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Minoan architecture : materials and techniques / Joseph W. Shaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, Joseph Winterbotham, 1935-
- Series:
- Studi di archeologia cretese ; 7.
- Studi di archeologia cretese ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Minoan.
- Palaces--Greece--Crete.
- Palaces.
- Greece--Crete.
- Physical Description:
- 337 pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Padova : Bottega d'Erasmo, [2009]
- Contents:
- 1: Stone
- Building stone
- Quarrying and the transportation of stone
- Tools for building
- Masonry
- Special uses of cut stone
- 2: Wood and timber
- Types of, evidence for, and chief structural uses of wood in architecture
- Wooden clamps and dowels
- 3: Sun-dried mud brick and terracotta
- Terracotta
- 4: Lime and clay plasters
- Composition and early uses
- Later uses of lime plaster and its preparation
- Floors
- Ceilings and upper floors
- Roofs and parapets
- Calcestruzzo
- 5: Conspectus and beyond
- Development and change
- The builders
- Diffusion: Minoan architectural styles.
- Notes:
- First publ. 1973, now completely revised and updated.
- At head of title: Centro di archeologia cretese, Università di Catania.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9788861250727
- 8861250726
- OCLC:
- 475666869
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