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[Agora Deposit] M 16-17:1: Pit Tomb, Adult Inhumation

Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave II: SM). Unlined trench, roughly the size of the deceased, cut into bedrock to a depth of just over 1.50m. Oriented north-south, the tomb pit measured 1.69m in length (length ... Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric ... depth of just over 1 ... pit measured 1.69m in ... in situ, 1.65m), and had a

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:15: Inhumation a Man

Grave 14 in notebook. Length of shaft 2.12m; width 0.46m; depth from cover 0.60m. Man's skeleton stretched NE-SW with head at NE. Offering at foot of shaft, with the skyphos in the mouth of the pitcher ... 750-725 B.C ... Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 304, no. 78, pl. LII (Grave XIV) ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 71-73, figs. 1, 22, 45-46 (Grave XIV).

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[Agora Deposit] C 19:3: Bronze Casting Pit in House H, Room 13

Located in House H, Room 13 on the lower northwest slope of the Areopagus ... Late 2nd c. B.C ... Agora XIV, pp. 189-190, fig. 48, pl. 97c ... Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 136, fig. 1 and p. 269.

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[Agora Deposit] M 17:1: Well

Use filling of middle of 1st to late 6th c. (Roman Group M); dumped filling of 9th and 10th c. Down to a depth of about 21.00m. the fill of the well contained very few objects, the latest of them being ... 1st-6th c. A.D ... 1st-6th c. A.D.

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[Agora Deposit] C 9:10: Urn cremation

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 3 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XIII: PG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female. JP Rectangular trench, measuring approximately 1.10x0.45m, but which may have been larger, cut through ... Late Protogeometric ... Rodney S. Young

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[Agora Deposit] C 9:8: Urn cremation

Grave 1 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXV: PG). No remains. Probable trench-and-hole. JP Roughly circular pit measuring 0.39m in diameter cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.72m. Pyre refuse-described ... Late PG/EG I ... Grave 1 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXV: ... mention of a trench, Young

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[Agora Deposit] B 10:1: Infant Pot Inhumation

Rodney S. Young ... Disturbed burial (no remains), probably an infant pot inhumation. Inhumation grave 17 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave XIX: PG). Shallow oval cutting containing a banded amphora on its side, mouth ... LPG ... Rodney S. Young

[Agora Deposit] F 12:1: Urn-Burial of an Infant

Rodney S. Young ... Shallow round pit scraped out of bedrock. Grave 18 in notebook. The confusion here is that P 5347 found in the grave was catalogued in B' but the large bowl fragment (P 6482) was catalogued in B (see nb ... 700-650 B.C ... F 12:1 ... F 12:1

[Agora Deposit] H-K 12-14: Middle Stoa Building Fill

Middle Stoa Building Fill (with filling to S) (See also Κ: H-I-J 14-15 and Λ: K-M 13-14) This deposit is not definitive and must be considered with the above deposits before details are entered into database; ... To ca. 180 B.C ... Agora XIV, pp. 66-68 ... Hesperia 54 (1985), pp. 1-54.

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[Agora Deposit] E-F 13:1: Prehistoric Burial

Laura Gawlinski ... Burial of a woman (young adult female ca. 18-20); precise dating difficult due to disturbance by later features, but the amount of Neolithic and Geometric pottery extracted from the trench is significant ... Prehistoric ... Burial of a woman (young adult female ca. 18-20); precise dating difficult due to

[Agora Deposit] Q 7:2: Dromos of Chamber Tomb

Dromos of a Mycenaean Tomb at N end of Stoa Terrace (Burial 3). No remains. Perhaps to be associated with dromos of a Mycenaean chamber tomb (?) observed in this area (XIV, p. 2707). Tomb found when workmen ... Myc. III A ... area (XIV, p. 2707). Tomb ... See footnote 1 in Agora XIII, p. 218, under Tomb XXII: "although there is no

[Agora Deposit] G 12:1: Urn-burial of an Infant

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 1 in notebook. Slightly disturbed by the digging of Pit A. A large oil jar/amphora lay on its side with a flat stone stopping its mouth. The three small vases offered at the burial were found, together ... Ca. 600 B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 21-23, figs. 1, 8-9. (Grave II).

