Tim428

Code name (Unique Key)

Tim428

Type of timber evidence

Chase in the wall

Location code

Space code

Structural unit code

Number of chases / cuvity

4

Position of the chase / cuvity in the structural unit

At intermediate position in the wall, on its NE side

Position in the space

Palace, West Wing. The SW wall of Room XXIV

Chase or cuvity on

Rubble masonry

Shape of the chase / cuvity

Rectangular

Orientation of the chase / cuvity

Vertical

Distance of the chase / cuvity from the floor/ground level

Not recorded from the floor-level of Room XXIV

Preserved length

0.15 (NW-SE) as restored

Preserved width

Not measurable due to restoration

General description of the chase / cuvity

Vertical timber element on the NE side/face of the SW wall of Room XXIV, at an intermediate position in the wall. The wall is of rubble masonry with mud-brick cladding on the SW side of the wall from the ground-level up. This vertical timber element is located 0.90 m. from the vertical chase of the timber reinforcement system to the NW and 0.80 m. from the vertical reinforcement system to the SE. It is preserved at a height of 0.46 m. from the ground-level of Room XXV, where a chase of an horizontal transversal timber element is preserved/restored connecting the preserved vertical chases on both sides of the wall at that point. This structural unit was presumably connected on a higher level to the vertical reinforcement system at the NW wall of Room XXIV, as well as to the door-frame of the entrance to Room XXV. Its appearance is the result of restoration.

Media legend and metadata

Photo_Zak_Tim428_001

Bibliography

Platon, Nikolaos. 1963. «Ανασκαφαί Ζάκρου», Πρακτικά της Εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας, 160-188 (at pp. 177, 171: fig. 3).

Platon, Nikolaos. 1974. Ζάκρος. Το Νέον Μινωικόν Ανάκτορον, Athens (at pp. 111-113).

Excavation notebook 1963, 97.

Excavation notebook 1964, pp. 155-156, 163, 176, 211.