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Rodney S. Young ... Grave 1 in notebook. Slightly disturbed by the digging of Pit A.
A large oil jar/amphora lay on its side with a flat stone stopping its mouth. The three small vases offered at the burial were found, together ... Ca. 600 B.C. |
Grave 2 in notebook. The burial was destroyed by the digging of Pit A, at the edge of which was found a mass of sherds belonging to the grave amphora. Among the sherds were found small cups, fragments ... Late Geometric |
Grave 3 in notebook. Grave partly destroyed by well B. Skeleton and offerings lost. The amphora mouth was doubly stopped by the bases of two other amphoras, one in its neck, the other in its mouth ... 750-725 B.C. |
| Rodney S. Young ... 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 ... Late Geometric |
| Rodney S. Young ... 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 ... Late 8th-early 7th c. B.C. |
Disturbed burial set into a cutting in hardpan. No lot ... 2nd half of 5th c. B.C. |
| Mycenaean Grave.
One of the first Mycenaean burials found in the Agora. It consisted of a regular cist, carefully cut with vertical sides and a flat bottom, measuring 1.90m by 0.55m. There were apparently ... LH III (c. 1200) |
Indicated as "Grave 6" in notebook but recognized as not a grave: "probably a rubbish pit" [deposit notebook summary]. Concentration of pottery, burning, animal bones, snail shells and seashells, probably ... Late 4th-early 3rd c B.C. |
Filling between tongue walls to north of main apse in Late Roman complex, equals "Coroplasts' Dump" overlying Odeion south side.
Containers Ο 17-Ο 20 are from "debris of burnt building" [i.e. Odeion ... 267-ca. 350 A.D. |
Unfinished well cut in bedrock to the southwest of the Tholos; dumped filling containing much material of the 7th c. B.C. but extending into the 6th ... 7th-ca. 570 B.C. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Urn Burial in Tholos Cemetery. Grave 9 in notebook.
Amphora containing bones of a small child. Little pots had been put under its neck ... Late 8th-Early 7th c. B.C. |
| 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. |
| Rodney S. Young ... Grave 10 in notebook. No remains. Probably grave of a woman.
Only a small portion of the inhumation pit was preserved at the northeast edge of pit A, a large oval cutting of modern date dug for the construction ... Middle Geometric II |
Grave 11 in notebook. Grave disturbed by diggers of pit A.
Only skull and left arm of man's skeleton remained in position, head toward N.E. Cover slabs were piled near head ... Late Geometric |
Grave 12 in notebook. Probably an adult burial ... Late Geometric |
Filling behind retaining wall of Stoa of Zeus. The remains of unfired clay adhering to the interior of various pieces make it probable that the material in this filling is a mass of debris from the floor ... Ca. 435-425 B.C. |
"Bothros Well" at 71/ΞΣΤ ... 1700 - 1750 A.D. |
Coins:
11 March 1935 #1-#8 ... Byzantine |
| 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. |
| Rodney S. Young ... 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 ... Late Geometric |
Turkish Pit at 39/Ε Coins:
14 March 1935 #17
15 March 1935 #16 ... Turkish |
Rodney S. Young ... Grave 15 in notebook.
Skeleton of infant inside the hydria which lay on its side, its mouth stopped by cup; a pitcher stood by the neck of the hydria ... 750-725 B.C. |
A very homogeneous dumped filling and no period of use. Apparently a failure as a well.
T 263-T 289 resorted and reduced August 1967. Cf. BI 157 "from behind the curbing of the well by Stoa pier 3." Estimated ... Ca. 470-460 B.C. |
| 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 ... Late Geometric |
Filling of early N-S road and related fills, in the area of the Geometric Cemetery south of the Tholos; various levels including plundered foundation trench.
For late, disturbed or uncertain levels over ... 7th-6th c. B.C. |
| 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. |
Grave of 38 year-old female, head NW, legs drawn up. Apparently unlined cist in bedrock or hard-packed dug-bedrock, its outlines no longer distinguishable from surrounding fill. Above skeleton, a number ... Mycenaean? |
Rodney S. Young ... Grave 17 in notebook. No offerings.
Amphora containing skeleton of small child was laid on its side in pit. RSY
Lot Β 304 Fill over Grave 17 ... Early 6th century B.C (?) |
Some objects listed in deposit nb. V are not on this list because they in fact come from disturbed fills or are part of the material from above well 2 (G 12:21) ... 20 February-1 March 1935
6 March 1935
11 March 1935
20 March 1935
25 March 1935 |
Area of early road and Geometric Cemetery: late, disturbed or uncertain levels. Includes Geometric/Proto Attic material thrown in the Turkish well at 35/Δ. Includes between road and bedrock in Β'. Four ... 5 May 1934
19-23 March 1935
2 April 1935 |
Turkish Pit at 41/ΙΣΤ ... 3 April 1935 |
Possibly a short period of use but chiefly a debris filling including a number of fragments from disturbed early burials. Two pot fragments, believed to be from lower body of P 18525, added from Well 3 ... Ca. 575-550 B.C. |
Circular well cut through the old road after it had gone out of use, and filled probably at the time of the building of the drain and building A, and the throwing of fill over the road ... Ca. 430-400 B.C. |
See I 870, a piece of which was found in disturbed red fill in Β' southeast of Tholos.
Although apparently from the same context as P 5339 (tins 24-26, undisturbed fill), P 5336-P 5338 are recorded from ... 27 February-8 April 1935 |
Rodney S. Young ... Shallow round pit scraped out of bedrock. Grave 18 in notebook. The confusion here is that P 5347 found in the grave was catalogued in B' but the large bowl fragment (P 6482) was catalogued in B (see nb ... 700-650 B.C. |
| "Perhaps a cremation burial ... " nbp. 811. "Sacrificial pyre, disturbed," GRE, deposit nb.
In room on east side of building. Concentration of artifacts, fragments of bone, and abundant cinders in stratum, ... Early 3rd c. B.C.-Ca. 250 B.C. |
| 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 |
| 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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