Agora Deposit: C 19:1
Title:   Urn burial of an infant
Category:   Burial
Description:   RSY Grave 51.
The grave lay on the slope of the Areopagus in Roman house O, just east of the line where the hillside is scarped for the foundation of the west wall of the house.
Cutting:the pit cut in bedrock into which the burial was set measured 0.95m from north to south and 0.55m from east to west. Its depth was 0.65m. The burial urn, a pithos, was laid in the pit on its side, the mouth toward the south. A foundation wall of the Roman house passed close to the mouth of the pithos, for which we found no cover; one may have been removed when the foundation was laid. The side of the pithos which lay upward had been crushed in by pressure from above, but all the fragments were found inside where they had fallen, and there was no evidence that any hole had been made for the insertion of the body.
Skeleton: On the bottom of the pithos were found the skull and some of the leg-bones of a small child who had seemingly been buried in a doubled-up position with the head toward the mouth of the pithos (south). No grave offerings were found.
Notes:   No finds listed from "fill in grave cutting" around the pithos, e.g. T 2894, container Lot ΝΝ 773.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 109, pl. 48 c, d (Grave 51), plan pl. 33.
Chronology:   Archaic period/6th or 7th c.
Date:   13 August 1947
Section:   ΝΝ
Grid:   ΝΝ:63/ΙΣΤ
References:   Publication: Hesperia 20 (1951)
Publication Page: Agora 5, s. 62, p. 48
Image: 1997.20.0377 (XXVIII-39)
Image: 2012.51.1317 (XXVIII-39)
Object: P 19737
Notebook: ΝΝ-31
Notebook: ΝΝ-40
Notebook Pages (4)