[Agora Deposit] D 18:5: Well

Unfinished well in corridor of Poros Building ... Third quarter 5th c. B.C ... Unfinished well in corridor of Poros Building.

[Agora Deposit] C-D 17-18: Poros Building Fill

Filling associated with construction of Poros Building. A small amount of fragmentary pottery found in the clay filling of the original floor; perhaps deposited as late as ca. 425-400 B.C. Cf. 18:4 and ... Ca. 475-450 B.C. or later ... Poros Building Fill

[Agora Deposit] D 17:16: Pithos

Pithos in NW corner (room) of Poros Building. Marble chips ... Mid-4th c.? ... Pithos in NW corner (room) of Poros Building.

[Agora Deposit] D 17:18: Drainin Corridor of Poros Building

Drain in corridor of Poros Building. Deposit is from the period of use of the drain. Cf. also containers 140 and 602 ... Late 5th-early 4th c. B.C ... Drainin Corridor of Poros Building

[Agora Deposit] D 18:3: Bronze Casting Pit near Southeast Corner of Poros Building

Casting pit near SE corner of Poros Building, Room C 3. Combined with D 18:4 ... 1st c. B.C.-1st c. A.D ... Bronze Casting Pit near Southeast Corner of Poros Building

[Agora Deposit] C 18:6: Well

Well M: EG, under the south court of the Poros Building. Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 144 (noted) ... Middle Geometric ... Well M: EG, under the south court of the Poros Building. Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 144 (noted).

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[Agora Deposit] D 17:8: Sacrificial Pyre in Poros Building, Northwest Room

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 ... Sacrificial pyre in Poros Building, NW Room (RSY= Pyre 1). ... The pyre thus postdates the arrival of the marbleworkers, and may be associated with the 4th century reconstruction of the building. It contained scattered carbon and there was a heavy ash deposit in the chytridion. some of the pottery is burnt; there were also fragments of burnt mudbrick or clay.

[Agora Deposit] F 17:2: Jewelry and Coins

Deposit of jewelry in hypocaust area (92/ΙΗ) of Bath to East of Poros Building. Coins: 8 April 1948 #12-#47 ... 2nd-3rd c A.D ... Deposit of jewelry in hypocaust area (92/ΙΗ) of Bath to East of Poros Building.

[Agora Deposit] D 18:4: Casting pit on line of Poros Building S. wall.

The deposit notebook lists S 1439 here, but the following information on that card indicates that D 18:4 could be considered with D 18:3 and not as a separate deposit. "Excavation of pit, which partly ... Casting pit on line of Poros Building S. wall.

[Agora Deposit] D 17:9: Well

An unfinished well in the northwest room of the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus. Dumped filling. Chips from marble-working, variety of plain and figured wares ... Ca. 400-385 B.C ... An unfinished well in the northwest room of the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus.

[Agora Deposit] C 18:7: Pit with Stony Fill

Construction filling of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Patch of stony fill beneath the courtyard. Accumulation of the second quarter of the 5th c., deposited in the last quarter ... Ca. 475-450 B.C. and later ... Construction filling of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus.

[Agora Deposit] D 17:10: Well

Well under Poros Building Drain at 62/ΛΣΤ, west of the Areopagus. Digging abandoned at 6.10m due to a collapse of the soft bedrock at the west. Small amount of supplementary filling was added in the upper ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... Well under Poros Building Drain at 62/ΛΣΤ, west of the Areopagus. ... Small amount of supplementary filling was added in the upper part of the well, probably when the cutting was bridged over to allow for the building of the Poros Drain.

[Agora Deposit] F 17:1: North Hypocaust Furnace Dump

Furnace Dump from N. Hypocaust in Bath to East of Poros Building. Coins: 26 March 1948 #4-#8 27 March 1948 #1-#3 29 March 1948 #2-#7 1 April 1948 #2-#3 3 April 1948 #14-#15 7 April 1948 #16-#27 8 April ... Second half 3rd c.-first half 4th c. A.D ... Hypocaust in Bath to East of Poros Building.

[Agora Deposit] Q-R 10:1: Fill Under Floor of Mudbrick Building Under Stoa of Attalos

Stoa of Attalos (Shop VI), between poros orthostates of front wall. No deposit list.

