Agora Deposit: M 17:2
Title:   Damaged urn cremation
Supervisor:   Eugene Vanderpool
Category:   Burial
Description:   Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XVI: PG). Bones discarded.
Only the lower portion of the urn-hole was preserved in bedrock, roughly oval in outline, with a maximum preserved width at the top of 0.70m narrowing toward the bottom: the pit had a preserved depth of about 0.30m, or just slightly under.
No trace of pyre debris was encountered in the vicinity of the tomb, and the material overlying the grave yielded material of Late Roman date, indicating that damage to the tomb probably dates to that time. The flat, evidently cut bedrock immediately to the southwest of the urn-hole suggests that the tomb may have been originally a standard trench-and-hole cremation.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 325.
    Agora XXXVI, Tomb 7, pp. 62-65, fig. 2.18, 2.19, pl. V.
Chronology:   Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I
Date:   8 March 1937
Section:   Φ
Grid:   Φ:69/Κ
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 7 (1938)
Report: 1937 Φ
Report Page: 1937 Φ, s. 3
Images (6)
Object: P 9324
Object: P 9325
Lot: Φ 2
Notebook: Φ-2
Notebook: Φ-4
Notebook: Φ-5
Notebook Pages (5)