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 Images (5) Objects (5) |