Classical Studies 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Exotica, Tumulus, Anax

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2500A/B
• Professor: Beth Greene

Document Summary

So main area is the megaron, and then there is the vestibule and courts. There are also halls ; there are activities that they did that we will never know because we don"t have enough archaeological evidence to fully know what they did in these halls. There would be an archive room: where tablets are found. Archive room suggests you have some sort of bureaucratic organization that is saving archives; saving archives because there is a lot of economic function in the palace. Store rooms suggests surplus (to trade raw good or turn raw good into finished products and to move goods out of the palace), suggesting an economic centre. The city was very centrally controlled, b/c as soon as this palace collapsed, the whole city collapses as well, since everyone relied on the palace. City / centre of cities are evolving through time.