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:4: Urn-burial of an Infant

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 4 in notebook. Amphora, no other pots but carbonized remains of food offerings. Over urn two stone slabs, on top, mass of small stones containing Late Geometric sherd ... Late Geometric ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 24-26, figs. 1, 12-13 (Grave IV).

[Agora Deposit] G 12:16: Urn-Burial of an Infant

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 15 in notebook. Skeleton of infant inside the hydria which lay on its side, its mouth stopped by cup; a pitcher stood by the neck of the hydria ... 750-725 B.C ... Rodney S. Young

[Agora Deposit] G 12:18: Urn-Burial of an Infant

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 17 in notebook. No offerings. Amphora containing skeleton of small child was laid on its side in pit. RSY Lot Β 304 Fill over Grave 17 ... Early 6th century B.C (?) ... Rodney S. Young

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[Agora Deposit] F 9:1: Pit tomb, child inhumation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 15 in notebook. Burial of child (E.L. Smithson: Grave XIV: PG). Single bone. Nb. says: few bones. Skull fragment, few ribs and fingers (bones discarded). Negs. KK 24 and KK 30 431 ... Developed to Late Protogeometric ... Kerameikos V, 1, p. 47 as a "spätprotogeometrischen Grab".

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:5: Urn-Burial of an Infant

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 5 in notebook. The grave had been somewhat disturbed by the digging of Well B. The hydria lay on its side; in it was found the skeleton of a small child lying on its side with the knees drawn up ... Late 8th-early 7th c. B.C ... Rodney S. Young

[Agora Deposit] O-R 7-10: Construction Fill

Square Peristyle (Square Building) Constructions fill + other (square peristyle area); fragmentary and with some earlier material but in the main, where undisturbed, a homogenous deposit. Coins: 26 May ... Βefore 300 B.C ... Agora XIV, pp. 60-61.

[Agora Deposit] E 6:1: East Chamber at 69/Λ

Cistern System #3: East Chamber at 69/Λ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/ΛΣΤ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos ... 175-125 B.C ... E 6:1 ... E 6:1

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[Agora Deposit] C 11:1: Pit tomb, child inhumation (?)

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 19 (In some records as Grave VIII). No remains, no burned matter or traces of burning. JP A small cutting with a single offering. The pit may have been for a simple child/infant inhumation, with ... Early Protogeometric ... C 11:1 ... C 11:1

[Agora Deposit] A 18:2: Cremation in NN

Rodney Young ... Grave. RSY Grave 50. Outside archaic cemetery on the lower slopes of the Hill of the Nymphs, cremation burial. Roughly square pit (0.80x1.00m). This pit contained a heavy deposit of cinders and ash; its ... Beginning of the last quarter of the 6th century ... Rodney Young

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:14: Urn-Burial of Two Infants

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 13 in notebook. Two skeletons of small children lay in a pithos which had been put on its side; its mouth was stopped by a stone slab. Most offerings were inside the pithos, but two kantharoi and ... Late Geometric ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 36-41, figs. 1, 22-25, 73 (Grave IX).

[Agora Deposit] M-N 15:1: South Stoa II: Building Fill

South Stoa II Construction Fill. About 85 stamped amphora handles, many with parallels in building fills of Middle Stoa and Stoa of Attalos. Fragments of long-petal bowls confirm date after mid-2nd c ... To ca. 140 B.C ... M-N 15:1 ... M-N 15:1

[Agora Deposit] E 6:2: West Chamber

Cistern System #3: West Chamber at 69/ΛΣΤ, joined by a crooked passage to 69/Λ. Under the southwest corner of the Hellenistic Building to the north of the Temple of Hephaistos. Upper fill of early 1st ... 175-125 B.C ... Hephaistos. Upper fill of early 1 ... long-petal bowls. E 6:1 and E 6:2 ... Coins: 8 June 1936 #1 10 June 1936 #1-#5 11 June 1936 #1-#3 12 June 1936 #1

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[Agora Deposit] A 18:4: Mycenaean Pit Grave West of House N

Mycenaean grave to west of House N, room 5, with the burial of two young children. Rough rectangular cutting in soft stereo (0.95x0.64x0.28), lying under the western wall of a Geometric house, contained ... Myc. III C:1 ... Myc. III C:1

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:11: Disturbed Adult Inhumation Pit Tomb

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 10 in notebook. No remains. Probably grave of a woman. Only a small portion of the inhumation pit was preserved at the northeast edge of pit A, a large oval cutting of modern date dug for the construction ... Middle Geometric II ... Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), pp. 75-76, figs. 1, 49-50 (Grave XVI).

