Agora Deposit: R 7:2
Title:   Chamber Tomb to East of Stoa Shop 19
Category:   Burial
Description:   Mycenaean Tomb to E of Stoa Shop 19 (ΣΑ 2).
Found while digging just east of Stoa Shop XIX, when came upon some bones, Mycenaean sherds and a pot. As the excavation was enlarged the legs of two skeletons were exposed in a trench about one meter wide, with the whole pot and the coil of lead wire found between two sets of legs. The floor of the tomb was level with the seventh foundation course of the Stoa, and there was no great depth of bedrock fill above the bones, barely 0.20 to 0.30m before the Classical level. No sure limit to the tomb cold be fixed in any direction, although tunneling to the east the following year was done to a maximum penetration of 1.80m east of the Stoa Foundations. In this subsequent operation a broken skull, the bones of doubled-up skeleton, two terracotta figurines, other coils of lead wire and two more skulls were found. No end of the tomb was in sight when operations had to be stopped.
Although the excavation of this tomb was incomplete, it was clearly a chamber tomb with multiple burials, and contained some very fine and unusual pottery (ritual character-burial of a person of some religious stature).
Bibliography:   Agora XIII, pp. 227-229, 275, pls. 53-54, 75-76, 88 (Tomb XXVI).
    Agora XXVII, p. 231.
Chronology:   Myc. III A:2 (2nd half of 14th c.)
Date:   9 July 1953
9 June 1954
Section:   ΣΑ
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication: Agora XXVII
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