... 24 May 1956 |
| Plan and sections of a casting pit at 6-11/ΜΑ-ΜΒ. Deposit A 16:1, dated to the 3rd quarter of the 4th c. B.C ... W.B. Dinsmoor, Jr ... PD 2224 Horizontal (normal) ... 1973 |
| General view of the area cleared to ancient levels. At center, casting pit (Deposit A 16:1); at right, well at 4/ΜΗ; in background, rooms of the South House ... Cf. "Excavation summary 1948" for miscellaneous name of South House in notebooks. (SD) east 2283 ... 14 Apr 1956 |
| Near views of casting pit area cleared to ancient levels (Deposit A 16:1); in foreground (right of center) well at 3/ΜΒ (Deposit A 16:3) ... AMS east 2285 ... 14 Apr 1956 |
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