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| Title: | Pit Grave, Adult Inhumation | |
| Supervisor: | John Camp | |
| Category: | Burial | |
| Description: | Protogeometric grave (female inhumation) located about 0.60m northwest of T 15:1. It consisted of a roughly rectangular pit, with the corners slightly rounded, oriented approximately north-south. The pit was cut to a depth of at least 0.45m at the south end and 0.25m at the north on account of the sloping bedrock. The original depth of the tomb would have been at least slightly greater, since the bedrock around it was leveled in Late Roman times, if not earlier. The tomb pit measured 1.65-1.70m long by about 0.63m wide; the floor of the tomb was at 68.30-68.40 masl., 1.65-1.70m long by about 0.63m wide; the floor of the tomb was at 68.30-68.40 masl. Within the pit, the well-preserved skeleton of a woman aged about 40-44 years at death was found laid out in a fully extended position on her back, head to the south. The left arm was across the waist, the right reaching up over the chest; the head was rolled over onto its right side, facing east. A substantial Late Roman wall ran across the tomb, covering but not disturbing the skeleton from mid-thigh to instep; the bones were recovered by tunneling. The fill was redeposited crushed bedrock. There was no trace of any tomb covering, nor were there any clear ledges, despite the fact that the sides of the tomb sloped slightly toward the floor. | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 42 (1973), pp. 398-399, pl. 73 a, b. | |
| Agora XXXVI, Tomb 26, pp. 254-259, 538-540, figs. 2.161-2.166, 3.25-3.26. | ||
| Chronology: | "Submycenaean"/Early Protogeometric | |
| Date: | 18 May 1972 | |
| Section: | ΡΡ | |
| Grid: | T/9-15/2,3 | |
| References: | Publication: Agora XXXVI Publication: Hesperia 42 (1973) Images (6) Object: P 29772 Object: P 29773 |
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