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ACCESS TO UPPER FLOORS AND AN EARLY LIGHT WELL AT EM II VASILIKI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2017

J.W. Shaw
J.W. Shaw*
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University of Toronto
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jwshaw@chass.utoronto.ca
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Abstract

Discussing Early Minoan (EM) architecture in Crete, it is difficult for one to bypass the site of Vasiliki, located on the Isthmus of Ierapetra. Vasiliki was occupied during a number of prehistoric periods. Its EM IIB houses are among the best preserved, incorporating architectural features that reveal how the inhabitants managed the transition between single- and two-storied buildings, and how they, usually, reached their upper levels, probably without the use of stairways. This paper singles out three separate houses from among the group of rooms originally called the ‘Red House’ by its discoverer, Richard Seager; it presents their sequencing, the order in which they were probably built, and how their first floors and roofs were reached. Additionally, a detailed study of House C suggests that one of the large ‘rooms’ was actually open to the sky, and had served partly as an interior court, which may well have been the predecessor of the later interior courts (or light wells) characterising the elite architectural style, typical of the later Middle and Late Minoan periods.

Πρόσβαση στους επάνω ορόφους και ένας πρώιμος φεγγίτης στην Πρώιμη Μινωική Βασιλική

Η Βασιλική, που βρίσκεται στον ισθμό της Ιεράπετρας, είναι μια πολύ σημαντική τοποθεσία για την Πρώιμη Μινωική αρχιτεκτονική στην Κρήτη. Οι οικίες της Βασιλικής κατά την Πρώιμη Μινωική ΙΙΒ περίοδο είναι πολύ καλά διατηρημένες και διατηρούν αρχιτεκτονικά στοιχεία που αποκαλύπτουν πώς οι κάτοικοι κατόρθωναν τη μετάβαση από μονόροφες σε διόροφες οικίες, και πώς είχαν πρόσβαση στους επάνω ορόφους, συχνά χωρίς τη χρήση κλιμάκων. Σε αυτό το άρθρο εξετάζουμε τρεις διαφορετικές οικίες από το σύμπλεγμα οικιών που αρχικά ονομάστηκε “Ερυθρά οικία” από τον Richard Seager. Παρουσιάζουμε την διαδικασία οικοδόμησης των οικιών, και πώς οι κάτοικοι είχαν πρόσβαση στους επάνω ορόφους και στη στέγη. Επιπλέον, η λεπτομερής ανάλυση της οικίας C δείχνει ότι ένα από τα μεγάλα δωμάτια ήταν υπαίθριο, και πιθανώς λειτουργούσε ως εσωτερική αυλή, γεγονός που το καθιστά πρώιμη μορφή των μεταγενεστέρων εσωτερικών αυλών ή φεγγιτών που χαρακτηρίζουν το ελίτ αρχιτεκτονικό ύφος της Μέσης και Ύστερης Μινωικής περιόδου.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 112 , November 2017 , pp. 33 - 45
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