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Well at 55/ΚΕ
Period of Use dated to the last quarter of 5th c. B.C., Upper fill dated to the same (deposited later) in Agora XXX. Coins
1 April 1938 #10 ... Last quarter of 5th c. 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. |
| Shallow pit in bedrock on the upper terrace, ca. 3m. southeast of the Rocky Outcrop. Uncatalogued material: 46 sherds, 61 terracotta figurines and 4 objects.
Early ware : Neolithic; Gray Minyan; Mycenaean; ... Archaic with intrusions ... Agora XXXI, p. 24, fig. 4; p. 112; pl. 25 (neg. 88-555) and p. 224. |
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. |
| Disturbed Mycenaean chamber tomb.
It was the first Mycenaean burial found in the Agora. It is situated about 20m due south of Tomb VII, only a few meters beyond the south edge of the Augustan foundation ... Myc. IIIA (1st half of 14th c.) ... Hesperia 4 (1935), pp. 318-320 ... Agora XIII, pp. 190-193, 274, pls. 41, 77, 84 (Tomb VIII). |
Well in north aisle of Stoa. Almost empty, either not used very long or well cleaned out. It contained plaster, roof tiles, pebble mosaic. The little pottery may be Hellenistic. No finds recorded ... 26-29 July 1972 |
Well in the bottom of chamber cistern at 106/ΛΓ, stratified. A soft spot in the bedrock at the west side of the well caved in and was packed with typical coarse Roman first century amphoras; the well was ... A.D. 200-150 |
Primarily late Roman material but some scrappy early Roman. Coins:
5 March 1934 #1-#4
6 March 1934 #1-#3
7 March 1934 #1-#2
8 March 1934 #1-#4
9 March 1934 #1-#4
10 March 1934 #1 ... Ca. A.D. 350 dumped fill |
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 |
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. |
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. |
Well of Christian Lamp; west of Stoa terrace wall near north end. Pottery spread out June 1952. A big amphora was made up (ΣΑ 1780), but nothing else went together. Fill appeared o be all of one period ... Late 5th-early 6th century A.D. |
See cistern system wells F 11:2 and F 12:3, part of Tholos water system. Estimated Grid ... Ca. 350-294 B.C. |
Dumped fillings thrown in during second quarter of 1st c. B.C. containing mostly debris resulting from Sulla's sack in 86 B.C.
Agora XXIX, p. 464: Four fills distinguished during excavations ... but seemingly ... Late 2nd c. and early 1st c. B.C. POU; 110-75 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 |
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. |
Appears to be use filling from 3rd c. A.D., pre-Herulian into 4th c. or later. Lined with tiles. Coins:
6 May 1937 #1-#2 (disintegrated) ... Early 3rd-early 6th c. |
| Pithos ay the bottom of the north slope of the Areopagus with single fill; Part of Hellenistic Group D.
One stamped amphora handle dates slightly after 146. Latest coin dates in first two decades of 2nd ... 160-130 B.C. |
Actually in 38/ΙΕ, nbp. 766).
Pit contained at top much pottery and a few coins; sand for about 0.70m below, produced little pottery but many coins including some 2nd century Imperial and one of Salonica ... 3rd c. A.D. |
POU = 10.00-11.30m.
"The well is important because it gives us a terminus post quem for Building D." (nbp. 3346)
Shallow well, producing little water or trouble, but a great quantity of coarse late Roman ... Ca. A.D. 300-370 and Ca. A.D. 400 |
Fillings below the courtyard floor of the Poros Enclosure west of the Areopagus. The lowest layer, over bedrock, is of the archaic period and may have accumulated on the spot before the start of building ... First half of 5th c. B.C. |
Debris filling in a pit cut in bedrock at W side of House H, Room 10 ... Ca. 425-400 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 ... Ca. 430-415 B.C. |
| Listed in notebook as at 6/ΛΗ but later found to be at 12/ΛΗ.
Originally B 16:1.
Large cistern distinguished by a short (1.75m) blind tunnel running SW from its floor, and a shallow (ca. 0.80m originally) ... Ca. 150 B.C. |
Well in branch of Aqueduct (ca. 13/ΚΔ) 3rd c. A.D. - 5th c. A.D ... 3rd c. A.D. |
Stroses I, II, III, IV in Court J (below marble chip layer), House of Greek Mosaic.
No independently datable objects. Estimated Grid ... Early 3rd c. B.C. |
Well at 21/Ε (beneath Library of Pantainos).
The clearing of the well was abandoned because of a cave-in of the rock walls. Heavy dumped filling, the proportion of fine black table ware high ... Ca. 440-425 B.C ... Hesperia 4 (1935), pp. 477-523 ... Agora IV, p. 244 ... Agora XII, p. 398. |
Outside the market square, near the southeast corner, on the south edge of the east-west road, where it passes to the south of the Mint.
