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Mycenaean occupation near the Cyclopean Terrace Building at Mycenae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2013

Elizabeth French
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In the excavations of 1950, 1951, and 1952 the area of the Cyclopean Terrace Building was one of the major objectives. The North Megaron or Cyclopean Terrace Building proper was at first the chief point of interest and the report on this building has been published. There were also two other important buildings on the site: the South Megaron with its long terrace wall but no other remains, and the House of the Wine Merchant, which lay under and west of this terrace wall. No further work on these two buildings has been done to amplify or amend the views published in the first account.

However, trenching in the general area produced, as well as these three main buildings, considerable evidence of other occupation and building which is worthy of note. Both the modern terrace walls were also investigated. The evidence is very scanty, but it seems likely that they follow the lines of ancient walls, not necessarily Mycenaean. The plan (Fig. 1) shows the areas of the exploration.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 56 , November 1961 , pp. 81 - 87
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1961

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References

1 BSA xlix. 267.

2 BSA xlviii. 15.

3 The plan here published is based on that prepared in 1952 by Marian Holland McAllister.

4 Mycenae Tablets II figs. 31, 42, 43.

5 BSA xxv. 403.

6 BSA xlix. 273.

7 AJA 60, pl. 49. 6.

8 This part of the report has been drawn up from Mr. Hood's notebook, plans and sections with the help of the published (JHS lxxii. 97) and unpublished accounts written by him in 1951, and from a complete reassessment of the pottery evidence. Mr. Hood has also kindly supplied me with photographs, of which Pl. 12c is one.

9 Mentioned briefly ILN 23. xii. 1950.

10 A similar method of floor construction was noted by Mr. Petsas in the houses he was excavating at that time immediately to the north of this area (PAE 1950, 213).