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The West House is a well-organised, long, narrow building of medium size, with a ground floor, first floor and a second storey in its east wing. The main staircase at the entrance at the eastern end of the main street gave access to each storey.
merous frescoes found in nearby structures at Akrotiri provide a significant body of comparanda, an artistic context for the paintings of Delta 2. The excavations and restoration work of the Greek Archaeological Ser-vice have provided us with more information than is available for most Aegean frescoes, so that one can
Tentative reconstruction of Room 3 (Xeste 3), both levels Xeste 3, Room 3, lustral basin - North Wall Xeste 3, Room 3a, first floor - East Wall (ÒSaffron GatherersÓ)
24 de ene. de 2019 · When excavations at Akrotiri commenced in 1967, they revealed a prehistoric town with buildings still standing two or even three storeys high. More than 50 years later, the story of the life and death of an extraordinary settlement is still being teased out.
Although the upper parts of the walls of room 5 did not survive and all the fresco fragments. were found fallen from them, the very careful excavation, recording, planning and publication of find spots (Thera VI 23-5 and plans 5-7) enabled much of the fresco to be reconstructed accurately.
The evidence from the last years of work at Akrotiri, a particularly productive period in terms of excavation and conservation, has not essentially altered the picture of the dispersion of wall-paintings in the settlement, or rather, has differentiated it less than we would perhaps have expected.
6 de dic. de 2023 · Hidden under volcanic ash for millennia, the beautiful frescoes in the houses of Akrotiri were recently unearthed. Frescoes from Akrotiri, on the Cycladic island Thera (Santorini), Greece, 16th century B.C.E., Aegean Bronze Age (National Archaeological Museum, Athens) More Smarthistory images.
