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| Title: | Cist Tomb, adult inhumation | |
| Supervisor: | Susan I. Rotroff | |
| Category: | Burial | |
| Description: | Grave 5. Adult (female?) inhumation. Cist grave lined and covered with slabs of limestone, sandstone and schist. Cut into virgin soil under Royal Stoa at I/12,13-5/3,4. Grave measures 1.79x0.39-0.49x ca. 0.30 deep, oriented ne-sw. Skeleton buried with knees raised, lying on her back. Left arm bent so hand rests on shoulder. Lower right arm across body. Grave of a woman about 50. Very large and muscular woman. Contained small neck amphora resting on skeleton's knees, upside down. | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 87 (2018), pp. 216, 227. | |
| Hesperia 44 (1975), pp. 372-373, pls. 83,d, 84,g. | ||
| Agora XXXVI, Tomb 61, pp. 413-416, 546-549, figs. 2.290-2.292, 2.295-2.297, 3.33-3.35. | ||
| Chronology: | Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean | |
| Date: | 23-24 July 1973 | |
| Section: | ΒΓ | |
| Grid: | I/12,13-5/3,4 | |
| References: | Publication: Agora XXXVI Publication: Hesperia 44 (1975) Publication: Hesperia 87 (2018) Images (14) Object: P 30307 |
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