The main reception hall of a Mycenaean palace, consisting of a rectangular hall with a central hearth, fronted by an open porch supported by columns.
The megaron of the palace at Mycenae, Greece (reconstruction). Mycenaean. Ca. 1250–1200 BCE.
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