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| Title: | Infant Pot Inhumation | |
| Supervisor: | Rodney S. Young | |
| Category: | Burial | |
| Description: | 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 to west, sheathed in a large two-handled cooking jar, split irregularly lengthwise, south to east. No bones or offerings; 4th. c. BC sherds in cutting. Both pots Protogeometric, the amphora probably intrusive in the 4th. c. B.C. JP Young: "It is possible that a baby whose bones have completely disappeared was placed in the larger coarse amphora, and that the other amphora was a Beigabe (offering)" The fact that no precedent exists in Athens at this time for a full-sized amphora as an offering in an infant or child grave renders such a suggestion unlikely. No remains. | |
| Notes: | Deposit list says 28/ΞΔ, notebook says 28/ΞΓ. No bones recorded. | |
| Bibliography: | Agora XXXVI, Tomb 54, pp. 372, 375, figs. 2.259, 2.260. | |
| Chronology: | LPG | |
| Date: | 9 March 1936 | |
| Section: | ΠΘ | |
| Grid: | ΠΘ:28/ΞΓ | |
| References: | Publication: Agora XXXVI Images (4) Object: P 6996 Object: P 6997 |
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