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[Agora Deposit] J 5:1: Crossroads Well

Located at the bifurcation of the Panathenaic Way and West Road.Byzantine fill (9th-10th century) in upper 5.70m. with a series of Classical to Hellenistic accumulations below. Coins: 10 July 1971 #861 ... 14 June-27 July 1971

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[Agora Deposit] J 5:2: Crossroads Enclosure

Enclosure within Roman Circular Building. The finds apparently reflect the entire area inside the enclosure. Pottery lot ΒΓ 515 identifies the deposit as layer 10 and coin #895 from layer 11 says "layer ... 12-18 August 1971 9-10 May 1972

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[Agora Deposit] M 16-17:1: Pit Tomb, Adult Inhumation

Eugene Vanderpool ... 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 ... Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] D 7:1: Pit tomb, child inhumation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 23 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave IV: SM). Few bones: discarded. JP says 46/ΜΖ-MΗ Negs. KK 99, KK 100, KK 101, X-61, X-62, X-63 PD 433 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean

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[Agora Deposit] H 12:15: Well

Well A, early 5th c. B.C. Near the Agora Boundary Stone, northwest corner of Middle Stoa; diameter at top 0.92m, widening to 1.15m and more below. Shaft neatly faced with stones to a depth of 0.70m below ... Ca. 520-480 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] N 21-22:1: Tomb of the Ivory Pyxides

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 ... Myc. III A:1

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[Agora Deposit] J 7:2: Chamber Tomb under the Temple of Ares

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 ... 1st: Myc IIB-IIA:1-2, 2nd: Myc. IIIC:1 (1450-1200 B.C.)

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[Agora Deposit] N 16:1: Pit Tomb, Infant Inhumation

Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave III: SM). The close proximity and similarity of this tomb and tomb M 16-17:1 strongly suggests that they were intentionally laid out in relation to one another and were contemporary ... Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] O 7:1: Pit Tomb, Adult Inhumation

Eugene Vanderpool ... E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXV. Adult female inhumation. Deposit summary and notebook write at 31/Θ-I ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Early Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:2: Inhumation of adult female

Grave I in notebook = RSY Grave 2. Inhumation burial in Cemetery on West Slope of Areopagus. Outline of grave disturbed by later cutting. Outstretched skeleton, probably of adult female. PD 731-a ... Late 8th century B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] D 6:4: Pit tomb

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 28 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave V: SM). No remains, probable child inhumation. Just one cup for offering (P 7693). Negs. X-77, X-78 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean/Early Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] D 7:5: Pit tomb, child/infant inhumation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 26. In some records as Grave I ter. Bones discarded. Notebook says: child bones (no skull), no offerings. Circular cutting in bedrock, about 3m south of D 6:3. Neg. KK 234 ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain)

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[Agora Deposit] D 7:6: Pit tomb, child/infant inhumation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Circular cutting. Grave 24 in notebook. In some records as Grave IV bis. Baby's bones: discarded. No offerings. Negs. KK 99, KK 100, X-61 ... LH III/EPG (date uncertain)

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[Agora Deposit] D 16:3: Pithos Child Burial

Grave 2 in notebook. Child of about two (or 10?) months, body placed in plain pithos, which rested on its side at the bottom of a pit; the mouth closed with a stone slab. The burial forms a group with ... 750-725 B.C

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[Agora Deposit] D 16:4: Urn cremation

Evelyn Lord Smithson ... Grave 3: (Grave XXVII: EG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult male. Carbonized figs and grapes included in inventoried objects (no number). [JP] "Craftsman-Warrior" tomb: combination of weapons and ... Early Geometric I

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:17: Inhumation of a Woman

Grave 16 in notebook. Length of shaft 1.81m; width 0.64m; depth from cover 0.54m. Skeleton of a woman , head at northwest end. Most of pots piled over feet and legs of skeleton at southeast end. An iron ... 750 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] P 16:1: Well at 99/ME

Well at 99/ΜΕ. Just outside of SE corner of Fountain House. This well was used in at least two periods; the marble well curb of the second period, certainly Byzantine, was found in place. The fill was ... 5 May 1952 5-14 July 1952

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[Agora Deposit] Q 8:6: Cist Tomb, Child Inhumation

Homer A. Thompson ... 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 ... Earlier-Developed Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] Q 12:3: Stoa Gutter Well

Well below Stoa Gutter opposite Pier 1. Heavy dumped filling remarkable among Agora well-deposits both for the high quality and the good conditions of pottery of all sorts. It represents the stock of a ... Ca. 520-490 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] Q 21:4: Well in Room 7 of Roman House H

Well in Room 7 of Roman House H, partially covered by caldarium of added bath complex (Room 6). Stone well-head; 0.85m in diameter. Stpped because of danger of collapse. Cut through bedrock, water from ... 6th c. A.D.

