Nestor's Palace
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Brady Kiesling Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Brady Kiesling Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Aug 15, 2025 10:16 AM
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History
A Mycenaean palace complex excavated by the American School of Classical Studies, linked with the Homeric Pylos of Nestor.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/156116232
37.0271376905, 21.694962419
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Palace of Nestor (2000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Ancient Pylos (2000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Palace of Nestor (English, modern)
- 𐀢𐀫 (pu-ro: Ancient in Linear B Greek, 1600 BC - 1200 BC)
- None
- Hither Province (Pylos) administrative dependent of Nestor's Palace (1600 BC - 1200 BC)
palace complex, settlement, archaeological site, palace
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Brady Kiesling, Catherine Bouras, Jeffrey Becker, Maija Gierhart, and Tom Elliott, 'Nestor's Palace: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/156116232> [accessed: 12 April 2026]
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