Agora Deposit: B 18:3
Title:   Pyre
Category:   Pyre
Description:   Pyre in House T, Room 2 through floor of second period (RSY=Pyre 5) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
4th. c. BC.
Concentration of artifacts, burnt bone, and charcoal in floor makeup consisting of earth, dug bedrock, and marble chips, no pit discerned. The pyre was partly covered by a pebble floor associated with phase 3 of the house, but the fill in which it was found cut through a floor associated with the second phase, and it predates the abandonment of the house substantially. The artifacts rest on a heavy layer of charcoal and ash, with burnt bone throughout, suggesting burning in situ.
Contents:   Organic material: animal bone.
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 40, p. 151, figs. 78, 81.
    Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 119-120, pl. 51 b (Pyre 5).
    Agora IV, p. 235.
    Agora XII, p. 384.
    Agora XXIX, p. 436.
Chronology:   375-350 B.C.
Date:   26 April 1948
Section:   ΝΝ
Grid:   ΝΝ:63/ΛΗ
References:   Publications (5)
Publication Pages (4)
Report: 1947 ΝΝ
Image: 2013.09.0007
Objects (24)
Notebook: ΝΝ-36
Notebook: ΝΝ-38
Notebook: ΝΝ-45
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