Agora Deposit: T 15:1
Title:   Pit Grave, Adult Inhumation
Supervisor:   John Camp
Category:   Burial
Description:   Protogeometric Grave about 0.60m to the southeast of T 15:2.
Unlined roughly rectangular-elliptical pit, oriented north-south, neatly cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.70m, with rounded corners. The pit measured 1.70m long by about 0.67=0.72m wide; its floor is at 68.40masl. Within the pit, the skeleton of a woman, aged about 40-44 years at death, within significant osteoarthritis and degenerative joint disease, was placed on the floor of the tomb, on her back, in a fully extended supine position, arms by the side of the body, head to the south. The head had rolled over onto its right side, facing northeast.
There were no trace of stone slabs or ledges.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 42 (1973), p. 398-400, pl. 73, c, d.
    Agora XXXVI, Tomb 28, pp. 261-268, 540-542, figs. 2.161, 2.162, 2.169-2.173, 3.27, 3.28.
Chronology:   Early-Developed Protogeometric
Date:   9-11 May 1972
Section:   ΡΡ
Grid:   T/11-15/3,4
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 42 (1973)
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