Agora Deposit: O 20:6
Title:   Disturbed Pyre in Room 5, House D
Category:   Pyre
Description:   Disturbed pyre dispersed in fill of Room 5, House D.
Pyre pots in very fragmentary condition were noticed by Barbara Tsakirgis in later analysis of pottery that had been excavated in 1938; no mention of them was made at the time of excavation.
The fill in which they were found lies partly over the continuation of the eastern wall of the house. Another group of pyre pots excavated in 1969 immediately to the east is probably part of the same disturbed group(s). It is likely that more than one pyre is involved: the two rilled-rim plates do not match and there are three lekanis lids (rarely does a pyre contain more than two lekanides). If originally associated with this house, the pyre (s) could be related to the 4th c. B.C. remodeling. some of the pottery exhibits burning.
Contents:   Coin
14 June 1938 #4
Bibliography:   Hesperia 83 (2014), p. 200, table 2.
    Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 59, p. 173, figs. 109, 110.
Date:   14 June 1938
Section:   Ω
Grid:   Ω:67/ΛΘ
    Ω:64-68/ΛΖ-ΛΗ
References:   Publication: Hesperia 83 (2014)
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013)
Image: 2013.09.0035
Objects (14)
Lot: Ω 103
Lot: Ω 109
Notebook: Ω-7
Notebook: Ω-8
Notebook: Ω-17
Notebook Pages (8)