[Agora Deposit] E 7:16: Grave in Cella of Temple of Hephaisteion (Grave XLVII)

Grave in cella of Temple of Hephaisteion. Grave XLVII in notebook. Rotted bones, head to west (adult). Neg. KK 352 ... 9 March 1939 ... Grave in Cella of Temple of Hephaisteion (Grave XLVII)

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[Agora Deposit] N 16:3: Disturbed Urn Cremation

Homer A. Thompson ... Cremation burial (trench-and-hole) under S. edge of E-W Street, northern burial. In some records as Grave XLVII. The western part of the offering trench of the tomb was lost to a Turkish cess pit, and ... Middle Geometric I ... In some records as Grave XLVII. The western part of the offering trench of the tomb was lost to a Turkish cess pit, and disturbances at least as early as the 7th c. ... What survived was the south and east section of the original grave, including a strip of the pyre trench, reddened from burning to a depth of 0.05m, and below it a shallow urn-hole, roughly square, ca. 0.60m to the side, cut through earth almost to the level of bedrock, to a depth of about 0.30m. ... The cinerary urn also contained at least one burned fragment of an animal bone, identified as the burnt proximal radius of a goat. No grave goods or pyre sherds survived.