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[Agora Deposit] C 11:2: Pit tomb, inhumation

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 20 (E.L. Smithson: Grave X: PG). Bones discarded. Pit tomb, inhumation (on bier or in coffin?), perhaps of a child. Little ash and carbon in the filling, but the grave offerings were unburned. JP ... Developed Protogeometric ... Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 368 "Six vases were secured from an adult's grave ... crosshatching and checkerboard pattern" (JP)

[Agora Object] P 1688: Skyphos Fragment: Corinthian

Checkerboard pattern between fine lines. Applied purple. Paint peeled. Protocorinthian. Geometric area outside house, disturbed fill. Leica, 3-23 ... Ca. 650 B.C ... Checkerboard pattern between fine lines.

[Agora Object] P 1693: Pyxis Lid Fragment: Corinthian

Decorated with rays in the center, a zone of checkerboard pattern and part of a hound below. Red paint. Protocorinthian. Lot ΣΤ ?. Geometric area outside house, disturbed fill. Leica, 3-13 ... 1932 ... Decorated with rays in the center, a zone of checkerboard pattern and part of a hound below.

[Agora Object] P 7453: Lid Fragment: Corinthian

Small bit only. Flange below, set well back from edge. From center, rays, bands, checkerboard pattern, and bands at edge. Red glaze, somewhat peeled. Protocorinthian. Protoattic pit and well. Leica, ... 17 March-1 April 1936 ... From center, rays, bands, checkerboard pattern, and bands at edge.