Str243
Code name (Unique Key)
Str243
Type of structural unit
Door frame
List of related timber evidence
Imprint on mud-brick / clay / plaster / ash
Location code
List of chronological phases
Late Minoan I B (1500-1450)
Position in the space
Palace, West Wing. The door-opening between Rooms XXV and XXVI
Preserved height
1.10 m. (max.)
Preserved width
0.70 m. (according the width of the wall)
Type of door (architectural)
Interior door
Number of door leafs
Unknown
Type of door jamb bases
Stone
Shape of the door jamb bases
Rectangular
Presence of threshold
No
Type of threshold (architectural)
Unknown
Distance between bases and the horizontal timbers of the lintel
Not preserved
Presence of transversal horizontal timber on the stone base
Unknown
Presence of transversal horizontal timber at other position of the timber frame of the door (intermediate, lintel levels)
Unknown
Position of vertical timbers at each jamb pier of the timber frame of the door
At each corner of the SW jamb
Number of vertical timbers at each jamb pier of the timber frame of the door
2
Type of infill between vertical timbers
Mud-bricks
Type of masonry of the wall
Mud-brick wall with rubble masonry base
Plaster on the door
Unknown
Presence of plaster on the wall
Unknown
Description of the connection of the door frame with the wall
Adjusted to the mud-brick door-jambs
State of preservation when excavated
Medium
Current state of preservation
Partly restored
Type of destruction
Fire
Method of documentation
On site
General description of the door frame
The preserved vertical imprints on the mud-brick SW door -jamb of the entrance to Room XXV are the result of restoration. No corresponding indications exist on the NE jamb of the door, where the stone base of the door-jamb is preserved, as well as possible traces of mud-brick cladding on the SW side of the SW wall of Room XXIV.
Media legend and metadata
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