Agora Deposit: A 18:3
Title:   Sacrificial Pyre in NN
Category:   Pyre
Description:   Sacrificial pyre, disturbed; a small pyxis (P 14864) is close to that from B 18:4. First half of 4th. c. B.C., perhaps first quarter.
West of House C. Pottery and cinders in pit in stratum. The pyre was excavated in two parts: the first in 1939 (A 18:3) and the second in 1940. Its integrity as a single pyre was not recognized until later. Construction of a Roman house had removed all trace of earlier structures here. Cinders lay under and among the pottery, so the pyre was probably burnt in situ. No bone was recorded.
Notes:   Published together with A 18:9 in Hesperia 47.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 83 (2014), p. 156, n. 51.
    Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 50, pp. 163, 164, fig. 98.
    Agora XII, p. 383.
Chronology:   First half 4th. c. B.C.
Date:   22 April 1939
Section:   ΝΝ
Grid:   ΝΝ:83/ΞΓ-ΞΔ
References:   Publication: Agora XII
Publication: Hesperia 83 (2014)
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013)
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 10, p. 383
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 37, p. 410
Image: 2013.09.0001
Object: P 14864
Object: P 14865
Object: P 14866
Notebook: ΝΝ-5
Notebook Page: ΝΝ-5-22 (pp. 835-836)