House of the Tiles
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 11, 2025 04:40 PM
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History
The so-called "House of the Tiles" at Lerna belongs to the Korakou culture in the Early Helladic II period (ca. 2500–2300 BCE). It was a monumental two-story building (12 x 25 meters) and has been interpreted as either a "proto-palace" or administrative center.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/230446791
37.5511715137, 22.7183166331
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of House of the Tiles (3000 BC - 2000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- House of the Tiles (English, unspecified date range)
- House of the Tiles located at Lerna (unspecified date range)
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Jeffrey Becker, 'House of the Tiles: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/230446791> [accessed: 19 March 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/230446791 |title=Places: 230446791 (House of the Tiles) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=March 19, 2025 10:08 am |publisher=Pleiades}}
