The Mycenaean megaron at Tzannata, Kephalonia
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| The Mycenaean settlement at Tzannata, Kephalonia (October 2011) [Credit: Archaiologia] |
The middle section is subdivided, on an east-west axis, into two rooms, i.e. a total of four large rooms. Identically or similarly shaped buildings, already present during the Middle Helladic period, are attested in contemporary Late Helladic architecture all over the mainland, from Messenia, up to central Macedonia, the closest parallel being the ellipsoidal Megaron B, at Thermon, in Aetolia.
This is the first time that a megaron of this type and size has been unearthed at Kephalonia, an otherwise heavily Mycenaeanised island, judging by the rich cemeteries excavated over the years. Its discovery at Tzannata contributes significantly to our meagre knowledge concerning the domestic architecture of this period in the Ionian islands.
The location of the Late Helladic-Mycenaean settlement at Poros, combined with the nearby royal tholos tomb, excavated in 1992, suggests the need for a re-examination of the theories concerning the historical reality of the territory controlled by Odysseus, the king (wanax) of the Kephalenians and of Mycenaean Ithaca. The latter should, as the speaker of the lecture stressed, be indentified with this site, on the basis, for the first time, of ‘instructive’ archaeological stratigraphical data.
Source: Archaiologia [December 10, 2012]
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