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Bath in Palace of Nestor. The Palace of Nestor (Modern Greek: Ανάκτορο του Νέστορα) was an important centre in Mycenaean times, and described in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad as Nestor's kingdom of "sandy Pylos". [1] The palace featured in the story of the Trojan War, as Homer tells us that Telemachus:
The megaron (/ ˈ m ɛ ɡ ə ˌ r ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: μέγαρον, , pl.: megara / ˈ m ɛ ɡ ər ə /) was the great hall in very early Mycenean and ancient Greek palace complexes. [1] Architecturally, it was a rectangular hall that was supported by four columns, fronted by an open, two-columned portico , and had a central, open hearth ...
Piet de Jong's reconstruction of the palace at Knossos Delphinus delphis 02. In 1947, de Jong returned to Crete as the curator of Knossos. The Knossos excavations were now directed by Sinclair Hood, who continued to employ de Jong in the recording and reconstruction of the Knossos material. In 1952, de Jong relinquished his post as Knossos ...
English: Lyre Player and Bird Fresco from the Throne Room of Nestor's palace in Pylos dated LH IIIB (about 1300 BC). Watercolor reconstruction by Piet de Jong. Archaeological Museum of Chora, Messinia, Greece.
She was the author of several books on Classical Greek law and culture, and was a contributor to the deciphering of the Linear B inscriptions found at Pylos. [7] She was also the first, in 1969, to attempt to interpret the patterns on the painted floors of the megaron at Pylos, suggesting that the designs represented different types of stone. [8]
The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (or PRAP) is a diachronic and multi-disciplinary archaeological expedition established in 1990. Its purpose is to study the history of prehistoric and historic settlement in southwestern Greece (modern Messenia ).
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Nichoria reached its greatest extent (5 hectares) in LHIIIA:2, and even sported a royal Pylos-style megaron; although it was always smaller. Nichoria became subordinate to Pylos and lost the use of its megaron. [3] Toward the end of LH IIIB, the palace at Pylos knew Nichoria under the name of TI-MI-TO A-KO. [4]