"dc-title","dc-subject","Id","UserLevel","Redirect","Type","Collection","dc-date","Name","dc-creator","Chronology","dc-description","dc-publisher","Icon"
"Tomb with coffins","","Agora:Deposit:N 12:4","","","Deposit","Agora","July-August 1965","N 12:4","","Myc. IIIA:1","Mycenaean Chamber Tomb below Middle Stoa Terrace.; The tomb was entered from the west by a stepped dromos, at least 4.20m long by 1.10 to 1.50m. wide, splaying slightly toward the doorway, which was 1.26m high by 0.60m wide at the base with a lightly arched top. The doorway was found blocked with a stone packing, which included near its top a broken conglomerate grave marker, and which proved to have been erected at least three times; during one of the occasions of reopening, the doorway was widened 0.20m to the north. The chamber, while described as a ""small irregular trapezoid"", is of about average size and actually quite rectangular by Agora standards. As in most cases, it is broader than deep (2.72m by 1.75m). Although the roof had collapsed, the walls were preserved to an average height of 1.35m.; Four burials were found undisturbed laid out parallel with an east-west direction, in all but one case facing the door. The greatest interest attaches to the remains of rotted white wood which surrounded both these skeletons, and was especially well preserved in Burial D. These fibrous remains seem certainly to represent coffins rather than biers, perhaps rough unsmoothed boxes of cypress or pine measuring 1.65m long by 0.45m. broad and about 0.40-0.43m high. Although there were four burials, these must have taken place within a generation of a single family: The father (burial C) and son (burial D), were buried at the same time, having died in battle or the hunt and ""brought home from the field in hastily constructed boxes"" or possibly the victims of a disease "" which made it desirable that they be kept in coffins until a tomb could be excavated for them"", then, after a slight fall of the roof, the mother (burial A) at the opposite side of the doorway, and finally, after a more serious slide, the adolescent boy (burial B) in front of the doorway.","","Agora:Image:2008.01.0100::/Agora/2008/2008.01/2008.01.0100.tif::3687::2388"
"Urn cremation","","Agora:Deposit:N 16:4","","","Deposit","Agora","20, 27 and 31 May 1955","N 16:4","Homer A. Thompson","Early Geometric I","Cremation burial (trench-and-hole) under S. edge of E-W Street, southern burial. In some records as Grave XLVI.; ; Neat trench, rectangular as preserved, but may have originally been square, cut partly through earth, partly into bedrock, to a depth of about 0.25m. The north side of the trench was destroyed by the a Turkish cess pit. As preserved, the trench measured ca. 1.05x 0.60m, and was presumably oriented east-west, but as the north side was destroyed it is possible that the trench extended toward the north and may, therefore, have had a north-south orientation. Be that as it may, a deep, circular urn-hole was cut into the southeast corner of the pyre trench to a depth of 0.45m below the level of the floor, and measuring 0.35m in diameter.; The floor of the trench was not as heavily burned as that of other related cremation tombs, though there was within it,particularly toward the west, a thick deposit of ash, charcoal, and burned sherds, representing pyre debris.","","Agora:Image:2008.01.0104::/Agora/2008/2008.01/2008.01.0104.tif::5399::1364"
"Small Chamber Tomb","","Agora:Deposit:O 7:2","","","Deposit","Agora","6 May 1952","O 7:2","","Myc. III A 1:2 (14th c.)","Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.; Only the bottom 0.10 to 0.20m of the chamber was preserved along with the partial skeletal remains of two or three occupants. The plan revealed a square chamber (1.80m by 1.80m), entered by a sloping dromos (0.90m wide and preserved to a length of 2.5m) from the northeast. ; The reason for the scantiness of the remains and the incomplete condition of the skeletons is however, to be explained by an earlier disturbance. Apparently much of the tomb had been cut away by workmen who were engaged in digging the foundations for a large monument in the 4th c. B.C. and once they had struck the skeletons reverence for the dead induced them to shift the monument westward by its own width.","","Agora:Image:1997.12.0045::/Agora/1997/1997.12/1997.12.0045.tif::1440::1098"
