South House/Citadel House at Mycenae

Code name (Unique Key)

Loc44

Site

Mycenae

Area

Citadel at Mycenae

Building

South House/Citadel House at Mycenae

General type of building

Elite building

General functions of the building

Residential
Storage

General description of the location

South House is the southest building at the south of Grave Circle Area. It consists of a small porch leading to a large room (North Hall) and three smaller rooms adjoining it to the south (according to the excavations of Wace at 1920). The later extension of the excavation revealed a group of rooms mentioned in the literature as Citadel House (excavations of Taylor at 1954 and 1968).

Media legend and metadata

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Bibliography

p. 43-44.
The Report of the School Excavations at Mycenae, 1921-1923 [corrected title: The Report of the School Excavations at Mycenae, 1920-1923]
p. 86-96, fig.20, pl. XIII
Mycenae - A. J. B. Wace : Mycenae. An Archaeological History and Guide. Pp. xviii+150: IIo ill. Princeton: University Press (London: Oxford University Press), 1949. Cloth, £6 net.
p.66, fig.3
Mycenae 1939-1954: Part I. Preliminary Report on the Excavations of 1954
p.177-180
Πρακτικά της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας του έτους 1972
p.125, εικ.2
The Excavations

Linked resources

  • Spa470

    A shallow porch functions as an entrance to the North Hall of the House...

  • Str415

    The entrance to the block is marked by a large anta block of dressed conglo...

  • Tim1135

    "The entrance to the block is marked by a large anta block of dressed congl...

  • Spa471

    In the south -east corner of the North Hall leads to two room, the Central ...

  • Str416

    "In the walls, at a height of about one meter from the floor, will be obser...

  • Tim1136

    It is the 1st vertical chase (from the west side of the wall)...

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  • Spa488

    A small room in the South House, measuring ca 4.00×3.50 m, excavated and pa...

  • Str1139

    Stone base with mortises at the free end of the wall, at the western end of...

  • Tim1236

    Conglomerate stone base with three visible mortises at the free end of the ...

  • Str1140

    Vertical reinforcement system in the southeast wall of Room 58 preserving t...

  • Tim1237

    First preserved chase for a horizontal timber from the ground, running alon...

  • Tim1238

    One chase for a vertical timber 0.90m from the southwest end of the wall...

  • Tim1239

    A hole 0.70 m deep and ca 0.12m in diameter, at the intersection of horizon...

  • Spa489

    A room in the South House Annex, measuring ca 8.60×3.30 m...

  • Str1141

    The mudbrick walls of the South House Annex, now restored, are built on a s...

  • Tim1240

    The mudbrick superstructure preserved traces (imprints/chases) of thin, ver...