Re: Mycenaean baked clay bricks

On Feb 2, 3:30 pm, "Day Brown" <daybr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a photo of a mural; a Minoan cityscape, part of the 20 ft
fresco at the "West House" at Akrotiri.
Its posted athttp://www.dc-pc.org/artifax/artifax.html; anyway, the
walls of the buildings are rendered in different colors.
the scale of the blocks in the gray walls, which I gather are stone,
are .5x1 meter judging by the size of adjacent figures.
The rusty, shall I say, 'brick'colored walls show blocks about the
size of a man's head. Then too, there are some, which are rendered
with long horizontal lines, and gray, as we'd expect weathered wood
logs to be.

Castleden shows walls that were timber frame, but then the spaces
between the timbers was filled with rocky adobe, not mud bricks.
Course, the Minoans had earthquake problems, and would have needed to
re-inforce their buildings. Mud brick alone would not have been smart.

Mid 17th century BCE; but the Myceneans werent so smart, so they
prolly tried mud brick. They were warriors, not engineers.



I seem to remember reading in Arthur Evans monstrosity that the
Minoan buildings were stone to the first ceiling and timber framed
from there up.

I just pulled down my copy of The Wall Paintings of Thera and on the
far left of what I think you are describing (The flotilla?) is a
series of houses or one large continuous house on an island. The upper
floors all look to be timber frame with the sort of outline I would
expect an artist to use for a filler brick structure, resembles the
Bauhaus construction with the frame work and base in solid and the
walls being less structural than screening. It's on page 68, labeled
"room 5 minature frieze, south wall, flotilla and dimensions." On the
right side there is a line of kilted men (red) above them a building
of much larger blocks laid in what is called a "running bond", or a
"stretcher bond" ie each brick is laid half way over the brick above
and below. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickwork)

Further up the wall you can see the timber framing, mostly covered
with awnings but the top floor is visibly made of the smaller brick.

# New Palace period 1700-1450 BC

* the palaces were rebuilt in the same tradition, but even more
elaborately
o Central courtyard, rectangular and paved
+ at Knossos, 49 X 27 m (160 X 88 feet)
o palace buildings
+ three stories tall in places, maybe even more
+ Post and lintel construction
+ in dressed stone and mud brick
+ lots of wooden beams in walls as well as ceilings
+ also wooden columns, doorjambs, moldings, etc.
http://bruceowen.com/worldprehist/3250s13.htm

Several sources describe "Aegean" construction as timber or half
timber with wattle and daub or brick as the filler.

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