"Tomb of the Niches","","Agora:Deposit:O 7:5","","","Deposit","Agora","26 June-9 July 1951","O 7:5","","Myc. III A 1:2","Mycenaean Chamber Tomb with niches.; One of the few tombs found in the Agora that has an almost architectural regularity with squares chamber (1.75m wide by 2.10m deep) and axially centered dromos (4m long by 1.10m wide tapering upward to 0.80m). The dromos had two lateral niches used for the burials of children, two in the right-hand or western niche, one in the eastern niche. The niches are symmetrically placed with respect to the doorway, but the eastern niche was at a considerably higher level and contained no offerings. The tomb had not been robbed or disturbed in post-Mycenaean times, for the doors of the main chamber and the niches were found closed with rough rubble walls.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0414::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0414.tif::715::973"
"Small Chamber Tomb","","Agora:Deposit:O 7:7","","","Deposit","Agora","19-21 June 1951","O 7:7","Eugene Vanderpool","Myc. III A-B","Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.; Although badly  disturbed at various times in antiquity, it was clearly a chamber tomb with the chamber little more than a cubby-hole at the end of a steep dromos, entered at the north by two steps, and with the stone blocking-wall preserved for a few courses. The dromos was at least 2.20m long with a width of 0.80 to 0.90m tapering upward to 0.60m, and preserved to a height of at least 1.05m.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0062::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0062.tif::979::680"
"Vaulted Chamber","","Agora:Deposit:O 11:1","","","Deposit","Agora","31 July 1956","O 11:1","","Byzantine","Byzantine vaulted chamber at 94/ΚΕ, that overlay monument bases on the west side of the Panathenaic Way","","Agora:Image:1997.09.0276::/Agora/1997/1997.09/1997.09.0276.tif::951::719"
"Square Byzantine Well South of Middle Stoa Pier 21","","Agora:Deposit:O 13:3","","","Deposit","Agora","13-27 May 1953","O 13:3","","Byzantine","Square Byz. Well South of Middle Stoa Pier 21 (Iliad Well)","","Agora:Image:2004.01.0642::/Agora/2004/2004.01/2004.01.0642.tif::1834::1193"
"Phaidon Street Cistern: South Chamber","","Agora:Deposit:O 17:6","","","Deposit","Agora","August 1957","O 17:6","","Late 2nd c. B.C.","Phaidon Street Cistern: South Chamber.; Connected by tunnel to O 17:5.; ; Knidian stamped amphora handle; fragments of five long-petal bowls, one made in worn mold. Type 35 A lamp.","","Agora:Image:1997.17.0284::/Agora/1997/1997.17/1997.17.0284.tif::954::1246"
"Pit tomb, infant inhumation","","Agora:Deposit:O 17:8","","","Deposit","Agora","5 August 1957","O 17:8","Eugene Vanderpool","Late Helladic III C/Early Protogeometric (date uncertain)","Infant grave near Phaidon street cistern. No offerings.; ; Roughly rectangular, almost elliptical cutting in bedrock, measuring 0.70m long, 0.35m wide, and 0.40m deep, oriented south-southwest to north-northeast. The skeleton of what was stated to be a ""newborn infant,"" head to the south-southwest, was laid out within the pit and covered by a stone slab.; Reanalysis of the bone identified the presence of two infant inhumations, which were subsequently labeled AA 289 a,b","","Agora:Image:1997.17.0284::/Agora/1997/1997.17/1997.17.0284.tif::954::1246"
"Chamber Tomb in ΒΔ","","Agora:Deposit:Q 6:3","","","Deposit","Agora","9 August 1971","Q 6:3","Stephen G. Miller","LH III","Irregular circular tomb (Diam. 2.20-2.60) with blocked dromos to northwest. Top of tomb lost in Archaic grading of area, center disturbed by Byzantine pit, overbuilt by northern-eastern walls of Room 3 of Roman House E.; Green clay fill with parts of two skeletons (minimum).","","Agora:Image:1997.01.0026::/Agora/1997/1997.01/1997.01.0026.tif::867::664"
"Pit Tomb, Child Inhumation","","Agora:Deposit:Q 8:5","","","Deposit","Agora","15 August 1953","Q 8:5","Homer A. Thompson","Earlier-Developed Protogeometric","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.","","Agora:Image:2012.53.1127::/Agora/2012/2012.53/2012.53.1127.jpg::2048::1592"
