Site details

Mycenae: House of Lead

PK	C6616
TITLE	Mycenae: House of Lead
WGS84	37.7258844° N, 22.75278498° E
Accuracy	10 m.

LAT/LON	37.7258844, 22.75278498
LON/LAT	22.75278498, 37.7258844

DMS

37° 43' 33.1838" N

22° 45' 10.0259" E

W3W	celebrated, resurfaced, catastrophe
UTM	34 S, 654467, 4176848
EGSA87	389940, 4175846

Elevation m	211
Elevation feet	692.3
Region	Argolid

GENERAL SITE TYPE House

TYPE

1.    House.   Iakovidis et al. [2003], 56    'Terraced house at S end of upper Panagias ridge.'
2.    House.   Wace [1956], 120    ' ... and we must also imagine as standing upon it a large and important house, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 56, 'Two sherds of MH/LH I were identified ... '

2. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)
    a.    Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 56, 'Two sherds of MH/LH I were identified ... '

3. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 56, ' ... and there was clear evidence of LH II.'

4. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Wace [1956]: 121, 'It contained a great amount of earlier pottery of L.H. IIIA style ... '
    b.    Wace [1956]: 121, 'Among the fragments pieces of mugs of L.H. IIIA style were conspicuous.'

5. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 56, 'Pottery from within the terrace ... gives a terminus post quem of LH IIIA2 for the construction of the building ... '

6. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 56, ' ... from which the burnt destruction can be dated to mid LH IIIB ... '

7. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 56, 'A few sherds of possible Geometric were noted ... '

NOTE

1. For the pottery in this area of the ridge see French [1965] 174 - 184.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. French [1965]: French, Elizabeth. ‘Late Helladic IIIA 2 Pottery from Mycenae’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (60), 159-202. 1965., '', Online here.

2. Iakovidis et al. [2003]: Iakovidis, Spyros, and Elizabeth B. French, Kim Shelton, Charalambos Ioannides, Anton Jansen, John Lavery. Archaeological Atlas of Mycenae. The Archaeological Society at Athens Library, no. 229. 2003., 'E4:11 - LH II-LH IIIB; House of Lead', pg. 56.

3. Wace [1956]: Wace, A.J.B.. ‘Mycenae 1939-1955: Part I. Preliminary Report on the Excavations of 1955’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (51) 103-122. 1956., '', pg. 120. Online here.