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

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

  • Circular imprint in plaster floor...

  • Circular imprint in plaster floor...

  • Circular imprint in plaster floor of Room 6...

  • Circular imprint in plaster floor...

  • Vertical chases span the thickness of the wall from its bottom to its prese...

  • Vertical chases span the thickness of the wall from its bottom to its prese...

  • Vertical chases span the thickness of the wall from its bottom to its prese...

  • Staircase to second floor of the Main Building...

  • Anta partially concealed later walls; original construction is unknown...

  • all faces chiseled flat and then polished smooth...

  • Anta block concealed by later walls; original construction unknown...

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

  • Room with plastered floor and walls...

  • Wall reused in later construction; original masonry unknown...

  • Two ashlar courses preserved; two mortises on top of second course...

  • vertical chases that span the thickness of the wall...

  • vertical chase spanning the thickness of the wall; never fully excavated so...

  • Batch of charcoal from a wooden column: out of 2.3 kg of charcoal, 100 piec...