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[Agora Deposit] T 22:3: Well

Well cut into bedrock, associated with late Roman building G in ΕΛ 1.2m in diameter, narrows to 0.5m at bottom. Disturbed by later pits at top. Excavated from 85.77-79.25m (6.52m), but bedrock at 85.91m ... Late 4th/early 5th AD

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[Agora Deposit] U 21:1: Well

Well cut into bedrock under late Roman building in ΕΛ. 1.2m in diameter with small cutting of unclear function at south edge about 0.2m wide. Walls cut straight down, tapering near bottom to 0.8m. Footholds ... Late Archaic

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[Agora Deposit] J 2:26: Pyre

Mike Laughy ... This pyre was found within an otherwise mostly sterile fill directly under a white floor surface in the southern section of Area IV. It was located ca. 0.50m. east of a similar deposit, Pyre J 2:25. The ... 4th c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] J 7:1: Child Inhumation

E.D. Townsend Vermeule ... Protogeometric Grave no. 2 at North of Temple of Ares (Grave XXXVII). Rectangular stone-lined pit in filling of Mycenaean chamber tomb (J 7:2); the skeleton of a boy. Cf. P 21275 which is from the "preliminary ... Middle Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] J 9:2: Pit Tomb, Adult Inhumation

Evelyn L. Smithson ... Submycenaean grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXIV). The skeleton of a 30 year's old female ... Submycenaean

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[Agora Deposit] J-K 2:2: Chamber Tomb Below Floor of Room 2 of Classical Building II

David Scahill ... Below packed clay floors in Room 2 of Classical Building II; bordered on east and south sides by polygonal cross wall and back wall extension for Classical Building. Late Roman wall and drain installation ... LHIII A:1

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[Agora Deposit] M 17:3: Damaged Urn Cremation

Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (adult female). (In some records as Grave XXXI). The tomb was partly destroyed in antiquity; there are sherds of all periods down to Late Roman (and later) note din the fill immediately above it ... Middle Geometric I

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[Agora Deposit] N 16:3: Disturbed Urn Cremation

Homer A. Thompson ... Cremation burial (trench-and-hole) under S. edge of E-W Street, northern burial. In some records as Grave XLVII. The western part of the offering trench of the tomb was lost to a Turkish cess pit, and ... Middle Geometric I

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[Agora Deposit] N 21:5: Disturbed Tomb with Cist Grave

Mycenaean Small Chamber tomb. The cist measures 1,90m E to W, 0.75-0.90m N to S, max. depth -1.30m. Nothing was found in it; cleaned in modern times and used as a cesspool. Some of the SW part of it had ... Myc. IIIA, early 14th c.

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[Agora Deposit] B 20:3: Inhumation of a male

Grave XX in notebook = RSY Grave 16. PD 731-i ... Late 6th. c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 20:4: Inhumation of a male

Grave XXI in notebook = RSY Grave 11. Pottery discarded; late Roman, mostly coarse. PD 731-e ... Ca. 530 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 20:5: Inhumation of a young female

Grave XXV in notebook = RSY Grave 4. PD 731-b ... 750-725 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:3: Inhumation of a male

Grave II in notebook = RSY Grave 17. PD 731-j ... Ca. 510-490 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:4: Inhumation of a female

Grave V in notebook = RSY Grave 5. PD 731-c, Ptg. 244 ... Second quarter of the 6th. c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:5: Inhumation, probably young male

Grave VI in notebook = RSY Grave 10. PD 731-d Ptg. 251 ... Ca. 520-525 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:6: Inhumation of a female

Grave VII in notebook = RSY Grave 21. PD 731-k ... Date uncertain, presumably 7th. or 6th. c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:7: Inhumation, probably of a female

Grave X in notebook = RSY Grave 14. PD 731-g ... Ca. 525-500 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:8: Inhumation

Grave XII in notebook = RSY Grave 9 ... Just after the middle of the 6th. c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:9: Inhumation of adult

Grave XIV in notebook = RSY Grave 13. PD 731-f ... Late 6th. c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:10: Urn burial of an infant

