Title: | Infant Burial in Pot | |
Category: | Burial | |
Description: | Enchytrismos burial of an infant at the E. corner of Byzantine Room G. The burial was in brown fill flecked with charcoal and containing brown-glazed pottery (Lot ΒΗ 472). The pot was embedded upside down in the corner formed by Walls 15 and 16. Around the pot was a concentration of broken tiles and rubble, possibly placed there as a support. The highest preserved point of the vessel's wall was at 53.718m. | |
Notes: | AA 371 (articulated skeleton/ even the small bones of the ear preserved of an infant of an age of 30-32 weeks; i.e. a premature birth at 7 months. | |
Chronology: | Byzantine 10th/11th c. A.D. | |
Date: | July-August 2006 | |
Section: | ΒΗ | |
Grid: | L/16-2/19 | |
Elevation: | 53.718-53.405m. | |
Masl: | 53.405-53.718m. | |
References: | Report: 2006 Excavations Report Page: 2006 Excavations, s. 7 Object: P 35407 |