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[Agora Deposit] E 29:3: Possible pyre

Above bedrock in N.W. corner of room S, House of Greek Mosaic. Contents suggest "saucer-pyre" ... Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C ... Above bedrock in N.W. corner of room S, House of Greek Mosaic. Contents suggest "saucer-pyre".

[Agora Deposit] R 15-16

Valerian Wall, undisturbed contents: Lower stretch. Not on concordance, not on cardex neither. No info. Asterisk: R 15-16* ... Valerian Wall, undisturbed contents: Lower stretch.

[Agora Deposit] S 16-17

Valerian Wall, undisturbed contents: Upper stretch. Not on concordance, not on cardex neither. Asterisk: S 16-17* (no info) ... Valerian Wall, undisturbed contents: Upper stretch.

[Agora Deposit] J 17:1: Pit

Pit in floor of cellar of House 634/19. Contents mixed to late Roman. Pottery 4th c. B.C. to 4th c. A.D. discarded ... 25 April 1958 ... Pit in floor of cellar of House 634/19. Contents mixed to late Roman.

[Agora Deposit] K 14:1: Collector's Dump

Pottery Deposit at 57/ΙΔ (also 57/ΙΣΤ and 63-66/Κ-ΚΕ). Contents of pit range from Mycenaean to Turkish; apparently the dump of a modern antiquities dealer ... Modern Context ... Pottery Deposit at 57/ΙΔ (also 57/ΙΣΤ and 63-66/Κ-ΚΕ). Contents of pit range from Mycenaean to Turkish; apparently the dump of a modern antiquities dealer.

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[Agora Deposit] I 5:2 BIS: Disturbed Cist Tomb

Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 2 (bis). Cut into by builders of I 5:2. No remains. Possible contents in I 4-5:1 Layer C (= layer 6, lower building fill), catalogued as ΒΓ 2065 - ΒΓ 2125 ... Middle Helladic or later Bronze Age (date uncertain) ... Possible contents in I 4-5:1 Layer C (= layer 6, lower building fill), catalogued as ΒΓ 2065 - ΒΓ 2125.

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[Agora Deposit] D 6:3: Urn cremation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 25 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave I: SM). Bones discarded. In some records as Grve XIV (JP)? Notebook says (p. 947) contents: hard earth, no bones. Lisa's list says bones discarded. Negs. X-75, ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Notebook says (p. 947) contents: hard earth, no bones.

[Agora Deposit] L 18:2: Well on Lower Slopes of Areopagus

Well on lower slopes of Areopagus. Diameter ca. 1.50m. Dumped filling of 8th c. at the top. Fill mostly Geometric but containing bits of later (even Roman) pottery. Perhaps cleaned out and refilled with ... 730-700 B.C ... Perhaps cleaned out and refilled with its own contents at the time of building of Roman house over it.

[Agora Deposit] I 17:5: Drawshaft, Cistern Shaft at 63/ΚΓ

Cistern shaft at 63/ΚΓ. Part of H-I 16-17 system. Contents of 3rd c. disturbed. Part of extensive cistern system, of which one chamber, three drawshafts, and two blind tunnels were excavated (H 16:2, ... 3rd c., disturbed ... Part of H-I 16-17 system. Contents of 3rd c. disturbed.

[Agora Deposit] Q 17:7: Well G in ΠΑ

Well G, just south of Room D. It was finally filled in the 6th c. A.D. with some attractive sculpture. Its contents suggest that the building was not used for metal work, but was purely domestic containing ... 3rd-6th c. A.D ... Its contents suggest that the building was not used for metal work, but was purely domestic containing abundant household pottery, remnants of wood, bone, stone, fruit stones and animal bones, especially of boar and goat.

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[Agora Deposit] N 6:3: Classical Dump

Classical dump at N/1,6-6/6,8. Layer 14 in Early Trench E. A tremendously thick layer of dumped fill with ceramic contents ranging down through the second half of the 5th century and into very early years ... Late 5th c. (Early 4th c.) ... A tremendously thick layer of dumped fill with ceramic contents ranging down through the second half of the 5th century and into very early years of the 4th century B.C.

[Agora Deposit] H 7:2: Late Well to West of Temple of Apollo

The filling from top to bottom uniform, yielding small bits of ancient worked marbles and pottery of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. mixed with undecorated coarse ware, probably of Byzantine times ... 5th c. A.D.-Byz ... A sherd from the mouth of the well (P 2223, red figure) removed from contents list by E.V.

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[Agora Deposit] B 19:1: Rubbish Pit/Pyre

Rubbish Pit . Pit cut through a house floor. In courtyard, beside door to room 3. Artifacts, bone and scattering of large cinders in roughly rectangular pit dug through floor bedding and covered by red, ... 325-300 B.C ... Although the contents included chicken bones and carbonized matter along with pottery, the evidence indicates that the burning did not take place on the spot but was dumped in from elsewhere.