"Pit Tomb, Child (?) Inhumation","","Agora:Deposit:Q 8:7","","","Deposit","Agora","18-19 August 1953","Q 8:7","Homer A. Thompson","Developed Protogeometric","PG grave north of Stoa Pier 19 (Grave 6). In some records as Grave XLIII.; Unlined rectangular pit cut into a shallow depression in bedrock that was formed by the collapse of the roof of Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Q 8:8. The north end of the tomb had been sheared away for the construction of the Stoa. The preserved length of the tomb was ca. 0.70m, its width 0.45m, and its depth 0.35m. Traces of a layer of white clay remained on the floor of the pit and on the collapsed bedrock around it. The tomb was oriented south-southwest to north-northeast.; On the floor of the pit, "" a few bones and the skull"" of the deceased were encountered, the cranium evidently at the south end of the grave. Fieldstones filled the tomb pit and the depression to the level of the undisturbed bedrock surrounding it.","","Agora:Image:2012.53.1128::/Agora/2012/2012.53/2012.53.1128.jpg::2048::1589"
"Well Below Stoa Terrace Fountain","","Agora:Deposit:Q 13:5","","","Deposit","Agora","14-23 June 1955","Q 13:5","","575-550 B.C.","Well below Stoa Terrace Fountain.; Heavy dumped filling, including a great variety of figured and plain wares.; ; Never completed in antiquity because of hard bedrock.","","Agora:Image:1997.07.0326::/Agora/1997/1997.07/1997.07.0326.tif::945::721"
"Urn burial","","Agora:Deposit:Q 17:6","","","Deposit","Agora","25 October 1956","Q 17:6","Homer A. Thompson","Late 8th c. B.C.","Child's grave, Geometric.; The bones of a child about one month old had been placed into P. 25787, which was lying on its side. The upper side of the pot was cut away in later times. The mouth was closed with the base P 25788. The four small pots were placed outside to one side.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0264::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0264.tif::1417::1164"
"Well in Stoa Shop 3","","Agora:Deposit:R 12:4","","","Deposit","Agora","23 February-15 March 1955","R 12:4","","Ca 520-480 B.C.","Well in Stoa Shop 3. Diameter at top 1.20m. The mouth o the well was overlaid by a large conglomerate block placed by the Stoa builders to seal it. Masses of pottery including many water-jars filled the lower two meters of the shaft; scattered fragments only came from the upper dumped filling.; POU 525-500 B.C.; Dumped filling, ca. 500 B.C.","","Agora:Image:2003.01.0159::/Agora/2003/2003.01/2003.01.0159.tif::985::712"
"Pit Grave, Adult Inhumation","","Agora:Deposit:T 15:1","","","Deposit","Agora","9-11 May 1972","T 15:1","John Camp","Early-Developed Protogeometric","Protogeometric Grave about 0.60m to the southeast of T 15:2.; Unlined roughly rectangular-elliptical pit, oriented north-south, neatly cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.70m, with rounded corners. The pit measured 1.70m long by about 0.67=0.72m wide; its floor is at 68.40masl. Within the pit, the skeleton of a woman, aged about 40-44 years at death, within significant osteoarthritis and degenerative joint disease, was placed on the floor of the tomb, on her back, in a fully extended supine position, arms by the side of the body, head to the south. The head had rolled over onto its right side, facing northeast.; There were no trace of stone slabs or ledges.","","Agora:Image:1997.11.0081::/Agora/1997/1997.11/1997.11.0081.tif::768::1018"
"Pit Grave, Adult Inhumation","","Agora:Deposit:T 15:2","","","Deposit","Agora","18 May 1972","T 15:2","John Camp","""Submycenaean""/Early Protogeometric","Protogeometric grave (female inhumation) located about 0.60m northwest of T 15:1. It consisted of a roughly rectangular pit, with the corners slightly rounded, oriented approximately north-south. The pit was cut to a depth of at least 0.45m at the south end and 0.25m at the north on account of the sloping bedrock. The original depth of the tomb would have been at least slightly greater, since the bedrock around it was leveled in Late Roman times, if not earlier. The tomb pit measured 1.65-1.70m long by about 0.63m wide; the floor of the tomb was at 68.30-68.40 masl., 1.65-1.70m long by about 0.63m wide; the floor of the tomb was at 68.30-68.40 masl.; Within the pit, the well-preserved skeleton of a woman aged about 40-44 years at death was found laid out in a fully extended position on her back, head to the south. The left arm was across the waist, the right reaching up over the chest; the head was rolled over onto its right side, facing east.; A substantial Late Roman wall ran across the tomb, covering but not disturbing the skeleton from mid-thigh to  instep; the bones were recovered by tunneling. The fill was redeposited crushed bedrock. There was no trace of any tomb covering, nor were there any clear ledges, despite the fact that the sides of the tomb sloped slightly toward the floor.","","Agora:Image:1997.11.0085::/Agora/1997/1997.11/1997.11.0085.tif::807::985"