[Agora Deposit] E-F 12-14: Building Fill in B'

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 ... 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. ... These, too, are now incorporated into this building fill deposit, per the pottery lots on p. ... Subdivisions: .1=a) Undisturbed filling of the building. .2=b) Undisturbed filling to north of the building. .3=c) Building fill in disturbed places.

[Agora Deposit] D 17:3: Cistern at 65/KH

Cistern at 65/ΚΗ (and Channel). Cistern in the northwest room of the annex to the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Part of the same system as D 17:4 and D 17:5, the chambers connected by long tunnels ... 300-250 B.C ... Cistern in the northwest room of the annex to the Poros Building west of the Areopagus.

[Agora Deposit] D 17:12: Well

Unfinished well, south of the annex to the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus. The shaft was apparently never used as a well. The lower dumped filling contained a quantity of clean red clay, as if from ... Ca. 350-325 B.C ... Unfinished well, south of the annex to the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus.

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[Agora Deposit] D 17:7: Disturbed Pyre

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 ... disturbed, in the area of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. ... B.C. destruction of the building, which if the pyre was found more or less in situ, was in the past by the time the pyre was burnt.

[Agora Deposit] D 17:5: Cistern

Built against the south wall of the annex to the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. At the west the upper layer of marble chips carried against it, the lowest were cut by it. Part of same system as ... 225-100 B.C ... Built against the south wall of the annex to the Poros Building west of the Areopagus.

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[Agora Deposit] D 17:13: Pocket with burning

Pocket with burning at 60/ΚΗ. "Is this perhaps a disturbed pyre burial." [Nbp. 2928]. Identified as pyre by SIR. Near north end of corridor, beside its west wall. Concentration of artifacts, tiny scraps ... 4th c. B.C ... The pyre postdates the 4th century reconstruction of the Poros Building. Clay balls like the ones found here have come to light in two other pyres, but this assemblage lacks most characteristic pyre objects, and its skyphos is full-size (rare but not unknown in pyres).

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[Agora Deposit] D 17:14: Disturbed Pyre

Disturbed Pyre at 59/ΚΗ (ΚΖ), in the area of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus. Against east wall of room 5 west. concentration of artifacts, ash, carbon and a few bones in stratum, no pit discerned ... 3rd c. B.C ... Disturbed Pyre at 59/ΚΗ (ΚΖ), in the area of the Poros Building west of the Areopagus.

[Agora Deposit] C 18:4: Construction Fillings

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 ... 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 operations. ... These levels may not have been sealed over by the construction of the building until the last quarter of the century.

[Agora Deposit] T 17:3: Channel J

Channel J (in ΗΗ) Cutting that probably originally held a drain. Packed with amphoras and other coarse pottery. It tapped the poros aqueduct wall just East of our explanatory trench at the East end of ... 1st c. B.C. - early 1st. A.D ... It tapped the poros aqueduct wall just East of our explanatory trench at the East end of ΗΗ. Then it swung sharply NW and N as though to avoid some building and moved down at great depth (1.62m)as though along a street.

[Agora Deposit] T 25:2: Well 12 in ΟΑ

Well 12: Archaic. It lies on a rocky ledge about thirty meters north of the Klepsydra, just east of the Panathenaic street. In spite of its depth, it produced little pottery and its contents were of slight ... 6th c. B.C.? ... In the well were not merely the usual quantities of domestic wares, pithoi, tubs and the like, of broken up terracotta rooftiles and crude brick; there was also a number of building stones: three large blocks of poros from some archaic structure, and many small carefully dressed blocks of Acropolis limestone from a polygonal wall or walls.

[Agora Deposit] Q 12:1: Well by Stoa Pier 3.

Well by Stoa Pier 3. Mouth was discovered in 1950 (p. 2273). Between first and second POU; no joins between the groups, which were separated by nearly sterile fill. No apparent chronological difference ... Mid-2nd c. B.C ... Interesting well because of its probable connection with the building of the Stoa of Attalos. ... This filling probably belongs to a time before the building of Stoa, when the well served some nearby house or shop. Immediately above this lower filling came a meter of fill containing many buff poros chips, some marble chips and a large number of water-jars, but no other vase-shapes, apart from chance sherds.