Object: P 35407
Inventory Number: P 35407
Section Number: ΒΗ 203
Excavation Number: mccabe:2006:f:7
Title: Vessel Containing Bones of Child
Category: Pottery
Description: Whole base mended from numerous fragments, body broken vertically in two main large pieces. Small gaps in bottom otherwise complete. Handles intact.
Spherical two-handled cooking-pot used upside down as infant burial. Bakirtzis tsoukali type B.
Very coarse fabric with large inclusions.
10th/11th c. A.D.
Cf. P 34514
Notes: Skeleton of child (AA 371).
Conservation Status: Finished
Context: Corner west of continuation of Wall 1. East corner of Byzantine Room G.
Notebook Page: 1657
Storage: West Basement-Pottery, Block 35-6/c
Dimensions: H. 0247; Diam. (at rim) 0.186, (belly) 0.290; W. (handles) 0.039
Material: Terracotta
Date Of Discovery: 20 June 2006
Section: ΒΗ
Grid: L/16-2/19
Elevation: 53.718m.
Longitude: 23.723084
Latitude: 37.976466
Deposit: L 2:3
Lot: Lot ΒΗ 472
Basket: mccabe:2006:b:8
Period: Byzantine
Bibliography: Camp and Mauzy (2009), pp. 119, 120, figs. 128, 129.
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