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| Title: | Simple Trench Cremation | |
| Supervisor: | Homer A. Thompson | |
| Category: | Burial | |
| Description: | (Grave XXX: EG) Rectangular cutting with burned bones of a female 40-45 years old, and both burned and unburned pottery fragments. Rectangular trench, measuring approximately 0.80m long, 0.40m wide, with a preserved depth of 0.20m, cut through earth, partly into irregular outcroppings of bedrock, oriented northwest-southeast. A fieldstone paving was found closing the mouth of the trench and lining the sides cut in earth. The floor was bedrock at one end, hard clay at the other. The filling consisted of hard-packed burned earth with scattered fieldstones, crude pieces of mudbrick, ash, charcoal, the cremated remains of, the deceased, described by Angel as an arthritic woman about 45-50 years old, as well as what was originally published as a few unburned bones of a dog. Recent reanalysis of the human remains, which were poorly preserved, yielded results consistent with Angel's estimation of age, but Liston noted the possibility that it is a male rather than female. As for the animal bones, probably the belonged to two sheep or goats, at least one specimen of cattle, a hare and a bird,, but there is nothing clearly identifiable as dog; of the 65 fragments of animal bones recovered, only four were clearly burnt. | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 43 (1974), pp. 362-365, pl. 78, a-d. | |
| Coldstream (1968), p. 16. | ||
| Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 159. | ||
| Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 470. | ||
| Agora XXXVI, Tomb 20, pp. 204-213, 537-538, figs. 2.119-2.125, pl. VIII. | ||
| Chronology: | Middle Geometric I | |
| Date: | 11 April 1932 | |
| Section: | ΣΤ' | |
| Grid: | ΣΤ':66/ΜΑ | |
| References: | Publications (4) Image: 2012.46.0409 (Section ΣΤ 314) Image: 1997.20.0016 (2-250) Image: 2012.21.0020 (2-250) Objects (12) |
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