"Icon","dc-subject","Collection","dc-description","dc-publisher","UserLevel","Id","dc-date","Name","Redirect","Chronology","dc-creator","Type","dc-title"
"Agora:Image:1997.20.0165::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0165.tif::695::859","","Agora","Mycenaean Chamber Tomb under north side of Temple of Ares, towards its west end.(1951).; The tomb had a hasty and unfinished appearance oddly at variance with its long history and the quality of the pottery found inside. The original dromos ran from west to east and entered the chamber toward the south end of the long west wall. The doorway itself was only 0.80m wide.; The chamber was a small room roughly hewn out of bedrock. It formed an irregular triangle in plan, with the apex to the north: 2.00m wide by 2.85m long. The roof had apparently been a low one, rising just over a meter above the floor. A small niche, 0.50m square and raised 0.25m above the chamber floor, was set in the wall at the southwest corner of the room.; The chamber was approached by a second dromos and door leading in from the northeast. Centered in the northeast wall, this second doorway was only 0.59m. wide, but well cut. The dromos leading to the second door scarcely deserved the name, being stubby and narrow, 1.58m long with a maximum width of 0.75m. The northeast end was rounded, and plunged precipitously 1.05m down from bedrock level with no trace of steps or ramp.","","","Agora:Deposit:J 7:2","23 April-9 May 1951","J 7:2","","1st: Myc IIB-IIA:1-2, 2nd: Myc. IIIC:1 (1450-1200 B.C.)","","Deposit","Chamber Tomb under the Temple of Ares"
"Agora:Image:1997.20.0380::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0380.tif::1007::733","","Agora","Submycenaean grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXIV).","","","Agora:Deposit:J 9:2","21 May 1952","J 9:2","","Submycenaean","Evelyn L. Smithson","Deposit","Pit Tomb, Adult Inhumation"
"Agora:Image:1997.20.0051::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0051.tif::640::491","","Agora","Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave II: SM).; Unlined trench, roughly the size of the deceased, cut into bedrock to a depth of just over 1.50m. Oriented north-south, the tomb pit measured 1.69m in length (length of the skeleton in situ, 1.65m), and had a width, as excavated, of 0.40-0.58m. the west side was slightly undercut, and a small part of the east side was cut buy the cellar wall of a modern house, but only the very edge of the tomb at an upper level was touched, whereas the contents of the grave were untouched. Ledges, maximum width 0.20m, ran along the full length of the sides. A roughly rectangular stone slab rested on the ledges above the head of the deceased, while fragments of a pithos (or pithoi), also resting on the ledges, covered the deceased  down to the thighs. Fragments preserving about a quarter of the coarse basin were placed on top of the slab.; Within the tomb pit, the body of a middle-aged 45-49 years at death was placed in an extended position, on her back, head to the south. The body of the deceased was roughly the size of the tomb pit, and the head, turned toward the west, facing west-northwest, lay right up against the cutting of the tomb pit. The left arm of the deceased was at her side, the right arm was slightly bent, with the hand over the pelvis","","","Agora:Deposit:M 16-17:1","26-27 May 1937","M 16-17:1","","Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric","Eugene Vanderpool","Deposit","Pit Tomb, Adult Inhumation"
"Agora:Image:1997.20.0433::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0433.tif::608::968","","Agora","Komos Cistern at 66/Κ, on the north slope of the Areopagus. Homogeneous fill.; ; Thirty-four stamped amphora handles. Eight Histiaian tetrobols, dating 170-160 at the earliest, found near top, possibly an intrusive hoard. Largest group of moldmade relief ware, consisting of fragments of 183 bowls, one moldmade jug and nine molds. At least 119 bowls are products of Workshop of Bion; only 15 made by Workshop A. Great similarity among bowls, many with same stamps. Most were made in fresh molds. Four molds made by Workshop of Bion, one perhaps a practice piece made by unskilled apprentice.; These facts suggest M 21:1 represents debris from Workshop of Bion, located near by. Cistern N 21:4 , 20 meters to northeast, contained similar evidence of workshop activity.","","","Agora:Deposit:M 21:1","20 May-24 June 1947","M 21:1","","Last quarter of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd century B.C.","","Deposit","Komos Cistern"
"Agora:Image:1997.20.0093::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0093.tif::697::499","","Agora","Mycenaean Chamber Tomb","","","Agora:Deposit:M 21:2","2-14 May 1947","M 21:2","","Myc. III A:1-2","","Deposit","Tomb of the Bronzes"
