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| Preliminary Report on the 2004 Excavation Season ... John McK. Camp II ... All the work during the season 2004 was concentrated on the northwest corner of the Agora north of the Panathenaic Way.
In BZ North, the last remains of Byzantine fills and walls were removed and Hellenistic, ... 7 Jun-16 Jul 2004 ... In BZ North, the last remains of Byzantine fills and walls were removed and Hellenistic, early Roman and late Roman fills were explored. ... In Section ΒΗ, excavation of the Byzantine remains behind the Painted Stoa continued. ... Τhe character of the remains suggest that this area was more industrial than domestic. |
| Preliminary Report on the 2005 Excavation Season ... John McK. Camp II ... Excavations were carried out in three sections in the summer of 2005: BZ, BH and Γ.
In section BZ, mostly Roman levels were excavated, dating from the 1st to the 5th centuries A.D. Much more of the north-south ... 13 Jun-5 Aug 2005 ... In section BH, the last of the Byzantine remains were cleared down to 10th century A.D. level.
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| Preliminary Report on the 2002 Excavation Season ... John McK. Camp II ... Excavations continued in the northwest corner of the Agora (sections ΒΕ and ΒΖ) and in the Eleusinion area (ΕΛ), and a trial trench was opened up in the Panathenaic Way (Σ).
In section ΒΖ, the exploration ... 10 Jun-2 Aug 2002 ... In section ΒΖ, the exploration of the Byzantine settlement and the late Roman remains underneath them continued. Within the Byzantine walls some ancient blocks were found, several of them probably coming from funerary monuments. A large coarse ware jar with the skeletal remains of an infant was found buried in the corner of one room. |
| Report on Excavations in the Athenian Agora 1992 ... T. Leslie Shear, Jr ... This is a report on the archaeological excavations in the Athenian Agora during 1992. The investigations continued in two areas: on the south side of Hastings Street and along the north side of Hadrian ... 8 Jun-7 Aug 1992 ... In the northernmost section Byzantine levels were dug, revealing a complex of two rooms and a courtyard bounded by streets. ... A well, first used in the Roman period and then reused in the Byzantine period ,was dug and produced a large number of finds, amongst them a herm head from the Classical period. Further southeast along the street, the remains of a small Byzantine chapel was uncovered.
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| Preliminary Report on the 2003 Excavation Season ... John McK. Camp II ... Excavations in 2003 were carried out largely in the northwest corner of the Agora known as Section BZ. The area was divided into two parts: the north-south road and areas to the west, and east of the road ... 13 Jun-25 Jul 2003 ... After several years of exploring the Byzantine houses of the 10th century A.D. which overlay the area, the foundations were stripped away and substantial progress into the underlying Roman remains were made. ... West of the road, remains of a bath built in the 3rd century A.D. were excavated. |
| Agora Volunteer Report 2017 ... John McK. Camp II ... Excavations took place in three sections, ΒΘ, ΒΖ and ΟΟ, covering a time span from the 14th century B.C. to the 12th century A.D.
In Section ΒΘ work continued in later layers over and in front of the Stoa ... 12 Jun-4 Aug 2017 ... In ΒΘ West, more of the remains of the Middle Byzantine settlement were explored; in ΒΘ East, deeper fills were excavated. ... In Section ΟΟ the investigation of the architectural remains of houses and/or industrial establishments continued. |
| Excavations in the Athenian Agora, 2025: Preliminary Report ... John K. Papadopoulos Debby Sneed ... The 2025 excavation is the third excavation season in the ΒΚ section, divided into three trenches: ΒΚ North, ΒΚ South, and ΒΚ West, and covers the central part of the Stoa Poikile. The excavation practices ... 9 Jun-1 Aug 2025 ... The architectural remains from this season include part of the Middle Byzantine (10th to 12th centuries CE) neighborhood and later features, such as Ottoman-period pits and wells. ... The study of pottery revealed that only Byzantine, Ottoman, and Early Modern pottery came from closed stratified deposits, whereas Greek and Roman period pottery came from disturbed contexts. |
| Report on Excavations in the Athenian Agora 1990 ... T. Leslie Shear, Jr ... This is a report on the archaeological field work conducted in the Athenian Agora during the period from December 1989 to December 1990. The actual excavation period was preceded by preparatory operations ... 4 Jun-3 Aug 1990 ... In section ΒΖ, Byzantine and and Roman fills were excavated. ... In Section ΒΗ mostly modern fills were excavated. The remains of a church was found as was some walls and cover slabs overlying the Eridanos River. |
| Section ΝΝ
Season of 1939 ... Rodney S. Young ... Section ΝΝ lies at the mouth of the valley between Pnyx and Areopagus, which was the important thoroughfare from the Agora to the Pnyx and to the southern parts of the city, as well as to the Piraeus Gate, ... 26 Sep 1938-24 Jun 1939 ... The whole section was cleared down to ancient or Byzantine levels. Extensive remains of private houses and a bath of the Roman period were discovered, as well as walls of houses from earlier periods. |
| ΚΚ Excavation Report 1936 ... Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Section ΚΚ, the area inside the modern fence around the so-called Theseion, was cleared to bedrock in order to determine the entire history of that portion of Kolonos Agoraios. Excavation revealed that ... 10 Feb-13 Mar 1936 ... Late Byzantine remains were scanty. |
| Section Υ: 1958 Excavation Report ... Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Two areas at the north foot of the Areopagus were uncovered. The first area did not yield much of interest due to modern disturbances. Excavations of a well, three pits and a water channel produced however ... 3 Mar-3 May 1958 ... In the second area the only significant ancient remains lay along the southeast side of the northerly part of the section. ... Scanty remains of some houses were excavated: the South House, the North House, and the Southeast Houses (I and II) which was a complex of ten rooms. ... Little evidence remain from late Hellenistic to late Roman period but habitation continued in the area until Byzantine times. |
| Preliminary Report on the 2011 Excavation Season ... John McK. Camp II ... Excavations were carried out in three sections, two of them overlying the Painted Stoa (ΒΗ and ΒΘ) and one in the Panathenaic Way (ΒΓ).
