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| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb SE of Stoa Pier 12 (Burial 8).
Roughly rectangular, measuring 1.70m by 1.40m, and was cut down to within 0.65m. by the construction of the Square Building. A rectangular cutting ... Early Myc. IIIA ... Roughly rectangular, measuring 1.70m by 1.40m, and was cut down to within 0.65m. by the construction of the Square Building. A rectangular cutting at the northwest corner may have been the entrance, although this cutting may be later; the southwest corner of the chamber appeared to have been unfinished.
Across the north end lay the single skeleton of a child with head to east, lying on its back with knees doubled up. |
| John Camp ... Protogeometric grave (female inhumation) located about 0.60m northwest of T 15:1. It consisted of a roughly rectangular pit, with the corners slightly rounded, oriented approximately north-south. The pit ... "Submycenaean"/Early Protogeometric ... Protogeometric grave (female inhumation) located about 0.60m northwest of T 15:1. ... The pit was cut to a depth of at least 0.45m at the south end and 0.25m at the north on account of the sloping bedrock. ... The left arm was across the waist, the right reaching up over the chest; the head was rolled over onto its right side, facing east.
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| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb occupies a considerable part of the western half of section ΕΕ; lies about half way up the north slope of the Areopagus towards its eastern end, just below the highest point of the ... Myc. III A:1 ... The rock from which it is cut, is the greenish clayey shale which underlies most of the Agora area.
... It was originally several meters longer but its northern end was cut off by a late Roman retaining wall. ... Its roof has entirely caved in, except for a small bit projecting at the north end of the west side; probably was not flat but slightly concave (all along the north side it seems that it rises from the sides toward the center).
Across the east and west ends of the chamber there is a low rock-cut bench (average width 0.75m; average height 0.60m). |
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