PKey Report
PKC880
TITLEMyloi: MH House
WGS84 37.551108° N, 22.718678° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 37.551108, 22.718678
LON/LAT 22.718678, 37.551108

DMS 37° 33' 3.9888" N,22° 43' 7.2408" E

W3Wreplicate, sushi, unkindly
UTM34 S, 651816, 4157399
EGSA87 386669, 4156495

Elevation m4
Elevation feet 13.1
RegionArgolid





GENERAL SITE TYPE  House

TYPE

1.    Buildings.   Simpson [1981], 25    'It is famous mainly on account of the Early Helladic palace complex, the "House of the Tiles".'

2.    Buildings.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 47    ' ...; the final phase of EH II is represented only by the "House of the Tiles", a well-planned building of two storeys that had at least some of the fufnctions of a palace, ... '

3.    House.   Mee and Spawforth [2001], 217    An EH house and an MH house superimposed.

4.    Settlement.   Simpson [1981], 25    'Lerna is a large site (about 150 m. in diameter) of "low mound type", close to the sea on the south side of the village of Myloi.'

5.    Settlement.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 47    'A large low mound-site (c. 150 m. in diameter) close to the sea, mainly built up of habitation-debris.'

SITE SIZE

- Simpson [1981]  p. 25,  Size: 17671 sq. m.  ' ... (about 150 m. in diameter) ... ' And using 75 as the radius.

- Simpson and Dickinson [1979]  p. 47,  Size: 17671 sq. m.  ' ... (c. 150 m. in diameter) close to the sea, ... '



PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)

    a.    Mee and Spawforth [2001]: 217

    b.    Simpson [1981]: 25 ' ... the Early Helladic palace complex, ... '

2. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 25 'N EH II-III MH LH I-IIIB PG G A ... '

    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 47 'The settlement at this time was less important than in EH II but still substantial, ... ', ' ... reoccupied only in EH II.'

3. EH III: (2200 BC - 2000 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 25 'N EH II-III MH LH I-IIIB PG G A ... '

    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 47 ' ... for much of the EH III period the central part of the "House of the Tiles", ... , was not built over.'

4. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)

    a.    Mee and Spawforth [2001]: 217 'At the eastern end of the site one of these Middle Helladic houses ... is superimposed on an Early Helladic predecessor ...'

    b.    Simpson [1981]: 25 'N EH II-III MH LH I-IIIB PG G A ... '

    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 47 ' ..., as it continued to do in MH times.'

5. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 25 'N EH II-III MH LH I-IIIB PG G A ... ' 'Two shaft graves, eptied of their original contents in the LH I period, ... '

6. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 25 'N EH II-III MH LH I-IIIB PG G A ... '

7. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 25 'N EH II-III MH LH I-IIIB PG G A ... '

    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 25 'N EH II-III MH LH I-IIIB PG G A ... '

8. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 25 'N EH II-III MH LH I-IIIB PG G A ... '

    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 46 'Lerna was apparently abandoned in LH IIIB ... '

9. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 25 'N EH II-III MH LH I-IIIB PG G A ... '

    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 46 ' ... and not reoccupied before later PG.'

10. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 25 'N EH II-III MH LH I-IIIB PG G A ... ', 'It was apparently abandoned at some time in the LH IIIB period.'

11. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 25 'N EH II-III MH LH I-IIIB PG G A ... '


BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Mee and Spawforth [2001]:  Mee, Christopher and Antony Spawforth. Greece; An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street. Oxford. 2001. , 'Description & p. 216, fig. 85.', pg. 215.

2.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'A 19 Myloi: Ancient Lerna', pg. 25. Online here.

3.  Simpson and Dickinson [1979]:  Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'A 13 Myloi: Ancient Lerna', pg. 46. Online here.