"Kernos Pit 1 under Valerian Wall","","Agora:Deposit:T 22:1","","","Deposit","Agora","11, 12, 14, 24 March 1938","T 22:1","","4th c. B.C.","Kernos Pit #1 under Valerian Wall.","","Agora:Image:2000.02.0869::/Agora/2000/2000.02/2000.02.0869.tif::2023::1354"
"Investigations in the Area of Archaic Temple",".I Pre-Temple levels : Mainly first half of 6th century B.C., with some material as late as the third quarter.","Agora:Deposit:T-U 19-20","","","Deposit","Agora","15 July -21 August 1959; 19-20 April 1960","T-U 19-20","","First half of 6th c. B.C. - early 5th c. B.C.","Investigations in the area of Archaic Temple","","Agora:Image:2000.02.0605::/Agora/2000/2000.02/2000.02.0605.tif::1705::1276"
"Grave 5","","Agora:Deposit:E 18:1","","","Deposit","Agora","18-19 March 1947","E 18:1","","750-700 B.C.","Shaft oriented  N to S (L. 1.30, W. 0.43 at bottom). Fill shot through with cinders and wood ash. Skeleton of a male about 50 years old. ; Brann.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0264::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0264.tif::1417::1164"
"Well","","Agora:Deposit:E 18:7","","","Deposit","Agora","24 May-5 June 1969","E 18:7","","Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C.","Large tile-lined well in SW Bath, Room A4. The top had been sealed with ca. 1.30m of concrete, and the floor to carry the hypocaust columns of the room in Phase C had been carried over it. ; The well was ca. 1.30m in diameter, with four tiles 0.65m high making up the circumference, each carefully clamped with three lead clamps to its neighbor.; Homogeneous fill throughout with little pottery and a great many broken fragments of roof tiles.; The good, careful construction, the date of its filling, and its large size would all seem to indicate that the well is probably to be associated with Phase A of the Bath.","","Agora:Image:1997.18.0242::/Agora/1997/1997.18/1997.18.0242.tif::896::683"
"Grave 1","","Agora:Deposit:E 19:1","","","Deposit","Agora","12 May 1939","E 19:1","","750-725 B.C.","Grave cut into bedrock (L. 2m, W. 0.58m), head toward E; offerings at south end. Skeleton of a male about 40 years old, laid out with knees slightly bent.; Brann.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0026::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0026.tif::452::655"
"Grave 2, Inhumation of 6-Year-Old Child","","Agora:Deposit:E 19:2","","","Deposit","Agora","16 May 1939","E 19:2","","750-725 B.C.","Cut in bedrock (P.L. 0.50m, W. 0.57m). Head at east, looking west; skull stood upright when found. Lower part of skeleton missing.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0028::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0028.tif::472::646"
"Well","","Agora:Deposit:F 17:3","","","Deposit","Agora","11-25 May 1957","F 17:3","","350-300 B.C. to ca. 225 B.C.","Although separated by a sterile rocky fill the two use fillings are apparently one continuous accumulation (GRE).; Packing around well includes SS 14261, P 25943-P 25953. These are not given a subdivision and are dated to third quarter 4th c. B.C.","","Agora:Image:1997.18.0089::/Agora/1997/1997.18/1997.18.0089.tif::656::845"
"Cistern","","Agora:Deposit:F 17:4","","","Deposit","Agora","13-23 May 1969","F 17:4","","225-190 B.C.","Stucco-lined bottle-shaped cistern, with tunnel and subsidiary manhole, in SW Baths, Room Α 10. Homogeneous dumped fill, mostly of mold-made bowls and and molds for terracotta figurines. Sixteen stamped amphora handles; Type 45C lamp. Large number of bowls  (ca. 40) resemble those in M 21:1 and P 21:4.","","Agora:Image:1997.18.0243::/Agora/1997/1997.18/1997.18.0243.tif::701::916"