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[Agora Deposit] C 9:9: Urn cremation

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 2 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XV: PG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female. JP It consists of a roughly rectangular pit or trench cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.35m., measuring ... Late Protogeometric ... measuring 1.12m long and 0.67m

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[Agora Deposit] C 9:13: Urn cremation

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 6 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXII: PG). Bones discarded. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole). JP Roughly rectangular trench cut through hard earth into bedrock to a depth of about 0.35m, approximately ... Late Protogeometric ... Rodney S. Young

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[Agora Deposit] Q 8:5: Pit Tomb, Child Inhumation

Homer A. Thompson ... PG grave to NW of Pier 19 (Grave 4). It consisted of a rectangular pit, oriented north-south, cut into bedrock. Only the lowest part of the tomb pit was preserved; the upper part was cut away in the Classical ... Earlier-Developed Protogeometric ... Agora XIV, p. 13.

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[Agora Deposit] C 9:17: Pit tomb, adult inhumation

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 8 in notebook. Bones discarded. Fragments of an iron pin found on the chest and a fragment of a Protogeometric krater base found beside the body were not inventoried. JP Unlined roughly rectangular ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain) ... Rodney S. Young

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[Agora Deposit] D 6:3: Urn cremation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 25 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave I: SM). Bones discarded. In some records as Grve XIV (JP)? Notebook says (p. 947) contents: hard earth, no bones. Lisa's list says bones discarded. Negs. X-75, ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 38, pp. 294-298, figs. 2.199-2.201, pl. 1.

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[Agora Deposit] Q 8:6: Cist Tomb, Child Inhumation

Homer A. Thompson ... PG grave to NW of Stoa Pier 19 (Tomb no. 5 in notebook). In some records as Grave XLII. It consisted of a rectangular pit, oriented north-south, cut into bedrock. The sides of the pit were lined and the ... Earlier-Developed Protogeometric ... 1.17x0.50m; the inner dimensions 1.08m long,, 0.30m wide, and

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[Agora Deposit] U 21:1: Well

Well cut into bedrock under late Roman building in ΕΛ. 1.2m in diameter with small cutting of unclear function at south edge about 0.2m wide. Walls cut straight down, tapering near bottom to 0.8m. Footholds ... Late Archaic ... U 21:1 ... U 21:1

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[Agora Deposit] C 11:2: Pit tomb, inhumation

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 20 (E.L. Smithson: Grave X: PG). Bones discarded. Pit tomb, inhumation (on bier or in coffin?), perhaps of a child. Little ash and carbon in the filling, but the grave offerings were unburned. JP ... Developed Protogeometric ... Rodney S. Young

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[Agora Deposit] O 7:5: Tomb of the Niches

Mycenaean Chamber Tomb with niches. One of the few tombs found in the Agora that has an almost architectural regularity with squares chamber (1.75m wide by 2.10m deep) and axially centered dromos (4m long ... Myc. III A 1:2 ... (1.75m wide by 2.10m deep) and ... long by 1.10m wide tapering

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[Agora Deposit] B 19:5: Pyre in House N, Room 2, Layer 5

Pyre in House N, room 2, layer 5 (RSY=Pyre 8). Near northern corner of room 6. Artifacts, bone, burnt logs, and cinders in square pit dug from level of layer 5, through layers 5 and 6; thin clay floor ... 325-300 B.C ... floor laid over it. Young

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[Agora Deposit] D 16:2: Urn cremation

Margaret Crosby ... Grave 1 (Grave XXVI: EG) Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult male? [JP] Boots or Booties Grave. Near the west branch of the Great Drain, about 100m to the southwest of the Agora horos inscription ... Early Geometric I ... Grave 1 (Grave XXVI: EG) Urn cremation ... inscription. According to Young