Agora Deposit: Q 8:7
Title:   Pit Tomb, Child (?) Inhumation
Supervisor:   Homer A. Thompson
Category:   Burial
Description:   PG grave north of Stoa Pier 19 (Grave 6). In some records as Grave XLIII.
Unlined rectangular pit cut into a shallow depression in bedrock that was formed by the collapse of the roof of Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Q 8:8. The north end of the tomb had been sheared away for the construction of the Stoa. The preserved length of the tomb was ca. 0.70m, its width 0.45m, and its depth 0.35m. Traces of a layer of white clay remained on the floor of the pit and on the collapsed bedrock around it. The tomb was oriented south-southwest to north-northeast.
On the floor of the pit, " a few bones and the skull" of the deceased were encountered, the cranium evidently at the south end of the grave. Fieldstones filled the tomb pit and the depression to the level of the undisturbed bedrock surrounding it.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 23 (1954), p. 58 (noted).
    Agora XXVII, p. 229.
    Agora XXXVI, Tomb 71, pp. 450-453, figs. 2.328, 2.329, 2.332, 2.337, 2.338.
Chronology:   Developed Protogeometric
Date:   18-19 August 1953
Section:   ΣΑ
References:   Publication: Agora XXVII
Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 23 (1954)
Images (4)
Object: P 23561
Object: P 23562
Object: P 26278