Agora Object: W 42
Inventory Number:   W 42
Section Number:   ΜΣ 1145
Title:   Coffins and Bier Fragments
Category:   Wood
Description:   Many fragments, traces and preserved pieces of white wood.
Apparently roughly finished planks 0.03-0.04m. thick forming coffins, one possibly only a bier. No nails or pegs preserved. Moist and friable on first exposure to air, seems to harden progressively; dissolves in water, does not burn.
Largest single piece (measurements above) removed from under Δ's left side, preserved with Krylon, talc and wax. Red-brown stains may be bark.
ADDENDA Wood identified by Mr. Papamichael of ΙΝΣΤΙΤΟΥΤΟΥ ΔΑΣΙΚΩΝ ΕΡΕΥΝΩΝ, as either pine or cypress.
Context:   From Chamber Tomb, below Middle Stoa Terrace opposite Pier 20; with spearhead B 1287. Associated with skeletons Γ and Δ in north half of chamber. Observed to Max. H. of 0.45m. from floor over Δ, at length of ca. 1.90m. under his bones.
Notebook Page:   2063 ff.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   L. (largest single piece) 0.95; W. (largest single piece) 0.05; Th. (largest single piece) 0.04
Material:   Wood
Date:   4-13 August 1965
Section:   ΜΣ
Deposit:   N 12:4
Bibliography:   Hesperia 35 (1966), pp. 64, 65, pl. 21.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 35 (1966)
Image: 1997.20.0413 (Various vi-77)
Deposit: N 12:4
Card: W 42
Card: W 42