"Mycenaean Chamber Tomb","","Agora:Deposit:A-B 18:1","","","Deposit","Agora","6 January 1947; May-June 1947","A-B 18:1","","2nd half of 14th c.","Mycenaean tomb: Myc. III A:1-2.; SAI; Small rectangular chamber, 2.30m wide by 1.80m deep,, entered from the east through a dromos 1.10m wide which contracted to a doorway 0.92m. wide. the doorway preserved its rough stone blocking wall to a height of 0.70m to 0.80m., and the dromos the firm red earth with which it had been packed to a height of 1.30m.; Only the lower 0.50m of the chamber had been hewn from bedrock, the upper part being cut from very compact gravelly earth. The ceiling of the chamber had collapsed at least as early as the 6th c. B.C. Two skeletons were found lying in order, their heads toward the east and their legs doubled up. Several earlier interments had been swept aside; some bones were found in the corners of the chamber. others in a small pit (0.55x0.30x0.23 deep)near the southeast corner","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0178::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0178.tif::690::479"
"Pit","","Agora:Deposit:B 14:5","","","Deposit","Agora","27 May 1936; 23-29 April 1937","B 14:5","","First quarter 6th. c. B.C.","A flask-shaped storage pit or cellar, cut in the rock at the south edge of the levelled top of Kolonos Agoraios. Filled late in first quarter of 6th. c. B.C. (2.95m from east to west by 2.70m from north to south).; Original mouth probably cut away. Floor rather uneven. No traces of plaster. Uniform fill of small stones: no stratification.","","Agora:Image:2008.03.0208::/Agora/2008/2008.03/2008.03.0208.tif::4008::2968"
"Inhumation, probably a female","","Agora:Deposit:B 21:14","","","Deposit","Agora","24-25 April 1940","B 21:14","","Ca. 525-500 B.C. or sightly later","Grave XXVI in notebook = RSY Grave 12.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0374::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0374.tif::474::674"
"Cremation, Sacrificial Pit I","","Agora:Deposit:B 21:18","","","Deposit","Agora","25 May 1939","B 21:18","","Ca. 510-490 B.C.","Sacrificial Pit I in notebook = RSY Grave 20.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0360::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0360.tif::665::470"
"Pit tomb, inhumation","","Agora:Deposit:C 11:2","","","Deposit","Agora","18 March 1936","C 11:2","Rodney S. Young","Developed Protogeometric","Grave 20 (E.L. Smithson: Grave X: PG). Bones discarded. Pit tomb, inhumation (on bier or in coffin?), perhaps of a child. Little ash and carbon in the filling, but the grave offerings were unburned.; JP; ; Deep rectangular pit, 1.72m long and 0.70m wide, cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.83m, oriented east-southeast to west-northwest. the skeleton at the bottom of the pit had mostly disintegrated, except for a shin bone in the eastern half of the tomb. This suggested that the deceased was probably oriented with the head to the west. No trace of formal tomb covering. ; 3 distinct strata of the fill:; a) Upper half, to a depth of 0.40m, redeposited bedrock chips mixed with earth. Sterile.; b) To a depth of 0.12-0.15m, : ""ash and cinders with a few burned bits of nonhuman/animal bones. It was in this layer that five of the six pots associated with the grave were encountered, toward the SE corner. The se pots, all unburned and clustered together, would have been placed in the area immediately  above the feet of the deceased.; c) in the lowest 0.30m, very damp earth with very little ash, much heavy black matter ""of a different character"", from that in the layer above.; The small finds associated with the tomb suggest a child, whereas the size of the tomb pit indicates an adult. The strong likelihood of a wooden bier or coffin swayed Smithson in favor of a child inhumation.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0447::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0447.tif::489::649"
"Rectangular Rock-Cut Shaft","","Agora:Deposit:G 6:3","","","Deposit","Agora","25 July-8 October 1932","G 6:3","","Ca. 575-480 B.C.","A cave-in not long after the digging of this shaft destroyed its possible usefulness as a well and thereafter it was used as a dump. Two principle periods of such use were noted, and within these several phases. ; Upper filling: Ca. 510-480 B.C. cf. Hesperia 15 (1946), pp. 265-336.; Lower filling: Ca. 575-535 B.C. cf. Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 363-411.","","Agora:Image:1997.03.0104::/Agora/1997/1997.03/1997.03.0104.tif::2105::1591"
