Agora Deposit: R 18:1
Title:   Pyre
Category:   Pyre
Description:   Small pit (in Layer I) = Grave ("Pyre") Identified as pyre by SIR.
Pottery and burning ("pit filled with black") in pit slightly west of Panathenaic Road, dug into layer I (lot AA 180, much earlier 6th c. material with later disturbances), and directly under post-antique deposits. No bone was recorded but some is preserved with the context pottery.
Organic material: animal bone.
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 66, pp. 177, 178, figs. 4, 118.
    Agora XXIX, p. 471.
Chronology:   275-250 B.C.
Date:   7-9 June 1938
Section:   ΑΑ
Grid:   ΑΑ:39/ΚΒ
References:   Publication: Agora XXIX
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013)
Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 298, p. 259
Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 510, p. 471
Publication Page: Agora 29.1, s. 539, p. 500
Image: 2007.04.0048
Object: L 3502
Object: P 13371
Object: P 13372