Agora Deposit: I 5:3
Title:   Cist Τomb, Adult Inhumation
Supervisor:   Susan I. Rotroff
Category:   Burial
Description:   Burial 3 beneath the floor of the Stoa Basileios. It consisted of a rectangular pit cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.44m, lined on all sides and covered with an admixture of narrow stone slabs of soft limestone, sandstones, and schist, varying in thickness between 0.020 and 0.150m. Most of the cover slabs were small, but the larger, main cover stone measured 0.46mx0.85m; it had collapsed on one side into the grave, but caused virtually no damage to the contents of the tomb.
Oriented southwest-northeast, the inner dimensions of the tomb measured 1.64m long and 0.43m wide (external dimensions): 1.90m long, 0.65m wide). The floor of the tomb was neatly worked bedrock, although it is clear from the section that bedrock in the immediate vicinity sloped down from west to east.
Adult female inhumation. Woman 35-45 years old, placed on her back in a fully extended position, head to the southwest. The left lower arm lay across the waist; the right arm was bent, with the hand resting on the right shoulder. Skull had rolled slightly onto the left shoulder.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 87 (2018) pp. 226, 227.
    Hesperia 44 (1975), pp. 372-374, pl. 83,c.
    Agora XXXVI, Tomb 62, pp. 416-420, 549, figs. 2.290-2.292, 2.298-2.302.
PD Number:   PD 2217
Chronology:   Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean
Date:   16-19 July 1973
Section:   ΒΓ
Grid:   I/6,8-5/2,3
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 44 (1975)
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Object: P 30305