Agora Deposit: Q 8:5
Title:   Pit Tomb, Child Inhumation
Supervisor:   Homer A. Thompson
Category:   Burial
Description:   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 period. The very northern end of the original pit tomb may have been cut by the foundations for the Stoa of Attalos. As preserved, the tomb measured ca. 1.20m long and about 0.60m wide. A thin irregular unworked schist slab, ca. 0.47x0.67m, remained from the floor of the tomb pit.
On it were a few bone fragments of a child and six vessels.
The tomb as preserved, was first encountered by workmen constructing a drain for the Stoa and the relative positions of the vases and the human bone were not accurately recorded.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 23 (1954), pp. 57-58.
    Agora XIV, p. 13.
    Agora XXVII, p. 229.
    Agora XXXVI, Tomb 69, pp. 441-445, figs. 2.328-2.331, 2.337.
Chronology:   Earlier-Developed Protogeometric
Date:   15 August 1953
Section:   ΣΑ
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