Building complex Delta - North Building at Akrotiri

Code name (Unique Key)

Loc30

Site

Akrotiri

Area

Central Area at Akrotiri

Building

Building complex Delta - North Building at Akrotiri

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

  • The space by the entrance of the building....

  • The entrance of the building, leading to the staircase and rooms D.6 and D....

  • The flight of the stairs leading from the entrance to the lower storey....

  • The flight of the stairs leading from the entrance to the upper storey, and...

  • A window, part of a door-and -window structural unit of the entrance to the...

  • The entrance door to the North Building, on ashlar wall , with a window to ...

  • The staircase door on the first step of room D.5 leading to room D.7....

  • A large window on the west external wall of room D.7....

  • Ashlar block with 4 mortices on the top surface....

  • A monolithic threshold with a carved bedding for the door leaf and a pivot ...

  • Ashlar block with a rectangular mortice on the west face, at the same heigh...

  • A vertical chase, partly on the rubble wall and partly on the ashlar stone ...

  • A vertical chase, on the ashlar stone courses of the west door jamb....

  • A vertical chase, partly on the rubble wall and partly on the ashlar stone...

  • The first step of the staircase, as a monolithic threshold of the staircase...

  • A monolithic base at the end of the stringwall which extends to the east, f...

  • U Shaped main staircase at the entrance of the North Building, with 3 fligh...

  • An unexcavated room, under room D.7, with 2 small windows on the west exter...

  • Horizontal reinforcement timber elements in 2 levels: On the floor level of...

  • A chase of a tree trunk as a horizontal reinforcement of the masonry. It i...

  • A chase of a tree trunk as a horizontal reinforcement of the masonry. It i...

  • A chase of a tree trunk as a horizontal reinforcement of the masonry....

  • A chase of a tree trunk as a horizontal reinforcement of the masonry....

  • A chase for the horizontal transversal timber on the south end of the strin...

  • A base at the south end of the stringwall which with 2 mortises....