The postwar village · Ancient Lerna
The House of the Tiles comes to light
1954 Proven
By the summer of 1954 a large part of the House of the Tiles was exposed: a big Early Bronze Age building (around 2500–2200 BC) whose roof had been covered with baked clay tiles. Caskey published the first photographs in the magazine Archaeology in 1955.
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- Threads
- Ancient Lerna
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Pictures
The western part of the House of the Tiles at Lerna from the north, with a view over the plain with olive groves, a dirt road and the mountains, and an excavation worker on the edge. J.L. Caskey, Archaeology 8.2 (1955) p. 116, fig. 1
Sources
- J. L. Caskey, Archaeology 8.2 (1955), p. 116, fig. 1
- J. L. Caskey, Hesperia 24 (1955)
Also in this period
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1952
John Caskey starts digging at Lerna
In 1952 the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, led by its director John L. Caskey, opened the first trenches in the low mound by the springs, at the edge of Myloi. The work went on every year until 1958.
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1952–1953
Caskey photographs the marshes of Lerna
Caskey's first report shows the site from Mount Pontinos: marshes, the stream Amymone running from the spring to the gulf, orchards and the railway. It is one of the best pictures of the water landscape just before the…
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1953
A trench right beside the railway
In 1953 the diggers opened Area D right next to the Argos–Myloi railway, so trains passed only a few metres from the trench. The plates in Hesperia show both the ancient walls and the tracks.
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1954
Forty people on the dig, the staff living in Myloi
In 1954 the team photographed itself: some forty people, archaeologists and workmen, many of them probably from the village. That season the staff lodged in Myloi, among them the field architect Lloyd Cotsen and the…