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[Agora Deposit] D 16:3: Pithos Child Burial

Grave 2 in notebook. Child of about two (or 10?) months, body placed in plain pithos, which rested on its side at the bottom of a pit; the mouth closed with a stone slab. The burial forms a group with ... 750-725 B.C

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[Agora Image] 2004.01.2585 (HAT 49-168)

Fill cleared from about two-thirds of the depth of the grave, showing pithos half-buried with stone slab covering its mouth and coarse pitcher set upright against the neck of the pithos, its mouth closed ... =XXXVIII-15 ... 27 Jun 1949