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[Agora Deposit] I 18:3: Simple Trench Cremation

Homer A. Thompson ... (Grave XXX: EG) Rectangular cutting with burned bones of a female 40-45 years old, and both burned and unburned pottery fragments. Rectangular trench, measuring approximately 0.80m long, 0.40m wide, with ... Middle Geometric I ... Hesperia 43 (1974), pp. 362-365, pl. 78, a-d ... Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 159 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 20, pp. 204-213, 537-538, figs. 2.119-2.125, pl. VIII.

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[Agora Deposit] M 21:1: Komos Cistern

Komos Cistern at 66/Κ, on the north slope of the Areopagus. Homogeneous fill. Thirty-four stamped amphora handles. Eight Histiaian tetrobols, dating 170-160 at the earliest, found near top, possibly an ... Last quarter of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd century B.C ... Coins: 14 May 1947 #1-#5 15 May 1947 #1-#4 16 May 1947 #1-#5 17 May 1947 #1-#4

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[Agora Deposit] C 17:2: Pyre North of House G

North of House G (RSY=Pyre 13). Concentration of artifacts, small pieces of bone, and burnt material in stratum, no pit discerned. The pyre is cut by the trench of a wall of a Roman house to north. It ... 290-250 B.C ... Hesperia 17 (1948), pp. 166-167 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 129-130, pl. 54 a (Pyre 13) ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 37, pp. 146, 147, figs. 4, 6, 67, 76, 77.

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[Agora Deposit] A 18-19:1: Ostrakon Area

Pit (6x10) in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Large cutting in bedrock with 540 ostraka, mainly of the late eighties of the 5th. c. B. C. Much pottery, principally of the early ... Ca. 500-450 B.C ... Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 193 ... Agora XXV, pp. 20-22, 163 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 253.

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[Agora Deposit] C 11:4: Pit tomb, inhumation of two children

James H. Oliver ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave IX: PG). Two children's skeletons one on top of the other. Cf. PD 329 for PD 430 for second skeleton, same deposit. PG grave about 25m. SW of Cistern A at 46/ΜΔ. [In some records, ... Developed Protogeometric ... Hesperia 14 (1945), pp. 303-304, 350-351, no. 75 (AA 29) pl. LI (read ΠΘ where KK on ... Hesperia 5 (1936), pp. 23-24, figs. 21-22 (PD 429) ... Desborough (1952), pp. 71-74, 85 ("an early tomb"), pp. 99-100.

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[Agora Deposit] A 17:1: Well on Lower Slope of Hill of the Nymphs

A well on the lower slope of the Hill of the Nymphs, (diam. 1.20m -water level -7m), to 7.90m. The scanty use filling at the bottom contained water jars and pitchers as well as the inventoried objects; ... Second quarter of 6th. c. B.C ... commode (P 18010, Hesp. 17 (1948), pp. 154-155), and an

[Agora Deposit] E 14:3: Drawshaft, "Kybele Cistern"

Cistern-shaft at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios. Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just ... Upper fill, Late Roman with some Hellenistic. Middle fill, Sullan debris to last quarter of 1st c. B.C. Lower fill, 4th-3rd c. B.C.=POU and abandonment ... Hesperia 35 (1966), pp. 252-259 ... Agora XXVI, pp. 306-307 ... Agora XXXIII, pp. 352-353.

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[Agora Deposit] D 16:2: Urn cremation

Margaret Crosby ... Grave 1 (Grave XXVI: EG) Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult male? [JP] Boots or Booties Grave. Near the west branch of the Great Drain, about 100m to the southwest of the Agora horos inscription ... Early Geometric I ... 1948 to the southwest of the ... (15-20) 17.3mm. Substantial