CLST 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Tiryns, Heinrich Schliemann

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 129
• Professor: Anne Foley

Document Summary

Megaron house early helladic house (mainland, crete was different: very simple, don"t have a lot of rooms, not that big and not that complex, megaron seen in palaces and see it surviving into temples, term for rectangular building, one doorway, sometimes with an overhanding porch, house is made up of two rooms, one big main room and a smaller back room, made of mud brick don"t usually find a lot of mud brick surviving when excavating, only stone formation, not a lot left in the house when excavated usually made of wood or wicker which decomposes, and you get pottery (pthos strorage jug),and the hearth cooking/heating, if room was big enough, found a column in the middle to support the room, small back room don"t really know what they are used for, lerna example of a typical early bronze age site, close to the water, site is a town, several houses of various periods, main building house of the tiles.