PYLOS

Wednesday 9 July: "The Palace of Nestor", Pylos

Hearth - a standard feature of Mycenaean palatial architecture.
Bath - the actual function of this bathtub is uncertain. Coincidence?

During the ritual lovely Polycaste, youngest daughter
of Nestor, Neleus' son, had bathed Telemachus.
Rinsing him off now, rubbing him down with oil,
she drew a shirt and handsome cape around him.
Out of his bath he stepped, glistening like a god,
strode in and sat by the old commander Nestor.

-Odyssey III.521-526
(translation from Robert Fagles)