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Square Pit under Aischines Street. Dimensions 2.20m. x 1.90m. No grid, no lot ... 22 April 1947 |
Rectangular Pit under House L, Room 2. Rubbish pit belonging to second phase of house ... 4th. c. B.C. |
Pit A lies tangent to Pit B (J 18:4) and cuts into its loose fill.
Small deposit ... Second half of 5th c. B.C. |
Scanty filling over the top of a pit. Selected fragments. Black figure fragments ... Late 6th to early 5th c. B.C. |
Pit in House T, Room 3 (through layer 6), in the industrial area west of Areopagus. Very likely pit may have been respectable archaic context, but nothing to go on beyond the two catalogued pieces (LT ... Ca. 500-480 B.C. |
Patch of undisturbed filling over bedrock (at east edge of Kolonos Agoraios) ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
The almost complete red figure hydria set into this cutting suggests the possibility of a 5th c. burial put into a much earlier grave cutting; however, the remainder of the filling appears thoroughly disturbed ... 450-425 B.C- Late Roman disturbance |
Hephaisteion Garden; fill beside wall. Loose filling encountered in rescue excavation to examine wall found during construction of public toilet in Theseion Park, outside Agora area. SIR 1991
Originally ... Second half of 4th c. B.C. |
Pits in area 96-100/ΝΕ-ΝΘ (lower east slopes of Hill of the Nymphs, near extreme west edge of excavated area).
Shallow pit in bedrock against N. face of wall. dMax. depth 0.20m.d.
Many fills in areas ... Ca. 325-300 B.C. |
Refuse pit in rock by heavy wall on West Street ... Ca. 500-480 B.C. |
Filling around rubble wall (35/ΚΕ). It contained a mass of pottery, most of it uninventoried ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Deposit associated with early walls West of the Stoa of Attalos ... Late 5th c. B.C. (?)- early 4th c. B.C. |
Perhaps originally a grave cutting ... Ca. 390-380 B.C. |
House N, room 6=House T: Pit with Kalikia in Room 2W. Roughly rectangular pit, length 7.10m., possibly dug to obtain clay for flooring in nearby houses ... Ca. 500-480 B.C. |
Small deposit including red figured fragments ... Second and third quarters of 4th c. B.C. |
Fillings in an irregular cutting, the context at one end is of the early 5th. c. and at the other end of the second half of the 5th. c ... Early 5th c. B.C. |
Pit at 48/ΚΕ; circular cutting in bedrock (diameter ca. 1m) ... Ca. 500-470 B.C. (?) |
Fifth century Pit E of Stoa Room 11 with coarse pottery and a few black-glazed, some with stamping and red-figured pieces ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. |
A fair-sized pit in bedrock in Stoa Terrace opposite Pier 18, which contained a good deal of pottery mostly coarse. A little additional material as late as second quarter 4th. c. B.C ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Pocket in bedrock 35/Ε. The filling consisting chiefly of coarse ware and roof tiles; some of the material Archaic, but the deposit as late as the mid-5th c. B.C ... Ca. 500-450 B.C. |
Scanty debris filling in a pit. The wishbone-handled bowl (P 16753) is of the middle of the third quarter of the 5th. c. century, as are also two red figured fragments, P 25820 and P 25821; the deposit ... Ca. 450-400 B.C. |
Lower filling mostly of second half of 4th c. B. C. and earlier, but perhaps dumped in 3rd c. B.C. Upper filling mixed to Roman (4th c. A.D.). Pottery in container (9-22-58) is mostly second half of 4th ... Ca. 375-325 B.C. with late-3rd-century disturbance |
Debris filling in a pit cut in bedrock at W side of House H, Room 10 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Small Pit or Well at 25/ΚΑ with a small quantity of fine and coarse household pottery, much of it whole, or nearly so ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. |
Cutting in stereo. Early 4th c. fill with some Hellenistic-Early Roman disturbance ... Ca. 400-375 B.C. |
Pit 2 in Grave area. Small deposit in a pit; a fragment of a red-figured nuptial lebes recalls the early Kerch style of the second quarter of the 4th c.; the deposit as a whole runs somewhat later ... Ca. 375-315 B.C. |
Small pocket with R.F. sherds and terracottas, perhaps thrown up by the diggers of a modern well nearby ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Scanty dumped filling in an abandoned well cutting ... Ca. 425-420 B.C. |
"South Triangle" abandonment filling over Brown House (House A) in the industrial area. Layers 1-3 and layer 4, to floor of second period. As late as the 3rd. c. B.C. but composed largely of earlier material ... 3rd c. B.C. and earlier |
Pit in bedrock in front of Shop VII (= Pit in Stoa Colonnade in front of Shop VII). It contained a miscellaneous collection of sherds which included one scrap of red-figure ... Ca. 475-460 B.C. |
"Symbolon Pit" (Rectangular Pit in bedrock E of Stoa, Room 5). Preserved depth 0.45m, original depth estimated at ca. 1.65m., the upper part having been cut away by successive building operations in the ... Third quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
Undisturbed fill at 34-36/I-K (Heliaia Peristyle, west aisle).
