Str1057

Code name (Unique Key)

Str1057

Type of structural unit

Window frame

List of related timber evidence

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

Location code

Space code

Position in the space

On the external, south wall of the room

General dimensions of the window frame

1,20x0,90x0,43

Presence of transversal horizontal timbers at the sill level

Yes

Method of documentation

On site
Bibliographical

Description of the window frame

Atypical window of the external wall of room 0.3c. Its dimensions were probably altered due to the rise of the street level. It is partly restored with a concrete sill and lintel, whereas the vertical and transversal timber elements if existed, according to the common structural typology, where not restored, and its evidence is not visible.

Bibliography

Palyvou C., Akrotiri Thera: An Architecture of Affluence 3,500 Years Old (Prehistory Monographs, 15), INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2005.

Παλυβού Κ., Aκρωτήρι Θήρας: Η αρχιτεκτονική της Δυτικής Οικίας, εκδ. Μέλισσα, 2019.

Παλυβού Κ., Aκρωτήρι Θήρας: η οικοδομική τέχνη, Εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία, 1999.

Μαρινάτος Σ ., Excavations at Thera Ι-VII (1968-1974), Εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία, Αθήνα.

Τσακανίκα-Θεοχάρη, Ελευθερία, Ο δομικός ρόλος του ξύλου στην τοιχοποιία των ανακτορικού τύπου κτιρίων της Μινωϊκής Κρήτης, (μη δημοσιευμένη διδακτορική διατριβή), ΕΜΠ, 2006.

Doumas C., Akrotiri: The Archaeological Site and the Museum of Prehistoric Thera. A Brief Guide, The Society for the Promotion of Studies on Prehistoric Thera, 2017.

Linked resources

  • Recostructed chase at the lintel of the window. It is unified at constructi...

  • Recostructed chase at the lintel of the window. It is unified at constructi...

  • Recostructed chase at the sill of the window....