[Agora Deposit] T 25:2: Well 12 in ΟΑ

Well 12: Archaic. It lies on a rocky ledge about thirty meters north of the Klepsydra, just east of the Panathenaic street. In spite of its depth, it produced little pottery and its contents were of slight ... 6th c. B.C.? ... In spite of its depth, it produced little pottery and its contents were of slight interest in themselves.

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[Agora Deposit] D 17:14: Disturbed Pyre

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 ... Against east wall of room 5 west. concentration of artifacts, ash, carbon and a few bones in stratum, no pit discerned. The contents rested on or above a layer that is said to be at about the same level as the pebble mosaic floor, and thus the pyre probably postdates the laying of that floor.

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[Agora Deposit] J 1:7: Hellenistic Cistern Shaft

Marcie Handler ... The contents of this Hellenistic cistern shaft were excavated in a series of layers: the preserved top of the shaft, six layers in the shaft and the fill within the tunnel. At the bottom of the shaft on ... POU: Mid-3rd c. BC Dumped fill: after 225 BC ... The contents of this Hellenistic cistern shaft were excavated in a series of layers: the preserved top of the shaft, six layers in the shaft and the fill within the tunnel.

[Agora Deposit] D-E 8-9:1: Theseion Cisterns A and B (1936)

Two chambers connected by a tunnel, all filled at the same time, but with slight Hellenistic disturbance. Chamber A, to west at 14/ΛΗ, B to east at 14-15/ΛΒ on grid for section RR. Cistern system ca. 20.00m ... Ca. 325-275 B.C ... Abandonment of cistern and source of contents probaby attributable to an undetermined event in the early part of the decade 310 B.C.

[Agora Deposit] R 13:10: Courtyard Well

Courtyard Well (R/15-13/20). The well went out of use as a result of the Herulian sack of 267 A.D. in the upper part of the well the well-head itself was found, one of the finest in the Agora collection ... 27 June-15 July 1975 ... Layer: Bottom POU. The contents of the bags seem to correspond to the the second indication.

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[Agora Deposit] J 1:10: Mycenaean Chamber Tomb

Brian Martens ... It was partially excavated during the 2012 and 2013 seasons. The tomb, located at the center of Room III in the NE area of section ΒΖ, was found under fill surrounding perpendicular mid-to late 6th c ... LHIIIA ... B.C. pottery churned amongst the tomb contents. Large chunks of soft, blue-green bedrock were found throughout the fill, most probably from the collapsed bedrock walls or ceiling of the tomb. ... The tomb contents were found spread over the tomb of the floor, but especially concentrated at the back east and south walls.

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[Agora Deposit] I 5:3: Cist Τomb, Adult Inhumation

Susan I. Rotroff ... Burial 3 beneath the floor of the Stoa Basileios. It consisted of a rectangular pit cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.44m, lined on all sides and covered with an admixture of narrow stone slabs of soft ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Most of the cover slabs were small, but the larger, main cover stone measured 0.46mx0.85m; it had collapsed on one side into the grave, but caused virtually no damage to the contents of the tomb.

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[Agora Deposit] J 1:2: Coin Hoard in BZ

Marcie Handler ... Continued from 2000 season, 10-12 July 2000; BZ XXIII p. 4472. The hoard was originally excavated during the 2000 season (Lot BZ 1049, 5th-6th centuries AD), from a higher elevation through a gap in the ... 10-12 July 2000 21-22 July 2003 ... The fill within the basin was excavated this season, and an additional 17 coins were found before we cleared the contents of the basin.

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[Agora Deposit] J-K 2:2: Chamber Tomb Below Floor of Room 2 of Classical Building II

David Scahill ... Below packed clay floors in Room 2 of Classical Building II; bordered on east and south sides by polygonal cross wall and back wall extension for Classical Building. Late Roman wall and drain installation ... LHIII A:1 ... Loose fill of stones and earth with large number of Geometric sherds ranging from Protogeometric to late Geometric in date, from top of cutting extending down into layer of tomb contents. At floor of tomb, concentration of bone fragments and pots, mostly broken in situ, concentrated against the north side of the tomb, with some bone fragments across the middle, and on the south side with more pots.

[Agora Deposit] U 26:1: Oinochoe Deposit

Washed-in filling at the base of the Acropolis cliffs, some 7m. east of the Klepsydra; the fill was characterized by teh fragments of a series of red-figured oinochoai of special shape, of the late 5th ... Late 3rd c. B.C ... contents date to late 5th c.