Agora Deposit: J 8:3
Title:   Double Pit Grave
Category:   Burial
Description:   Mycenaean Double Grave (Graves A and B).
Grave A was in Layer II. We laid a skull and a few other bones, three vases and a stone bead. We have dug to a maximum of about 0.06m below the top of Layer II. It contained two skeletons.
To the South of Grave A and separated from it by a narrow wall apparently of bedrock, was part of another grave. It contained one skeleton.
All of the pottery and bones in both graves are badly crushed.
Notes:   The skeletal material (AA 177)... does not agree with the evidence of the plan and the excavator’s description since AA 177 consisted of bones of a M. about 40 to the north, and a F.(?) to the south, whereas the plan clearly shows three skulls, apparently all children. Cf. Agora XIII, p. 195, n. 1.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 41.
    Agora XIII, pp. 195-196, 274, pls. 42, 65, 84 (Grave XI).
Chronology:   Myc. IIIA/B
Date:   20-21 April, 23-25 April 1951, 29 March 1952
Section:   Ε
Grid:   Ε:17/ΝΑ
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication: Hesperia 22 (1953)
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