House of the Tiles

The House of the Tiles is a large Early Bronze Age building with two stories located at Lerna in southern Greece.^[1] It is known for its advanced architecture, especially its roof covered by baked tiles giving the building its name.^[1][2] The building is a type of house called a "corridor house".^[3][4]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} 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."
2. ↑ Overbeck 1969, p. 5.
3. ↑ Shaw 1987, pp. 59–79.
4. ↑ 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."