Agora Deposit: G 12:7
Title:   Inhumation of a Man
Category:   Burial
Description:   Grave 7 in notebook. Area disturbed in Roman times; outlines of the shaft had been obliterated.
The northwest end, however, was preserved in a cutting in the rock of the sloping hillside. This cutting, 0.59m wide, extended to a total depth of 0.62m below the rock surface. This depth had provided space for two separate burials, one above the other. The earlier burial, Grave XX, occupied the bottom of the cutting; the later, Grave XIX, rested on a filling of ash 0.38m above it. A thin layer of sand had been sprinkled over the filling of the earlier burial, to serve as a floor for the later.
The skeleton of a man lay with the head toward the northwest; an iron knife was found lying under the left upper arm.
Notes:   See Hesperia 14, no. 86 (AA 5).
Bibliography:   Hesperia 14 (1945), pp. 306, no. 86, figs. 7, 8, pl. LIII (Grave XIX).
    Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 93-94, figs. 1, 64, 73 (Grave XIX).
    Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 29, fig. 27.
    Agora VIII, p. 127.
Chronology:   750-700 B.C.
Date:   28 February 1935
Section:   Β
Grid:   Β:37/ΙΑ
References:   Publications (4)
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 125, p. 111
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 141, p. 127
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 194
Images (6)
Object: IL 162
Object: P 4756
Lot: Β 290
Lot: Β 291
Lot: Β 366
Notebook: Β-8
Notebook: Β-9
Notebook Pages (5)