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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 ... On the NE edge of the cover slabs was a small flat stone, perhaps to support a grave marker.

[Agora Deposit] F 15:5: Well

Actually 1 meter into section Δ, the well lies under a filling of primarily Hellenistic date which had been thrown in as underpinning for the support of a 2nd c. A.D. Roman tile-mosaic floor. POU is 15.80-16.35m ... First half of 1st c. A.D ... Actually 1 meter into section Δ, the well lies under a filling of primarily Hellenistic date which had been thrown in as underpinning for the support of a 2nd c.

[Agora Deposit] S 19:4: Possible Tomb Group

Rodney S. Young ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXVI:PG). Early fill over bedrock. No remains. Two fragmentary unburned vases were found together on bedrock, beneath Roman and Byzantine fill. Disturbed earth over bedrock for several ... Early Protogeometric ... The excavator noted "cinders" among the Early Iron Age pottery in the fill in the immediate vicinity, which may further support the existence in the area of early tombs.

[Agora Deposit] L 2:3: Infant Burial in Pot

Enchytrismos burial of an infant at the E. corner of Byzantine Room G. The burial was in brown fill flecked with charcoal and containing brown-glazed pottery (Lot ΒΗ 472). The pot was embedded upside ... Byzantine 10th/11th c. A.D ... Around the pot was a concentration of broken tiles and rubble, possibly placed there as a support. The highest preserved point of the vessel's wall was at 53.718m.

[Agora Deposit] L 18:1: Well

A well lined with a very well built stone wall, carefully made and fitted to the curve of the well cutting, with footholds running down its N and S faces. This wall, of small stones, runs to 7.30m. from ... 23-29 March 1937 ... At the east side at the surface, a beam cutting was made to hold a beam to support a brick vault over the mouth of the well.

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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 ... Rough walls of dry stone were built up to east and west of the deep hole containing the ash-urn; these served to support the ends of slab of a bluish-grey limestone placed as a cover to protect the amphora with its ashes.

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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 ... When we removed the wall we were able to support the crumbly bedrock roof with plaster and iron rods.