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The Tortoise's Grave.
Small deposit in the lower part of a wine-jar (P 21715) set down into the filling of a pit of the archaic period (O 7:9).
Contains tortoise shell ... 425-400 B.C ... Contains tortoise shell. |
| (RSY=Pyre 2). Pyre in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, in House B. In northern corner of room. No pit discerned. A deposit of small stones (a marker/) lay 0.30m above the level of the pyre, ... Third quarter of the 4th. century ... Concentration of artifacts, a little bone, charred wood, cinders, and a "large sea shell" in stratum. |
| Marcie Handler ... Cist grave for two infants. The grave was cut into a sterile rocky layer on its southern and western sides, and a sterile fill layer on its northern and eastern sides. No obvious grave marker was present, ... Early Iron Age ... All of the soil within the grave was water-sieved, and the shell, charcoal, etc. were saved as sample AS 2233.
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