Str268

Code name (Unique Key)

Str268

Type of structural unit

Door frame

List of related timber evidence

Chase in a wall
Imprint on mud-brick / clay / plaster / ash

Location code

Palace at Zakros

Space code

Spa338

List of chronological phases

Late Minoan I B (1500-1450)

Position in the space

Palace, North Wing. Room LII.

General dimensions of the saved part of the door frame

1.10 (NW-SE) x 0.60 (NE-SW)

Type of door (architectural)

Other exterior door

Number of door leafs

Unknown

Type of door jamb bases

Stone

Shape of the door jamb bases

Rectangular

Presence of threshold

Unknown

Presence of transversal horizontal timber on the stone base

No

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

One at the southern corner of each jamb and one at intemediate position.

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

2

Type of infill between vertical timbers

Other (to be specified in the 'General description' cell)

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 free end of the wall

State of preservation when excavated

Bad

Current state of preservation

Partly restored

Type of destruction

Fire

Method of documentation

On site

General description of the door frame

U-shaped room that has been identified as a staircase leading to the formal "Banquet Room" on the upper floor of the builiding. The NW wall is of mud-brick with sporadic use of rubble stones. The SE wall and the string wall are of mud-brick wth rubble stone base. The staircase is accessible via the NE portico of the Central Court. The second flight of the staircase does not have a separate opening that could be serving as an entrance to a sotto-scala. Its current appearance is the result of restoration.

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