April 11, 2005
April 11 Photos: Caleb
When we left the Pan Hotel in the morning, we boarded our new bus and headed for Gla. It is quite large and comfortable if you can get over the frightening shades of red.
On the way up to one of the four major gates entering from the south into Gla.
Laura marvels with a smile at the large width of the walls at Gla.
The view from Gla of the fields that surround the site.
Nkosi is human scale to show just how large the thresholds for the Megaron unit are at Gla.
Neha, Laura, and Katherine frolic in the overgrown vegetation at Gla.
We had been told that we would have to wade in knee deep water to get to the site of Mitrou. Luckily, a small bridge of sand allowed us to walk over.
Professor Rutter points out discolored layers of previous mud brick on top of stone to show many layers of past floors on one side of Mitrou.
Katherine and Laura scamper up the scarp at Mitrou.
Jackie and Laura show human scale in front of a supposed lintel block of a Mycenaean tholos tomb.
Archaeological finds in Thebes sometimes have many different periods represented. Here we have a Byzantine era wall built right on top of a prehistoric Mycenaean wall.
This is the entrance to a Mycenaean chamber tomb. One can easily notice the dromos (path) leading to the stomeion (door) which opens into the chamber itself.