Agora Deposit: G 13:3
Title:   Pyre
Category:   Pyre
Description:   In room A. Concentration of artifacts and burning in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre lay below a Late Hellenistic fill with a smooth earth surface. It is described as a black patch of earth with sherds, resting on a rough and uneven surface topping a fill that dates largely in the 4th c., to at least 325, with seven Hellenistic sherds perhaps intrusive from the level above. The fragmentary state of some of the pottery in the pyre suggests some disturbance.
Strosis II, on which the pyre rested, covered the walls of Room A, demonstrating that the pyre postdates a change of plan or abandonment of this part of the building, other parts of which survived to the Late Hellenistic period. The pottery shows traces of burning. No bone was recorded.
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 30, pp. 138, 139, figs. 7, 57, 65, 66.
    Agora XXIX, p. 453.
Chronology:   350-250 B.C.
Date:   15 May 1933
Section:   Ζ
Grid:   Ζ:15/Η
    Ζ:15-17/ΣΤ-ΙΑ
References:   Publication: Agora XXIX
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013)
Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 425, p. 386
Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 492, p. 453
Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 539, p. 500
Image: 2007.04.0023
Objects (12)
Lot: Ζ 734
Notebook: Ζ-5
Notebook: Ζ-15
Notebook: Ζ-17
Notebook Pages (5)