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House A at Tylissos
It belongs to a Minoan settlement and is the largest of the three excavated houses. It has a monumental entrance with two pillars in the middle of the east side. The southern part contains a hall with a polythyron (pier-and-door partition), a pillar crypt and a lustral basin, while the rooms of the northern part were employed for storage. Several sections of the paved floor have been uncovered.
House A was built in the 16th-15th century B.C., was enlarged in the LM II period (15th-14th century ...