Two pieces (T 3662 and SS 14440) are recorded as "undoubtedly from Peristyle fill of third quarter of 4th century B.C." although "from area ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
Crescent-shaped cutting in bedrock at 47/ΙΓ; on the north slope of the Areopagus, slightly to the west of the dromos of the Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.
Dimensions of cutting : max. diameter ca. 2.50m.; depth ... Ca. 500-450 B.C.
400-350 B.C. |
Mixed filling in a well cut rectangular pit. Debris of the second half of the 5th. c., deposited as late as the second quarter of the 4th. c. B.C ... 4th c. B.C. and earlier |
Filling inside N room of Temple of Apollo, including directly under the foundations of the N room ... Ca. 350 B.C. and earlier |
| Pit at 74/ΜΑ (1.10x0.58).
Debris filling containing a quantity of animal bones; probably a household refuse pit Animal bones (domestic animals); cow, pig, goat, sheep, hen, dog, and several varieties ... Ca. 525-470 B.C.
480-440 B.C. |
| Pyre(?) in House N, S.W. Room. (=House C, Room 10)
In room 10. Vessels from an earlier pyre were found dispersed in the makeup of the latest "floor" in the room, with tile fragments trodden into its surface ... First quarter of the 4th c. B.C. |
Pit along house wall foundations to south = footing trench. Uncertain context, possibly no later than ca. 425 B.C ... 450-400 B.C. |
Small deposit in bedrock. Coins:
20 April 1936 #2-#3 ... 4th c. B.C. to early 3rd c. B.C. |
Crosscut between Middle stoa Piers 1 and 2 from west (south aisle), layer II.
Chiefly late 5th to mid-4th c. B.C. Coins:
2 July 1965 #1 ... Late 5th to mid-4th c. B.C. |
Pit on north slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Traces of burning in the dirt fill; mixed in with this many fragments of fine pottery ... Ca. 450-420 B.C. |
Same filling as Theseion Street Deposit D 7:2 but separate list.
Perhaps also P 7904. Area disturbed by Turkish (50-56/ΜΓ-ΜΣΤ).
This is 3-4 m. west of Hephaisteion, and the hole was probably filled at ... Ca. 500-470 B.C. |
| Cistern with dumped filling, second quarter of 4th c. B.C. Also Lot Φ 187bis (selected coarse).
No coins ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Fills from construction and reconstruction of a house. "Brown House" = House A (RSY Hesp. 20) (and pit under Layer 4) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Under the original floor of this house ... Second half of the 5th. c. B.C. |
| Dog's Grave, the bones carefully disposed. It contained a small amount of contemporary pottery in the fill, of which some deposited nearby, may have been intended as offerings ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
Water deposit in Polygonal Drain (43-44/Γ-Ζ and martyra)immediately south of the south foundations of the Middle Stoa. Early branch of the original course of Great Drain. P 2248 added to this deposit by ... Ca. 420-390 B.C. |
Digging terminated at 14.50m. due to falling bedrock. Scanty pottery remains at 10.00m. In the mouth and upper part of the shaft was a heavy dumped filling of much shattered fragments, for the most part ... Last quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
A dumped filling including red figured fragments of the second quarter of the 4th c. B.C. Coins:
25 June 1931 #12 (in strosis above pottery deposit) 15 November 1952, going through the containers Tin 59-Box ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Lower levels of cistern to N. of House of Greek Mosaic.
Connected by tunnel to another chamber that was apparently cleared by Wilhelm Dorpefeld in the 19th c. Roman fill in mouth. Coins:
6 July 1964 # ... Ca. 325-290 B.C. |
Small compact deposit. Cutting. High proportion of good black glaze; 21 loom weights (19 pyramidal, 2 lentoid); a very large red-figured skyphos somewhat recalls the style of earlier work of the Dinos ... Ca. 430-420 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. |
Construction filling of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Patch of stony fill beneath the courtyard. Accumulation of the second quarter of the 5th c., deposited in the last quarter ... Ca. 475-450 B.C. and later |
Well (diameter 0.91m, water level -7m) in House H, Room 10 (and pit over). Plain shaft cut in stereo; pit at mouth of well,reused as drainage pit at start of tile drain running west.
