Title: | Cist Tomb, Child Inhumation | |
Supervisor: | Homer A. Thompson | |
Category: | Burial | |
Description: | 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 floor paved with unworked or only roughly hewn slabs of schist (Th. 0.10-0.15m), defining a cist. The floor of the cist was further covered with a thin layer of sand. The external dimensions of the tomb were 1.17x0.50m; the inner dimensions 1.08m long,, 0.30m wide, and 0.21m deep. The skeleton of a child (7-8 years at death) was found on its back in a fully extended supine position, head to the south, filling the cist almost entirely. This was one of the better-furnished tombs: grave goods included a metal pin on either shoulder, with the pin-heads toward the south. The tomb was partly filled with, and totally covered by fieldstones. | |
Notes: | This grave is exhibited in the Agora museum. | |
Bibliography: | AgoraPicBk 13 (1973), fig. 35. | |
Hesperia 23 (1954), p. 58, pl. 16a-c. | ||
Agora XIV, p. 13, pl. 19a-c. | ||
Agora XXVII, p. 229. | ||
Agora XXXVI, Tomb 70, pp. 445-450, figs. 2.328, 2.329, 2.332-2.337. | ||
Chronology: | Earlier-Developed Protogeometric | |
Date: | 18-19 August 1953 | |
Section: | ΣΑ | |
References: | Publications (5) Images (12) Objects (10) |