"Urn-burial of an Infant","","Agora:Deposit:G 12:4","","","Deposit","Agora","8 February 1935","G 12:4","Rodney S. Young","Late Geometric","Grave 4 in notebook. Amphora, no other pots but carbonized remains of food offerings. Over urn two stone slabs, on top, mass of small stones containing Late Geometric sherd.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0315::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0315.tif::1021::702"
"Urn-Burial of an Infant","","Agora:Deposit:G 12:5","","","Deposit","Agora","8 February 1935","G 12:5","Rodney S. Young","Late 8th-early 7th c. B.C.","Grave 5 in notebook.; The grave had been somewhat disturbed by the digging of Well B. The hydria lay on its side; in it was found the skeleton of a small child lying on its side with the knees drawn up toward the chest. the grave offering of two small pots had been placed with the body inside the hydria.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0313::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0313.tif::1006::707"
"Urn-Burial of a Small Child","","Agora:Deposit:G 12:10","","","Deposit","Agora","1-2 March 1935","G 12:10","","Late 8th-Early 7th c. B.C.","Urn Burial in Tholos Cemetery. Grave 9 in notebook. ; ; Amphora containing bones of a small child. Little pots had been put under its neck.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0297::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0297.tif::1316::979"
"Urn-Burial of Two Infants","","Agora:Deposit:G 12:14","","","Deposit","Agora","13 March 1935","G 12:14","Rodney S. Young","Late Geometric","Grave 13 in notebook.; Two skeletons of small children lay in a pithos which had been put on its side; its mouth was stopped by a stone slab. ; Most offerings were inside the pithos, but two kantharoi and two oinochoai were placed outside.; An animal bone was found under a coarse pitcher left outside the pithos at its mouth; carbonized matter, perhaps from a food offering, was found in one of the kantharoi.; No evidence of re-opening, hence this was probably a double funeral.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0306::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0306.tif::1036::716"
"Remains of a Sacrificial Pyre","","Agora:Deposit:G 12:19","","","Deposit","Agora","16 March 1935","G 12:19","","Late Geometric","Burned Deposit. A thick deposit of ash, cinders and pottery fragments extending alongside wall of cemetery. Character of pottery like the pyre of F 12:2.","","Agora:Image:1997.07.0294::/Agora/1997/1997.07/1997.07.0294.tif::1083::647"
"Rubbish Dump","","Agora:Deposit:H 12:6","","","Deposit","Agora","7 June 1937; 19 March-17 May 1938","H 12:6","","Ca. 425-400 B.C.","Rubbish Dump in mouth of abandoned well in Tholos Trench F, Kitchen. Filled with ash, charcoal, broken pottery, roof tiles.; Also from Trench L.; ; 13 March 2014 by Ann Steiner; The deposit has four components. In general it is vaguely funnel-shaped, but asymmetrically so.; Component 1: At the top is an extensive oval-shaped pit, c. 3.20 by 1.60, distinguished by signs of burning: the Tholos Kitchen Dump: Lots Ζ 271-287 (425-400 B.C.E.); Component 2: The second segment, moving downward, includes the top-most curb stones of a collapsed well together with ceramic material all jumbled up with the roof tiles from the Tholos, but with no signs of burning: Lots Ζ 687-690 (late 6th-late 5th c. B.C); Component 3: A second set of collapsed curb stones, ,below the first two, and the material below it to the top of what was still preserved of the well shaft proper: Lots Ζ 691-693; and Ζ 686 (Geometric-late 6th c.); Component 4: The bottom of the well and what is apparently pottery from a very short period of use. Lot Ζ 694 (425-400 B.C.E); Well walls collapse on east (?) side, leaving a meter or so at the bottom with the original walls intact. Four curbing stones at top of well sink, with two sinking deeper than the other two, leaving a large depression at top that is significantly larger than circumference of well. ; Earlier material, most likely from an earlier adjacent abandoned (?) well shifts into area of well shaft, both at just above the top-most curbing stones (Lots Ζ 687-690) but below the burning that signifies bottom of Kitchen Dump and below those curbing stones (Lots Ζ 686; 691-693).; C. 400: Kitchen Dump used to fill depression at ground level.","","Agora:Image:2012.50.1262::/Agora/2012/2012.50/2012.50.1262.jpg::2048::1494"
