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82|ANASTASIA CHRISTOPHILOPOULOU
To complete the image of this house, the pottery in room H28
is compatible with its serving as a storage room or a kitchen, but
no hearth was discovered. Architectural alterations seem to have
taken place in H28 during Late Geometric II, and it is at that stage
that H28 was amalgamated with other units around courtyard H21.
The construction of its bench dates to that period as well. Again,
there is evidence in the floor sequence that in its earlier phase the
room functioned more as reception space (as the floors contained
more skyphoi and fine ware), while in its latest phase the abundant
coarse ware, the bench, and the pounders, are evidence of food
preparation activities. Room H22 was remarkable for the unusual
number of plates found in it. Room H23 yielded a good quantity of
fine and important pottery and may have served as a reception
room. The character of the pottery in this room implies relative
wealth and the presence of a series of fragments of fine krateroi
indicate a reception room in a style so far unparalleled on the site.
A second very interesting complex comprised rooms H26-
H27-H43-H42, H47 with units H26/H27 undoubtedly being storerooms
(fig. 5). 37 A Floor analysis and examination of the post bases
in H26/H27 show that in Late Geometric I period they constituted
a single large room probably with a porch in front of it. The subdivision
of the large room belongs to the Late Geometric II period
and at this stage the restricted floor of the two newly separated
rooms shows that they were turned to storerooms (fig. 5). 38 The
associated living accommodation was room H42 built in the Late
Geometric period. Its door was on the south side into the outer
court H47, somewhat separated from the court onto which the
storerooms opened, but as a part of the same access system. 39 Similar
arrangements appear to have been made for the adjoining house
within units H24/H25/H32, H33, H40–41 (fig. 5). The two surviving
post bases suggest that here too there was originally a single
Late Geometric I room, which was subdivided into storerooms in
the Late Geometric II period. 40 Here again new living accommodation,
would be provided by the rooms to the west of the courtyard
37 CAMBITOGLOU et al. (1988) 127. 155, pl. 11. plan XI a–b.
38 CAMBITOGLOU et al. (1971) 19.
39 CAMBITOGLOU et al. (1988) 127. 155, pl. 8. pl. 11–12.
40 CAMBITOGLOU et al. (1988) 127. 155, plan VIII.