North-West Quarter at Mycenae

Code name (Unique Key)

Loc21

Site

Mycenae

Area

Citadel at Mycenae

Building

North-West Quarter at Mycenae

General type of building

Other

General functions of the building

Storage

General description of the location

The buildings of the North-West Quarter at the Acropolis of Mycenae occupy an area of 800 m.2, bounded by the straight, internally cyclopean and externally pseudoashlar section of the fortification wall, above and to the left of the Lion Gate, on the west, by the curving section of the fortification wall on the north, and on the east by a substantial wall, which separates this area from the area to the east, proceeds obliquely in a southwesterly-northeasterly direction, and terminates at the curving section of the fortification wall. To the east lies the long trapezoidal building.Building II occupied the entire area to the north of North-West Quarter Buildings. It consists of two large rectangular rooms (II2 and II1), one on the east and one on the west, covering an area of 45 m.2 each, as well as two small square rooms (II5 and II6) , covering an area of 6.50 and 5.30 m.2 respectively. Behind these rooms, to the north, lie three trapezoidal backyards (II3, II4 and II7). Although the entire building covers an area of ca 300 m.2, the roofed part of the house does not exceed 160.5 m.2, There are no connecting doorways between the rooms, or between the rooms and the courtyards to the north, the function of which is uncertain.

Media legend and metadata

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