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Dimini, Thessaly, c 3700-3300 BC: plan, from the excavations, and reconstruction
Donald Preziosi & L A Hitchcock, Aegean Art and Architecture (Oxford 1999), p 34Ioanna Phoca & Panos Valavanis, Rediscovering Ancient Creece: Architecture and City Planning (Athens 1999), p 13
TroyTroy(modern Hisarlik, Turkey)
Reconstruction of TroyIIG c 2300 BCIIG, c 2300 BC
Seton Lloyd Early HighlandSeton Lloyd, Early Highland Peoples of Anatolia (London
1967), p 35
the megarongpart plan of Troy II, showing megarons and gates, c 2300 BC
Greek houses of the Middle Helladic period, 1900-1600:( )K k t i d (b) Ol i(a)Korakou, two superimposed, (b) Olympia
D S Robertson, Greek and Roman Architecture (2nd ed, Cambridge 1969), p 21A W Lawrence, Greek Architecture (Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1957), p 54
the megaronBuilding C, Troy VI (c1800-1200 BC, with central column
Robertson, Greek and Roman Architecture, p 24
various megara from Syria, Bronze to early Iron AgeChristine Flon [ed], The World Atlas of Archaeology (London 1985), p 193
more sophisticated planning:suites of rooms, porticoes, staircases, p ,
Royal palace of Ebla, Syria, 3rd millennium BC: reconstructed from partial excavationsy p , y , p
Flon , World Atlas of Archaeology, p 183
so-called ‘megaron’, Kultepe [or Kanesh] modern Turkey Late EarlyKanesh], modern Turkey, Late Early Bronze Age, c 2200 BC: probably
Luvian, and probably a templeplan and axonometricplan and axonometric
J G Macqueen, The Hittites (London 1986 [1975]), p 30Seton Lloyd, Early Highland Peoples of Anatoliay y g p
(London 1967)
Sophisticated planning: lti l l l ithmultiple levels, with
staircases; corridors; colonnaded courtyards
Palace at BeycesultanPalace at Beycesultan on the Upper
Meander (in the state f A ) dof Arzawa), modern
Turkey, C19th BC, Hittite: reconstruction
Ak l A i t Ci ili tiAkurgal, Ancient Civilizations, p 298
Hattusas, the Hittite capital in Anatolia (northern Turkey), modern Bogazköy mainly c1400-1200 BC
view from the vicinity of the Sphinx GateMiles Lewis
Hattusas:view and plan of the acropolis [‘Büyükkale’]
Miles LewisAkurgal, Ancient Civilizations, p 300
Hattusas: remains of building D,Büyükkale, C13th: view & plan
Miles LewisAkurgal, Ancient Civilizations, p 300
building D, Büyükkale, Hattusas, C13th
plan of surviving foundations;
i l i hreconstruction plan with columns; reconstructed
interior view.
Kurt Bittel, A Guide to Bogazköy(Ankara, no date), p 27
Anatolian building traditionstraditions
the modern the village of Alaça HoyükAlaça Hoyük
Miles Lewis
Temple of Hatti & Arinna, Hattusas,
C13th BC
view and section of the underground
pool, showing triangular corbelled
t ticonstruction
Macqueen, The Hittites, p 121
Temple of Hatti (weather god) and Arinna (sun goddess), Hattusas, C13th BCplan of the complex (left) and detail plan of the main temple building (right)
Henri Frankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient (Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1954), p 119Hugh Plommer, Ancient and Classical Architecture (London 1963), p 91
Temple of Hatti & Arinna Hattusas, C13th BC
plan of the complex; view of storage magazines, and
restoration of the masonry temple base
Henri Frankfort, The Art and Architecture of theHenri Frankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient (Harmondsworth [Middlesex]
1954), p 119Miles Lewis
Akurgal, Ancient Civilizations, p 305
Hattusas, Royal Gate
view from outside, and reconstruction
Miles LewisMiles LewisPlommer, Ancient and Classical
Architecture, p 90
HATTUSASHATTUSAS
Cthe ancient near east
Henri Frankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient (Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1954), rear endpaper
CRETE
the Minoan civilisationthe Minoan civilisation[Crete]
Neolithic culture from 3000 B C
flowering of Minoan culture 1600-1400
the sacred bullbull’s head rhyton, or drinking horn, Herakleion Museum
’ f fbull’s head crenellation from the Palace of Knossos
Herakleion Museum, no 8Miles Lewis
the sacred labyros, or
double-headed axe carved in aaxe, carved in a
pillar at the Palace of
Knossos, before 1400 BC
