[Agora Deposit] M 18:8: Well

Well at 73/Μ on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus. Diameter of 0.90m. It seems to have been abandoned because of the very soft stereo that kept falling in from all sides. Many pieces of terracotta ... Ca. 430-420 B.C ... Handmade birds with outstretched neck and wings ranging in length from 0.056 to 0.046m. each is pierced with a hole through which a string for suspension must have passed.

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[Agora Deposit] L 2:1: Pithos or Bothros in Byzantine "Room D".

"Room D" is the triangular area at L/15,16-2/10,12, NW of Wall 1, in E corner of basement of No.3. Hastings Street, bounded by the NE and SE walls of basement). Bell-shaped vessel built of horizontally-laid ... 10th-11th c. A.D ... Yellow-glazed white ware; brown-glazed juglets and chafing-dish fragments; cooking pots and lids; columnar lamps; coarse wares with incised decoration including spirals, "fork-tine" marks, and a sherd with birds at a fountain.

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[Agora Deposit] G 5:3: "Bone Well"

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 following animals have been found: dogs, horses, pigs, goats, cattle, cat, birds, turtles. Lower fill contained bones of 100-200 infants and 85 dogs; Byzantine upper fill.