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Selected coarse wares: lekanai, storage, kraters. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
Stucco fragments and window tiles, from layer between top and middle fill. |
Selected tiles. [Except for two pieces of heavy Roman bricks, all look early like middle fill.] |
Selected tiles. [Except for two pieces of heavy Roman bricks, all look early like middle fill.] |
Selected coarse wares: water-jars, lagynoi, bases. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
a) All glazed sherds, including lamps and unguentaria.
b) Coarse selected. Resorted 1997, by SIR.
AS-993 taken July 1997 by SIR. |
Neck missing. A cylindrical amphora with short vertical handles attached to the straight side walls; a thin tapering foot ending in an inset knob.
Gritty red clay. Light slip except on foot. Cistern, ... 13 February 1937 |
| Much of lower wall, fragments of shoulder and spur of one handle missing. Restored in plaster. Ring foot; rather plump ovoid body; short straight neck with lip inset for lid; strap handles with flat-topped ... 9-12 February 1937 |
Few pieces missing; restored in plaster. Small ring foot; steep flaring wall; flat projecting rim.
Thick pinkish-buff clay. Thin wash of red to black glaze on inside and top of lip.
A similar one, somewhat ... 9-12 February 1937 |
Fragments of braziers and cooking pots; cooking ware. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
Almost complete pots:
a) Amphora rather like Χ 139,except for tapering body, no rim, no foot.
b) Black glazed oinochoe, like Χ 135 (P 8944); no lip.
c) Black glazed pyxis, like Χ 975.
d) West Slope neck ... |
Transport amphora fragments. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
Transport amphora fragments, one with collar rim. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
Transport amphora fragments, including large piece of cylindrical like Χ 140. Resorted by SIR, 1997. |
Full profile except lip preserved; much missing from body [P.H. 0.132]; restored in plaster. Ring foot; broad shoulder; short neck; mouth probably round; strap handle. Two deep grooves at top of shoulder ... 12 February 1937 |
| Upper part of amphora only preserved; about half of the rim missing, much of the shoulder and both handles. Shoulder decorated with alternate diminishing squares and checkerboards, all deeply incised ... 12 February 1937 |
a) Top fill selected; piece of water pipe [as late as early 3rd c. A.D. Herulian destruction ?]
b) Middle fill
c) Coarse selected Resorted 1997, by SIR. |
| Cylindrical amphora; missing lower half, and edge of lip. A number of wall fragments do not join. Made up largely complete from sherds; toe broken.
Pale buff slip; red clay.
Circular stamp on each side ... 12 February 1937 |
Several pieces of side and small bits of flange missing. Restored in plaster. Ring foot; deep convex lower body; projecting keel where lower body and high straight inward-tilting rim meet. Rays in thinned ... 9-12 February 1937 |
Use filling of first half of 1st c.; dumped filling of late 1st c.(?). This well, near its mouth, cuts off the end of the upper passage of the cistern at 53/Ε. Subdivisions:
.1=Dumped filling
.2=POU ... First half of 1st c. A.D. POU |
Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
| 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 |
| Mixed ... Margaret Crosby ... 801 992 ... 1937 |
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