PYLOS Palace of Nestor - 2007

All post-BA pottery has been reviewed for the first time by J. Davis and K. Lynch. Activity continued only in certain restricted areas. There is no evidence of continuity in the socio-political institutions of the BA palace into the EIA. Activity almost ceased late in the EIA. The little Ar and later pottery has no connection with ritual or even informal veneration. There is no reason to consider the palace ruins a sacred site.
J. Murphy examined grave goods from Pylos in the National Museum; in the Chora Museum, she restudied with K. Lynch the post-BA pottery from the Kokkevis tholos which dates to the E−MPGeo, with most pottery dating to the MPGeo. L. Schepartz and S. Miller-Antonio analysed the human remains from tholos III in the National Museum.

S. Lafayette determined that much floor plaster retained by Blegen and Rawson had fallen from an upper storey of the palace. X-ray diffraction was employed at IGME to determine the composition of the plaster samples. H. Brekoulaki fully documented the nautilus frieze from hall 64, mentioned by Lang but not illustrated. New joins were made to the ‘Two Men at Table’ fragment from the throne room, and many to the procession scene illustrated in Lang’s pl. Q. The ship fresco from hall 64 has been more accurately reconstructed, but the iconography of a large group of joining fragments with purple decoration from the same room remains a mystery. E. Kottoula completed experiments on the effects of burning on mod. samples of pigments used in the wallpaintings at Pylos.

J. Davis, S. Stocker and G. Cadogan identified Cretan and M ceramics from MH levels, some at least as early as the Old Palace period.