Agora Deposit: F 20:1
Title:   Pyre
Category:   Pyre
Description:   Identified as Pyre by SIR.
Debris filling of the middle of the 4th c. B.C. including the remains of a sacrificial pyre.
Objects dispersed in red-clay fill uncovered in removal of modern staircase. A broken drain tile "immediately above" this area suggested to the excavator that the deposit may have been washed in. Pottery from the fill is a mixture: much 4th c. but also later material. The excavator recorded" some indications of burning" within the fill, and some of the pottery is burnt. No bone was recorded.
Contents:   Coins:
12 April 1939 #1
13 April 1939 #1
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 54, p. 166, fig. 102.
    Agora XII, p. 390.
    Agora XXI, p. 98.
Chronology:   4th c. B.C. disturbed
Date:   12-13 April 1939
Section:   ΓΓ
Grid:   ΓΓ:39-43/ΞΓ-ΞΕ
References:   Publication: Agora XII
Publication: Agora XXI
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013)
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 17, p. 390
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 37, p. 410
Image: 2013.09.0021
Objects (6)
Coin: N 9017