Str244

Code name (Unique Key)

Str244

Type of structural unit

Door frame

List of related timber evidence

Imprint on mud-brick / clay / plaster / ash

Location code

Palace at Zakros

Space code

Spa265
Spa266

List of chronological phases

Late Minoan I B (1500-1450)

Position in the space

Palace, West Wing. The door-opening between Rooms XXVI and XXVII

General dimensions of the saved part of the door frame

1.16 (NW-SE) x 1.00 (NE-SW) x 0.50 (height) as preserved/restored

Preserved height

0.50 as preserved/restored

Preserved length

1.16

Preserved width

1.00

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

Unknown

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

Position of vertical timbers at each jamb pier of the timber frame of the door

At each corner of the jamb pier

Number of vertical timbers at each jamb pier of the timber frame of the door

2

Type of lintel

Unknown

Type of infill between vertical timbers

Mud-bricks

Type of masonry of the wall

Rubble masonry

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 jamb pier

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 door -jambs of the entrance to Room XXVII are the result of restoration. The rectangular lime-stone bases of the door-jambs are preserved.

Media legend and metadata

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Linked resources

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