Agora Deposit: Q 10:3
Title:   Chamber Tomb to West of Pier 12
Category:   Burial
Description:   Mycenaean Grave to W of Pier 12 (Burial 11).
The northern part of the tomb had been cut away by the foundation trench for the south stylobate of the Square Building that preceded the Stoa, and the dromos, if one existed, must have been lost in this operation. The chamber was small with an original east-west dimension of 1.60m and a preserved north-south dimension of 1.20m, the walls preserved to a maximum height of 0.90m. A single skeleton lay in some disorder in the eastern part with its head to the south. Beneath the skull were slight traces of black, either from burning or from the decay of organic matter.
Although it might be argued from the single internment and the absence of any preserved dromos that this was a pit grave, the location of the body along the edge of the cutting would seem rather to indicate a small chamber tomb that has been cut away at the north.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 23 (1954), pp. 57-58, pl. 16 b.
    Agora XIII, pp. 232-233, 275, pls. 55, 67, 89 (Tomb XXXI).
    Agora XXVII, p. 230.
    JHS LXXIV, 1954, p. 146.
Chronology:   Myc. IIB-IIIA:1
Date:   8 September 1953
Section:   ΣΑ
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication: Agora XXVII
Publication: Hesperia 23 (1954)
Publication Pages (4)
Images (4)
Object: P 23587
Object: P 23588