Str282

Code name (Unique Key)

Str282

Type of structural unit

Pier at the free end of the wall

Location code

Palace at Zakros

Space code

Spa345

List of chronological phases

Late Minoan I B (1500-1450)

Position in the space

Palace, Eastern Wing. Room LVIII: At the NE end of the string wall

General dimensions of the saved part of the pier

0.415 (NE-SW) x 0.52 (NW-SE) x 0.555 from the ground level

Position in the wall

At the free end of the wall

Is the pier part of a colonnade?

No

Type of masonry of the wall

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

Plaster or cladding on the wall

Unknown

State of preservation when excavated

Good

Current state of preservation

Good

Type of destruction

Fire

Method of documentation

On site
Bibliographical

General description of the pier

At the NW end of the string wall of the descending stairway to the Lustral Basin (Room LVIII), there is a big rectangular poros stone which was the base for the timber part of the pier. On the upper surface of the poros stone base there are three mortises and at the eastern and southern corner there are chases for vertical timber elements. The wall to which this structural unit is adjusted is of rectangular poros blocks on a rubble stone base.

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Bibliography

Platon, Nikolaos. 1974. Ζάκρος. Το Νέον Μινωικόν Ανάκτορον, Athens (at pp. 167-170).
Kato Zakros, Palace. Room LVIII: The string wall of the descending stairway to the Lustral Basin, viewed from the SE.
Kato Zakros, Palace. Room LVIII: The base of the pier at the NW end of the string wall of the descending stairway to the Lustral Basin, viewed from the NE.