Agora Deposit: M 17:8
Title:   Pyre in Pithos Y.
Category:   Pyre
Description:   Contents of Pithos Y; probably belonging to sacrificial pyre III.
In northern corner of courtyard. Characteristic pyre pottery in fill of one of two pithoi set into the floor of the courtyard as part of 4th c. reconstruction (phase 3). Pottery is very fragmentary and probably not all from the pyre. Perhaps the pyre material was unearthed in the course of later activities and thrown into the pithos, which had gone out of use.
The date of the pyre puts it near the beginning of phase 3 of the house, so it could have originally been buried in connection with renovations that inaugurated that phase. there is no record of burning.
Contents:   Organic material: animal bone.
Notes:   Lot Φ 231c.
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 57, pp. 170, 171, figs. 105, 107.
Chronology:   400-350 B.C.
Date:   4 May 1957
Section:   Φ
Grid:   Φ:49/ΙΘ
References:   Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013)
Image: 2007.04.0036
Objects (12)
Lot: Φ 231
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