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[Agora Deposit] H 16:6: Urn Cremation/The Rich Athenian Lady

Gerald V. Lalonde ... Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female with fetus/neonate. One box with burnt animal bones is stored with the skeleton AA 302 in drawer 97. Objects also recorded frm Section ΣΤ. PD 1692, PD 1807 ... Early Geometric II, 850 B.C ... Hesperia 73 (2004), pp. 7-38, figs. 2-13 ... Hesperia 37 (1968), pp. 58-59, fig. 8 ... Hesperia 37 (1968), pp. 77-116, pls. 18-33.

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[Agora Deposit] N 21-22:1: Tomb of the Ivory Pyxides

Mycenaean Chamber Tomb occupies a considerable part of the western half of section ΕΕ; lies about half way up the north slope of the Areopagus towards its eastern end, just below the highest point of the ... Myc. III A:1 ... Hesperia 9 (1940), pp. 274-291, fig. 15 ... AJA XLII, 1939, pp. 578-586 ... Agora XIII, pp. 158-169, 274, pls. 29-33, 65, 67, 75, 77, 80.

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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.

[Agora Deposit] H-I 7-8:1: "Burnt Layer"

Accumulated debris on the west side of the market square. Related layers added 1999/2000 (JWH), e.g. "Gravelly layer above burning", "Clearing Classical floor", "Lowest level above bedrock", "Below burning", ... First half of 5th c. A.D ... Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 209 ... March 1933 #1-#29 (above ... #51-#53 21 March 1933 #1-#51

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[Agora Deposit] E 29:3: Possible pyre

Above bedrock in N.W. corner of room S, House of Greek Mosaic. Contents suggest "saucer-pyre" ... Late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C ... E 29:3 ... E 29:3

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:6: Inhumation of a female

Grave VII in notebook = RSY Grave 21. PD 731-k ... Date uncertain, presumably 7th. or 6th. c. B.C ... B 21:6 ... B 21:6

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[Agora Deposit] N 21:6: Disturbed inhumation

Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave. Bones discarded. Burial lies over dromos of Mycenaean chamber tomb N 21-22:1. The roots of a tree had upturned the bones, but the head probably lay at the northeast ... Middle Geometric II ... Hesperia 29 (1960), pp. 412-413, pls. 88, 91-92 ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 24, pp. 230-236, figs. 2.139-2.145, pl. VIII ... Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 292 (noted), fig. 34 and marked on plan p. 279, fig.

[Agora Deposit] P 21:4: Cistern at 53/NE

Cistern at 53/ΝΕ, bottle-shaped, stucco-lined, in the east aisle of the peristyle of Roman House H (courtyard of Greek House G, just west of andron). Lower diameter 2.73m. Homogenous fill all apparently ... Into early 2nd century B.C ... Hesperia 42 (1973), pp. 154-156, pl. 33 (selection of pottery) ... Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), pp. 73, 100, nn. 15, 116 ... Agora XXXIII, pp. 371-372.