Bild

ACHAIA AND ARKADIA The Foundation and Rise to Local Prominence of the Settlement on Mygdalia Hill, near Patras

    Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki, Constantinos Paschalidis

(Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece, pp. 383-402, 2021/05/25

International Discussions in Mycenaean Archaeology
October 5–8, 2016, Athens

€  249,– 

incl. VAT

PDF
X
BibTEX-Export:

X
EndNote/Zotero-Export:

X
RIS-Export:

X 
Researchgate-Export (COinS)

Permanent QR-Code

Abstract

The ongoing excavations on the hill of Mygdalia near Patras give us the opportunity of a comprehensivestudy of domestic and tomb material and provide means of understanding early Mycenaean western Achaia. Mygdaliawas founded in the transitional MH III/LH I period and became a local centre in the early Mycenaean period. The settlementwas built on three successive terraces. The lower terrace was supported by a massive enclosure and retaining wallthat seems to be part of the original plan. Substantial architectural remains, including a large building, floor deposits,pottery and metal finds as well as a tholos tomb of LH IIB–IIIA1 date testify to the rise of a local elite. The transition tothe Palatial period was troubled, as witnessed by the abandonment of buildings and the plundering of the tholos tomb.

Keywords: Achaia, Mygdalia, enclosure wall, monumental building, domestic pottery, metal finds, tholos tomb