Grave XV in notebook = RSY Grave 1. Part of a burial jar with bones of 18-month-old child. Position of body not determinable. Foot of jar had been broken to insert body of child and stopped with stones ... Second half of 8th. c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:11: Urn burial

Grave XVI in notebook = RSY Grave 3. Bones of a young child found inside. Discarded? ... 6th. c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:12: Inhumation of a child

Grave XVII in notebook = RSY Grave 15. Only lower half of skeleton preserved. Bones discarded? ... Last quarter of the 6th. c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:19: Cremation, Sacrificial Pit II

Sacrificial Pit II in notebook = RSY Grave 7 ... Ca. 540 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:20: Cremation, Sacrificial Pit III

Sacrificial Pit III in notebook = RSY Grave 6. Small bit of calcined bones (discarded?) ... Ca. 550-530 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] C 9:8: Urn cremation

Grave 1 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXV: PG). No remains. Probable trench-and-hole. JP Roughly circular pit measuring 0.39m in diameter cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.72m. Pyre refuse-described ... Late PG/EG I

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[Agora Deposit] C 11:4: Pit tomb, inhumation of two children

James H. Oliver ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave IX: PG). Two children's skeletons one on top of the other. Cf. PD 329 for PD 430 for second skeleton, same deposit. PG grave about 25m. SW of Cistern A at 46/ΜΔ. [In some records, ... Developed Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] D 6:3: Urn cremation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 25 in notebook. (E.L. Smithson: Grave I: SM). Bones discarded. In some records as Grve XIV (JP)? Notebook says (p. 947) contents: hard earth, no bones. Lisa's list says bones discarded. Negs. X-75, ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean

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[Agora Deposit] D 7:7: Pit tomb, infant inhumation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 22 in notebook. No offerings. Disturbed grave of baby ... LH IIIC/EPG (date uncertain)

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[Agora Deposit] D 16:2: Urn cremation

Margaret Crosby ... Grave 1 (Grave XXVI: EG) Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult male? [JP] Boots or Booties Grave. Near the west branch of the Great Drain, about 100m to the southwest of the Agora horos inscription ... Early Geometric I

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[Agora Deposit] E 14:12: Disturbed inhumation

Geometric Burial. Burial B in notebook. Overlay E 14:13. Skeleton lay on smoothed bedrock, head southward, arms folded on chest, hands below chin. Legs, cut off by later disturbance, probably bent, with ... Late Geometric

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[Agora Deposit] E 14:13: Grave of a youth

Geometric burial. Burial A in notebook. Shaft in bedrock dug to 0.30m, oriented NE to SW. Upper part was disturbed by Grave XXIV. Skeleton of youth. L. as it lay 1.34m. Pots laid across grave at feet of ... 750-725 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] F 9:1: Pit tomb, child inhumation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 15 in notebook. Burial of child (E.L. Smithson: Grave XIV: PG). Single bone. Nb. says: few bones. Skull fragment, few ribs and fingers (bones discarded). Negs. KK 24 and KK 30 431 ... Developed to Late Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] F 16:3: Urn Cremation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 1. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female 30-40 years old). Mentioned as Grave XVII in Deposit list. Consisted of a roughly circular pit, approximately 0.30-0.40m in diameter, cut into ... Late Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] F 16:4: Urn Cremation

Dorothy Burr Thompson ... Grave 2. Urn cremation (trench-and-hole). In some records as XXIII. Variously labeled as grid 7/Δ, 7/Γ and 7/Γ-Δ. Rectangular pyre trench cut through earth into bedrock, with only the lowest 0.04m surviving ... Transitional Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I

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[Agora Deposit] F 16:8: Menon's Cistern and Well

Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. Coins: 5 August 1968 #1-#6 (#5 and #6 disintegrated. Missing 19/7/1973) 6 August 1968 #1bis-#25 (#5 in Lot 503 not a coin but bronze bits of nail. #6 not a coin ... 325-275 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] F-G 12:3: Inhumation of a Woman

Grave 19 in notebook. Bones only AA 3. Length 2.15m; width 0.63m; depth 0.52m. Woman' skeleton with head at north. Cover slabs piled at foot of grave, probably by the diggers of Well J 18:8, who rifled ... Late Geometric