"Pit Tomb, Child Inhumation","","Agora:Deposit:H 17:2","","","Deposit","Agora","1 April - 6 May 1932","H 17:2","Dorothy Burr Thompson","Early Geometric I","Child's Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXVIII: G).; ; Cf. Container Lot ΣΤ 165 (fill over geometric grave).; Neat, rectangular, unlined trench, cut into bedrock to a preserved depth  of 0.20m,below the level of the floor of the so-called Geometric House. The tomb was located in the area between pits A and D, and was just over 2m to the east of the preserved west wall of the Geometric House. Oriented southwest-northeast, the tomb measured about 1m long and 0.40m wide. The skeleton of a child (4 years old by Angel and 3.5-4.5 years old by Liston) was found in a fully extended supine position, on its back, head to the northeast. On the left side of the cranium was a pair of cockle shells, compared by the excavator to similar shells found in Rhodian graves. The cranium was at a slightly lower level in the tomb than the feet; the upper part of the skull of the deceased was found near the south corner of the tomb, the jaw bone closer to the east corner. In addition to the shells, the skeleton of an animal, identified in the field as ""probably a piglet"", was placed to the left of the skeleton, along the central part of the southwest side of the tomb pit.; The fill of the tomb pit was plain earth,the upper parts of which were described by the excavator as disturbed too a level ""fairly close to the skeleton"". Slight traces of carbonized matter were noted at the southeast end near the cranium, with small specks of carbon throughout the earth fill,but no substantial traces of burning or any burnt pots. No formal tomb covering was encountered.; Two other empty trenches were found within the area of the Geometric House, ,thought to be rifled tomb pits. Scattered cemetery debris,burned and unburned, was encountered everywhere in the vicinity.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0452::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0452.tif::1343::983"
"Simple Trench Cremation","","Agora:Deposit:I 18:3","","","Deposit","Agora","11 April 1932","I 18:3","Homer A. Thompson","Middle Geometric I","(Grave XXX: EG); Rectangular cutting with burned bones of a female 40-45 years old, and both burned and unburned pottery fragments.; ; Rectangular trench, measuring approximately 0.80m long, 0.40m wide, with a preserved depth of 0.20m, cut through earth, partly into irregular outcroppings of bedrock, oriented northwest-southeast. A fieldstone paving was found closing the mouth of the trench and lining the sides cut in earth. The floor was bedrock at one end, hard clay at the other. The filling consisted of hard-packed burned earth with scattered fieldstones, crude pieces of mudbrick, ash, charcoal, the cremated remains of, the deceased, described by Angel as an arthritic woman about 45-50 years old, as well as what was originally published as a few unburned bones of a dog. Recent reanalysis of the human remains, which were poorly preserved, yielded results consistent with Angel's estimation of age, but Liston noted the possibility that it is a male rather than female. As for the animal bones, probably the belonged to two sheep or goats, at least one specimen of cattle, a hare and a bird,, but there is nothing clearly identifiable as dog; of the 65 fragments of animal bones recovered, only four were clearly burnt.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0016::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0016.tif::1021::735"
"Coroplast's Dump","","Agora:Deposit:J 1:1","","","Deposit","Agora","25-28 July 1995","J 1:1","","1st c. A.D.","Deposit of terracottas, molds and pottery in a shallow pit sloping downward from north to south. This deposit was located beneath a layer of fill under a Late Roman plaster floor (Lots ΒΕ 2093-2095). The deposit was cut at its south end by the Byzantine/Late Roman disturbance excavated in Lots ΒΕ 2087-2088, which explains the presence of terracottas in those contexts. From different grids but nearby: T 4351, T 4352, T 4353.","","Agora:Image:1997.06.0085::/Agora/1997/1997.06/1997.06.0085.tif::1202::1184"