[Agora Deposit] G 12:18: Urn-Burial of an Infant

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 17 in notebook. No offerings. Amphora containing skeleton of small child was laid on its side in pit. RSY Lot Β 304 Fill over Grave 17 ... Early 6th century B.C (?)

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[Agora Deposit] A 18:4: Mycenaean Pit Grave West of House N

Mycenaean grave to west of House N, room 5, with the burial of two young children. Rough rectangular cutting in soft stereo (0.95x0.64x0.28), lying under the western wall of a Geometric house, contained ... Myc. III C:1

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[Agora Deposit] C 9:10: Urn cremation

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 3 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XIII: PG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female. JP Rectangular trench, measuring approximately 1.10x0.45m, but which may have been larger, cut through ... Late Protogeometric ... Smithson: Grave XIII: PG). Urn cremation (trench-and-hole), adult female. ... The fill of the trench was excavated in three layers: 1. "Burned earth" fired red with the odd pyre sherd noted on the floor and spilling into the urn-hole". 2. layer of ash and charcoal. 3. Dug and redeposited bedrock, encountered just below Hellenistic deposits above the trench. Young " The burial seems to have been quite normal-cremation on the spot, the bones and jewelry gathered up and placed in the amphora, and the whole buried in a pit.