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Excavation terminated at 7.39m. due to danger of collapse. All the objects are from section Ω ... Ca. 50-1 B.C ... All the objects are from section Ω. |
| Grave south of Hephaisteion. Grave II in notebook. One skeleton. No objects. Pottery in container 201 from filling around grave II ... 12 March 1936 ... One skeleton. No objects. Pottery in container 201 from filling around grave II. |
Cleaning over bedrock along west side of Kolonos Agoraios. Context Protogeometric-Geometric disturbed. Objects from ΠΘ 24-28/ΝΗ-ΞΔ are added because P 8141 is published in Hesp. Suppl. 20, p. 153 as this ... To 2nd. c. B.C ... Objects from ΠΘ 24-28/ΝΗ-ΞΔ are added because P 8141 is published in Hesp. |
May be of Hellenistic origin when cistern system went out of use.
For a general note on the cistern see Nb. ΟΕ III, pp. 246 ff.
Objects from B 586 various depths (no subdivision): S 2324-S 2330,
P 34894, ... Late 2nd-early 6th c. A.D ... ΟΕ III, pp. 246 ff.
Objects from B 586 various depths (no subdivision): S 2324-S 2330,
P 34894, P 34898.
Objects from the Dump (no subdivision): P 10775, P 34895.
... Coins:
2 June 1937 #1
7 June 1937 #1-#7
11 June 1937 #1-#4 (from Dump) |
Area of early road and Geometric Cemetery: late, disturbed or uncertain levels. Includes Geometric/Proto Attic material thrown in the Turkish well at 35/Δ. Includes between road and bedrock in Β'. Four ... 5 May 1934
19-23 March 1935
2 April 1935 ... Includes between road and bedrock in Β'. Four objects are from section Β'. |
The following objects may be from this level or from the 'Mixed Classical Level at 10/Δ: SS 449, SS 450, SS 451 (nbp. 186, 2819). Coins:
4 March 1933 #1-#6 (cf. #7-#13)
7 March 1933 #39 ... 150-86 B.C ... The following objects may be from this level or from the 'Mixed Classical Level at 10/Δ: SS 449, SS 450, SS 451 (nbp. 186, 2819). |
Great Hole at 33/Ζ = Area of early wells Some of the objects may have come from N 18:7 or from a neighboring 7th c, well, not separately cleared, but no definite association is possible ... 7th-5th c. B.C ... Some of the objects may have come from N 18:7 or from a neighboring 7th c, well, not separately cleared, but no definite association is possible. |
Containers ca. 140-207. From containers ca. 170 to bottom, catalogued objects seem to represent a gradual accumulation from 1st c. A.D. to mid-3rd c. Divisions between are arbitrary and therefore combined ... Mixed post-pre-Herulian ... Containers ca. 140-207. From containers ca. 170 to bottom, catalogued objects seem to represent a gradual accumulation from 1st c. ... [pf 2006/from deposit nb] |
Cistern through which well G 14:4 was dug. Filling in cistern, early Byzantine, but with various objects resembling those from the upper dumped filling in the well, below the cistern floor (5th c. A.D.) ... Early Byzantine ... Filling in cistern, early Byzantine, but with various objects resembling those from the upper dumped filling in the well, below the cistern floor (5th c. |
| Grave 21 in notebook. Grave twice disturbed. Of the skeleton only the thigh bones were found. No offerings.
Objects listed in nb. as from Grave 21 are taken to be with grave 20 (probably pyre objects) ... Late Geometric ... No offerings.
Objects listed in nb. as from Grave 21 are taken to be with grave 20 (probably pyre objects) and are recorded with deposit G 12:24. |
Construction and upper fills. Well at 116/ΣΤ, cut less than one meter from a shallower and older well at 115/ΣΤ [D 15:1]. ... a fall of loose fill occurred from the earlier into the later well ...
Filling ... 2nd c. A.D. plus 6th c. A.D ... Well at 116/ΣΤ, cut less than one meter from a shallower and older well at 115/ΣΤ [D 15:1]. ... a fall of loose fill occurred from the earlier into the later well ...
... Coins:
5 June 1937 #3 (from sand fill of 27 May 1937) ... Deposit Lists file has the 'fallen-in' objects from this deposit listed together with D 15:1. |
Nbp. 3104: When dug, the fill of the well divided itself into 3 deposits.
