"Type","dc-date","Redirect","Chronology","dc-publisher","Icon","Name","dc-description","dc-creator","Id","dc-subject","UserLevel","Collection","dc-title"
"Deposit","26-27 May 1937","","Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0051::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0051.tif::640::491","M 16-17:1","Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave II: SM).; Unlined trench, roughly the size of the deceased, cut into bedrock to a depth of just over 1.50m. Oriented north-south, the tomb pit measured 1.69m in length (length of the skeleton in situ, 1.65m), and had a width, as excavated, of 0.40-0.58m. the west side was slightly undercut, and a small part of the east side was cut buy the cellar wall of a modern house, but only the very edge of the tomb at an upper level was touched, whereas the contents of the grave were untouched. Ledges, maximum width 0.20m, ran along the full length of the sides. A roughly rectangular stone slab rested on the ledges above the head of the deceased, while fragments of a pithos (or pithoi), also resting on the ledges, covered the deceased  down to the thighs. Fragments preserving about a quarter of the coarse basin were placed on top of the slab.; Within the tomb pit, the body of a middle-aged 45-49 years at death was placed in an extended position, on her back, head to the south. The body of the deceased was roughly the size of the tomb pit, and the head, turned toward the west, facing west-northwest, lay right up against the cutting of the tomb pit. The left arm of the deceased was at her side, the right arm was slightly bent, with the hand over the pelvis","Eugene Vanderpool","Agora:Deposit:M 16-17:1","","","Agora","Pit Tomb, Adult Inhumation"
"Deposit","30 March 1936","","Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean","","Agora:Image:2008.03.0130::/Agora/2008/2008.03/2008.03.0130.tif::2382::3852","D 7:1","Grave 23 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave IV: SM). Few bones: discarded.","Dorothy Burr Thompson","Agora:Deposit:D 7:1","","","Agora","Pit tomb, child inhumation"
"Deposit","23 July-2 August 1996","","Late Mycenaean or Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean","","Agora:Image:1997.06.0178::/Agora/1997/1997.06/1997.06.0178.tif::1186::1199","J 2:10","Roman temple north. Adult male inhumation. Pit tomb, partially stone-lined.","David Scahill","Agora:Deposit:J 2:10","","","Agora","Pit tomb"
"Deposit","15 May 1951","","Middle Protogeometric","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0174::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0174.tif::700::990","J 7:1","Protogeometric Grave no. 2 at North of Temple of Ares (Grave XXXVII). Rectangular stone-lined pit in filling of Mycenaean chamber tomb (J 7:2); the skeleton of a boy.","E.D. Townsend Vermeule","Agora:Deposit:J 7:1","","","Agora","Child Inhumation"
"Deposit","23 April-9 May 1951","","1st: Myc IIB-IIA:1-2, 2nd: Myc. IIIC:1 (1450-1200 B.C.)","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0165::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0165.tif::695::859","J 7:2","Mycenaean Chamber Tomb under north side of Temple of Ares, towards its west end.(1951).; The tomb had a hasty and unfinished appearance oddly at variance with its long history and the quality of the pottery found inside. The original dromos ran from west to east and entered the chamber toward the south end of the long west wall. The doorway itself was only 0.80m wide.; The chamber was a small room roughly hewn out of bedrock. It formed an irregular triangle in plan, with the apex to the north: 2.00m wide by 2.85m long. The roof had apparently been a low one, rising just over a meter above the floor. A small niche, 0.50m square and raised 0.25m above the chamber floor, was set in the wall at the southwest corner of the room.; The chamber was approached by a second dromos and door leading in from the northeast. Centered in the northeast wall, this second doorway was only 0.59m. wide, but well cut. The dromos leading to the second door scarcely deserved the name, being stubby and narrow, 1.58m long with a maximum width of 0.75m. The northeast end was rounded, and plunged precipitously 1.05m down from bedrock level with no trace of steps or ramp.","","Agora:Deposit:J 7:2","","","Agora","Chamber Tomb under the Temple of Ares"
"Deposit","21 May 1952","","Submycenaean","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0380::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0380.tif::1007::733","J 9:2","Submycenaean grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXIV).","Evelyn L. Smithson","Agora:Deposit:J 9:2","","","Agora","Pit Tomb, Adult Inhumation"
"Deposit","8 March 1937","","Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0049::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0049.tif::474::686","M 17:2","Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XVI: PG). Bones discarded.; ; Only the lower portion of the urn-hole was preserved in bedrock, roughly oval in outline, with a maximum preserved width at the top of 0.70m  narrowing toward  the bottom: the pit had a preserved depth of about 0.30m, or just slightly under.; No trace of pyre debris  was encountered  in the vicinity of the tomb, and the material overlying the grave yielded  material of Late Roman date, indicating  that  damage to the tomb probably dates to that time. The flat, evidently cut bedrock  immediately to the southwest of the urn-hole suggests  that the tomb may have been originally a standard  trench-and-hole cremation.","Eugene Vanderpool","Agora:Deposit:M 17:2","","","Agora","Damaged urn cremation"
"Deposit","26 February 1937","","Middle Geometric I","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0017::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0017.tif::653::488","M 17:3","Grave (adult female). (In some records as Grave XXXI).; The tomb was partly destroyed in antiquity; there are sherds of all periods down to Late Roman (and later) note din the fill immediately above it. A modern well was partly cut into the northeast portion of the tomb as preserved, and an ancient block, reused in a modern wall, was founded directly on bedrock just to the southwest of the tomb.; As preserved, the tomb consisted of a roughly oval cutting, 1.40m long, oriented southeast to northwest. The cinerary urn, probably once stood in a shallow sinking a little in from the northwest end (cf. trench-and-hole). the cutting itself proved to be an enlargement of the mouth of the filled in Protogeometric well M 17:5. As encountered, the cinerary urn, largely destroyed in antiquity, was bedded in the disturbed upper filling of the well. Excavating the green clayey earth below the tomb, largely redeposited and decomposed bedrock, the excavator  quickly noted  Protogeometric sherds, while the cutting itself for the well rounded out to a diameter of ca. 0.75m towards the bottom, slightly greater towards the top.; The cinerary urn, contained the cremated remains of an adult female, aged ca. 30 years at death according to Angel, but aged 40-50 years at death  in the more recent reanalysis.; The amphora also contained a few fragments of bronze and iron jewelry , described by the excavator as pins, which had disintegrated and were never inventoried: it is possible but not certain, that these were remnants of jewelry melted out  of shape by cremation. six fragments of animal bone were also encountered inside the cinerary urn, together with the cremated human remains. Most of the fragments were identified as dog and were unburned. a few fragments of mudbrick  in the upper fill of the well may also have come from the grave.","Eugene Vanderpool","Agora:Deposit:M 17:3","","","Agora","Damaged Urn Cremation"