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The data in the Deposit Notebook is presented by trench; an attempt is made here to accumulate data from similar layers across the trenches. Subdivisions:
.1=Post Hadrianic cleanup
.2=Marble working waste ... 2nd c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D. |
| Pyre in House T, Room 2 through floor of second period (RSY=Pyre 5) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
4th. c. BC.
Concentration of artifacts, burnt bone, and charcoal in floor makeup consisting ... 375-350 B.C ... Pyre in House T, Room 2 through floor of second period (RSY=Pyre 5) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
4th. c. ... Concentration of artifacts, burnt bone, and charcoal in floor makeup consisting of earth, dug bedrock, and marble chips, no pit discerned. The pyre was partly covered by a pebble floor associated with phase 3 of the house, but the fill in which it was found cut through a floor associated with the second phase, and it predates the abandonment of the house substantially. |
| Sacrificial pyre in Poros Building, NW Room (RSY= Pyre 1).
Against east wall of room 5 west. artifacts, bone, carbon and ash in pit in floor sequence. the pyre lay below a floor covered with marble dust, ... Middle of 4th c. B.C ... Against east wall of room 5 west. artifacts, bone, carbon and ash in pit in floor sequence. the pyre lay below a floor covered with marble dust, the lowest floor that can be associated with the north wall of the room. ... A lekane and the lower part of an amphora set into the floor of this room may have served industrial purposes. |
| 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 ... Artifacts, bone, and cinders in irregular pit in floor sequence. The pit had been dug into a marble-and limestone-chip layer over bedrock, and was covered by a Late Hellenistic layer with tile fragments. It may be associated with the abandonment of the house, since the marble-and limestone-chip layer was laid down during the structure's last phase. |
| Laura Gawlinski ... Ovoid pit cut into bedrock or sterile fill just north of preserved floor surfaces in the so-called Strategeion. Length (west-east) 2.6m; widens at 1.25m from the east scarp so that at west pit is 0.75m ... 4th B.C ... Ovoid pit cut into bedrock or sterile fill just north of preserved floor surfaces in the so-called Strategeion. ... Uncovered directly under smaller pit of marble chip debris (see Lot Γ 383; Basket 4, p. 3985). Although marble chips were found scattered throughout fill of amphorae pit, these pits were distinct: Find Γ 2854, Amphora, was uncovered beneath hard fill that made up the northeast bottom edge of the marble chip pit. |
| Pyre in Room 2, area west of street (RSY=Pyre 12).
In courtyard. Artifacts, bone, ash, carbon, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The rectangular pit was cut into a white strosis with marble chips (ΠΠ ... 315-300 B.C ... Artifacts, bone, ash, carbon, and cinders in pit in floor sequence. The rectangular pit was cut into a white strosis with marble chips (ΠΠ 282), filled with red earth, and the surface then trodden hard. |
Well at U/10-14/4, in Byzantine Room I.
Well is ca. 1.20m in diameter, dug into bedrock. Excavated to depth of roughly -8.00m; sides started collapsing and thus did not dig to full depth. Some stone-lining, ... June 15-16, 17-31 July 1972 ... Some stone-lining, varying in depth from 0.50m to 0.75m., between stone floor of room and beginning of bedrock. Above floor a later collar added in Frankish-Turkish times (?)
... A much used marble well-head was found collapsed into well midway down period of use fill and a fragment of a ceiling coffer from the Temple of Ares.
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| Pyre /Burial (?) disturbed, in the area of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. In northeast corner of room 4 west.
Concentration of artifacts, tiny slivers of bone, and burning in a layer of fill ... Early 4th c. B.C ... The original floor of the room lies another 0.15-0.20m below the surface of the tile layer. ... There is no evidence of marble-working in this room
Small deposit in a filling containing carbon and bits of bone (missing). |
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