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| Chin elaborated modelled; locks on neck; cornucopia shows relief of draped male looking left, draped female looking right between mouldings.
Head mostly missing. Cornucopia broken all around.
Traces of ... 8-9 April 1947 |
| Part of mold of left foot for large figure, broken off at ankle.
Foot finely modelled, with long toes.
Dark red micaceous clay, gray at core as if from burning.
ADDENDA C. G: Suggests from metal original ... 1956 |
| Tragic mask of youth, preserved from eyes to chin.
Hellenistic type (?).
Light buff clay. Surface find. Leica, 81-33-26 ... 27 April 1957 |
| Very carefully modeled head of Athena with Parthenos helmet, shield and spear.
Roughly circular plaque, the back rough and irregular. Slightly chipped around edges.
Head and shoulders of Athena Parthenos ... 29 May 1957 |
| First interpretation: Mold signed fragment.
Broken at left and chipped along outer edge at top.
Preserved is a male figure, bearded and partly draped, reclining on a couch and playing the double flutes, ... 27 March 1939 |
| Sloping surface at bottom where front part of stand or base is broken away.
Hermaphroditus see ostendens.
Head missing.
Buff clay, white sizing.
ADDENDA Cf. Agora XI, p. 173.
Compare with T 1808. North ... 7 October 1949 |
| Flat back and one original edge preserved of mold for a large plaque.
Back legs and tail of a lion walking right.
Coarse brown clay with red bits in it. South Cut A, packing below bath drain, above earlier ... 4 November 1949 |
| Fragment from mold for upper left corner of high relief; depressed frame.
Relief widens towards bottom of fragment.
In the positive, upper front part of head in profile left; above it a thyrsos, horizontally, ... 1949 |
| Nude male figure.
Mended from six fragments. Head and arms missing; with holes for attachment; lower legs missing, and large part from left side.
Traces of white.
Buff clay.
ADENDA Cf. Delos IV, pp. 26 ... 1949 |
| Small fragment with finished edge at back; front surface marked with two holes punched part way through the clay.
No traces of paint.
Pinkish clay, buff at core. Well. 2197 ff. Leica ... June 1949 |
| Four pieces of twisted rope with two or three small bits.
Notes on 17 November 1981: Longest piece remaining: P.L. 0.068, Diam. 0.012, fourteen pieces total. Container 16. Well. Leica ... 20 May 1949 |
| Orange-buff clay, rather micaceous.
Rectangular stamp with mask at centre. Finished Cleaning weeds from Piraeus street. Θασί̣[ων]
mask
Ἀπολλ[όδωρος] Leica ... 13 May 1968 |
| Fragments missing from both upper and lower parts, and small pieces do not join.
Lower half consists of hemispherical bowl with inset flange to receive.
Upper half which has a central spout rising from ... 5 May 1949 |
| Straight sides, irregularly pointed ends, roughly triangular in section. Side next to chisel shows considerable wear; worn slightly conacve in middle.
Adhering to chisel (IL 1062).
ADDENDA July 1950: ... 29 June 1949 |
| Plain rectangular block, with a letter and two dots on one side.
Island marble.
Red fill; late Roman. 99 Leica ... 22 April 1947 |
| Joining fragments preserve upper part of neck and of both handles, all of rim.
Stamp on one handle; caduceus(?).
Early Thasian. Finished Well; containers 12-13; 4th century B.C. [---]
caduceus? Leica ... 17 May 1949 |
| Made up largely complete; fragments missing from rim, neck, shoulder and wall; the toe broken off; both handles preserved.
Capacity: (barley Lang 1954) 17.500.
Stamp on one handle. Prof: PD 1454-87*
Cxt: ... 8 April 1948 |
| Broken off at neck, hips and behind.
Woman wearing a chiron with long overfold and a shawl drawn around her shoulders and knotted in front. Her hands are clasped on front of her and hold small uncertain ... 28 April 1939 |
| One edge of mold preserved.
Upper part of female figure (?). Sandy late Roman fill. 109 Leica ... 23 April 1947 |
| From one side of a heavy mould, apparently from a plaque of shallow relief, with the curving rim of the mold preserved. Byzantine fill at S.E. corner of section. Leica ... 30 April 1947 |
| Mold for bearded head (Pan?)with shaggy hair.
