Title: | Pyre 1 | |
Category: | Pyre | |
Description: | Pyre 1 in Central House, Room XI, strosis 3. Sacrificial pyre with characteristic small vases amid carbonized twigs and bone. Near north side of courtyard. This pit was cut slightly into strosis 3 (lot Φ 231), a 5th c. floor associated by the excavator with phase 2 of the house. Non-joining fragments of pyre pots in strosis 2 above (lot Φ 228) suggest that the pyre may have been dug from that level. The pyre is approximately contemporary with the renovation of the house that initiated phase 3 in the first half of the 4th c., so it could be associated with that event. The excavator noted that the pyre :had clearly been burned elsewhere and deposited," but she also described a layer of charcoal 0.05m thick, which seems inconsistent with this conclusion. | |
Notes: | No lot. | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 56, p. 170, figs. 105, 106. | |
Agora XII, p. 394. | ||
Chronology: | 1st quarter 4th c. B.C. | |
Date: | 5 May 1958 | |
Section: | Φ | |
Grid: | Φ:47/Κ | |
References: | Publication: Agora XII Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013) Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 21, p. 394 Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 46, p. 419 Image: 2012.55.0950 (81-152) Image: 2007.04.0034 Image: 1997.17.0315 (81-152) Objects (4) Notebook: Φ-7 Notebook: Φ-8 Notebook Pages (4) |