There is no doubt that the pottery from the well is "stratified" ... Early 1st to 6th c. and of 8th c. A.D. |
Cistern with two fills. Lower fill in cone on floor, with dumped upper fill above. Coins:
27 April 1940 #3-#5
14 May 1940 #5-#6
15 May 1940 #3-#7
17 May 1940 #11-#13
20 May 1940 # 8-#9
21 May 1940 #1 ... Late Hellenistic |
Trench for foundation of south stylobate of Square Building (between Piers 12-13) ... Late 3rd-early 2nd c. B.C. |
Cistern-chamber on the northwest side of Kolonos Agoraios, 10 to 12m west of the end of the Hellenistic Building. Dimensions at bottom 2.50m x 2.75m.
The west chamber of a cistern system composed of two ... Use filling early 1st-2nd c. B.C. |
Well just outside the southwest corner of the market square ... Late 7th-early 6th c. B.C. |
Filling inside N room of Temple of Apollo, including directly under the foundations of the N room ... Ca. 350 B.C. and earlier |
| This filling is the largest deposit of its time found in the Agora. It may be compared with H 6:5 and with N 7:3.
Dug in soft bedrock to a depth of 11.40m; footholds cut on opposite sides of the shaft ... Ca. 490-450 B.C. |
Shallow pit containing pottery, burning and tiny fragments of bone. A dumped group of pottery in an amphora pit, ca. 1.00 m. in diameter, 0.60m. in depth. Many tiny fragments of bone were in the fill ... 375-325 B.C. |
North of Eleusinion: Loose fill in pit outside Roman Building. 14 inventoried items, 22 objects, 325 sherds.
Objects : terracottas; handmade object; large figurine; lamps.
Early ware : Gray Minyan; Mycenaean; ... 6th c. B.C. and earlier. |
Well 13: Neolithic ... 15 March 1939 |
Cistern shaft, part of cistern system in Η-Ι 16-17. Filling disturbed to bottom; general run of the pottery is to late Hellenistic, lamps as late as Knidos type. Finds from 60/ΙΘ-62/ΙΘ, 61/ΙΗ. "Some Arretine" ... 5 May 1932
18 June 1932 |
Deposit in a cutting in bedrock on Kolonos Agoraios. Sherds in container Lot ΠΘ 4a ... Probably 4th c. B.C. |
Cistern at 78/ΜΑ and shaft at 85/Ν. Coins:
18 May 1936 #2-#3 ... Ca. 320-340 A.D. |
Diameter 0.95m; water level -9.10m.
Plais shaft cut in stereo from bottom of slender flask-shaped cistern. Scanty fill from house destruction in 5th c. A.D.; Christian lamps; unfinished statuette of Castor ... Late Roman |
Coins:
20 February 1932 #1-#2 ... 4th c., with Roman intrusion |
Hole at 65/ΚΔ; small cutting in bedrock with scanty pottery ... 450-400 B.C. |
Deposit of late unguentaria at ca. 37/ΛΖ plus black fill below deposit (cf. p. 945). Coins:
5 June 1935 #1 and cf. #2-#3 ... Mid-6th c. A.D. |
Grave 2.
Shallow cutting, 1.00x0.47m, in bedrock; possibly a child's burial, but no skeletal remains preserved ... Late 5th c. B.C. |
Well at 16/Γ = Well at 15/Β.
Dug to 14.90m. and abandoned due to influx of water. Coins:
15 May 1936 #1
20 May 1936 #2-#5
18 June 1936 #1, dump ... 3rd c. B.C. |
Tiled well in Stoa Terrace opposite Shop 2 Estimated Grid ... Byzantine |
Stone-curbed well at NE corner of 18/ΞΓ ... 2nd c., at least as late as ca. 140 B.C. |
Byzantine Well in Stoa Shop 15 Estimated Grid ... Byzantine |
Pocket of late Geometric pottery in bedrock behind Stoa Shop V; apparently a household deposit ... 750-700 B.C. |
Well at 62/ΙΑ, 63/ΙΑ, at the northwest foot of the Areopagus. Use filling in the lowest meter of the shaft.
The upper part of the shaft was filled with clay containing only occasional fragments of pottery; ... Ca. 600-540 B.C. |
| Stucco-lined bottle-shaped cistern, with tunnel and subsidiary manhole, in SW Baths, Room Α 10. Homogeneous dumped fill, mostly of mold-made bowls and and molds for terracotta figurines. Sixteen stamped ... 225-190 B.C. |
Cistern shaft southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Unstratified fill.
