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[Agora Deposit] F 20:1: Pyre

Identified as Pyre by SIR. Debris filling of the middle of the 4th c. B.C. including the remains of a sacrificial pyre. Objects dispersed in red-clay fill uncovered in removal of modern staircase. A broken ... 4th c. B.C. disturbed ... Debris filling of the middle of the 4th c. B.C. including the remains of a sacrificial pyre. Objects dispersed in red-clay fill uncovered in removal of modern staircase.

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[Agora Deposit] K 3:2: Byzantine Layer with Complete Pots

James Artz Pirisino Daniele Kylindreas Miltiades ... Excavation in Room 3 of ΒΘ West revealed 5 ceramic vessels in a row against the eastern face of Wall 12. 3 complete vessels (ΒΘ 122, 124, and 125) were catalogued, along with the base of a plain glazed ... 9th-11th c. A.D ... The fragmentary remains of a ceramic pithos (ΒΘ 178) were revealed after the removal of a reused threshold block above the pithos. ... Joanita Vroom and the Agora staff, all fill from the pithos was saved, but not given an Agora Sample number. Removal of fill around the pithos (ΒΘ Lot 529, 10th-11th century A.D.) revealed a poorly preserved pale yellow clay floor sloping downwards from west to east (elev.: 53.803 ¬¬– 53.590). All of the 2013 cataloged objects included in Deposit K 3:2 were found in the fill above this floor, with the pithos and some of the coins resting on it.