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Exploration in the peristyle of the Heliaea (1960); evidence for rebuilding in the third quarter of the 4th c. B.C. with some disturbance as late as 1st-2nd c. A.D. Date of reconstruction ca. 325 B.C ... Ca. 350- 325 B.C ... (nbp. p. 3607).
Three areas included:
a) Deep stony fill in middle of peristyle (p. 3471) and from clearing trench of inner rectangle in peristyle court (p. 3551).
b) Footing trench of SE pier of peristyle (p. 3468) and footing trench of second pier from west in south aisle (p. 3469).
c) Other areas, period of peristyle (pp. 3461, 3463, 3465, 3557). |
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 ... 15 November 1952, going through the containers Tin 59-Box 60, provided some substantial additions, broλκught together some pieces from the neighboring areas, p. 1862. |
N-S Cut on 20m. 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 that bordered ... Protogeometric to Late Roman ... N-S Cut on 20m. 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 that bordered it to the north.
No subdivisions are given but the layers and of the stoa are dated over the three areas as follows:
Area of Road:
Layer I- IV and pit below Layer I: 1st c. |
Fillings in and to the north of Building A/Poros Building/Greek Building ("Strategeion"), the accumulation mostly a late archaic dump, but not deposited till near the middle of the century. Most of the ... First half of 5th c. to ca. 460-450 B.C ... Excavated areas were kept separate as follows but "LT is uncertain if useful or desirable to keep any or all of these areas separate ... the inventoried material from c is of the same sort as that from a and b." |
Destruction Layer, Brick Building.
It represents material from the layer of fallen brick covering the floor and wall socles of the Brick Building and therefore marking the destruction of the structure ... To ca. 165 ... Presumably the Brick Building was demolished for that very reason, although it may be noted that in some areas there was a layer of ash and carbon over the floor of the Brick Building and so the immediate cause of destruction may have been fire. |
Pits in area 96-100/ΝΕ-ΝΘ (lower east slopes of Hill of the Nymphs, near extreme west edge of excavated area).
Pit with bones. Many fills in areas A 19 and A 20 similar in character to the fills in these ... 350-300 B.C ... Many fills in areas A 19 and A 20 similar in character to the fills in these pits can probably be cited only with area locations; many have container dates. 1-10-58
The early ΞΞ numbers given [to finds] come from the time the area was dug; the later from the time the pottery was sorted (1957). |
Pits in area 96-100/ΝΕ-ΝΘ (lower east slopes of Hill of the Nymphs, near extreme west edge of excavated area).
Scanty debris filling in a pit. Many fills in areas A 19 and A 20 similar in character to ... 325-300 B.C ... Many fills in areas A 19 and A 20 similar in character to the fills in these pits can probably be cited only with area locations; many have container dates. 1-10-58
The early ΞΞ numbers given [to finds] come from the time the area was dug; the later from the time the pottery was sorted (1957). |
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 ... Many fills in areas A 19 and A 20 similar in character to the fills in these pits can probably be cited only with area locations; many have container dates. 1-10-58
The early ΞΞ numbers given [to finds] come from the time the area was dug; the later from the time the pottery was sorted (1957). |
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 ... 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 of the square and of the stoa that bordered it to the north; explanatory cut at the west boundary of the excavated area.
No subdivisions are given but the layers are dated over the three areas as follows:
Area of Road:
Layer I: 2nd-3rd c. |
Pits ( A 19:3, A 19:4, A 19:5, A 19:6 in area 96-100/ΝΕ-ΝΘ (lower east slopes of Hill of the Nymphs, near extreme west edge of excavated area).
Sometimes called as "Pit 2". Pit with reddish black fill ... 350-300 B.C ... Many fills in areas A 19 and A 20 similar in character to the fills in these pits can probably be cited only with area locations; many have container dates. 1-10-58
The early ΞΞ numbers given [to finds] come from the time the area was dug; the later from the time the pottery was sorted (1957). |
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 ... Closed deliberately as a part of a general clean-up of squatters' dwellings or warehouses, probably following a shift in population from the congested citadel area to the open and now secure areas below it.
Contemporary Agora wells O 8:5; H 12:10. |
| Matt McCallum ... The pyre was uncovered in a small, triangular area between the BZ Building foundations (but at a lower level) and the northern scarp of the current excavation area. It rested in a patch of orange-brown ... 1-7 August 2006 ... Found amongst the pyre fill were pieces of burnt bone, concentrated areas of charcoal, and iron slag. |
Investigations in the area around the Tholos, especially to the east and south of the building, between it and the Great Drain, and not otherwise specified as deposits.
This "deposit" has no form. It ... various levels and dates ... Some features in the labeled trenches have separate deposit numbers.
e.g. Road areas in Trenches
It would be appropriate to compare across layers in each trench, matching context dates. |
Investigations to the south of the Metroon, in the passageway between the Metroon and the Tholos; accumulated layers, from the Geometric and earlier periods to the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.
Cf. Hesperia ... Geometric to second c. B.C ... Not included in this deposit are disturbed areas west of Propylon and footing trench of south face of Metroon but cf. |
Construction fill below floor of Brick Building.
Areas involved:
a) Western portion of Room A: packing below floor.
b) Room B: packing below floor of northern,larger room.
c) Fill over water channel in ... First quarter 2nd century, before its end ... Construction fill below floor of Brick Building.
Areas involved:
a) Western portion of Room A: packing below floor.
b) Room B: packing below floor of northern,larger room.
c) Fill over water channel in smaller, southern room B; channel discovered by builders of Brick Building,rebuilt by them and covered over.
d) Foundation trench of earlier building beneath Brick Building, filled and covered by builders of Brick Building.
e) "Apparently from below floor of building" (nb.p. 1282).
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Well on Slopes of Kolonos, apparently with two periods of active service. The earlier dating from ca. the turn of the era well down into the 1st c. A.D. Probable that the well was never cleaned out in ... POU Early to second half 1st c. A.D ... But it is not impossible that the well was put out of use by the construction of a monumental stairway connecting the two areas as some time say late in the first or early in the second century of our era. |
| Well in Room 6 of Street Stoa U/2,U/3-13/15.
Associated with the building lying under the Roman Street Stoa. Its fills divided into 5 separate layers, with the bulk of finds belonging to Layer 1, the ... 14 June-21 August 1973 ... As we dug the well we noted many areas where the sides were no longer preserved.
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| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb occupies a considerable part of the western half of section ΕΕ; lies about half way up the north slope of the Areopagus towards its eastern end, just below the highest point of the ... Myc. III A:1 ... AS 1847: box containing envelopes of bone and ivory from various areas within tomb.
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