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

A. J. B. Wace, W. A. Heurtley, Winifred Lamb, Leicester B. Holland, C. A. Boethius, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 25 (1921/1922 - 1922/1923),p.86-96.
Sp.Iakovidis, Late Helladic Citadels on Mainland Greece, Leiden, 1983,p.43-44.
Late Helladic citadels on mainland Greece
The Report of the School Excavations at Mycenae, 1921-1923 [corrected title: The Report of the School Excavations at Mycenae, 1920-1923]

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