Scanty use filling ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Backfill of demolition of Great Monument beneath Middle Stoa.
[Soft pit below Layer II of south aisle (=fill of early "Great Drain")] ... Early 4th c. B.C. |
Well, unfinished?
The shallow depth, small diameter, lack of water and any use fill make it possible that this was not a well, although the character of the cutting is difficult to explain otherwise. The ... Ca. 440-420 B.C. |
Cistern at 43/ΙΣΤ, outside the southeast corner of the market square, slightly west of the Panathenaic way. A small neat plaster-lined cistern filled with material evidently all dumped at the same time ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
North and South Rectangular Stereo-cut Rubbish Pits. These two adjacent rock-cut pits, of uncertain original purpose, were filled with deposits of rubbish evidently contemporary and probably dumped simultaneously, ... Second half of 5th c. B.C. |
Well by Stoa Pier 8.
Mouth of well discovered in 1950 (p. 2287).
Dumped filling in the 4th c. B.C. but the bulk of the material of the 5th c. B.C. Fill contained much wood, bones, Mycenaean, Geometric, ... 5th c. B.C. |
Pit at 52/ΞΕ ... Ca. 520-480 B.C. |
Red Figure Pocket in front of Retaining Wall at 74-77/ΛΖ-ΛΘ.
Pit , a large cutting in bedrock, irregular in outline, reaching a depth of ca. 1m; dumped filling of alternating layers-broken pottery fragments ... Ca. 430-410 B.C. |
Pit in ancient road, ca. 73/ΜΣΤ The filling of this pit contained quantities of coarse pottery, principally fragmentary amphoras, but including also some glazed and semi-glazed pieces and fragments of ... Ca. 350-325 B.C. |
Deposit of fine table ware and lekythoi, both black-figured and red; the plain wares closely resemble those from the well H 6:5 ... 470-450 B.C. |
Formerly G 13:5.
Cleared to a depth of 8.50m. where further collapse made work impossible. Use filling not reached. Lower dumped fill dated to ca. 425-400 B.C., with objects P 24209, P 24210, 24211. Upper ... Ca. 425-375 B.C. |
Undisturbed filling inside foundations of small Rectangular Building = Temple of Zeus and Athena. Household pottery, both fine and coarse, and other objects, together with working chips from the construction ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Rectangular pit at 54/ΛΓ.
The pit's plan is irregular; its measurements approximately 2.00x1.10x1.15m. The wall foundations run a little over a meter deep at 53/ΛΓ-ΛΕ, consist of irregularly shaped and ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. |
Refuse pit at 51/Ζ; it had been partly cut away at the north by the late Roman retaining wall; the dumped filling a homogeneous deposit of figured, black and plain wares. Red figure oinochoe in the style ... Ca. 450-420 B.C. |
Kernos Pit #2 at 33/ΛΑ. P 30175-P 30186 (ΙΙ 635-ΙΙ 646) added on 7 May 1973 ... Early 4th c. B.C. |
Well on the north slope of the Areopagus; depth at 9.65m; scanty dumped fillings. From about 3.20m to the bottom, little but tile fragments appeared; in the fillings above, the lower is characterized by ... Ca. 350-290 B.C. |
Well A (depth 10.20m, diameter 1.04m, water level 4m) outside the SW corner of the market square, to the east of the north-south road.
At the bottom of the well were scanty remains probably from a period ... Ca. 425-375 B.C. |
| Stone-curbed Pit (Sacred Pit) to North of Altar of Ares.
An accumulation of votives dating at least from the middle of the 7th. c. B.C. into the early 5th. c. Finds include those from the immediate area ... 7th-5th c. B.C. |
Well (diameter 0.98m) in House H, Room 13.
Two dumped fills apparently of the same date, but separated by a clay deposit of over 2.00m.
Cf. Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 253. (noted) Subdivisions:
.1=Upper ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Dumped debris filling east of East Building, badly shattered. There is a small amount of disturbance from the filling immediately above, but the bulk of the pottery is consistent, and very close to that ... Ca. 470-460 B.C. |
Green Earth at 03-04-05/ΚΑ-ΚΔ, to at least -3.50m. near the southwest corner of the market square. Terracotta figurines; lamps; fragmentary pottery ... Ca. 500-475 B.C. and later |
Dealer's Dump at 10/Θ.