Ten stamped amphora handles; Type 34A lamp; many fragments of long-petal b suggesting material deposited ca. 140 or later. Cf. Pireus ... Ca. 200-125 B.C. |
| Thamneus' Cellar, a storage cellar on the north slope of the Areopagus. Lower filling of mid-6th c. B.C., upper filling of last quarter of 6th c. B.C ... 6th c. B.C. |
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. |
| Well in Stoa Shop 3. Diameter at top 1.20m. The mouth o the well was overlaid by a large conglomerate block placed by the Stoa builders to seal it. Masses of pottery including many water-jars filled the ... Ca 520-480 B.C. |
Fill around the upper block of the southwest corner of the early (Archaic) peribolos wall, south of the Propylon, and hard fill at the side of a trench for a modern wall.
Uncatalogued material: 181 sherds ... 2nd c. B.C. |
Cistern with two tunnels, the one entering its neck cut off by an early Roman well, the other, at the bottom not excavated.
Chamber conical in shape, with a depressed draw basin in the center of the floor ... Early Roman-3rd c. B.C. |
Well at 72/ΟΔ.
Partially excavated to depth of 8m. Turkish fill in upper 3m. Hellenistic fill mostly of roof tiles and coarse pottery. Coin
12 February 1937 #4 (disintegrated) ... 3rd c. B.C. |
| An area about 10m2. on the lower northwest slopes of the Areopagus, southeast of the archaic fountain house. A dumped fill to the end of the 3rd quarter of the 7th c. B.C., containing many votives, overlying ... 7th c. - 625 B.C. |
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. |
Mycenaean Grave below Stoa stylobate opposite pier 21, about 0.75m below the bottom of the Stoa conglomerate foundations. Although only the south side and the west end could be certainly fixed, the dimensions ... Myc. III A-early IIIB |
Mycenaean Grave (grave with kylikes).
Small irregular pit (about 0.70m by 0.45m by 0.50m deep). it was full of Mycenaean sherds and fragmentary pots, mostly kylikes, but also contained occasional scraps ... Mycenaean IIIB-C |
Roman Water Mill: Destruction fill on floor and in pit. Includes also fill from mill drain and in manhole at 14/ΛΣΤ, plus gravel fill of gully formed after construction and probably after destruction of ... Second half 6th c. A.D. |
Cistern at 53/ΝΕ, bottle-shaped, stucco-lined, in the east aisle of the peristyle of Roman House H (courtyard of Greek House G, just west of andron).
Lower diameter 2.73m.
Homogenous fill all apparently ... Into early 2nd century B.C. |
| Mycenaean Tomb to NE of Pier 19 (Burial #1)
Most of the doorway and the dromos had been cut away by the ancient Stoa builders. The dimensions of the chamber were 2.90m wide by 1.60m deep. Unusual features ... Myc. III A:1 |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb opposite ΣΑ pier 15. It was discovered about 20m to the west of Pier 15 of the Stoa of Attalos and almost in a line and a few meters south of Tomb XX. although the entire upper part ... Myc. II-IIIA/B |
| "Koumanoudes' Well.
Tile-lined well (diam. 0.85m) at SE corner of courtyard of Roman House E, at top built wall of stones and mortar, bedrock at bottom. Coin
7 August 1971 #495-#500
13 August 1971 #507 ... 28 July-6 August 1971 |
A well behind the Stoa of Zeus. Noted as the finding place of the bronze head of Nike, B 30.
Two Rhodian stamped amphora handles. Fragments of only two bowls ... 260-210 B.C. |
Rodney S. Young ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXVI:PG). Early fill over bedrock. No remains.
Two fragmentary unburned vases were found together on bedrock, beneath Roman and Byzantine fill. Disturbed earth over bedrock for several ... Early Protogeometric |
Mycenaean Grave, disturbed, in scarp E of Stoa, a little to the south of the group of tombs clustered around Pier 12. No remains (perhaps a child's grave whose bones had completely disintegrated).
Small ... Myc. IIIA:2-B |
| Pyre in House T, Room 1, Layer 5-6 (RSY=Pyre 3) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
First quarter 4th. c. B.C.
Artifacts, bone, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The pyre was found in digging ... 400-375 B.C.(?) |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 11 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XII: PG). Bones discarded. Burned deposit in a rectangular trench in bedrock.
JP ... Late Protogeometric |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 28 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave V: SM). No remains, probable child inhumation. Just one cup for offering (P 7693). Negs. X-77, X-78 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean/Early Protogeometric |
Well 17: Neolithic ... Neolithic |
Well 19: Latest Mycenaean. Near Klepsydra. Diameter mouth 1.25-1.35m., narrowing about a third of the way down and becoming rectangular, 0.90-1.0 to a side. Muddy at m; water collecting rapidly at 8.m ... Late Mycenaean |
| Pyre in Room 1, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 11).