In Section ΒΓ, excavations were concentrated on the Panathenaic Way ... 13 Jun-5 Aug 2011 ... In section ΒΘ, overlying the middle part of Painted Stoa, excavation continued in Byzantine levels. Remains of a settlement dating to the 11th and 12th centuries A.D. was uncovered. |
| Section Χ 1937 ... Margaret Crosby ... The area signified as Section Χ lays outside the Agora proper and no signs of any public buildings were found. The area seems to have been used for private houses from the end of the 6th c. B.C. Apart ... 25 Jan-18 May 1937 ... Apart from few scattered sherd from the Geometric period, the earliest remains indicating habitation were two graves of the late 6th or early 5th c. ... All traces of post classical habitation had been destroyed by the Turkish and modern houses, except for a Byzantine well. |
| Section Ω 1938 ... M. Crosby ... Section Ω lies in the east end of the north slope of the Areopagus, well to the southeast of the market square proper. Excavation showed, as expected, that the area was a residential district throughout ... 16 Jan-17 Jun 1938 ... By that time however, there was a street running diagonally up through the section, and remains of buildings, wells, cisterns, etc. from that period and onwards were found. ... Part of the area was covered by a mass of destruction debris from the 7th or 8th century A.D., and it was probably not built up in Byzantine times; the Turkish and modern houses rested directly on the late Roman fill at the north and southeast, on Classical and Hellenistic in the center, and on bedrock in the southwest. |
| Section Φ Season of 1937 ... Eugene Vanderpool ... In antiquity the area included in Section Φ lay outside the Agora proper and were apparently occupied only by houses and small buildings. The earliest period of which any considerable remains were found ... 25 Jan-17 Jun 1937 ... The earliest period of which any considerable remains were found was the Geometric: three Protogeometic graves and one well, as well as one Geometric grave and one disturbed well, were discovered and excavated.
... It was built in the early 4th century B.C. and continued in use until the end of the 2nd century B.C.
Remains of the Hellenistic period are few. ... Numerous traces of dark age habitation were found, but few from the Byzantine period, and some from the Turkish period. |
| Athenian Agora
Excavation Summary for 2021 ... John McK. Camp II ... Excavations continued in sections ΒΖ and ΒΘ in and under the Classical Commercial Building, the Painted Stoa, and the orthostate enclosure suggested to be the Leokoreion.
In section ΒΖ the goal was to ... 14 Jun-6 Aug 2021 ... In section ΒΖ the goal was to find out more about the later Archaic remains, perhaps houses or shops, underlying the Classical building. ... In Section ΒΘ West, two trenches were opened to examine part of the floor of the Stoa Poikile beneath the late Byzantine houses. In the western trench, fragments of a Roman inscription were found. |
| Preliminary Report on the 2009 Excavation Season ... John McK. Camp II ... Excavations were conducted in four sections: Γ, ΒΘ, ΒΗ and ΒΖ.
In Section Γ, the investigation of the Classical buildings south of the Tholos continued with the aim to find out if they were civil, commercial ... 8 Jun-31 Jul 2009 ... A pit with the remains of several horses were revealed in 16th century fills. No architecture is associate with the fills which indicate that the area was a dumping ground outside of the inhabited area. Byzantine pottery started to emerge by the end of the season. ... In section ΒΗ, most of the 10th century A.D. house walls were removed and more remains of the back wall and two interior columns of the Stoa Poikile were exposed. |
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