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| Title: | Urn cremation | |
| Category: | Burial | |
| Description: | Grave 1 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXV: PG). No remains. Probable trench-and-hole. JP Roughly circular pit measuring 0.39m in diameter cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.72m. Pyre refuse-described as "ashes and cinders etc"- was encountered throughout the tomb pit, below, around and above the urn. although there is no specific mention of a trench, Young's description of the tomb suggests that a rectangular trench, with a maximum length of about 0.80m and a preserved width of ca. 0.60m, was cut through earth into bedrock. consequently, the tomb appears to be a classic example of an Athenian trench-and-hole, oriented east-west,with the urn-hole at the east. There was no clear evidence that the tomb as a whole was sealed in any way, and any tomb covering would have been destroyed by the construction of the mudbrick foundry. | |
| Notes: | ca. 5/NZ (JP) | |
| Bibliography: | Agora XXXVI, Tomb 55, pp. 375-381, figs. 2.180, 2.261-2.264. | |
| Chronology: | Late PG/EG I | |
| Date: | 3-4 February 1936 | |
| Section: | ΠΘ | |
| Grid: | ΠΘ:5/ΝΖ | |
| References: | Publication: Agora XXXVI Images (11) Objects (4) |
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