Early in the third quarter of the 4th. c. B.C.
In courtyard. Artifacts, bone, and cinders in irregular pit in floor sequence. The pit had been dug into ... 350-330 B.C. |
Depth: original at least 3.70m, depth preserved ca. 2.00m.
Diameter: top ca. 0.80x1.15, bottom ca. 0.75m.
Water level ca. -1.50m ... 8-9 March 1939 |
Mycenaean Chamber Tomb W. of Circular Building (at Σ:30/ΛΕ?)
It had been badly disturbed by a fourth-century B.C. pit which cut into the northeast part of the chamber (rectangular, ca. 1.80m by 1.30m) ... Myc. III A 2 |
| Pyre 1 in Central House, Room XI, strosis 3. Sacrificial pyre with characteristic small vases amid carbonized twigs and bone.
Near north side of courtyard. This pit was cut slightly into strosis 3 (lot ... 1st quarter 4th c. B.C. |
| Crevice in Rock (Grave?) at 70/ΝΣΤ (below modern surface accumulation).
Identified as a sacrificial pyre, with characteristic banded plates and saucers, by SIR ... 4th c. B.C./300-250 B.C. |
| Homer A. Thompson ... Cremation burial (trench-and-hole) under S. edge of E-W Street, southern burial. In some records as Grave XLVI.
Neat trench, rectangular as preserved, but may have originally been square, cut partly through ... Early Geometric I |
Middle Helladic Gully ... Middle Helladic |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 4 in notebook. Amphora, no other pots but carbonized remains of food offerings. Over urn two stone slabs, on top, mass of small stones containing Late Geometric sherd ... Late Geometric |
| A compact group of four complete vases and a lamp, found on a house floor; possibly the remains of a sacrificial pyre but without evidence of burning or the characteristic votive vases.
Layer II, "nest ... 425-400 B.C. |
| Grave XXI in notebook = RSY Grave 11. Pottery discarded; late Roman, mostly coarse. PD 731-e ... Ca. 530 B.C. |
| Pyre in layer 8a in SW corner of Room 7 of Greek House δ.
Oval pyre; 0.60 (n-s)x 0.35 (e-w).
The pyre was covered by the surface of layer 8 and extended slightly into layer 9 below it. Small bone fragments, ... 325-300 B.C. |
| Pyre in Room 8 of Roman House H. Concentration of artifacts, bone, and flecks of carbon in stratum, no pit discerned. the pyre lay within a red fill apparently contemporary with it, but with some later ... 300-290 B.C. |
Well V: Late Neolithic, West of Klepsydra.
Diameter at 2.00 (when first preserved), bottom ca. 0.75m. Water level ca -4.00m ... Late Neolithic |
Well (diameter 1.10m).
Neatly cut. Footholds on east and west at intervals of ca. 0.50m. Plentiful water ... Late 8th - Early 7th c. B.C. |
| Mycenaean grave to west of House N, room 5, with the burial of two young children. Rough rectangular cutting in soft stereo (0.95x0.64x0.28), lying under the western wall of a Geometric house, contained ... Myc. III C:1 |
| Grave V in notebook = RSY Grave 5. PD 731-c, Ptg. 244 ... Second quarter of the 6th. c. B.C. |
| Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 4 under Royal Stoa. Cist Grave cut into bedrock and lined with limestone and schist slabs. There were two layers of cover slabs with a layer of dirt between. Grave measured 0.98x0,25-0,32x0,25-0,30 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb below Middle Stoa Terrace.
The tomb was entered from the west by a stepped dromos, at least 4.20m long by 1.10 to 1.50m. wide, splaying slightly toward the doorway, which was 1.26m ... Myc. IIIA:1 |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 2. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole). In some records as XXIII.
Variously labeled as grid 7/Δ, 7/Γ and 7/Γ-Δ.
Rectangular pyre trench cut through earth into bedrock, with only the lowest 0.04m surviving ... Transitional Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I |
| Evelyn Lord Smithson ... Grave 3: (Grave XXVII: EG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult male. Carbonized figs and grapes included in inventoried objects (no number). [JP]
"Craftsman-Warrior" tomb: combination of weapons and ... Early Geometric I |
| James H. Oliver ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave IX: PG). Two children's skeletons one on top of the other. Cf. PD 329 for PD 430 for second skeleton, same deposit.
PG grave about 25m. SW of Cistern A at 46/ΜΔ.
[In some records, ... Developed Protogeometric |
Pit 4 in Grave area (= Cistern). Not completely cleared. Filling probably late Hellenistic, though with some earlier material ... Hellenistic |
Now G 13:9. Asterisk: G 14:4* |
(see T-U 19:1) Asterisk: T 19:4* |
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