Agora Deposit: B 19:1
Title:   Rubbish Pit/Pyre
Category:   Pyre
Description:   Rubbish Pit . Pit cut through a house floor. In courtyard, beside door to room 3. Artifacts, bone and scattering of large cinders in roughly rectangular pit dug through floor bedding and covered by red, Hellenistic fill, below a layer of decayed mudbrick. Although the contents included chicken bones and carbonized matter along with pottery, the evidence indicates that the burning did not take place on the spot but was dumped in from elsewhere. The filling reflects some ritual activity and is not ordinary household debris. Identified as pyre by SIR.
Contents:   Coins:
26 April 1947 #8-#13
Organic material: "animal bones, among them recognizable chicken bones" (missing).
Notes:   Could this pit be related to neg. XXVIII, cf. pp. 1060-1062, 5028-5031?
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 45, p. 158, figs. 1, 4, 78, 90.
    Agora XXIX, p. 437.
Chronology:   325-300 B.C.
Date:   26 April 1947
Section:   ΝΝ
Grid:   ΝΝ:77/Μ
References:   Publication: Agora XXIX
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013)
Publication Pages (6)
Image: 2007.04.0014
Objects (11)
Coin: N 37742
Coin: N 37743
Coin: N 37744
Notebook: ΝΝ-15
Notebook: ΝΝ-21
Notebook: ΝΝ-22
Notebook Pages (6)