Agora Deposit: C 14:3
Title:   Sacrificial Pyre
Category:   Pyre
Description:   Artifacts, burnt bone, ash, cinders and charcoal in pit in bedrock. The pyre lay directly under mosaic floor A. the deposit is not badly disturbed, however, and it is possible that it was laid immediately before the florr was installed. The pyre was probably burnt in situ; pots rested on a thick layer of burning, and fragments of burnt earth were found in the pit. some charcoal as large as ca. 0.03m in diameter is preserved, and bits of burnt matter were found in the lekanis.
Contents:   Organic material: "small fragments of burned bone" (missing)
Notes:   Identified first as burial.
No lot.
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 22, p. 125, fig. 52.
    Agora XII, p. 386.
Chronology:   Early second quarter of 4th c. B.C.
Date:   30 April 1936
Section:   ΠΘ
Grid:   ΠΘ:96/ΚΖ
References:   Publication: Agora XII
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013)
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 13, p. 386
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 32, p. 405
Image: 2007.04.0015
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