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[Agora Deposit] Q 10:3: Chamber Tomb to West of Pier 12

Mycenaean Grave to W of Pier 12 (Burial 11). The northern part of the tomb had been cut away by the foundation trench for the south stylobate of the Square Building that preceded the Stoa, and the dromos, ... Myc. IIB-IIIA:1 ... Hesperia 23 (1954), pp. 57-58, pl. 16 b ... Agora XIII, pp. 232-233, 275, pls. 55, 67, 89 (Tomb XXXI) ... JHS LXXIV, 1954, p. 146.

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[Agora Deposit] J 2:9: Pyre

Excavation of this pit began in 1995, tentatively identified as a pyre. This proved to be so with continued excavation in 1996. The deposits J 2:8 and J 2:9 were combined to become J 2:9. Miniature vessels ... Ca. 300 B.C ... Hesperia 68 (1999), pp. 278-281 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 67-134 ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 12, pp. 113, 114, figs. 22-24, 37, 38.

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[Agora Deposit] Q 8:5: Pit Tomb, Child Inhumation

Homer A. Thompson ... PG grave to NW of Pier 19 (Grave 4). It consisted of a rectangular pit, oriented north-south, cut into bedrock. Only the lowest part of the tomb pit was preserved; the upper part was cut away in the Classical ... Earlier-Developed Protogeometric ... Hesperia 23 (1954), pp. 57-58 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 69, pp. 441-445, figs. 2.328-2.331, 2.337.

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[Agora Deposit] H 16:6: Urn Cremation/The Rich Athenian Lady

Gerald V. Lalonde ... Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female with fetus/neonate. One box with burnt animal bones is stored with the skeleton AA 302 in drawer 97. Objects also recorded frm Section ΣΤ. PD 1692, PD 1807 ... Early Geometric II, 850 B.C ... Hesperia 37 (1968), pp. 58-59, fig. 8 ... Hesperia 37 (1968), pp. 77-116, pls. 18-33 ... Hesperia 73 (2004), pp. 7-38, figs. 2-13.

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[Agora Deposit] J 7:1: Child Inhumation

E.D. Townsend Vermeule ... 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. Cf. P 21275 which is from the "preliminary ... Middle Protogeometric ... Hesperia 24 (1955), pp. 200-201, 218, fig. 1, pl. 77, nos. 37-38 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 72, pp. 453-456, figs. 2.339-2.343.

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[Agora Deposit] Q 8:7: Pit Tomb, Child (?) Inhumation

Homer A. Thompson ... 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 ... Developed Protogeometric ... Hesperia 23 (1954), p. 58 (noted) ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 71, pp. 450-453, figs. 2.328, 2.329, 2.332, 2.337, 2.338.

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[Agora Deposit] M 12:1: Cist Grave in

Mycenaean Grave. One of the first Mycenaean burials found in the Agora. It consisted of a regular cist, carefully cut with vertical sides and a flat bottom, measuring 1.90m by 0.55m. There were apparently ... LH III (c. 1200) ... Hesperia 14 (1945), pp. 296-297 (no. 37) ... Hesperia 5 (1936), pp. 21-23, figs. 19-20 ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), pp. 73, 100, nn. 15, 116.

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[Agora Deposit] H 12:15: Well

Well A, early 5th c. B.C. Near the Agora Boundary Stone, northwest corner of Middle Stoa; diameter at top 0.92m, widening to 1.15m and more below. Shaft neatly faced with stones to a depth of 0.70m below ... Ca. 520-480 B.C ... Hesperia 23 (1954), pp. 51-54, pl. 15 ... Hesperia 62 (1993), pp. 453-455 ... Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375.