Chip missing at right.
Green-buff clay.
Cf. Fuchs (1963), Mahdia, pl. 53. ΜΣΤ-ΜΖ*
C 17 Great Drain; gravel below elliptical drain tiles. 411 Leica ... 8 May 1947 |
| Fingers indicated simply by grooves; in the palm of the hand a small cup or bowl ?
Elaborate gouged decoration suggests a long fitting sleeve (caestus), cf. Gardiner (1930), Athletics of the Ancient World, ... 5 June 1947 |
| Drapery for one side of a small standing female figure, preserved about from shoulder to mid-calf (?).
Part of one side preserved.
Plain surface at the right.
From a mold for a relief (?).
Cf. T 3935 ... 23 June 1947 |
| Fragment from a thin flat circular plaque; preserved is the upper part of a lotus flower ornament in low relief, within a raised band. Above (around) the band, a series of triangular projections.
Apparently ... 8 July 1947 |
| Several joining fragments preserve the lower part of a figurine showing a draped figure seated in a large chair or throne. The left hand rests on the arm of the throne; the drapery falls straight to the ... 11 July 1947 |
| The hair is drawn up into a bow-knot on the top of the head (or is this actually a bow?), and is gathered at the back in a plain projecting .
Earrings. Hair indicated by straight and crosswise grooves ... 15 July 1947 |
| The hair piled high.
Gouged style.
Broken across the neck; the back of the head broken away about on the line of the mould.
No color.
Micaceous red clay. Late Roman destruction fill. Leica ... 14 July 1947 |
| Elongated head with high bald brow; trace of hair, or a wreath at the top. Small pointed ears, somewhat exaggerated features.
Broken off below the chin, and the back missing. Surface chipped on forehead ... 15 July 1947 |
| Fragment preserving upper part of face.
Beetling brows; nose and mouth askew; pierced eyes.
Considerable remains of white, with red over.
Smooth blond-buff clay. N.-S. Trench VI; Late Roman fill. 510 Leica, ... 21 July 1947 |
| The figure wears a chiton falling in broad straight folds to the feet, and over this a thin himation wrapped around the body to the hips and covering both arms.
Mended from three pieces; the back, the ... 350-320 B.C. |
| Edge of large Medusa mask with short curling individual locks of hair plus parts of two curling snakes preserved.
Outer piece, roughly triangular; broken on two edges.
Cf. T 2920, T 2925. On foundation ... 6 April 1949 |
| Fragment from mold for large antefix (?).
A little of the lower part of the face preserved, with tongue, row of teeth and jowls.
Broken all around and at back.
Firm pink clay, fairly fine.
Cf. T 2918, ... 1 April 1949 |
| Part of male thigh.
Metal impression.
Slightly micaceous cinnamon clay.
ADDENDA T 2924 consists of two fragments (a,b) but they were not from the same mould. They were catalogued on one card, but now ... 19 April 1949 |
Preserved is a leg in low relief, and two paws.
Metal impession.
Slightly micaceous cinnamon clay.
ADDENDA T 2924 consists of two fragments (a,b) but they were not from the same mould. They were catalogued ... 19 April 1949 |
| Heavy mold for architectural ornament (?).
Uncertain representations; perhaps snakes from Gorgoneion (?).
The second fragment, non-joining, found just west of cistern.
Heavy red-buff fabric.
Cf. T 2918, ... 20 April 1949 |
| Fragment a), mended from many pieces, preserves the rectangular base and much of the lower part of a standing figure with a littler of the left side to the shoulder. The figure wears a cloak reaching to ... 8-9 April 1949 |
| Nude male figure, seated right, on the stepped base of a herm, leaning against the pillar, and looking back left. His cloak beneath him; left arm on bent left knee, right arm at side, the hand holding ... 19 April 1949 |
| The right hand held up to breast. High girt chiton with long overfold.
Back plain.
Solid figurine, head and feet broken off.
Reddish-buff clay. Clay fill about level of Poros Building floor; fourth century ... 21 May 1949 |
| Uncertain subject.
Heavy fabric, reddish-brown at back, light cream on surface.
