 Remains of the house's stairway | |
  House of the Tiles Shown within the Peloponnese | |
| Location | Lerna, Peloponnese, Greece |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 37°33′04″N 22°43′06″E / 37.5512°N 22.7183°E |
| Type | Corridor house |
| Area | 12 m × 25 m (39 ft × 82 ft) |
| History | |
| Founded | Early Helladic II (c. 2500 – c. 2300 BC) |
| Abandoned | Early Helladic III (c. 2200 – c. 2100 BC) |
| Cultures | Korakou culture |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1950s |
| Archaeologists | John Langdon Caskey |
The House of the Tiles is a monumental Early Bronze Age building (two stories, approximately 12 x 25 m) located at the archaeological site of Lerna in southern Greece.[1] It is notable for several architectural features that were advanced for its time during the Helladic period, notably its roof covered by baked tiles, which gave the building its name.[1][2] The building belongs to the "corridor house" type.[3][4]
- ^ a b Cline 2012, p. 202: "The House of the Tiles was named for the enormous quantity of fired clay roof tiles associated with the building. It was built of mud brick over a substantial stone foundation course (ca. 12 x 25 m), with traces of wood-sheathed doorjambs and stucco-plastered walls in some rooms. It was two stories high, as indicated by traces of stairways, and may have had several verandas upstairs, partially covered by a pitched roof, as suggested by Shaw (1990). The House of the Tiles was preceded by an earlier structure of similar type, House BG. Those buildings sometimes also incorporated elaborate clay hearths that are decorated with stamped-seal impressions."
- ^ Overbeck 1969, p. 5.
- ^ Shaw 1987, pp. 59–79.
- ^ Pullen 2008, pp. 36, 43 (Endnote #22): "A corridor house is a large, two-story building consisting of two or more large rooms flanked by narrow corridors on the sides. Some of those corridors held staircases, others were used for storage."