Ash urn tightly sealed with a single-handled cup lid. Cremation burial from the Early Geometric period. It held cremated remains of a pregnant wealthy woman. From the N.W. foot of the Areopagus of Athens. About 850 BC. Museum of the Ancient Agora. Athens, Greece.

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