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| Title: | Urn cremation | |
| Supervisor: | Homer A. Thompson | |
| Category: | Burial | |
| Description: | Cremation burial (trench-and-hole) under S. edge of E-W Street, southern burial. In some records as Grave XLVI. Neat trench, rectangular as preserved, but may have originally been square, cut partly through earth, partly into bedrock, to a depth of about 0.25m. The north side of the trench was destroyed by the a Turkish cess pit. As preserved, the trench measured ca. 1.05x 0.60m, and was presumably oriented east-west, but as the north side was destroyed it is possible that the trench extended toward the north and may, therefore, have had a north-south orientation. Be that as it may, a deep, circular urn-hole was cut into the southeast corner of the pyre trench to a depth of 0.45m below the level of the floor, and measuring 0.35m in diameter. The floor of the trench was not as heavily burned as that of other related cremation tombs, though there was within it,particularly toward the west, a thick deposit of ash, charcoal, and burned sherds, representing pyre debris. | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 25 (1956), pp. 48-49. | |
| Agora XXXVI, Tomb 10, pp. 69-77, figs. 2.23-2.30. | ||
| Chronology: | Early Geometric I | |
| Date: | 20, 27 and 31 May 1955 | |
| Section: | Τ | |
| Grid: | Τ:65/ΜΣΤ | |
| References: | Publication: Agora XXXVI Publication: Hesperia 25 (1956) Images (4) Objects (8) |
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