Miles Lewis
Palace of King Minos, Knossos, mainly c 1600-1400 BC, reconstruction viewPalace of King Minos, Knossos, mainly c 1600 1400 BC, reconstruction view
unsourced: from a poster
Knossos, the stepped porticostepped portico,
restoration view by Costis Iliakis
t d Editi M tpostcard, Editions Moutsas
Palace of Knossos, reconstruction of part of the west wing, facing the great courtBy F G Newton, reproduced in A J Evans, 'The Palace of Knossos and its Dependencies in the light of recent Discoveries and
Reconstructions', Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, XXXVI, 3 (8 December 1928), p 96
Palace of Knossoslustral basin at the north-west entrance
entrance to the southern royal tombentrance to the southern royal tomb‘
Knossos' slide set, nos 1, 12
Palace of Knossosreconstructed westreconstructed west bastion of the north
entranceview & detail of the
entablature
Lewis, Architectura, p 239Miles Lewis
Palace of Knossos,Palace of Knossos,‘state apartments’
planplanstaircase from the central court
Plommer, Ancient and Classical Architecture, p 76'Knossos' slide set, no 4
Palace of Knossosthe King's private suite
cutaway axonometric viewcolonnaded portico
inner chamber
Plommer, Ancient and Classical Architecture, p 78
13,878 13,877
Palace of Knossos, king’s staircase
view of the topreconstructed elevation
Miles LewisMiles LewisRobertson, Greek and Roman
Architecture, p 15
Palace of Knossos, the Toreador fresco, c1500[now in the Herakleion Museum]
H W & Dora Janson, A History of Art (London 1962), p 60
P l f K ti f th t li f iliPalace of Knossos, portion of the stucco relief ceiling[now in the Herakleion Museum] and reconstruction.
comparative running spiral and banded meanderscomparative running spiral and banded meanders from a tomb at Deir al-Modina, Egypt, c 1200 BC
Mil L iMiles LewisLawrence, Greek Architecture [1957], pl 1B
Miles Lewis
Minoan period fresco of a townscape from Thera (Santorini)
Phoca & Valavanis, Architecture and Planning, p 19
faience plaques of houses from Knossos
Anna Michailidou, Knossos: a Complete Guide to the Palace of
Minos (Athens 2004), p 31
Tylissos House C (Middle Minoan(Middle Minoan IIIB- LM 1A/B), c
1600 BC, isometric d idrawing
Preziosi, Aegean Art, p 119
Model of a house from Arhanes, end of MM period, c1600 [Herakleion Museum]: views
& diagram
Miles Lewis; Phoca & Valavanis, Architecture and Planning, p 21; A W Lawrence [revised R A Tomlinson], Greek Architecture (5th ed, New Haven [Connecticut]
1996), p 1
the Mycenaean culturethe Mycenaean culturethe Mycenaean culturethe Mycenaean culturec 1400-1200 BC
on mainland Greece especiall M cenae &on mainland Greece, especially Mycenae & Tirynsy
Minoan characteristics, like the downward-tapering columntapering column
more primitive megaron planning
the Acropolis, Tiryns, c1300, with the 'Great Megaron' at the centreMegaron at the centre
plan and reconstruction
MUAS 15,653 11,011
Tiryns, alabaster frieze and other fragments from the Great MegaronRobertson, Greek and Roman Architecture, p 31
Mycenae, royal grave circlegrave circle
modern view & reconstructionreconstruction
Jeff TurnbullJeff TurnbullLawrence, Greek Architecture
[1957], p 76
ivory plaque for inlay decoration, House of the Sphinxes, Mycenae.
National Museum, Athens, no 7525view & reconstruction
Detail of the Lion Gate MycenaeDetail of the Lion Gate, Mycenae
Miles LewisPreziosi & Hitchcock, Aegean Art and Architecture, p 187
f t f fl t d l d h f d h lf lfragments of fluted column and chamfered half column. National Museum, Athens, nos. 7529, 7591
Miles Lewis
so called ‘Treasury of Atreus’ Mycenae c 1325so-called Treasury of Atreus , Mycenae, c 1325
MUAS 13,767
Treasury of Atreus view during the
initial excavation, and cutaway
diagram
Spiro Kostof [revised Greg Castillo], A History of
Architecture: Settings and Rituals(New York 1995 [1985]) p 104(New York 1995 [1985]), p 104
Talbot Hamlin, Forms and Functions of Twentieth-Century Architecture, I, The Elements of Building (New York 1952), p 308
Treasury of Atreusyreconstruction elevation of doorway
fragments in the National Museum, Athens
L G k A hit t [1957] 60Lawrence, Greek Architecture [1957], p 60Miles Lewis