The Plateia Building

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University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1998 - Architecture - 329 pages

The Pseira project began in 1985. Excavations were conducted from 1986 to 1991 as an American-Greek collaboration directed by Philip P. Betancourt and Costis Davaras. The Plateia Building (Building BS/BV) is located at the north of the Town Square or Plateia. It occupies the entire northern side of the square, with one room built on the eastern side as well. The structure is the largest building excavated at Pseira. The building was discovered by small tests made in 1986, and it was excavated in subsequent seasons. From the beginning, the building was recognized as an important structure in the town. Its excavation was conducted slowly and meticulously, with careful attention to the proper recovery and recording of its data.

University Museum Monograph, 102

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Contents

Introduction Cheryl R Floyd
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Building BM and the Minoan Plateia Town Square at Pseira
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Methodology Cheryl R Floyd
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activity band base Betancourt body sherd broken brown BS/BV burnished Byzantine CATALOGED Closed vessel Coarse Fabrics Comments complete Conical cup CONTEXT Convex profile Cooking Class Cooking pot count Crete crystals Dark slip Date decoration deposits East evidence examples excavation exterior fabric reddish yellow faces fine fabric floor forms fragment Gournia gray ground ground floor Hand tool handle hole House indicate interior Knossos length Limestone LM IA LM IB MARINE material Max dim Minoan Mirabello Fabric motif Natural North obsidian occur Open vessel painted Parallels pecked period Phyllite Fabrics pieces Plateia Building possible POTTERY TABLE preserved probably Pseira pumice quartz remains represented rim sherd Room Room BS 14 Semiglobular cup shape SHELLS Space BV stone straight suggest surface thick thin tion tripod Type UNIT unpainted upper story wall waterworn weights Zone

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Bibliographic information

TitleThe Plateia Building
Anniversary Collection
Volume 102 of Museum monograph of the University museum / University of Pennsylvania
Volume 102 of Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Philadelphia, Pa.: University Museum monograph
Volumes 5-6 of Prehistory monographs
Volume 3 of Pseira (Series)
Pseira, Philip P. Betancourt
Volume 3 of Pseira, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum
University Museum monograph, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Volume 102 of University of Pennsylvania Museum Monographs
AuthorCheryl R. Floyd
EditorsCheryl R. Floyd, Philip P. Betancourt, Kōstēs Davaras
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1998
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJun 24, 2008
ISBN092417160X, 9780924171604
Length329 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Architecture / History / Ancient & Classical
History / Ancient / Greece
History / Europe / Greece
Social Science / Archaeology
  
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