"Agora:Image:2008.01.0100::/Agora/2008/2008.01/2008.01.0100.tif::3687::2388","","Agora","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:Deposit:N 12:4","July-August 1965","N 12:4","","Myc. IIIA:1","","Deposit","Tomb with coffins"
"Agora:Image:2000.02.0587::/Agora/2000/2000.02/2000.02.0587.tif::2014::1342","","Agora","Mycenaean Chamber Tomb occupies a considerable part of the western half of section ΕΕ; lies about half way up the north slope of the Areopagus towards its eastern end, just below the highest point of the hill. The tomb consists of a roughly rectangular chamber approached from the north by a long dromos. it is entirely hewn out of the rock of the hill and except for the wall of rough stones that blocked the doorway, there is no masonry. The rock from which it is cut, is the greenish clayey shale which underlies most of the Agora area. ; The dromos has a preserved length of about eleven meters. It was originally several meters longer but its northern end was cut off by a late Roman retaining wall. For most of its length it is about two meters wide, but near the door of the chamber it widens slightly to about 2.40m. Its sides are not vertical, but slope slightly inward so that  the highest preserved point the width is only about 1.50m. The floor of the dromos is not quite level but slopes very slightly downwards toward the chamber, being about 20 cm lower in front of the door, than it is at the outer end. The maximum preserved depth in front of the doorway is about 2.90m but originally it must have been a meter or two deeper, for the surface of bedrock has been considerably cut down here in modern and ancient times. The fill of the dromos was uniform throughout its length: soft clean greenish earth with pebbles and occasional small stones; few sherds. The only disturbances in this fill were three pits of the Turkish period near the north end.; The door or entrance passage is narrower than the dromos (width ca. 1.20m and narrows very slightly to about 1.10m at the top; maximum height 2.40m). It is tunneled into the bedrock and has a slightly rounded roof which is nowhere very well preserved. Its outer or northern end was blocked by a neatly made dry wall of rough field stones. This wall was 1.40m thick and ran right up to the roof of the passage. It had obviously never been disturbed since the day it was built. When we removed the wall we were able to support the crumbly bedrock roof with plaster and iron rods. No objects of any sort were found either in or under the wall. The inner and southern end of the entrance passage was filed with fallen bedrock from its own roof and eat side.; The chamber (max N-S dimension 4.30m, max E-W dimension 5.90m, max height 2.75m) is roughly rectangular in shape and is entirely hollowed out of the rock. It is not symmetrically set with the dromos, but it is set at a slight angle. Its sides are not straight, either vertically and horizontally; its angles are not right angles; Its corners are rounded. Its roof has entirely caved in, except for a small bit projecting at the north end of the west side; probably was not flat but slightly concave (all along the north side it seems that it rises from the sides toward the center).; Across the east and west ends of the chamber there is a low rock-cut bench (average width 0.75m; average height 0.60m). There is only one grave cutting in the floor of the chamber, neatly placed in the SW corner (1.80m length; 0.60m width; 1.20m depth). Its cover slab, a piece of grayish slaty stone (1.90m length; 0.60m width; 0.15m thickness), lay on the floor beside it.; The fill in and above the chamber had not been seriously disturbed since Mycenaean times. High above the chamber to the south, about five meters above its floor, is the remains of a wall of a late Roman house, part of which passed over the southwest corner of the chamber and had to be removed. About a meter below this, and again over the southwest quarter of the chamber, was a corner of light rubble wall of late hellenistic times. Neither of these walls disturbed the tomb proper in any way.; Body and offerings were removed from the grave not long after they had been placed there (Mycenaean times); the chamber must had been entered by digging down from the top in the western half.","","","Agora:Deposit:N 21-22:1","May-June 1939","N 21-22:1","","Myc. III A:1","","Deposit","Tomb of the Ivory Pyxides"
"Agora:Image:1997.20.0414::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0414.tif::715::973","","Agora","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:Deposit:O 7:5","26 June-9 July 1951","O 7:5","","Myc. III A 1:2","","Deposit","Tomb of the Niches"