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DOMESTIC SPACE AND COMMUNITY IDENTITY |85
very strong if one takes in account the existence of storage benches
in at least four of them (J4, J10, J11 and J22). However, it is to be
noted that even if the argument for differential social status between
areas D–H and J is convincing, the same practices of development
and space subdivision can also be seen here in the case of
units J9/J10/J11 (which seem to have been divided by a T-wall)
and the households comprising units H26/27 and H24/H25/H32.
Even if we accept that we have here the dwellings of the less fortunate
of Zagora, the practices of architectural development and
space management remain the same as in the most privileged units.
EAST AEGEAN
Chios, Emporio
In the region of the Eastern Aegean I want to examine only a
number of households at the site of Prophetes Elias in Emporio,
Chios. 42 At Emporio more than fifty units were recognised, and
from the plan and nature of the site this should represent more
than half, perhaps nearly all the buildings (fig. 6). 43 The houses in
Emporio are divided into two types, the megaron-houses and the
bench-houses. Excavation has revealed three of the megaron-type
houses and eight of the bench-type. The first of the 7 th century
buildings, the megaron-hall, a long rectangular building, stood flanking
the acropolis wall and facing the main entrance to the circuit (fig.
7). 44 It was an almost completely regular building, entered from the
south, the direction of the acropolis gateway, through a shallow
porch. 45 In the whole town the megaron-houses seem to be the earliest,
and the megaron-hall should also belong to the earliest period of
the occupation of the site, certainly as early as the seventh century,
perhaps even in the eighth century BC.
42 BOARDMAN (1967) fig. 4.
43 BOARDMAN (1967) 34–40, fig. 2.
44 BOARDMAN (1967) fig. 16. pl. 7 a–c.
45 BOARDMAN (1967) 31–34, fig. 16.