CLST 129 Lecture Notes - Apse, Great Palace Of Constantinople, Anatolia

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 129
• Professor: Aoife Foley

Document Summary

Megaron house, early helladic on the main land. Megaron is a typical house on the main land. Has a porch and a doorway leading to a large front room and a small back room. Lots of pottery is found in these houses. There is usually a column in the middle to help support the roof. Excavated a small town that lasted quite a long time. House of the tiles was a large house in the middle of the town dug in the 50"s. Built a roof over it to preserve it. The highest standing walls are 3 or 4 feet with plaster coating. It"s called the house of the tiles because the roof had collapsed and the tiles were found all over the ground. They called it a corridor house because of all the corridors. There are a lot of rooms and is much larger than most homes, it also has many doors on each side of the home.