[Agora Deposit] J 2:29: Disturbed Pyre

Classical commercial building, room 3, against south wall. Small fragments of pottery dispersed in fill overlying two floor levels (at 51.897 and 51.941 masl). Five objects of pyre type: ribbon-handled ... 4th c. B.C ... Five objects of pyre type: ribbon-handled plate, plate with concave rim (P 36558), and uninventoried fragments of a ribbon-handled plate and three small pyre saucers.

[Agora Deposit] T 21:2: Pocket on the Line of the Early (Archaic) Peribolos Wall at Entrance, on the South Side

Pocket on the line of the early (Archaic) peribolos wall at entrance on the south side. Uncatalogued material: 215 sherds, 186 + frags. plemochoai and 4 objects. Classical Ware : black glaze; mug; rilled-rim ... 3rd quarter 4th c. B.C ... Classical Ware : black glaze; mug; rilled-rim plate; lekythos; miniatures.

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[Agora Deposit] J 2:16: Pyre against North Face of Polygonal Wall, Room 2

Pyre against north face of polygonal wall, Room 2, Classical Building II. No floor preserved above, but the pyre is below floor level 51.820masl, preserved just to the east and above patchy floor with ... Ca. 275-260 B.C ... Includes 2 chytra, small saucer and rilled rim plates.

[Agora Deposit] N 12:3: Geometric and Protogeometric Well

Well at 15/ΜΓ (Well E: PG, ELS). Supplementary filling around its top Small partly glazed one handler Fragment of black figured kylix Small protogemetric cup Fragment of skyphos Rim fragment of Large Open ... Protogeometric-6th - 5th c. B.C ... Small partly glazed one handler Fragment of black figured kylix Small protogemetric cup Fragment of skyphos Rim fragment of Large Open Vase Protogeometric Oinochoe Handmade wide-mouthed amphora Fragmentary oinochoe Hnadmade pitcher x3 Vertibrae strung on rib bone Conical foot Amphora (?)

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[Agora Deposit] H 13:2: Pyre

Sacrificial Pyre = Pit in floor (identified as pyre by SIR); with the characteristic small plates and saucers. "Saucer Grave" at 12/ΚΑ. Dimensions: 2m (length)x 0.70 (width). North of north wall of building ... First half 4th c. B.C ... Both the large size of the cutting and the presence of a kernos are unusual, but the rilled-rim plate and the saucers suggest that this is a pyre.

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[Agora Deposit] O 20:6: Disturbed Pyre in Room 5, House D

Disturbed pyre dispersed in fill of Room 5, House D. Pyre pots in very fragmentary condition were noticed by Barbara Tsakirgis in later analysis of pottery that had been excavated in 1938; no mention of ... 14 June 1938 ... It is likely that more than one pyre is involved: the two rilled-rim plates do not match and there are three lekanis lids (rarely does a pyre contain more than two lekanides).

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[Agora Deposit] J 2:24: Hellenistic Pyre

Marcie Handler ... This pyre was found in the fill under Pyre J 2:23. Unfortunately, no floor surface was found between the two pyres. There were no complete vessels in this pyre. The sherds of the pyre vessels were mixed ... 275-250 B.C ... The catalogued pots included fragments of two lopadia, one lopadion lid, fragments of five pyre saucers and two ribbon-handled plate and one rilled-rim plate. In addition to the catalogued pottery, fragments of between five and seven additional pyre saucers, one ribbon-handled plate, and one chytridion were left in the pottery bag.

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[Agora Deposit] C 9:14: Cremation

Rodney S. Young ... Grave 7 in notebook (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXI: PG). Bones discarded. Disturbed and damaged cremation (originally trench-and-hole), the east end cut away, probably contained the burial urn. JP It consisted ... Late Protogeometric ... The east end where the cinerary urn would have originally been located in an urn-hole, was almost completely cut away by the Hellenistic water channel that skirted the tomb to the south. evidence of heavy burning, in the form of reddened earth, was noted on the ground around the mouth, rim, floor and three sides of the trench.