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:7: Inhumation of a Man

Grave 7 in notebook. Area disturbed in Roman times; outlines of the shaft had been obliterated. The northwest end, however, was preserved in a cutting in the rock of the sloping hillside. This cutting, ... 750-700 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:8: Inhumation of a Woman

Grave 7b in notebook. Inhumation in Tholos Cemetery; The skeleton positioned directly below the male in Grave 7, but with direction reversed, i.e., head at southeast end. Most grave offerings at lower ... 750-725 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:9: Inhumation of a Woman

Grave 8 in notebook. Inhumation in Tholos Cemetery. Length of shaft 1.75m; Width at upper end 0.95m; Depth from cover 0.70m. One end cut into sloping rock. Skeleton of a woman, with head southeast. Most ... 750-725 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:15: Inhumation a Man

Grave 14 in notebook. Length of shaft 2.12m; width 0.46m; depth from cover 0.60m. Man's skeleton stretched NE-SW with head at NE. Offering at foot of shaft, with the skyphos in the mouth of the pitcher ... 750-725 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:24: Inhumation with Remains of a Sacrificial Pyre

Grave 20 in notebook. Objects recorded in nb. from Grave 21 (earlier and disturbed by Grave 20) are included here. A pyre [using pieces of pots from Grave 21] was probably burned beside grave 20 and some ... Late Geometric

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[Agora Deposit] G 12:25: Inhumation, Probably of a Man

Grave 21 in notebook. Grave twice disturbed. Of the skeleton only the thigh bones were found. No offerings. Objects listed in nb. as from Grave 21 are taken to be with grave 20 (probably pyre objects) ... Late Geometric

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[Agora Deposit] H 16:6: Urn Cremation/The Rich Athenian Lady

Gerald V. Lalonde ... Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female with fetus/neonate. One box with burnt animal bones is stored with the skeleton AA 302 in drawer 97. Objects also recorded frm Section ΣΤ. PD 1692, PD 1807 ... Early Geometric II, 850 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] I 5:1: Pit Τomb, Child Inhumation

Susan Rotroff ... Grave 1. Burial of a child perhaps 6 years old, covered by broken amphora. Skeleton lay extended on its back, oriented N-S, with head at south. No grave gifts. PD 2207 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean

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[Agora Deposit] I 5:2: Cist Τomb, Adult Female Inhumation in ΒΓ

Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 2. Adult female inhumation. Grave extending under the south retaining wall of the Temenos of the Royal Stoa. It is oriented ne-sw, with head at sw. Grave built of slabs of schist, with packing of ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean

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[Agora Deposit] I 5:3: Cist Τomb, Adult Inhumation

Susan I. Rotroff ... Burial 3 beneath the floor of the Stoa Basileios. It consisted of a rectangular pit cut into bedrock to a depth of 0.44m, lined on all sides and covered with an admixture of narrow stone slabs of soft ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean

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[Agora Deposit] I 5:4: Cist Τomb, Child Inhumation

Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 4 under Royal Stoa. Cist Grave cut into bedrock and lined with limestone and schist slabs. There were two layers of cover slabs with a layer of dirt between. Grave measured 0.98x0,25-0,32x0,25-0,30 ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean

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[Agora Deposit] I 5:5: Cist Tomb, adult inhumation

Susan I. Rotroff ... Grave 5. Adult (female?) inhumation. Cist grave lined and covered with slabs of limestone, sandstone and schist. Cut into virgin soil under Royal Stoa at I/12,13-5/3,4. Grave measures 1.79x0.39-0.49x ca ... Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean

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[Agora Deposit] I 9:2: Burial in Metroon Drain Cut

Side-chamber at the bottom of a circular shaft. AA 27; ST 103 from shaft above burial. PD 427 ... Neolithic

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[Agora Deposit] I 10:1: Well West of the Eponymous Heroes Monument

Well west of the Eponymous Heroes monument. The shaft was of irregular width (ca. 0.81m where the full circle was first preserved), sunk in soft bedrock clay much of which had collapsed around the top ... Ca. 600-550 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] J 2:18: Well in the South Section of Room E in the Byzantine Building East of the North-South Road

Marcie Handler ... Located in the south section of Room E in the Byzantine Building east of the North-South Road. The uppermost 1.5 meters of well lining was built of well-coursed stones (some reused marble blocks) and tiles ... 12th c. A.D.

