Main Building at Pylos

Code name (Unique Key)

Loc15

Site

Pylos

Area

Palace at Pylos

Building

Main Building at Pylos

General type of building

Elite building

General functions of the building

Other

General description of the location

Main Building of the Palace with multiple functions.

Media legend and metadata

Plan of the Palace of Nestor.

Linked resources

  • Masonry consists of rubble, ashlar block fragments, and a heavy mortar....

  • Vertical chases in the northeast and northwest walls. Masonry consists of r...

  • Masonry consists of rubble, ashlar block fragments, and a heavy mortar....

  • Anta block with mortises and beam beds....

  • Southeast wall of Room 3; ashlar wall with mortises and beddings...

  • All surfaces chiseled and ground smooth and flat....

  • All surfaces chiseled flat and ground smooth....

  • On course of ashlar preserved with mortises on the upper surface of each bl...

  • LHII building underneath Room 7; function unknown...

  • Orthostate facade with one preserved mortise....

  • Front face chiseled flat and then ground smooth; all joint faces chiseled...

  • Four chases; each span the thickness of the wall....

  • All faces chiseled flat and then ground smooth....

  • Stairway with three steps preserved....

  • Anta block with three mortices and two bedding cuts...

  • All faces chiseled flat and then ground smooth....

  • Anta block on northeast side of the door between rooms 4 and 5....

  • All faces chiseled flat and then ground smoooth...

  • Corridor flanking the southwest side of the megaron unit....

  • Northeast wall of Room 16 with horizontal and vertical chases...

  • Horizontal chase in southwest face of wall...

  • Anta block on southwest side of doorway between rooms 4 and 5...