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[Agora Deposit] G 12:15: Inhumation a Man

Grave 14 in notebook. Length of shaft 2.12m; width 0.46m; depth from cover 0.60m. Man's skeleton stretched NE-SW with head at NE. Offering at foot of shaft, with the skyphos in the mouth of the pitcher ... 750-725 B.C ... Grave 14 in notebook. ... On the NE edge of the cover slabs was a small flat stone, perhaps to support a grave marker.

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[Agora Deposit] J 2:31: Cist Grave

Marcie Handler ... Cist grave for two infants. The grave was cut into a sterile rocky layer on its southern and western sides, and a sterile fill layer on its northern and eastern sides. No obvious grave marker was present, ... Early Iron Age ... Cist grave for two infants. ... No obvious grave marker was present, although three flat stones arranged at the northern end of the grave were documented in the layer immediately above the grave (Lot ΒΖ 2281), and these stones may have been part of the disturbed covering for the grave. ... Within the lining, the length of the grave was 0.820 m.

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[Agora Deposit] Q 8:4: Chamber Tomb Northeast of Pier 19, Burial 1

Mycenaean Tomb to NE of Pier 19 (Burial #1) Most of the doorway and the dromos had been cut away by the ancient Stoa builders. The dimensions of the chamber were 2.90m wide by 1.60m deep. Unusual features ... Myc. III A:1 ... Unusual features of the tomb were a small recess in the back or south wall, in which stood the askos, and a rough stone slab which was found on the floor near the center of the east side, but which may once have been a grave marker at ground level.

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[Agora Deposit] N 12:4: Tomb with coffins

Mycenaean Chamber Tomb below Middle Stoa Terrace. The tomb was entered from the west by a stepped dromos, at least 4.20m long by 1.10 to 1.50m. wide, splaying slightly toward the doorway, which was 1.26m ... Myc. IIIA:1 ... The doorway was found blocked with a stone packing, which included near its top a broken conglomerate grave marker, and which proved to have been erected at least three times; during one of the occasions of reopening, the doorway was widened 0.20m to the north.