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| HISTORY
Building 6 was a fine mansion of the Second Palace period, fronting onto Main Street (fig. 1). Built over the remains of a First Palace period building, it survived a series of earthquakes and flooding in the MM III period. At the time of the LM IA Theran eruption the building already lay in ruins, and ash from the eruption was found lying in the hollows of the remains. Following this the owners must have lost heart, and no rebuilding ever took place. The area was left open and in LM IB two wells were dug where people and animals came for their water supply. |
 Fig. 1 Town plan with Building 6 highlighted |
 Fig. 3 Aerial View |
| FINDS A small storage closet with c. 200 vases, many stacked on a plastered wooden shelf, was destroyed by the massive earthquake at the end of MM IIIĀ (figs. 8). The two later wells had whole pots dropped in by accident during the period of use (c. 150 vases) (fig. 11), and later rubbish fills including horns of consecration |
 Fig. 8 Pantry with pot deposit |
 Fig. 11 Water jugs from wells |
 Fig. 13 Dog skeleton from Well 576 |
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| C Permission Granted by directors: Mr H.Sackett, Professor A.MacGillivray, Professor J. Driessen and the British School At Athens Archivist. |