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Well at 74/Ι, on the lower north slope of the Areopagus.
Use fill from early 1st to 3rd c. A.D.
Dump fill from 4th c. A.D. Coins
9 April 1938 #2
9 May 1938 #1 Container 20 (lost) p. 1529 ... 1st c. to 3d c. A.D. |
Containers ca. 140-207. From containers ca. 170 to bottom, catalogued objects seem to represent a gradual accumulation from 1st c. A.D. to mid-3rd c. Divisions between are arbitrary and therefore combined ... Mixed post-pre-Herulian |
Well in street leading to Roman Agora. Not excavated below 2.10m.
This has the same date as the latest pieces in R 13:1 (JWH). Coins:
6 August 1946 #1-#3 Estimated Grid ... Ca. 40-50 A.D. |
Use filling of first half of 1st c.; dumped filling of late 1st c.(?). This well, near its mouth, cuts off the end of the upper passage of the cistern at 53/Ε. Subdivisions:
.1=Dumped filling
.2=POU ... First half of 1st c. A.D. POU |
Containers 1-14. Very fragmentary pottery. Some material earlier than late 1st c. A.D. Coins:
10 May 1939 #4-#5
11 May 1939 #4-#9
12 May 1939 #5
15 May 1939 #7-#9
17 May 1939 #1-#2
23 May 1939 #1 ... Late 1st c. A.D. |
Pit (Well?) under Building A, Room 2. Coins:
9 May 1949 #1-#2
11 May 1949 #4
12 May 1949 #3 (not a coin, bronze fragment in lotted metal tins ΠΠ 295). Estimated Grid
Remains of coloring matter found with ... Hellenistic-Early Roman |
Dumped filling of 6th c. A.D. Coins:
3 May 1939 #1-2 (red earth above well)
9 June 1939 #1
10 June 1939 #1
12 June 1939 #1-#5
13 June 1939 #1
19 June 1939 #1-#2, #3 (Dump)
7 May 1940 #1
9 May 1940 #1
27 ... Early 1st-5th c. A.D. POU |
Containers 1-ca. 139. The well shaft broken out into a large hole so that no sequence could be observed ... Mixed post-Herulian |
Rectangular pit (in Trench IX); dumped filling of late 5th. c. B.C. with some disturbance as late as Early Roman. P 18559 and P 18510 from above this pit ... 5th c. B.C. |
Filling over bedrock. Coins:
26 May 1938 #7-#10
27 May 1938 #1
28 May 1938 #1 ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
West Road and Drain. (Road, drain and closely related cuts.) Packing in line of ancient road running along the northwest shoulder of the Areopagus. Includes excavation of 1957 titled "Road Area to North", ... Late 6th c. B.C. - Roman |
Abandoned digging at 6.25m. due to water level. Tile well could be associated with a bit of late Roman wall to the south, with floor level about one meter above that of pebble floor. Well tiles were not ... 14-22 April 1948 |
Cistern in valley west of the Areopagus. Dumped filling of late 1st. to early 2nd. c. and of 5th to 6th century. Coins:
7 June 1939 #12
8 June 1939 #18-#19
9 June 1936 #26 ... 1st.-2nd. c. A.D. |
Fill in shaft; upper fill in lower chamber; fill in vaulted chamber. Coins:
29 April 1937 #1-#8
5 May 1937 #1-#27
26 May 1937 #1-#12
27 May 1937 #1-#10
28 May 1937 #1-#6
24 March 1938 #3-#7
12 June 1939 ... Late 4th c. A.D. |
Lower fill in shaft; upper and lower drain filling; shaft, in upper chambers. Coins:
31 March 1938 #1
9 May 1939 #1-#2
20 June 1939 #1 Estimated Grid ... Late 2nd-earliest 3rd c. A.D. |
Well East of Stoa Room 11; no appreciable change in pottery top to bottom; dumped fill of Augustan times. Coins:
4 May 1950 #1-#3
15 May 1950 #1 Estimated Grid ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
Well C - Passage, belongs with II - Brick Shaft. All dumped fills. No objects catalogued from Well C of section ΟΑ. One object (I 5422) catalogued from modern fill in shaft, one from dump (I 5545). Coins: ... 2nd c. A.D.- Byzantine |
Well cut through the floor of a cistern. Apparently a dumped fill in an unused well. Coins:
16 March 1934 #15 (illegible)
17 March 1934 #2
19 March 1934 #1-#4
20 March 1934 #1-#3
22 March 1934 #1
23 March ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
Hellenistic-Early Roman fill over bedrock, along west side of Kolonos Agoraios. Consistent dumped filling; occasionally there is a late Roman fragment intruded from the filling above, but this seems not ... 26-29 February 1936
2-12 March 1936 |
Exploration of area of small early house walls on the NW slopes of Areopagus. Considerable deposits of late 6th-early 5th c. B.C., but some later (all periods) and some early levels, disturbed.
Objects ... Late 6th-Early 5th c. B.C. |
Coins:
10 March 1936 #1-#2
11 March 1936 #1 ... 200 to late 1st c. |
Great Drain: fillings in south part of section; Martyrs I, II and III, all layers (essentially no difference in the layers).
Pottery sorted and recorded by H.A. Thompson 12 may 1950: "Having gone through ... Second half of 2nd c. B.C.-Early 1st c. B.C. |
Accumulated fillings in a system of underground drains at west end of section ΔΔ with northward continuation into and across Section Υ.
The filling in the "underground passages" in section ΔΔ appears to ... 3rd c. B.C.
2nd c A.D. |
No period of use. Below the upper (Early Roman) dump extending down to ca. 6.10m. was a dumped fill of broken pottery in great quantity, including a high proportion of red-figured fragments. Masses of ... Ca. 430-400 B.C.
Late 1st c. B.C.-mid 1st c. A.D. |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ.
Objects with context as "cistern 44ΙΓ, mouth of 46/ΙΑ" are listed with D 12:2.
The following objects are from "earth", i.e. no context layer:
SS 5334, ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman |
Dumped fillings thrown in during second quarter of 1st c. B.C. containing mostly debris resulting from Sulla's sack in 86 B.C.
Agora XXIX, p. 464: Four fills distinguished during excavations ... but seemingly ... Late 2nd c. and early 1st c. B.C. POU; 110-75 B.C. |
Great Drain South (ca. 70-113, from SW edge of section as far north as the Roman Bath) Hellenistic Sand Fill. Silted-up filling of the southern branch of the Great Drain, abandoned due to some damage at ... 4th. c.-86 B.C. |
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