Objects catalogued from the "earth" are: L 4838, P 21602, P 21603, P 21604. Dumped filling of Turkish times. Coins:
17 May 1937 ... Late 6th-7th c. A.D ... Nbp. 3104: When dug, the fill of the well divided itself into 3 deposits.
Objects catalogued from the "earth" are: L 4838, P 21602, P 21603, P 21604. |
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 ... Household pottery, both fine and coarse, and other objects, together with working chips from the construction of the temple. |
Some objects listed in deposit nb. V are not on this list because they in fact come from disturbed fills or are part of the material from above well 2 (G 12:21) ... 20 February-1 March 1935
6 March 1935
11 March 1935
20 March 1935
25 March 1935 ... Some objects listed in deposit nb. V are not on this list because they in fact come from disturbed fills or are part of the material from above well 2 (G 12:21). |
Filling in a sizeable pit. The objects, along with the dimensions of the cutting from which they came, might suggest offerings in a disturbed grave but there was no evidence of skeletal remains ... Ca. 430-415 B.C ... Filling in a sizeable pit. The objects, along with the dimensions of the cutting from which they came, might suggest offerings in a disturbed grave but there was no evidence of skeletal remains. |
Well at 115/ΣΤ (all the 5th c. fills of 116/ΣΤ). The lower part of the shaft contained a heavy deposit of pottery and other objects of the late archaic period, both coarse and finer wares; probably a post-Persian ... Ca. 500-480 B.C.-Roman ... The lower part of the shaft contained a heavy deposit of pottery and other objects of the late archaic period, both coarse and finer wares; probably a post-Persian clean-up. A Roman well at 116/ΣΤ (D 15:2) was subsequently dug beside it, and later the party wall between the two broke at two points, allowing some of the filling from D 15:1 to fall into the deeper shaft of D 15:2; there is thus no stratification.
... Deposit Lists file has the 5th c. objects from this deposit listed together with those fallen in from D 15:2. |
Well C - Passage, belongs with II - Brick Shaft. All dumped fills. No objects catalogued from Well C of section ΟΑ. One object (I 5422) catalogued from modern fill in shaft, one from dump (I 5545). Coins: ... 2nd c. A.D.- Byzantine ... All dumped fills. No objects catalogued from Well C of section ΟΑ. One object (I 5422) catalogued from modern fill in shaft, one from dump (I 5545). |
No period of use. Below the upper (Early Roman) dump extending down to ca. 6.10m. was a dumped fill of broken pottery in great quantity, including a high proportion of red-figured fragments. Masses of ... Ca. 430-400 B.C.
Late 1st c. B.C.-mid 1st c. A.D ... Masses of broken mud brick and numerous roof tiles show that this dump was debris from some house or shop.
Objects P 9255-P 9258, P 21333, SS 11145 are from the lower filling, but from immediately below the later drains and belong to their context.
Objects P 34998 and P 34999 are from this deposit but no fill indicated. |
Square pit in bedrock southwest of the Hephaisteion. Many marble chips from the construction of the temple of Hephaestus were found here together with a large quantity of pottery and other objects ... Ca. 450 B.C.
Ca. 390-380 B.C ... Many marble chips from the construction of the temple of Hephaestus were found here together with a large quantity of pottery and other objects. |
Located in Room IV, strosis 3, of SW House. Archaic, later disturbed, filling in and over undug well. See also L-M 17-18:1 where objects SS 14318 and T 3576 are actually from the filling over the undug ... 6th-5th c. B.C ... See also L-M 17-18:1 where objects SS 14318 and T 3576 are actually from the filling over the undug well, i.e. strosis 3, Room IV in Southwest House. |
Homer A. Thompson ... Well at the northwest foot of the Areopagus. Use filling of the Roman period. After the abandonment of the well and the collapse of the well-curb, the upper 2m of the shaft were filled with a dump apparently ... 1st-3rd c. A.D., 5th century ... After the abandonment of the well and the collapse of the well-curb, the upper 2m of the shaft were filled with a dump apparently dug up from nearby. Material for the most part of the 5th c. B.C., but containing a little that is alter and also pots apparently from a sacrificial pyre of the early 4th c. ... Several objects are from unknown depth or containers and do not appear in subdivisions.
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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 ... Thompson 12 may 1950: "Having gone through some 40 tins of pottery saved from the three martyrs. ... Objects Γ 2648-Γ2656 were removed & catalogued. ... In view of the quantity of pottery & objects already recorded from the drain this pottery has been discarded."
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Baskets 22-53 (containers 21-47). Abandonment of cistern. Includes finds from NW channel leading out of 84/ΝΣΤ (containers 50-51). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from ... 125-86 B.C ... Includes finds from NW channel leading out of 84/ΝΣΤ (containers 50-51). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from level .2, are from depths within the .3 range:
P 9680, P 11828, MC 350, T 1414. |
| Grave 20 in notebook. Objects recorded in nb. from Grave 21 (earlier and disturbed by Grave 20) are included here. A pyre [using pieces of pots from Grave 21] was probably burned beside grave 20 and some ... Late Geometric ... Grave 20 in notebook. Objects recorded in nb. from Grave 21 (earlier and disturbed by Grave 20) are included here. A pyre [using pieces of pots from Grave 21] was probably burned beside grave 20 and some of the remains were thrown in.
