Agora Deposit: C 9:9
Title:   Urn cremation
Supervisor:   Rodney S. Young
Category:   Burial
Description:   Grave 2 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XV: PG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female.
JP
It consists of a roughly rectangular pit or trench cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.35m., measuring 1.12m long and 0.67m wide. The trench was oriented east-west, urn-hole to the east. The fill of what remained of the pyre trench contained much burned debris, especially in the western part of the tomb. The urn-hole, cut to a depth of 0.62m., measured roughly 0.40m in diameter. the urn-hole itself, but not the rectangular trench of the tomb, was sealed by a large, flat stone, broken in situ. Textile pseudomorphs were noted along with animal bones, some heavily burned.
Bibliography:   Agora XXXVI, Tomb 50, pp. 347-352, 545-546, figs. 2.180, 2.239, 2.243-2.246, 3.31, 3.32.
Chronology:   Late Protogeometric
Date:   6 February 1936
Section:   ΠΘ
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
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