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Pit in Tholos Trench V (below Layer e).
In plan it would seem to have been oval, though its east end is c/../ by the south wall of the North Archaic Home. Its N-S width is 1.25m, its E-W length is 1.40m ... 7th-early 6th c. B.C ... Pit in Tholos Trench V (below Layer e).
In plan it would seem to have been oval, though its east end is c/../ by the south wall of the North Archaic Home. |
| Marcie Handler ... Continued from 2000 season, 10-12 July 2000; BZ XXIII p. 4472.
The hoard was originally excavated during the 2000 season (Lot BZ 1049, 5th-6th centuries AD), from a higher elevation through a gap in the ... 10-12 July 2000
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| Homer A. Thompson ... Cremation burial (trench-and-hole) under S. edge of E-W Street, northern burial. In some records as Grave XLVII.
The western part of the offering trench of the tomb was lost to a Turkish cess pit, and ... Middle Geometric I ... B.C. had cut away the upper part of the cinerary urn and the adjoining trench filling. The tomb was found directly below a Classical wall. What survived was the south and east section of the original grave, including a strip of the pyre trench, reddened from burning to a depth of 0.05m, and below it a shallow urn-hole, roughly square, ca. 0.60m to the side, cut through earth almost to the level of bedrock, to a depth of about 0.30m.
The urn-hole was dug only deep enough to accommodate the cinerary urn to its shoulder; the burning suggests a north-south orientation with the cinerary urn at the south or southeast corner.
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| C.G. Thomas ... Geometric grave. Bones discarded.
Tomb located about 2m west/west-southwest of the EG1 child inhumation, beneath the restored line of a hypothetical wall connecting the western "apse' and the south wall ... Middle Geometric II ... Tomb located about 2m west/west-southwest of the EG1 child inhumation, beneath the restored line of a hypothetical wall connecting the western "apse' and the south wall of the Geometric House. ... Oriented more or less to the points of the compass, the trench measured about 0.80m (east-west) by about 0.70m (north-south). ... Remnants of a stone packing over the trench survived on the west side and for a short distance along the north.
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| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave II: SM).
Unlined trench, roughly the size of the deceased, cut into bedrock to a depth of just over 1.50m. Oriented north-south, the tomb pit measured 1.69m in length (length ... Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric ... Unlined trench, roughly the size of the deceased, cut into bedrock to a depth of just over 1.50m. Oriented north-south, the tomb pit measured 1.69m in length (length of the skeleton in situ, 1.65m), and had a width, as excavated, of 0.40-0.58m. the west side was slightly undercut, and a small part of the east side was cut buy the cellar wall of a modern house, but only the very edge of the tomb at an upper level was touched, whereas the contents of the grave were untouched. ... Within the tomb pit, the body of a middle-aged 45-49 years at death was placed in an extended position, on her back, head to the south. The body of the deceased was roughly the size of the tomb pit, and the head, turned toward the west, facing west-northwest, lay right up against the cutting of the tomb pit. |
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