... -Grave 21 found inside Grave 20, recorded with G 12:24 (P 5497-P 5504).
Pyre objects (?) considered to be from Grave 21 in notebook but recorded with G 12:24 (P 6483-P 6485, T 807, T 841). |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ.
Objects with context as "cistern 44ΙΓ, mouth of 46/ΙΑ" are listed with D 12:2.
The following objects are from "earth", i.e. no context layer:
SS 5334, ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman ... Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ.
Objects with context as "cistern 44ΙΓ, mouth of 46/ΙΑ" are listed with D 12:2.
The following objects are from "earth", i.e. no context layer:
SS 5334, SS 5336, SS 5343, SS 5438, SS 5441, SS 5442, SS 5444, SS 5446, SS 5635, SS 5740
LL 2130, L 2132, L 2188
T 1045, T 1067
P 7138
Nineteen stamped amphora handles; many late 2nd c. lamps ... Coins
29 February 1936 #3 (from mouth)
2 March 1936 #1
3 March 1936 #7
5 March 1936 #4-#5
6 March 1936 #1-#3
7 March 1936 #1-#4
9 March 1936 #1-#3
10 March 1936 #1-#2
11 March 1936 #1
From "earth":
12 March 1936 #6
13 March 1936 #1-#2
14 March 1936 #1-#7
16 March 1936 #1
17 March 1936 #1-#3
18 March 1936 #1-#2 |
| Second century B.C. fill with early 13th c. A.D. fill in mouth.
The Byzantine objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585.
Lower fill contained bones of many infants and dogs.
The bones from this ... Mid-2nd c. B.C ... The Byzantine objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585.
... The bones from this well are all in very good condition. |
Well to N of Nymphaeum at 115/ΙΣΤ. A good water supply but no evidence for a period of use.
Exceptionally heavy dumped filling, including much fine tableware, many wine- jar fragments and other objects ... Ca. 420-400 B.C ... Exceptionally heavy dumped filling, including much fine tableware, many wine- jar fragments and other objects. Some of this material was stained with black or reddish soot as if from industrial activity |
Filling of early N-S road and related fills, in the area of the Geometric Cemetery south of the Tholos; various levels including plundered foundation trench.
For late, disturbed or uncertain levels over ... 7th-6th c. B.C ... Three objects are from section Ζ in the NE corner of the cemetery, clearly the same fill as in section Β (LT). |
Drain channel system along the line of an ancient north-south road, the channel in part at the surface and in part tunneled and accessible by shafts. Over a considerable part of this channel the hard water ... 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D ... The channel actually extends over a considerable area (E-F 5-6).
Objects from section ΚΚ channel F are not in this deposit (JH) and include P 7841, P 8530, P 8531, L 2404. |
House R, fill under drain tiles and fillings associated with house K in industrial area, including what was C 19:15, plus C 19:16 and
C 19:17.
a) House built as dwelling in second half of 5th.c.
b) Used ... Ca. 5th and 4th c. B.C ... House R, fill under drain tiles and fillings associated with house K in industrial area, including what was C 19:15, plus C 19:16 and
C 19:17.
a) House built as dwelling in second half of 5th.c.
b) Used as marble-workers' shop from beginning of 4th. c. to near middle of century. ... It is not always possible to distinguish between these two periods; the objects from both, mostly of the late 5th into the first half of the 4th c., have been listed together ... Only the containers with catalogued objects are listed but additional intervening numbers in the series 612-690 belong here.
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Well outside market square to the southeast, west of the Panathenaic Way. Accumulated use filling from first half of 1st c. A.D. to early 3rd c. Top to 14.65m. 4th c. dump; nothing significant catalogued ... POU First half of 1st c.-early 3rd c. A.D ... Accumulated use filling from first half of 1st c. ... The well is stratified but subdivisions thought to be unnecessary. Objects P 14993, P 15700, A 1061, L 3951, IL 852 are either upper fills or dirt pile finds ... Coins:
21 June 1923 #1-#3
23 June 1939 #1-#4(#1 from dirt pile)
24 June 1939 #5-#18(#6-#18 from dirt pile) |
Well cut through cistern at 40/Θ on Kolonos Agoraios (E 11:1). Two use periods plus an upper dumped fill from which the following objects: B 319, I 3994, SS 5745, T 1235. Coins:
6 April 1936 #18-#21
7 ... First half of 1st c. A.D.