Flat back; broken all around.
Architectural (?). In trench through marble chip floor, House F, Room 4. Leica ... 1 June 1949 |
| Mold for relief with convex surface. The cast shows a draped standing woman, facing left, wearing chiton, himation and diadem; in her left hand a tall scepter; her right raised in a beckoning gesture ... 3 June 1949 |
| Part of a standing female figure on a large scale.
Much of the front preserved from knee to shoulders.
The figure wears chiton and himation, the cloak wrapped close around her body to the hips and covering ... 14 April 1949 |
| Lower part of standing draped female figure, about to knees.
The feet project below the chiton; the edge of the himation is preserved above, with a heavy fold hanging at the left side.
Pinkish-buff clay ... 14 April 1949 |
| Small fragment of a figurine similar to T 2953 (ΠΠ 797) and from the same mould.
The right foot and leg to the knee preserved, draped. The knee slightly bent. Area west of Street, Room 3, and Roman House ... 14 April 1949 |
| From the lower part of a standing figure with light inner and heavy over drapery; the left foot preserved.
Similar in scale, style and fabric to T 2953-5 (ΠΠ 797-8), but a different mould, and with the ... 14 April 1949 |
| Part of the right side of a draped standing female figure.
Scale, fabric and style similar to T 2952 (ΠΠ 796).
The cloak is wrapped close around the upper body, covering the right arm; the right hand holds ... 14 April 1949 |
| Right leg and slightly bent knee of a standing figure, perhaps Papposilenos.
Above a cloak; from the knee downward the leg irregularly grooved to represent shaggy trousers or pelt.
Traces of burning.
Hard ... 14 April 1949 |
| Original edge preserved at top.
Left side of a cow head. Delicate modeling of mouth, eye area, and muscles around jawline.
Perhaps a Rhyton? N.W. of building D 1; layer a; early Roman fill. 1145 Leica ... 19 March 1948 |
| Mold for the left side of a mask, apparently a female face; hair rolled back from face, eyebrows exaggerated.
Two finished edges preserved.
ADDENDA Cf. T 2439; close type. Well; near bottom, container ... 4 Oct 1947 |
| Mold for the front part of a nude standing youth, arms hanging by sides and holding drapery (?).
Complete. The mold much worn and rather indistinct in detail.
ADDENDA Cf. Higgins (1967), Greek Terracottas, ... 8 April 1948 |
| Uncertain object: small draped figure seated on a shaggy surface. The right hand, which rests on the knee, holds a small aryballos-like pot. At the back, part of a wing (?).
Mended from two. Broken all ... 19 April 1947 |
| Several joining fragments give the neck substantially complete to a point below the lower handle attachment.
Stamp on one double handle only. Corpus no. 571.
Prof: PD 1454-88*
Dim: Drim 0.12* Cistern, ... 7 April 1949 |
| Part of rim preserved.
Anchor. Cistern, upper fill; container 4; third quarter of 2nd century B.C. Δρακοντίδα
anchor, pt l. Leica ... 8 April 1949 |
| Part of rim preserved.
Rectangular stamp; altar. [ Ἐπὶ] Εὐφράνορ̣
[ος] Ε̣ὐβου[λί]
δα Κνί al-
[διον] tar
(Σ lunate) Leica ... 3 May 1949 |
| Narrow neck with mouth and part of rim preserved.
Rectangular stamp with urn. Date: see Ag 12*
Dim: Drim: outer 0.099, inner 0.07 (VG)* Finished Well; container 8. Θασίων | [ Ἀρισ | τοτέλης]
vaseVIII ... Ca. 350-325 B.C. |
| Rectangular stamp with star and disc.
Early Thasian. Finished Late Hellenistic context. [Λε]υκω̣(ν)
shield? star
Θασί̣[ων] 2920 Leica ... 3 June 1949 |
| Herm. Cistern; container 6. Ἀγησίπο[λις]
Ἑρμόφα̣ν̣τ̣[ος]
[herm] in outline
(Ε,Σ lunate) Leica ... 20 April 1949 |
| Fragment of handle lower attachment.
Micaceous clay.
