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.
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