Debris filling beneath a modern house floor, apparently from the shop of an antiquities' dealer; otherwise unrelated to the Agora area. Compare similar dumps, K 14:1 and N 10:1 ... Modern context |
| Pit with burned debris north of the ancient road leading from the Agora to the Dipylon Gate, probably to be associated with the Persian sack [deposit notebook]. Also includes a similar filling lying over ... Ca. 500-470 B.C. |
Ostrakon Pit (Horos Terrace Trench). Oval pit cut into bedrock. Packed filling of stones, coarse sherds and roof tiles; among these a few fragments of finer vases and 22 ostraka, probably from the ostracaphoria ... Ca. 490-480 B.C. and later |
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. |
South Stoa I: 75-76/ΚΗ-Λ South Shop Building Layer g (O 16:1) and South Stoa I: Stony Fill below floor level (O 16:2). (merged from O 16:1 and O 16:2) Coins:
11 May 1953 #29 (illegible) Merged from two ... Ca. 420-400 B.C. and earlier |
Early cutting beside Great Drain: 103-111/Λ-ΛΓ (= "Deep cutting" Pit at 107/ΛΑ).
Abandonment filling in channel for early drain; the fragment of a red figured bell krater, P 17000, probably to be dated ... Ca. 425-395 B.C. |
Ca. 73-81/Drain. Fillings associated with the construction of the Great Drain South, especially the fill thrown in behind the east wall of the drain at the time of its building.
Cf. A 20-21:1 and B 19:7 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Stuccoed pit, 2m x 2.50 m, rock-cut. Coins:
26 March 1937 #1 (not a coin) ... Ca. 400-350 B.C. |
Unfinished cistern at 31/ΚΑ ... Ca. 360-325 B.C. |
Rectangular shaft at northwest foot of Areopagus; dumped filling of second half of 4th c. B.C. Pit at 16/Δ-Ε recorded one time as an extension of shaft 17/Δ-Ε (see L 506 and nb.p. 395), but items from ... Ca. 325-275 B.C. |
See cistern system wells F 11:2 and F 12:3, part of Tholos water system. Estimated Grid ... Ca. 350-294 B.C. |
| Grave V, under room 18 in House 3, plus burned deposit at 94/IΘ. Identified as sacrificial pyre by SIR on Agoraios Kolonos:
In southeast corner of house 3. 35 artifacts, bone and charred material in pit, ... Ca. 300-275 B.C. |
| Hole in bedrock; dumped filling used in leveling.
Probably a natural water line, tending to wash out, has been cut back for various purposes, and finally all filled in to make level bedding for 4th c., ... Ca. 350-270 B.C. |
Filling behind retaining wall of Stoa of Zeus. The remains of unfired clay adhering to the interior of various pieces make it probable that the material in this filling is a mass of debris from the floor ... Ca. 435-425 B.C. |
Well at 20/ΙΔ.
No POU fill. Bottom packed with sherds, including roof-tile fragments. Above this, were six meters with a "fair quantity" of sherds; then the top meter and a half contained a great quantity ... Ca. 420-390 B.C. |
Well in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
A flask-shaped cistern in House H with a dumped fill of the late fifth century brought from elsewhere and evidently deposited sometime in the 3rd c. B.C ... Ca. 420-400 B.C. |
Pit in House N, Room 2 (RSY, House C). Filling thrown in behind the west wall of the Great Drain South at the time of the building of the drain and the extension of House C.
Cf. Hesperia 20 (1951), pp ... Ca. 430-410 B.C. |
Narrow trench in bedrock; one section found to NE of Circular Building west of the Stoa of Attalos, another (Q 8:1) beneath the terrace of the Stoa of Attalos opposite Pier 19. A single filling in both ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. and shortly after |
| This cutting was filled in at the time Road 6 was laid. Homogeneous dumped fill.
This deposit represents fill which was brought in at the time Road 6 at the west end of the Middle Stoa was laid to fill ... Ca. 480 B.C. |
Well on the lower north slope of the Areopagus. The pottery apparently belongs to a filling of one period, since it exhibited no marked difference in character to the bottom. No where was the deposit very ... Ca. 410-390 B.C. |
Big well at 61/ΙΖ.
A well on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus. Diameter 2m ... Ca. 520-475 and shortly after |
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. |
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. |
Well at 19/ΚΔ, beneath the west colonnade of the Square Market Building in the northeast corner of the Agora. Diameter ca. 1.25m. Water level ca. -3.50m. The construction of the well was rather careless, ... Ca. 580-560 B.C. |
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 |
Fillings to either side of the Great Drain, in the southern part of the area west of the Areopagus; various levels, late 6th. and early 5th c. B.C. to Sullan destruction. Coins:
26 July 1946 #1-#2
30 July ... Late 6th. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D. |
Well (diameter shaft 0.95m) with POU and dumped fillings, separated by about 2.00m. of plain mud apparently fallen from the collapsed sides of the well. The fillings are, however, closely contemporary ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
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