Agora Deposit: J 2:23
Title:   Hellenistic Pyre
Supervisor:   Marcie Handler
Category:   Pyre
Description:   The pyre was revealed under a layer of mixed fill with pottery dating from the 3rd century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. Five pots were immediately visible (BZ 1318-1321, 1333) in a shallow pit surrounded by grayish black ashy fill, and all but one of the pots were placed upside down. The pots were arranged in a crescent-shaped array along with a lump of slag and a stone (both saved in the lot). The remainder of the pyre pots were pieced together from the sherds in lot 1621. The original floor surface above the pyre must have been disturbed some time in the early Roman period, and no floor surface was found between this pyre and the remains of pyre J 2:24, which was found lower down and slightly to the east. The preliminary date for the pyre is the 1st quarter of the 3rd century B.C.
Contents:   Coins:
29 June 2006 #1833
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 15, pp. 116, 117, figs. 22, 40, 42.
Date:   23 June-4 July 2006
Section:   ΒΖ
Grid:   J/12-2/3,4
Elevation:   52.491-52.479m.
Masl:   52.442-52.667m.
References:   Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013)
Report: 2006 Excavations
Image: 2013.09.0027
Objects (13)
Coin: N 74471