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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 ... Smithson considered Tomb 1 as containing the mother of the infant inhumed in Tomb 2. The tomb consisted of a rectangular pit cut into bedrock to a preserved depth of 0.30m. ... Fragments of a coarse basin, were intentionally broken and placed above teh tomb as a cover, spanning the full length of the pit. Within the pit, the skeleton of a fetus or newborn infant was placed on its back in an extended position, head to the south.

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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] O 7:16: Pit Tomb, Infant Inhumation

Eugene Vanderpool ... "Submycenaean" grave into Mycenaean gully. Rectangular trench cut partly in bedrock, partly through Mycenaean domestic filling. No pottery catalogued ... Late Helladic IIIC-Early Protogeometric

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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)