The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia, Vol. 1

The Buildings and Their Contents

Carl William Blegen, Marion Rawson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

472 Seiten

2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-62362-7 (ISBN)

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Homer's King Nestor of "sandy Pylas" passes from legend into history in this first volume of the report of excavations on a hill called Englianos in Messenia, conducted by the Archaeological Expedition of the University of Cincinnati. The palace with its contents and the surrounding lower town indicate that this was an administrative center and the capital of a prosperous Mycenaean kingdom. The name Pylos appears on more than fifty tablets, and there can be no doubt that this was the Messenian abode of the Nestor of Greek tradition. Destroyed by fire at the end of the 13th century B.C., and never reoccupied, the palace has lain for more than 3,000 years in ruins. During the annual campaigns of the Expedition between 1952 and 1964, it emerged as a complex of four separate structures of considerable size. The floors, stumps of wall bearing plaster with painted decorations, doorways, and other evidence helped to identify gateways, courts, porticoes, vestibules, corridors, a great throne room, storerooms, a wine magazine, pantries filled with pottery, a bathroom, stairways, and a repair shop.
Except for the tablets, seals, and frescoes, which will be described in other volumes, all the finds are recorded and illustrated with plans, drawings, and photographs. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xiii*Illustrations, pg. xv*Abbreviations, pg. xxix*History of the excavation, pg. 1*The site, pg. 30*Buildings and building materials, pg. 34*Main building, pg. 43*Southwestern building, pg. 236*Northwestern buildings, pg. 289*Northwestern building, pg. 299*Area between northeastern building and wine magazine, pg. 326*Wine magazine, pg. 342*The pottery, pg. 350*Character, date, and identification of the palace, pg. 419*Index, pg. 425*Map, pg. 441

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2016
Reihe/Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	1077 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-691-62362-7 / 0691623627
ISBN-13	978-0-691-62362-7 / 9780691623627
Zustand	Neuware