Page "Plague of Athens" Paragraph 9

Excavator Efi Baziotopoulou-Valavani, of the Third Ephoreia ( Directorate ) of Antiquities, reported that " he mass grave did not have a monumental character.

The offerings we found consisted of common, even cheap, burial vessels ; black-finished ones, some small red-figured, as well as white lekythoi ( oil flasks ) of the second half of the fifth century B. C.

The bodies were placed in the pit within a day or two.

These point to a mass burial in a state of panic, quite possibly due to a plague.