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[Agora Deposit] Q 6:3: Chamber Tomb in ΒΔ

Stephen G. Miller ... 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 ... LH III

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[Agora Deposit] Q 8:5: Pit Tomb, Child Inhumation

Homer A. Thompson ... 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 ... Earlier-Developed Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] Q 8:7: Pit Tomb, Child (?) Inhumation

Homer A. Thompson ... 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 ... Developed Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] Q 13:5: Well Below Stoa Terrace Fountain

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. Estimated Grid ... 575-550 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] Q 17:6: Urn burial

Homer A. Thompson ... 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 ... Late 8th c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] R 12:4: Well in Stoa Shop 3

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 ... Ca 520-480 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] T 15:1: Pit Grave, Adult Inhumation

John Camp ... 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 ... Early-Developed Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] T 15:2: Pit Grave, Adult Inhumation

John Camp ... 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 ... "Submycenaean"/Early Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] T 22:1: Kernos Pit 1 under Valerian Wall

Kernos Pit #1 under Valerian Wall. P 30173-P 30174 added on May 7, 1973 ... 4th c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] T-U 19-20: Investigations in the Area of Archaic Temple

Investigations in the area of Archaic Temple Added by E.V June 1963 ΕΛ 324-331. In the annual report for 1959 both the building of the temple itself, and the red limestone addition are dated in the early ... First half of 6th c. B.C. - early 5th c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] J 9:1: Simple Cremation

Rebecca Wood Robinson ... Damaged Protogeometric grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XL). Small corner only preserved, cut in part into the filling of the Submycenaean Grave J 9:2. In this corner, and spilling into the disturbed upper ... Late Protogeometric

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[Agora Deposit] L 2:2: Well

Anne McCabe ... Adjacent to the SW face of Byzantine Wall 14. The circular cutting, 0.90m in diameter, appeared at 53.504m under a layer of loose rubble (Lot 481). Wall of the well roughly built, consisting at the top ... 11-19 July 2006 24 June-21 July 2009

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[Agora Deposit] L 6:2: Geometric Well

Well O: EG. AS 875-878 ... Middle Geometric

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[Agora Deposit] L 17:6: Aischines Street Cistern: North Chamber

Cistern with dumped filling, second quarter of 4th c. B.C. Also Lot Φ 187bis (selected coarse). No coins ... Ca. 375-350 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] M 17:2: Damaged urn cremation

Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XVI: PG). Bones discarded. Only the lower portion of the urn-hole was preserved in bedrock, roughly oval in outline, with a maximum preserved width at the top of 0.70m narrowing ... Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I

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[Agora Deposit] M 21:1: Komos Cistern

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 ... Last quarter of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd century B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] M 21:2: Tomb of the Bronzes

Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Burials ... Myc. III A:1-2

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[Agora Deposit] N 7:2: Lily Bowl Grave

Mycenaean grave. Small pit grave (0.50m by 1.35m by 0.75m deep) containing the skeleton of an infant girl. Although a simple grave with a single interment, the pit was packed with gifts. These consisted ... No later than mid-15th c.

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[Agora Deposit] N 12:4: Tomb with coffins

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 ... Myc. IIIA:1

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[Agora Deposit] N 16:4: Urn cremation

Homer A. Thompson ... 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 ... Early Geometric I

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[Agora Deposit] O 7:2: Small Chamber Tomb

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), ... Myc. III A 1:2 (14th c.)

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[Agora Deposit] O 7:5: Tomb of the Niches

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 ... Myc. III A 1:2

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[Agora Deposit] O 7:7: Small Chamber Tomb

Eugene Vanderpool ... 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 ... Myc. III A-B

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[Agora Deposit] O 11:1: Vaulted Chamber

Byzantine vaulted chamber at 94/ΚΕ, that overlay monument bases on the west side of the Panathenaic Way ... Byzantine

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[Agora Deposit] O 13:3: Square Byzantine Well South of Middle Stoa Pier 21

Square Byz. Well South of Middle Stoa Pier 21 (Iliad Well) Estimated Grid ... Byzantine

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[Agora Deposit] O 17:6: Phaidon Street Cistern: South Chamber

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. Coins 9 August 1957 #1-#3 ... Late 2nd c. B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] O 17:8: Pit tomb, infant inhumation

Eugene Vanderpool ... 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 ... Late Helladic III C/Early Protogeometric (date uncertain)

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[Agora Deposit] A-B 18:1: Mycenaean Chamber Tomb

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 ... 2nd half of 14th c.

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[Agora Deposit] B 14:5: Pit

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 ... First quarter 6th. c. B.C.