Agora Deposit: O 17:8
Title:   Pit tomb, infant inhumation
Supervisor:   Eugene Vanderpool
Category:   Burial
Description:   Infant grave near Phaidon street cistern. No offerings.
Roughly rectangular, almost elliptical cutting in bedrock, measuring 0.70m long, 0.35m wide, and 0.40m deep, oriented south-southwest to north-northeast. The skeleton of what was stated to be a "newborn infant," head to the south-southwest, was laid out within the pit and covered by a stone slab.
Reanalysis of the bone identified the presence of two infant inhumations, which were subsequently labeled AA 289 a,b
Notes:   Estimated Grid
Φ 244, 80-559
Bibliography:   Hesperia 73 (2004), p. 26, n. 72.
    Agora XXXVI, Tomb 3, pp. 52-53, 528, figs. 2.10, 3.13.
Chronology:   Late Helladic III C/Early Protogeometric (date uncertain)
Date:   5 August 1957
Section:   Φ
Grid:   O/1,2-17/15,16
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 73 (2004)
Image: 2012.55.0656 (80-559)
Image: 2012.47.0840 (Section Φ 244)
Image: 1997.17.0284 (80-559)
Notebook: Φ-7
Notebook Page: Φ-7-62 (pp. 1313-1314)