Mycenae: South House
| PK | C6566 |
| TITLE | Mycenae: South House |
| WGS84 | 37.730079° N, 22.756568° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 37.730079, 22.756568 |
| LON/LAT | 22.756568, 37.730079 |
| DMS | 37° 43' 48.2844" N | , | 22° 45' 23.6448" E |
| W3W | swaying, layers, measurement |
| UTM | 34 S, 654792, 4177320 |
| EGSA87 | 390280, 4176307 |
| Elevation m | 237 |
| Elevation feet | 777.6 |
| Region | Argolid |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Building
TYPE
1. House. Iakovidis et al. [2003], 17 'The South House is the largest and probably the earliest building in this part of the Citadel ... '2. House. Wace et al. [1923], 86 ' ... an important Mycenaean house now known as the South House (54 - 58).'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
a. Wace et al. [1923]: 95, ' ..., we can date the building of the South House to the early part of L.H. III.', 'Apart from one stray sherd of the Argive Minyan ware, all was of L.H. III., and mostly of good style and quality.'
2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
a. Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 17, ' ... evidence for a construction date early in the 13th century BC has been obtained.'
3. LH IIIB1: (1320 BC - 1250 BC)
a. Morgan [2005]: 162, In footnote 10: 'The South House appears to have been built in mature LH IIIB1 and may originally have been a free-standing external structure.'
NOTE
1. For a careful discussion of the South House and the House of the Warrior Vase see Hillman, French, and Sherratt, Well Built Mycenae, Fasc. 16/17: The Post Palatial Levels. Oxbow Books, 2011. ISBN: 978-1842179963.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Iakovidis et al. [2003]: Iakovidis, Spyros, and Elizabeth B. French, Kim Shelton, Charalambos Ioannides, Anton Jansen, John Lavery. Archaeological Atlas of Mycenae. The Archaeological Society at Athens Library, no. 229. 2003., 'The South House and Annex', pg. 17.
2. Morgan [2005]: Morgan, Lyvia. ‘The Cult Centre at Mycenae and the duality of life and death’, British School at Athens Studies, 13, Aegean Wall Painting: A Tribute to Mark Cameron (2005), 159-171. 2005., '', Online here.
3. Wace et al. [1923]: Wace, A.J.B., and W.A. Heurtley, Winifred Lamb, Leicester B. Holland, C.A. Boethius. ‘The Report of the School Excavations at Mycenae, 1921-1923 [corrected title: The Report of the School Excavations at Mycenae, 1920-1923]’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (25) 1 - 434. (1921/1922 - 1922/1923), '6. The South House.', pg. 86.
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