House of the Tiles

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The House of Bricks is an archaeological site dating from the Early Bronze Age on the southeastern outskirts of Lerna (Greece). It is located under a protective roof and is used as an archaeological museum for tourists.

The building of the brick house had special architectural features, such as an existing roof of burnt brick, which was eponymous. The building belongs to the type of the so-called corridor house.

The building is in the Frühhelladikum II (2500-2300 BC) dated and viewed as a palace or administrative center, which is also a function has been suggested as a community center. The exact purpose remains unclear due to a lack of small finds.

The house of bricks had some features high technical standards, including one leading to the second floor staircase and a stone roof, which was BC spread only from the 7th century in Greece, although tile roofs in the Early Helladic Akovitika and later in the Mycenaean sites Gla and Midea were found. In the place of found cultural debris contained thousands of terracotta tiles that once covered the roof. The walls of the ' house ' were built with mud brick on a stone foundation.

Radiocarbon measurements showed that the place in the 22nd century BC, was destroyed by fire. Not long after the rubble on the site was filled in as a small tumulus.

Footnotes

• Archaeological sites in Greece
• Ruins in Greece
• Peloponnese
• Argos - Mycenae