4th-early 5th c. A.D ... Two use periods plus an upper dumped fill from which the following objects: B 319, I 3994, SS 5745, T 1235. |
Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.
Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C.
Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D ... A revised list of assigned objects prepared by GRE is followed here to sort objects found in the cistern system 88/ΛΔ - 95/ΚΘ - 100/ΚΘ.
... E 14:3 and E 15:3.
Objects either from 95/ΚΘ (middle fill) or 88/ΛΔ (lower Hellenistic fill), but uncertain which (they are in the finds lists of both but not assigned to subdivisions PAF) are the following: P 5655, P 5656, P 5657, P 5659, BI 154, S 574, L 1788, IL 193, SS 4091.
... Coins:
21 May 1935 #6-#9 (from 95/ΚΘ, N passage upper fill, therefore here) (no 6 was reassigned to E 14:3 Nbpp 3082-3083).
22 May 1935 #1-#3 (ditto) (no 2 was reassigned to E 14:3 Nbpp 3082-3083).
23 May 1935 #11-#12 (ditto) (no 12 was reassigned to E 14:3 Nbpp 3082-3083).
25 May 1935 #5-#10
27 May 1935 #1-#3
28 May 1935 #1-#3
29 May 1935 #1-#4
30 May 1935 #1-#5
31 May 1935 #1-#2
1 June 1935 #1-#6
3 June 1935 #1-#4 (#3-#4 from earth)
4 June 1935 #1-#3 (from earth)
5 June 1935 #1-#8 (from earth)
7 June 1935 #14-#18 (from earth)
8 June 1935 #2-#3 (from earth) |
Cistern at 70/ΚΕ and channels. Part of same system as D 17:3 and D 17:5. It was set against a corner of the lowest foundation block. Thus one is forced to assume that enough of the wall remained at least ... Ca. 200-150 B.C ... The following objects are from the dirt pile and have no subdivision:
G 397, S 1436, ST 470, T 2927. |
Tiled well, ca. 30m south of the Tholos. Associated with Building D. Hellenistic Group A with Late Roman fill in upper 3.00m. Objects A 245 and P 4597 are from fill on floor around well-head, contemporary ... 325-260 B.C ... Hellenistic Group A with Late Roman fill in upper 3.00m. Objects A 245 and P 4597 are from fill on floor around well-head, contemporary with upper fill but not in subdivision .1.
... Lower fill: Close correspondence with pottery from Koroni indicate deposit closed in 260's. |
Pit I at 45/ΙΘ (= Well) (noted also 4th c. pocket in side of this pit).
This is part of the Terracotta Deposit (H 17:4) and the objects listed here are also listed in H 17:4. Containers/lots for this ... Geometric-Protoattic ... This is part of the Terracotta Deposit (H 17:4) and the objects listed here are also listed in H 17:4 ... Containers/lots for this deposit were determined from the TCD # indicated with the pottery lots (nbpp. 839-847). |
Cistern-shaft at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just ... Upper fill, Late Roman with some Hellenistic.
Middle fill, Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C.
Lower fill, 4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment ... A revised list of assigned objects prepared by GRE is followed here to sort objects found in the cistern system 88/ΛΔ - 95/ΚΘ - 100/ΚΘ.
... E 14:1 and E 15:3.
Objects either from 95/ΚΘ (middle fill) or 88/ΛΔ (lower Hellenistic fill), but uncertain which (they are in the finds lists of both but not assigned to subdivisions PAF) are the following: P 5655, P 5656, P 5657, P 5659, BI 154, S 574, L 1788, IL 193, SS 4091.
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| 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 ... It was found in digging "Hellenistic" fill; no further information about the stratigraphy or about the pottery from that fill is available. although the pyre was apparently not burnt in situ, the objects lay in a compact mass, not much disturbed, and they are mostly complete. |
| Located at the bifurcation of the Panathenaic Way and West Road.Byzantine fill (9th-10th century) in upper 5.70m. with a series of Classical to Hellenistic accumulations below. Coins:
10 July 1971 #861 ... 14 June-27 July 1971 ... Coins:
10 July 1971 #861
n.d. 1971 #867
The bags from J 5:1 are notable for a high number of dog bones, including several skulls. They are heavily stained from metal exposure (the Bone bags were analyzed by Michael MacKinnon) ... Objects that are listed in the notebooks as "redigging" upper or middle levels, etc., are not assigned to subdivisions because their level is uncertain; they appear only in the parent J 5:1.
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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 ... B.C., but some later (all periods) and some early levels, disturbed.
Objects P 14805, P 14939 and P 14940 are noted on deposit nbp. E 19:6 as at top of well at 65/Ν (these are better placed here), also coin #1 from 20 April 1939. |
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