Agora Deposit: I 18:2
Title:   Simple Trench Cremation
Category:   Burial
Description:   (Grave XXIX: EG).
Rectangular cutting with remains of charred human bones and both burned and unburned pottery fragments. Bones discarded.
Rectangular trench cut through earth into bedrock, oriented east-west and measuring 1.10m long, 0.70m wide and under 0.30m deep. A thin layer of hard-burned clay mixed with charcoal, ash and cremated human bone. According to the excavator, cremated skull fragments were encountered at the east end of the trench, leg bones near the west end. Burned and unburned sherds representing at least nine vessels were found throughout the trench. The inclusion of the fragmentary cooking pot or chytra led Smithson to suggest that the deceased was a woman.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 43 (1974), pp. 359-362, pl. 77, b-e.
    Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 159.
    Agora XXXVI, Tomb 19, pp. 199-204, figs. 2.116-2.118.
Chronology:   Middle Geometric I
Date:   11 April 1932
Section:   ΣΤ'
Grid:   ΣΤ':61-62/ΜΑ
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 17 (1948)
Publication: Hesperia 43 (1974)
Image: 2012.46.0297 (Section ΣΤ 198)
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