ARTH 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Pylos, Boeotia, Carl Blegen
19 Oct 2017
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Exceptional from the amount of linear b tablets discovered. 600 rowers and watchers to the coast: immediately after the palace is destroyed (burned down) Acropolis of pylos and palace of nestor. Right above the throne was a panel of an octopus. And in the back half of the megaton the pattern is perfect no variation. And on the left side it looks like the artist got a bit lazy an didn"t put that much effort into the detail. But these panels show you were to go. Queen megarons are smaller an more con ened and probably warmer. And it is more in the domestic area. The linear b tablets at pylos pu-ro. Told you exactly what went on in the layout and where. Which would have been holding perfuming olive oil. Purpose of moving them in the ground. This palace tells us a lot about the economy. Massive at planes and dotted all around it are fresh water lakes.
