eprintid: 6373 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 3 dir: disk0/00/00/63/73 datestamp: 2024-08-05 09:16:30 lastmod: 2024-08-05 09:16:30 status_changed: 2024-08-05 09:16:30 type: article succeeds: 6299 metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Coucouzeli, Alexandra creators_name: McRobie, Allan creators_name: Kavrakov, Igor creators_name: Raptis, Dimitrios title: The Lefkandi-Toumba building as a timber-framed structure subjects: ddc-720 subjects: ddc-930 subjects: ddc-938 divisions: i-209 cterms_swd: Levkandi cterms_swd: Grabmal cterms_swd: Eisenzeit cterms_swd: Griechenland abstract: The article demonstrates that the building or megaron on the Toumba hill at Lefkandi (Euboea), dating from c.950 BCE, was a timber-framed structure, in contrast to the common view of it as a building with load-bearing walls. This raises the possibility that the walls, perhaps even parts of the frame and the roof, were still under construction, rather than fully completed as previously assumed, when the building was buried under a mound. The reconstruction of the building as a timber-framed structure, as well as an analysis of the manner of production of its wooden elements and a structural analysis intended to test the integrity of the frame point to a sophisticated and solid structure, giving us valuable insights into ancient wooden architecture and the complex rationale behind the adoption of designs of this kind as prototypes of later large-scale temples in Greece. There is no evidence that the timber frame suffered any significant structural failure, but if such failure ever occurred, it would most likely be a partial uplift of the thatched roof due to high winds. date: 2024-06-25 id_scheme: DOI id_number: 10.11588/propylaeumdok.00006299 ppn_swb: 1892312867 own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-63737 language: eng vgwort_code: c1f94c23f6c4493fbf9f179ce4f85b15 bibsort: COUCOUZELITHELEFKAND full_text_status: public place_of_pub: Heidelberg pagerange: 1-123 laender: R938 faecher: FKA oa_type: gold themen: T720 citation: Coucouzeli, Alexandra ; McRobie, Allan ; Kavrakov, Igor ; Raptis, Dimitrios (2024) The Lefkandi-Toumba building as a timber-framed structure. document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/6373/1/Coucouzeli_Lefkandi_Toumba_2024%20amended.pdf