Agora Deposit: Q 8:6
Title:   Cist Tomb, Child Inhumation
Supervisor:   Homer A. Thompson
Category:   Burial
Description:   PG grave to NW of Stoa Pier 19 (Tomb no. 5 in notebook). In some records as Grave XLII.
It consisted of a rectangular pit, oriented north-south, cut into bedrock. The sides of the pit were lined and the floor paved with unworked or only roughly hewn slabs of schist (Th. 0.10-0.15m), defining a cist. The floor of the cist was further covered with a thin layer of sand. The external dimensions of the tomb were 1.17x0.50m; the inner dimensions 1.08m long,, 0.30m wide, and 0.21m deep. The skeleton of a child (7-8 years at death) was found on its back in a fully extended supine position, head to the south, filling the cist almost entirely. This was one of the better-furnished tombs: grave goods included a metal pin on either shoulder, with the pin-heads toward the south.
The tomb was partly filled with, and totally covered by fieldstones.
Notes:   This grave is exhibited in the Agora museum.
Bibliography:   AgoraPicBk 13 (1973), fig. 35.
    Hesperia 23 (1954), p. 58, pl. 16a-c.
    Agora XIV, p. 13, pl. 19a-c.
    Agora XXVII, p. 229.
    Agora XXXVI, Tomb 70, pp. 445-450, figs. 2.328, 2.329, 2.332-2.337.
Chronology:   Earlier-Developed Protogeometric
Date:   18-19 August 1953
Section:   ΣΑ
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