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[Agora Deposit] B 21:10: Urn burial of an infant

Grave XV in notebook = RSY Grave 1. Part of a burial jar with bones of 18-month-old child. Position of body not determinable. Foot of jar had been broken to insert body of child and stopped with stones ... Second half of 8th. c. B.C ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 82-85 and pl. 35 c-d (Grave 1) ... Agora VIII, p. 125.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:2: Inhumation of adult female

Grave I in notebook = RSY Grave 2. Inhumation burial in Cemetery on West Slope of Areopagus. Outline of grave disturbed by later cutting. Outstretched skeleton, probably of adult female. PD 731-a ... Late 8th century B.C ... Late 8th century B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] J 10:1: Unfinished Chamber Tomb

Plundered Chamber Tomb. (Tomb XII). A few meters SE of the great white marble altar. The chamber is an irregular rectangle, oriented roughly N-S, with dromos leading in at a very gentle slope from the ... LH III A ... Hesperia 44 (1975), pp. 375-378 ... Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 41 ... Agora XIII, pp. 196-199, 274, pls. 43, 75, 85 (Tomb XII).

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[Agora Deposit] E 14:12: Disturbed inhumation

Geometric Burial. Burial B in notebook. Overlay E 14:13. Skeleton lay on smoothed bedrock, head southward, arms folded on chest, hands below chin. Legs, cut off by later disturbance, probably bent, with ... Late Geometric ... See Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 306, no. 85.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:23: Disturbed grave/inhumation

Rodney S. Young ... RSY/JP Disturbed Geometric burial over "Sacrificial Pit VI" (Grave B 21:22). Grave IX in notebook. Bones discarded? Pottery found in the upper filling of a sixth century cremation pit, which had perhaps ... Middle Geometric II/Transitional to Late Geometric ... Excavation date more likely 31 May 1939 (p. 1929).

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[Agora Deposit] B 19:3: Pyre in House C

Pyre in House C, Room 8 (RSY=Pyre 6). Near east corner of room 8. Artifacts, burnt bone, burnt sticks, and large cinders in a shallow pit dug into surface of layer 3, and covered by layer 2. Some cinders ... 350-325 B.C.-end of 4th c. B.C ... Hesperia Suppl. 47 (2013), no. 43, p. 155, figs. 78, 85, 86 ... Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 120-121, pl. 51 c (Pyre 6) ... Agora IV, p. 235.

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[Agora Deposit] O 7:2: Small Chamber Tomb

Mycenaean Chamber Tomb. Only the bottom 0.10 to 0.20m of the chamber was preserved along with the partial skeletal remains of two or three occupants. The plan revealed a square chamber (1.80m by 1.80m), ... Myc. III A 1:2 (14th c.) ... Hesperia Suppl. 43 (2009), p. 103, tables 6.1, 6.2 (AA 132) ... Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 47, pl. 17 a,b ... Agora XIII, pp. 204-205, 274, pls. 46, 65, 79, 85 (Tomb XV).

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[Agora Deposit] E 19:3: Grave 3, Inhumation of 24-Year-Old Man

Shallow cutting into bedrock (L. 1.70m, W. 0.55m.) oriented north and south, head at south. Skeleton stretched out , with head on left side. Southern top edge of grave projects to form protective niche ... 750-725 B.C ... 750-725 B.C.