Title: | Pit tomb, infant inhumation | |
Supervisor: | Eugene Vanderpool | |
Category: | Burial | |
Description: | Infant grave near Phaidon street cistern. No offerings. Roughly rectangular, almost elliptical cutting in bedrock, measuring 0.70m long, 0.35m wide, and 0.40m deep, oriented south-southwest to north-northeast. The skeleton of what was stated to be a "newborn infant," head to the south-southwest, was laid out within the pit and covered by a stone slab. Reanalysis of the bone identified the presence of two infant inhumations, which were subsequently labeled AA 289 a,b | |
Notes: | Estimated Grid Φ 244, 80-559 | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 73 (2004), p. 26, n. 72. | |
Agora XXXVI, Tomb 3, pp. 52-53, 528, figs. 2.10, 3.13. | ||
Chronology: | Late Helladic III C/Early Protogeometric (date uncertain) | |
Date: | 5 August 1957 | |
Section: | Φ | |
Grid: | O/1,2-17/15,16 | |
References: | Publication: Agora XXXVI Publication: Hesperia 73 (2004) Image: 2012.55.0656 (80-559) Image: 2012.47.0840 (Section Φ 244) Image: 1997.17.0284 (80-559) Notebook: Φ-7 Notebook Page: Φ-7-62 (pp. 1313-1314) |