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| Title: | Urn Cremation | |
| Supervisor: | John Travlos | |
| Category: | Burial | |
| Description: | (Grave XXXII: EG) Urn cremation (trench-and-hole). Published as cremation burial of a warrior. The tomb was probably originally oriented north-south, with the urn-hole at the south end. The north side of the urn-hole, most of the neck and rim of the cinerary urn, and the entire pyre trench had been cut away by a Turkish pit that was cleared in 1938. The original dimensions of the tomb are lost, but the urn-hole had a diameter of approximately 0.70m and a preserved depth of at least 0.63m. The urn contained the cremated remains of what was considered by Angel to be a slight and elderly male, 70 years old at death. The deceased is the oldest individual thus far identified among the cremation burials in the area of the later Athenian Agora. A small quantity of animal bones and at least one seashell fragment were encountered among the cremated remains of the deceased inside the cinerary urn, as was the small bead. The animal remains included fragments from an immature pig, an adult dog, and an unidentified mammal, the latter the only fragment showing clear signs of burning. | |
| Notes: | PD 447 | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 16 (1947), pp. 196-197, fig. 1, pl. 41. | |
| Agora XXXVI, Tomb 17, pp. 180-185, 536, figs. 2.103-2.10. | ||
| Chronology: | Transitional Early Geometric II-Middle Geometric I | |
| Date: | 15 January 1944 | |
| Section: | ΒΒ | |
| Grid: | ΒΒ:3-4/Μ-ΜΑ | |
| References: | Publication: Agora XXXVI Publication: Hesperia 16 (1947) Objects (7) |
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