Agora Deposit: J 2:19
Title:   Tomb
Supervisor:   David Scahill
Category:   Burial
Description:   At northeast corner of Classical Building II; on south side of dromos of Tomb K 2:5, and separated from it by ca. 0.6m of bedrock. Chamber cut through bedrock. The northeast corner of chamber defined. Rest of tomb runs under later wall foundations to the south and west.
Upper fill of stones and earth inside cutting with Geometric sherds. Partially articulated skeleton laid out against the north wall of the tomb, with feet to the east. A courseware pitcher upside down in the north east corner. More bones and a skull in a depression under and to the south, with an alabastron, and broken pieces of a second pitcher.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 89 (2020), pp. 617-619.
    Hesperia 72 (2003), p. 264, fig. 28.
Chronology:   LHIII A:1
Date:   20 July-2 August 2001
Section:   ΒΕ
Grid:   J/17,19-2/6,7
Elevation:   51.953-51.427m.
Masl:   51.320-51.953m.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 72 (2003)
Publication: Hesperia 89 (2020)
Report: 2001 Excavations
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