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Chapter 42 - Architecture

from Part VII - Aegean Art of the Mainland Mycenaean Palatial Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

Jean-Claude Poursat
Affiliation:
University of Clermont-Ferrand
Carl Knappett
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

Crowning plateaus or hilltops, close to the sea or inland, citadels are a characteristic feature of the Mycenaean landscape from the fourteenth century bc. With rare exceptions, fortified sites are absent from Crete (Nowicki 2000); only in the Cyclades, from the Early Bronze Age, has this type of landscape also featured.

On the mainland some sites, like those of Malthi and Peristeria in Messenia, and Araxos (Teichos Dymaean) in Achaea, still use Middle Bronze Age walls. These are simple enceintes of limited extent that protected the inhabitants from occasional attacks; the walls are built from blocks of varying sizes, supporting mudbrick courses above. Towards the beginning of Late Helladic (LH) I, new settlements are surrounded by heavily built walls, true refuge enclosures, both on the mainland (e.g. at Eutresis or Haghios Kosmas) and in the Cyclades (Haghios Andreas on Siphnos) and on Crete (Kastrokephala).

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Blegen, and Rawson, 1966: Blegen, C., Rawson, M., The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia I: The Buildings and Their Contents, Princeton, NJ.Google Scholar
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Hägg, 2002: Hägg, R. ed., Peloponnesian Sanctuaries and Cults, Stockholm.Google Scholar
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Müller, 1930: Müller, K., Tiryns III. Die Architektur der Burg und des Palastes, Augsburg.Google Scholar
Shear Mylonas, 1987: Shear Mylonas, I., The Panagia Houses at Mycenae, Philadelphia, PA.Google Scholar
Tournavitou, 1995: Tournavitou, I., The ‘Ivory Houses’ at Mycenae, London.Google Scholar
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Whittaker, 1997: Whittaker, H., Mycenaean Cult Buildings: A Study of Their Architecture and Function in the Context of the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, Bergen.Google Scholar

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  • Architecture
  • Jean-Claude Poursat
  • Translated by Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Online publication: 19 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630672.043
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  • Jean-Claude Poursat
  • Translated by Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Online publication: 19 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630672.043
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  • Architecture
  • Jean-Claude Poursat
  • Translated by Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Online publication: 19 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630672.043
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