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| Title: | Hellenistic Pyre | |
| Supervisor: | Marcie Handler | |
| Category: | Pyre | |
| Description: | This pyre was found in the fill under Pyre J 2:23. Unfortunately, no floor surface was found between the two pyres. There were no complete vessels in this pyre. The sherds of the pyre vessels were mixed into the surrounding fill, but were confined to a small area just below and east of Pyre J 2:23 on the north side of Wall 4. The catalogued pots included fragments of two lopadia, one lopadion lid, fragments of five pyre saucers and two ribbon-handled plate and one rilled-rim plate. In addition to the catalogued pottery, fragments of between five and seven additional pyre saucers, one ribbon-handled plate, and one chytridion were left in the pottery bag. The pottery found around the pyre suggest a date after 275 B.C. (west slope ware was present, but moldmade bowl fragments were absent), which is very close to the date for the upper pyre, J 2:23 (1st quarter of the 3rd century B.C.). The layer of fill directly under this pyre deposit (lot 1623) dated to c. 500 B.C. | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 14, pp. 115, 116, figs. 22, 40, 41. | |
| Chronology: | 275-250 B.C. | |
| Date: | 4-20 July 2006 | |
| Section: | ΒΖ | |
| Grid: | J/13-2/3 | |
| J/11,13-2/2,4 | ||
| Elevation: | 52.506-52.149m. | |
| Masl: | 52.149-52.506m. | |
| References: | Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013) Image: 2012.87.1342 (2006-14-26) Image: 2013.09.0028 Image: 2015.01.0039 Objects (12) |
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