Agora Deposit: I 5:4
Title:   Cist Τomb, Child Inhumation
Supervisor:   Susan I. Rotroff
Category:   Burial
Description:   Grave 4 under Royal Stoa. Cist Grave cut into bedrock and lined with limestone and schist slabs. There were two layers of cover slabs with a layer of dirt between. Grave measured 0.98x0,25-0,32x0,25-0,30 deep. Rock packing around slabs.
Grave of a child, bones in very poor condition. Apparently extended on back. Head to south, grave oriented ne-sw.
Notes:   One amphoriskos and two bits of bronze (from rings?).
Bibliography:   Hesperia 87 (2018) pp. 226, 227.
    Hesperia 44 (1975), p. 373, n. 102, pl. 84,h.
    Agora XXXVI, Tomb 64, pp. 428-431, 550, figs. 2.290-2.292, 2.309-2.313, pl. 1.
Chronology:   Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean
Date:   20, 23 July 1973
Section:   ΒΓ
Grid:   I/5,6-5/1,2
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 44 (1975)
Images (8)
Object: P 30306