| Title: | Cremation | |
| Supervisor: | Rodney S. Young | |
| Category: | Burial | |
| Description: | Grave 7 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXI: PG). Bones discarded. Disturbed and damaged cremation (originally trench-and-hole), the east end cut away, probably contained the burial urn. JP It consisted of a rectangular trench cut through hard-packed fill and slightly into bedrock to a depth of 0.48m. the trench oriented east-west, had a preserved length of 0.70m and a width of 0.60m. The east end where the cinerary urn would have originally been located in an urn-hole, was almost completely cut away by the Hellenistic water channel that skirted the tomb to the south. evidence of heavy burning, in the form of reddened earth, was noted on the ground around the mouth, rim, floor and three sides of the trench. The preserved east end, built up from redeposited green schist bedrock streaked with reddened earth, may have been a barrier between the destroyed urn-hole and the pyre trench, constructed after the fire had subsided. The trench contained pyre debris, including fragments of burned bone, alongwith ash and burned and unburned sherds. | |
| Bibliography: | Agora XXXVI, Tomb 53, pp. 370-372, figs. 2.180, 2.257-2.258. | |
| Chronology: | Late Protogeometric | |
| Date: | 6 February 1936 | |
| Section: | ΠΘ | |
| References: | Publication: Agora XXXVI Image: 2012.42.0994 (Section ΠΘ 63) Object: P 6724 Object: P 6725 |
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