House of the Tiles

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The House of the Tiles is a monumental Early Bronze Age corridor house in Lerna, Greece, notable for its advanced architecture and role as an important administrative or communal building.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Early Bronze Age structure
corridor house
prehistoric building
architecturalStyle corridor house type
associatedWith emergence of social complexity in Early Bronze Age Greece
chronology Early Helladic II
country Greece
culture Early Helladic II NERFINISHED
destroyedBy fire
destructionPeriod transition from Early Helladic II to Early Helladic III
endTime ca. 2200 BC
excavatedBy American School of Classical Studies at Athens NERFINISHED
John L. Caskey NERFINISHED
excavationStart 1950s
function administrative center
communal building
possible elite residence
hasFeature central corridor
courtyard or open area
massive walls
monumental entrance
multiple stories
staircase
storage rooms
hasNameOrigin named for its large number of terracotta roof tiles
locatedIn Argolid NERFINISHED
Greece
Lerna NERFINISHED
Peloponnese
materialUsed mudbrick
stone socle
terracotta roof tiles
nearbyFeature Bay of Argos NERFINISHED
Lernaean marshes NERFINISHED
partOf prehistoric settlement of Lerna NERFINISHED
period Early Bronze Age
postDestructionTreatment covered by tumulus
not rebuilt after destruction
referencedIn scholarship on corridor houses in the Aegean
roofType tiled roof
significance example of complex Early Bronze Age architecture in the Aegean
one of the earliest known tiled-roof buildings in Greece
site Lerna archaeological site NERFINISHED
startTime ca. 2500 BC
studiedInDiscipline Aegean prehistory
archaeology

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Lerna notableStructure House of the Tiles