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| Title: | Pit tomb, adult inhumation | |
| Supervisor: | Rodney S. Young | |
| Category: | Burial | |
| Description: | Grave 8 in notebook. Bones discarded. Fragments of an iron pin found on the chest and a fragment of a Protogeometric krater base found beside the body were not inventoried. JP Unlined roughly rectangular pit cut into bedrock, measuring 1.71m long and 0.50m wide. the modern surface of what was known in the early 1930s as Plateia Theseiou sloped down toward the west; the bottom of the tomb at the east end was at a depth of 0.31m from the surface, and only 0.17m at the west end. the tomb was oriented east-west, with the head of the deceased toward the west. the skeleton, in part disturbed, was found on its back, arms by the side of the body. Torso and arms were articulated in situ; of the skull, only two small fragments were found, and there was only one leg bone, apparently not in situ. of the human remains, which were not kept, only the upper arm (L. 0.241) and forearm (L. 0.216) were measured in situ. If correct these measurements indicate that the deceased was a child, 10-12 years at death, or a very small woman (stature estimated at 1.35-1.50m). On the chest of the deceased the excavator noted remains of an iron pin, and at the right side of the skeleton a :conical foot" from an open vase. There was no evidence of any surviving cover slabs. the plain earth fill of the tomb pit yielded no sherds. | |
| Bibliography: | Agora XXXVI, Tomb 33, p. 287, fig. 2.190. | |
| Chronology: | LH III/EPG (date uncertain) | |
| Date: | 7 February 1936 | |
| Section: | ΠΘ | |
| Grid: | ΠΘ:13/Ν-ΝΑ | |
| References: | Publication: Agora XXXVI Image: 2012.42.1002 (Section ΠΘ 71) |
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