Nestor’s Palace – Northeastern Building

Northeastern Building foundations

Information posted at the Nestor’s Palace at Pylos Archaeological site indicates: “The Northeastern Building is a large independent complex to the northeast of the Main Building, It has been interpreted as a workshop. The building comprises six rooms with a corridor between them and probably a covered portico.
The foundations of its walls were built of fieldstones, their upper parts of mudbricks with half-timbering. Inscribed clay seals and tablets from rooms 98-99 refer to repairs of leather and metal objects, to provisioning of bronze and hides, and to accessories for chariots. The many bronze arrowheads found in rooms 98-100 suggest that the building was also used as an armory. An inscribed tablet and a plastered altar in front of room 93 allow it to be identified as a shrine dedicated to the goddess Potnia Hippia, probably the goddess Athena of historical times.”

Nestor’s Palace (1300 – 1250 BCE) at Pylos Archaeological site. Mycenaean era (1750 – 1050 BCE). Peloponnese, Greece.