Punched mark. Well; first quarter of 4th century B.C. incuse ring 2502 ff. Leica ... 27 May-2 June 1949 |
| Fragment of jar.
Micaceous clay. Stored with άγνωστα. Well; first quarter of 4th century B.C. Ο (incuse) 2502 ff. Leica ... 27 May-2 June 1949 |
| Rectangular stamp; broken at left; three lines. Msc: prob from jar dated in the term of =ARISTAINOS=* Layer 3 (Hellenistic) of Martyr I; Great Drain. [ Ἀ]ν̣δρῶν Ἀγί
[α Ἀ]ρ̣ιστογέ
νευς
(Α broken-barred) ... 12 June 1939 |
| Rectangular stamp broken at right. Finished Late Roman fill around well. Θασί̣[ων]
vaseIII
Σιμ[αλίωνος | Ἀθη] Leica ... 9 June 1947 |
| Part of collared rim preserved.
Light grey clay.
Stamp on collar.
Cf. SS 8605. Latest Roman fill. M·HEPICENIS (H,E lig) Leica ... 1 July 1947 |
| Case 13. Late Geometric period. Pithos burial of an infant (Deposit D 16:3). Third quarter of 8th c. B.C. Cf. Hesperia 19 (1950,) pp. 330-331 and pl. 104 a, b ... August 1958 |
| Case 9. Early Geometric (900 B.C.) cremation burial of a warrior craftsman. Deposit D 16:4 ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1962 |
Containers 2, 3 ... Late Hellenistic? |
Containers 4, 5, 6 and channel ... Ca. 225-150 B.C. POU |
Built against the south wall of the annex to the Poros Building
west of the Areopagus. At the west the upper layer of marble chips carried against it, the lowest were cut by it.
Part of same system as ... 225-100 B.C. |
Containers 1-5. Coins:
8 April 1949 #17-#20 ... 150-100 B.C. |
Containers 6-9. Coins:
9 April 1949 #1-#6 ... 225-150 B.C.? |
| Hole at 57/ΛΣΤ = Pottery Dump at 57/ΛΣΤ. May well have accumulated on the spot where it was found, its fragmentary state being attributable to the later rubble wall laid over it.
Cf. also P 19982 (ΟΟ ... Ca. 400-375 B.C. |
| Pyre /Burial (?) disturbed, in the area of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. In northeast corner of room 4 west.
Concentration of artifacts, tiny slivers of bone, and burning in a layer of fill ... Early 4th c. B.C. |
| Sacrificial pyre in Poros Building, NW Room (RSY= Pyre 1).
Against east wall of room 5 west. artifacts, bone, carbon and ash in pit in floor sequence. the pyre lay below a floor covered with marble dust, ... Middle of 4th c. B.C. |
An unfinished well in the northwest room of the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus. Dumped filling. Chips from marble-working, variety of plain and figured wares ... Ca. 400-385 B.C. |
Well under Poros Building Drain at 62/ΛΣΤ, west of the Areopagus. Digging abandoned at 6.10m due to a collapse of the soft bedrock at the west. Small amount of supplementary filling was added in the upper ... Ca. 520-480 B.C. |
Upper fill early Roman. Lower fill latest Hellenistic.
No house walls clearly associated with it, and apparently no attempt made to assign it to any particular house. Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Lower ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman |
Containers 1-3. Coins:
27 September 1947 #1-#2 ... Early Roman |
Containers 6-12 ... Latest Hellenistic |
Unfinished well, south of the annex to the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus. The shaft was apparently never used as a well. The lower dumped filling contained a quantity of clean red clay, as if from ... Ca. 350-325 B.C. |
| Pocket with burning at 60/ΚΗ. "Is this perhaps a disturbed pyre burial." [Nbp. 2928].
Identified as pyre by SIR.
Near north end of corridor, beside its west wall. Concentration of artifacts, tiny scraps ... 4th c. B.C. |
| Disturbed Pyre at 59/ΚΗ (ΚΖ), in the area of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus.
