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| Aerial view of Section ΒΕ. From top of adjacent building ... Horizontal (normal) ... July 1998 |
| Agora Excavations; 1998 Summary ... 1998 Excavations ... 6 June-31 July 1998 |
| Burial ... 1998 Excavations J-K 2:2 |
| Burial ... 1998 Excavations K 2:5 |
| Plate 1. Plate 2 ... 1998 Excavations 1998.01.0002 |
| Plate 5. Plate 6 ... 1998 Excavations 1998.01.0009 1998.01.0005 |
| Plate 7. Plate 8 ... 1998 Excavations 1998.01.0004 1998.01.0012 |
| Plate 9. Plate 10 ... 1998 Excavations 2007.01.1080 1998.01.0013 |
| Ostrakon of the Athenian general Nikias ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Mycenaean enthroned goddess figurine ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Plate 3. Plate 4. Burial ... 1998 Excavations J-K 2:2 1998.01.0003 1998.01.0006 |
| Plan of location of Mycenaean chamber tombs in section ΒΕ ... PD 2767 Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| 1998 excavation photograph ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Mycenaean bronze spear-point and bronze dagger with gilded rivets ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Worn.
Cylindrical bead, pierced for suspension; hole larger on one face than the other.
Pink stone with white veins. Mycenaean Chamber Tomb. From sieving. in ziplock polyethylene bag inside a plastic box ... July 1998 |
| Seventeen beads: eight appear to be complete; the other nine are partially truncated.
Long tear drop shape with vertical grooves, pierced through center.
White creamy glass paste. Finished Mycenaean ... 24 July 1998 |
| Seventeen small beads. Four are intact. Twelve others are friable and iridescent. The smallest one was broken during handling.
Roundish beads, some more flattened than others, pierced through the center ... 24 July 1998 |
| Fifty-nine spherical beads, generally well preserved, but five have friable surfaces.
Pierced through the center.
Creamy yellow glass paste. Finished Mycenaean Chamber Tomb. Very fragile. Do not handle ... 24 July 1998 |
| Intact. Encrusted with white grit. Blackened inside from burning inside and on the handle; flaking surface. Small shallow cup with flat base. Angled lower wall, vertical upper wall. Thin flat rim slightly ... LH II |
| Intact. Small chips around edges.
String hole through long axis. Slightly domed upper surface with engraved lines in shape of beetle. Curved line across middle separating head from back. Bisecting line ... 24-30 July 1998 |
| A total of about 500 small beads in a very good state of preservation .
Fifty are paired (still stuck together from manufacture). Thirty-one are kept separated in a bag, the others are strung on a nylon ... 24 July 1998 |
| A series of twenty-nine carnelian beads of various sizes and shapes, all intact.
The eight smallest are roughly cut and rounded. Eighteen have an elongated elliptical shape, each one slightly different ... 24 July 1998 |
| Almost complete, mended from several fragments. Chip in rim, gap on shoulder and a large gap on lower body. Encrusted white grit over surface. Shape and decoration like P 33168 but larger: globular body ... LH IIIA1 |
| Ten beads: five are complete, three are cracking and peeling, and the other two have lost about half of their volume. The surface in general is very friable.
Spherical beads pierced through the center ... 24 July 1998 |
| Mended from several fragments. Two small loose fragments. Largely complete but missing fragments from body. Thickened outcurving rim, slightly offset. Deep bowl, low stem. Sloping spreading foot with wide ... 24 July 1998 |
| Mended from many fragments. Missing small portion of rim and body. Brown incrustation on surface. Shallow bowl, everted rim; two vertical strap handles, tall narrow stem. Spreading foot, slightly convex ... 24 July 1998 |
| Mended from several fragments. Complete except for small gaps on rim and body. Shallow bowl, everted rim, two vertical strap handles. Tall narrow stem. Flat spreading foot with high dome underneath.
Pinkish ... LH IIIA1 |
| One piece making up complete base and body, with two small joining fragments at neck. Missing small fragments from rim and neck and from body surface. Small globular body with no handles, narrow neck, ... 24 July 1998 |
| Mended from many fragments. Complete except for chips, gaps and upper part of one handle. Glaze cracked and worn.
Piriform; broad flaring rim, low concave neck, high shoulder, small splaying (ring) foot ... 24 July 1998 |
| Mycenaean painted pottery from the chamber tombs in section ΒΕ ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Mycenaean small beads of various materials (shell, faience, and carnelian) ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Complete. Socket end mended. Cracked along midrib. Slight corrosion.
Broad rounded midrib along axis from socket, tapering to point. Two lateral nail holes in socket to fasten shaft.
Bronze. Mycenaean ... 7 July 1998 |
| Single fragment, preserving entire base and body, missing upper portion of neck and both handles. Glaze flaking and worn. Globular, biconical body, small flat raised base. Stubs of narrow strap handles ... 7 July 1998 |
| Mended from many fragments. Complete except for small gaps. A few small loose fragments in separate bag. Surface decoration preserved but flaking. Narrow neck, cut away and pinched to form trough spout ... 7 July 1998 |
| Complete. Head mended. Well preserved painted decoration and surface.
Figure: Proto-Phi/Phi type, rendered separately and moulded to chair. Arms schematically rendered. Left arm slightly modelled at inside ... 24-30 July 1998 |
| Complete, in one piece, except for chips from rim and foot. Paint well preserved. White grit encrustation on surface. Piriform shape. Wide rim, slightly sloping. Low concave neck, high shoulder. Small ... 24 July 1998 |
| Complete except for chips in rim and on body surface. Mended from many fragments. One handle (out of three) missing. Painted decoration well preserved but glaze worn and cracked where thicker. Piriform; ... 24 July 1998 |
| Mycenaean painted pottery from the chamber tombs in section ΒΕ ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Mycenaean small beads of various materials (shell, faience, and carnelian) ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Mended from many fragments; complete except for chips from rim and body. Paint preserved, but flaking. High, baggy type, slightly sagging. Low neck, thin spreading rim. Three horizontal handles, round ... 23 July 1998 |
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