| Context: | Mallia |
| Type: | House |
| Summary: | House E, located ca. 100 m S of the palace at Mallia, is a large building sometimes referred to as the Little Palace. |
| Date: | 1700 BC - 1450 BC |
| Dimensions: | overall size ca. 35 x 50 m. |
| Region: | Crete |
| Period: | Middle Bronze Age |
Plan:
The large complex of irregular rooms has a S and a N entrance. From the N entrance a paved vestibule and corridor leads to a large flagged court and to a smaller court with a L-shaped colonnade of 4 columns. W of the smaller court are storerooms and workshops. In the SW is a small sunken court with piers. The S central part of the house presumably contained the living quarters and a bath or lustral basin is located just W of the S entrance. Immediately E of the bath is the "Room of Frescoes." There is no evidence for a 2nd story stairway.
History:
The remains are difficult to interpret because elements of an earlier (MM I) house were incorporated into the building and there was a later (LM III) reuse of the building after its partial destruction in LM I.
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