Agora Deposit: L 17:4
Title:   Pyre 1
Category:   Pyre
Description:   Pyre 1 in Central House, Room XI, strosis 3. Sacrificial pyre with characteristic small vases amid carbonized twigs and bone.
Near north side of courtyard. This pit was cut slightly into strosis 3 (lot Φ 231), a 5th c. floor associated by the excavator with phase 2 of the house. Non-joining fragments of pyre pots in strosis 2 above (lot Φ 228) suggest that the pyre may have been dug from that level. The pyre is approximately contemporary with the renovation of the house that initiated phase 3 in the first half of the 4th c., so it could be associated with that event. The excavator noted that the pyre :had clearly been burned elsewhere and deposited," but she also described a layer of charcoal 0.05m thick, which seems inconsistent with this conclusion.
Notes:   No lot.
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 56, p. 170, figs. 105, 106.
    Agora XII, p. 394.
Chronology:   1st quarter 4th c. B.C.
Date:   5 May 1958
Section:   Φ
Grid:   Φ:47/Κ
References:   Publication: Agora XII
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013)
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 21, p. 394
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 46, p. 419
Image: 2012.55.0950 (81-152)
Image: 2007.04.0034
Image: 1997.17.0315 (81-152)
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Notebook: Φ-7
Notebook: Φ-8
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