Str247
Code name (Unique Key)
Str247
Type of structural unit
Door frame
List of related timber evidence
Imprint on mud-brick / clay / plaster / ash
Location code
Space code
List of chronological phases
Late Minoan I B (1500-1450)
Position in the space
Palace, West Wing. At the NE side of the NE mud-brick wall of Room/Corridor Xχ
Preserved height
0.80
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
Distance between bases and the horizontal timbers of the lintel
Not preserved
Position of vertical timbers at each jamb pier of the timber frame of the door
At the NW part of the jamb
Number of vertical timbers at each jamb pier of the timber frame of the door
1
Type of infill between vertical timbers
Mud-bricks
Type of masonry of the wall
Mud-brick
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 partition wall to the NW and to the mud-brick free-standing pier to the NE.
State of preservation when excavated
Medium
Current state of preservation
Partly restored
Type of destruction
Fire
Method of documentation
On site
Bibliographical
General description of the door frame
To the SW of the free-standing pier between Rooms XXVIII, XXIV and XV, there is a door-opening. The timber door-frame is preserved/has been restored to the NW side/face of the opening with a vertical timber element at each jamb, based on a rectangular stone slab. Its current appearance is the result of restoration.
Media legend and metadata
Photo_Zak_Str247_001
Bibliography
Platon, Nikolaos. 1964. «Ανασκαφαί Ζάκρου», Πρακτικά της Εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας, 142-168 (at pp. 149-150).
Excavation notebook 1963, 97.
Excavation notebook 1964, 178-179.
Excavation notebook 1963, 97.
Excavation notebook 1964, 178-179.
