West House at Akrotiri

Code name (Unique Key)

Loc27

Site

Akrotiri

Area

West Area at Akrotiri

Building

West House at Akrotiri

General type of building

Other

General functions of the building

Other

General description of the location

Typical Residential Building in the west area of the excavated part of Akrotiri settlement

Linked resources

  • Vertical timber of the jamb of the door. The imprints on ash, of the broke...

  • Room 0.3a, next to the entrance hall of the West House, with a door leading...

  • Loadbearing door in rubble wall with a monolithic threshold. The imprints o...

  • Vertical timber of the jamb of the door. The imprints on ash were found du...

  • Horizontal timber of the lintel of the door. The imprints on ash were foun...

  • Vertical timber of the jamb of the door, reconstructed in concrete...

  • Vertical timber of the jamb of the door, reconstructed in concrete...

  • Horizontal timber of the lintel of the door, reconstructed in concrete...

  • Horizontal transversal timber under the lintel of the door, reconstructed i...

  • Horizontal transversal timber under the lintel of the door, reconstructed i...

  • Basalt threshold which serves partly as a step downward to room 0.3a. It su...

  • Door frame that most probably existed at the first step of the staircase, w...

  • Hole on the floor, most probably for the support of a vertical timber of th...

  • Hole on the floor, most probably for the support of a vertical timber of th...

  • The floor of room I.1/2 on the south side of the staircase. It was supporte...

  • U shaped staricase with 4 flights of stairs...

  • Hole in the wall, west of the staircase, probable evidence of the main tran...

  • Hole in the debris that filled the space under the staircase, evidence of t...

  • Hole in west rubble wall, evidence of the main beam that supported the end ...

  • Evidence of beam that supported the steps of the fourth flight of stairs, t...

  • Evidence of beam that supported the steps of the third flight of stairs, tr...

  • Evidence of beam that supported the steps of the third flight of stairs, tr...

  • Evidence of beam that supported the steps of the third flight of stairs, tr...

  • Horizontal ashlar frame on top of the timber lintel of the door, on the int...

  • Imprint on mortar plaster, of the ceiling (reeds) along the fourth flight o...