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| Title: | Pit Grave, Adult Inhumation | |
| Supervisor: | R. Ross Holloway | |
| Category: | Burial | |
| Description: | Protogeometric Grave in Koletti Garden. Male inhumation. Tomb first encountered and partially damaged by workmen who were digging a cess pit for the restored Koletti House on Polygnotos street. The tomb was located just southeast of the house, between the paved terrace and the annex to the east. It consisted of an unlined rectangular pit, oriented southeast-northwest, cut into bedrock to a depth of about 0.25m, below the level of the surrounding bedrock, and measuring approximately 1.45m long and averaging 0.60m wide. Within the pit, the skeleton of a man aged 18-21 years at death, and described as somewhat decayed, was laid out on his back in a fully extended position, head to the southeast. the fill of the tomb appeared to consist of sterile redeposited bedrock and it was hastily dug by the workmen prior to the arrival of a trained excavator. the floor of the tomb was encountered at 1.95m below the level of the court in the area of the cess pit, ca. 1.15m below the level of the tiled pavement along the east side of the Kolletti House | |
| Notes: | Estimated Grid | |
| Bibliography: | Agora XXXVI, Tomb 27, pp. 259-261, 540, figs. 2.167, 2.168. | |
| Chronology: | "Submycenaean"/Early Protogeometric | |
| Date: | 2 September 1965 | |
| Section: | ΠΑ | |
| Grid: | T/10,11-16/5,6 | |
| References: | Publication: Agora XXXVI Object: P 27472 |
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