Against east wall of room 5 west. concentration of artifacts, ash, carbon and a few bones in stratum, no pit discerned ... 3rd c. B.C. |
Rectangular shaft neighboring the well D 17:12. Dug only to a depth of 4.40m. and provided with two galleries or channels extending from it. Apparently never intended as a well. Refilled with the dug bedrock ... 4th c. B.C. |
Pithos in NW corner (room) of Poros Building. Marble chips ... Mid-4th c.? |
Shallow pit in bedrock. NB fragment found in gravel to south of pit (ΟΟ 399=P18633) ... Second quarter 5th c. B.C. |
Drain in corridor of Poros Building. Deposit is from the period of use of the drain. Cf. also containers 140 and 602 ... Late 5th-early 4th c. B.C. |
Unfinished well in corridor of Poros Building ... Third quarter 5th c. B.C. |
Great Drain: fillings in south part of section; Martyrs I, II and III, all layers (essentially no difference in the layers).
Pottery sorted and recorded by H.A. Thompson 12 may 1950: "Having gone through ... Second half of 2nd c. B.C.-Early 1st c. B.C. |
Great Drain fills, including "packing over elliptical tiles" and "gravel fills". The central drain area covered by the sections below; other sections are with other deposits. Coins:
9 May 1947 #2-#5
16 ... 1st c. A.D. |
| North of House G (RSY=Pyre 13).
Concentration of artifacts, small pieces of bone, and burnt material in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre is cut by the trench of a wall of a Roman house to north. It ... 290-250 B.C. |
A tiled well with POU from 9.30-10.80m. and dumped fill above 9.30m. The dumped fill differs from lower fill only in the less frequent appearance of fragments of micaceous water jars and the occurrence ... 3rd c. A.D. with destruction at 267 A.D. |
This is associated with Building A. It had a circular marble well-head with a rectangular well slab beneath. The construction throughout was of well tiles. It produced little to a depth of -8.60m. Between ... 4th c. A.D. |
Pit (Well?) under Building A, Room 2. Coins:
9 May 1949 #1-#2
11 May 1949 #4
12 May 1949 #3 (not a coin, bronze fragment in lotted metal tins ΠΠ 295). Estimated Grid
Remains of coloring matter found with ... Hellenistic-Early Roman |
No objects catalogued ... Late 4th c. B.C. |
Pocket of pottery to south of grave at 36/ΛΔ; uncertain context. Terracotta figurines resembling those from the Coroplast's Dump (S 19:3) No containers (cf. O 18:2).
T 2468, T 2476, ST 412 from Hellenistic ... 350-320 B.C. |
Rectangular pit (in Trench IX); dumped filling of late 5th. c. B.C. with some disturbance as late as Early Roman. P 18559 and P 18510 from above this pit ... 5th c. B.C. |
Cistern (diameter 0.90m) with two channels; the fill of the cistern proper, below the scant upper (Byzantine) deposit, appears to have been dumped all at the same time, to 325-275 B.C. Notebook says "all ... 325-275 B.C. |
| Margaret Crosby ... Grave 1 (Grave XXVI: EG) Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult male?
[JP]
Boots or Booties Grave. Near the west branch of the Great Drain, about 100m to the southwest of the Agora horos inscription ... Early Geometric I |
| Grave 2 in notebook. Child of about two (or 10?) months, body placed in plain pithos, which rested on its side at the bottom of a pit; the mouth closed with a stone slab.
The burial forms a group with ... 750-725 B.C |
| Evelyn Lord Smithson ... Grave 3: (Grave XXVII: EG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult male. Carbonized figs and grapes included in inventoried objects (no number). [JP]
"Craftsman-Warrior" tomb: combination of weapons and ... Early Geometric I |
Abandoned digging at 6.25m. due to water level. Tile well could be associated with a bit of late Roman wall to the south, with floor level about one meter above that of pebble floor. Well tiles were not ... 14-22 April 1948 |
Tiled well cleared only to a depth of 6.60m. where fallen tiles and broken bedrock made further work impossible. So far as dug, a dumped filling as late as the 6th c. A.D. Coins:
16 May 1949 #2
18 May ... As late as 6th c. A.D. |
Displaced curbing stone had fallen into top of shaft; fill with and around it is presumably second half of 2nd c. A.D. Below tumbled filling at top, shaft was empty to 10.80m. Tiles were missing to ca ... Late 1st-early 2nd c. |
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