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Varia: interesting or significant bits and oddities. |
Coarse selected: all bases, rims, handles etc. |
| Broken at bottom and both ends.
Flat top and arched opening, made in one piece. Tile pierced at either side of top of arch.
Coarse red clay.
A similar piece, 0.066m. thick, but of different series, found ... 27 March 1937 |
Part of shoulder and neck of small short-necked amphora.
Dipinto in black on shoulder:
Dirty buff clay. Previously North Basement-Jar Fragments, Block X. Well. Leica PD 1133-38(Ha 31) ... 30 March 1937 |
Neck and upper part of amphora; flaring lip set at angle with vertical neck; handles round in section.
Dipinto in black on shoulder:
Micaceous pink clay. Light slip. Previously North Basement-Jar Fragments, ... 31 March 1937 |
Shoulder and part of side of amphora [P.H. ca. 0.24].
Two texts on shoulder, the second below and to left of first: 1) and 2)
Slightly micaceous clay; pink at core. Light slip.
ADDENDA Most of lower ... 31 March 1937 |
Selected coarse wares: water-jars, lagynoi, bases. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
| Fragment from side and rim. Flaring rim, flat on top.
Dipinto in black:
Red-brown clay with bits in it. Light slip.
ADDENDA two more pieces added at some point in the past, bringing P.H. to 0.575 from ... 3 April 1937 |
Fusiform body, broken at bottom. Round mouth; one broad handle, ridged.
Pinkish-buff clay. Unglazed. Handmade. Cistern. Leica DA 12957 ... 23 March 1937 |
Selected sherds.
Also amphoras beside tin. |
Transport amphora fragments, including large piece of cylindrical like Χ 140. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
Cooking pots. Resorted 1997, SIR. |
| Cistern at 79/ΜΗ.
A well dug through at a later date destroyed all cistern filling.
No filling preserved. No typed list ... Probably 3rd cent. B.C. |
Well dug through N 18:1 (cistern at 79/ΜΗ) on the lower north slopes of Areopagus; the cistern was the northern chamber of a system; the southern chamber is at 84/ΝΣΤ (N 19:1).
A single dumped deposit ... 3rd-4th c. A.D. |
| Section Χ 1937 ... Margaret Crosby ... The area signified as Section Χ lays outside the Agora proper and no signs of any public buildings were found. The area seems to have been used for private houses from the end of the 6th c. B.C. Apart ... 25 Jan-18 May 1937 |
| Section X
Miscellaneous Notes Compiled in Summer of 1946 ... Margaret Crosby ... This report is a summary of the excavations taken place in 1937 as well as in 1946.
Some pottery indicate habitation in the area from the Geometric period. Two shallow graves of the 6th and 5th centuries ... 27 May-21 Jun 1946 |
| Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter at bottom -3.20m Upper fill: Latest coins ... Second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. |
| Mixed ... Margaret Crosby ... 201 393 ... 1937 |
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