megaron
Noun
Meaning
megaron (plural megara or megarons)
(architecture, historical) The rectangular great hall in a Mycenaean building, usually supported with pillars.
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Another megaron, a few hundred metres to the northeast of the Sanctuary of the Malophoros, has been excavated recently.
In the floor of the hall is a circular hearth paved with pebbles, as is typical in Mycenaean megaron hall buildings; other unusual architectural features are paved benches and podiums.
Our riches are in the forest and the rivers here,” the Kayapó tribe leader Megaron Txucarramãe told the Reuters News Agency.
The megaron had an earlier phase recognisable only at the foundation level.