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Zoser Complex, Egypt subterranean chamber, c 2650 BCblue faience tiles imitating reed mat walls; imitation of rush mat wall and door roll
MUAS 14,552; 14,596
Barriers from the Acropolis Tell, Susa, Iran, carrying an
dedication to Shilhak-Inshushinak, king of Anzan and Susa, mid-C12th BC, Louvre Sb 175, Sb 176
Miles Lewis
reconstruction of Kaymakli, rectilinearised, by AkokClive Foss & Paul Magdalino, Rome and Byzantium (Elsevier-Phaidon, Oxford 1977) p 101
Egyptian false doors; false door of Kaihap, 5th Dyn, c 2450 BC, false door and offering slab of Washka, 5th Dyn, c 2400 BC, from Giza. British Museum EA1848, EA 1156A
Miles Lewis
limestone false door and architrave of Ptahshepset, 5th Dynasty, c 2400BC. British Museum, EA 682
Miles Lewis
naos which contained a statue of Osiris, region of Lake Mariout near Alexandria, Egypt, c 570-526 BC: view and detail of pivot hole
Musée du Louvre, Paris: Miles Lewis
pivoting wooden door in a reconstruction Ibo house, Staunton, USA; painted wooden door of the late 19th or early 20th century: National Museum. Riyadh, 2108
Richard Byrne; Ali Ibrahim Al-Ghabban et al [eds], Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdon of Saudi Arabia (Somogy Art Publishers, Paris 2010), p 56
City walls, Hattusas, c 1450-1000 BC: reconstruction of portion, and modern viewKurt Bittel, A Complete Guide to Bogazköy (Ankara, no date), p 15
Miles Lewis
reconstruction of the door of the Temple of Inshushinak, Choga ZanbilR Ghirshman et al, Tchoga-Zanbil (Der-Untash) Volume I La Ziggurat [Memoires of the Mission
Archéologique en Iran, vol xxxix] (Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris 1966), p 31
glass cylinders
pivot
pivot
doors of the Temple of Inshushinak,
Choga Zanbil, Iran
surviving fabric of a door
top pivots of stone
R Ghirshman et al, Tchoga-Zanbil (Der-Untash) Volume I La Ziggurat [Memoires of the
Mission Archéologique en Iran, vol xxxix] (Librairie
Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris 1966), pp 31, 48-9
bronze door plating from Assur,
Shalmaneser III period (c 840 BC) and reconstructed pivoting wooden
door, Archaeological
Museum, Istanbul
Miles Lewis
reconstruction of the Balawat
gates from the palace of
Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC),
British Museum,
Miles Lewis
the Balawat gates; bronze binding strips (reassembled): British Museum ANE 121652-121653
Miles Lewis
cap for a pivot stone, in grey limestone embossed with a floral design in low relief: Persepolis Museum
Curtis & Tallis, Forgotten Empire, p 98
Roman gate pivot hole at Tiddis, Algeria, and upper door pivot hole in Roman doorway at Dougga, Tunisia (Gorgonia vicinity)
Miles Lewis
Egyptian metal pivots for timber doorsE H Knight, The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics (3 vols,
Cassell, Petter, Galpin, London 1877-84), II, p 1104
door of building E at the Sanctuary of
Apollo Hylates, Kourion, Cyprus
Robert Scranton, ‘The Architecture of the
Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates at Kourion’, Transactions of the American Philosophical
Society, New Series, vol 57, no 5 (1967), p 16
Building E, isometric reconstruction of doorway
corner, and plan and section of threshold
Scranton, ‘The Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates ‘, p 17
Temple of Augustus & Roma, Ankara, Turkey, cella 25-20 BC, periastasis c AD 150; threshold
Miles Lewis
double doors as indicated on a classical threshold
E H Knight, The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics (3 vols, Cassell, Petter, Galpin, London 1877-84), II, p 1104
lock and lock plate bearing the name of the Ottoman sultan Ahmad I, reigned 1603-17. Silver and gilded silver with engraved decoration. National Museum. Riyadh, 3013, 3005/2/T
Ali Ibrahim Al-Ghabban et al [eds], Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Somogy Art Publishers, Paris 2010), pp 539, 541
Roman bronze hinges in the British MuseumE H Knight, The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics (3 vols, Cassell, Petter,
Galpin, London 1877-84), II, p 1104
15th century hinges at the Sanctuary of the Blessed
Virgin, Rocamadour, Lot, France
Lewis, Architectura, p 148
some 19th century hinge typesE H Knight, The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics (3 vols, Cassell, Petter,
Galpin, London 1877-84), II, p 1104
butt hingesE H Knight, The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics (3 vols, Cassell, Petter,
Galpin, London 1877-84), II, p 1104
an espagnolet
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, Traité Théorique et Pratique de l'Art de Bâtir (published by the author, 6 vols, Paris 1812-17 [1812, 1814, 1814,
nd, 1817, nd]), pl C
reconstruction of the door of the
Temple of Inshushinak,
Choga Zanbil, Iran; two pivots and two staples
R Ghirshman et al, Tchoga-Zanbil (Der-Untash) Volume I La Ziggurat [Memoires of the
Mission Archéologique en Iran, vol xxxix] (Librairie
Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris 1966), pp 31, 48, 49
doors of the Temple of Inshushinak, Choga Zanbil,
Iran: fixings for the barR Ghirshman et al, Tchoga-Zanbil (Der-Untash) Volume I La Ziggurat [Memoires of the Mission Archéologique en Iran, vol
xxxix] (Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris 1966), I, p 75, pl lxxiv
a traditional lock, as used
in Syrian castles
E H Knight, The Practical Dictionary of
Mechanics (3 vols, Cassell, Petter, Galpin, London 1877-84), II, p
1339
Bramah lock
E H Knight, The Practical Dictionary
of Mechanics (3 vols, Cassell, Petter, Galpin,
London 1877-84), II, p 1339
ward locksE H Knight, The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics(3 vols, Cassell, Petter, Galpin, London 1877-84),
II, p 1339
hypostyle hall, Temple of Amon, Karnak, Egypt, after 1300 BC:
view and axonometric of
clerestory construction
de Cenival, Living Architecture: Egyptian,
p 140
a terracotta window grille, Mesopotamia, 3rd millennium
BC, width c 450 mm
Seton Lloyd, ‘Building in Brick and Stone’, in Charles Singer et al [eds], A History of
Technology, volume I, From Early Times to
Fall of Ancient Empires (Oxford 1954), p 472
stone window grilles, Palace of Rameses III, Medinet Habu, Egypt the Throne Room, 1187-56 BCE, and the Ptolemaic extension to the palace
Arnold, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture, p 257
window in the secular basilica, Shaqqa, Syria, dating from its conversion to a church, ?c 4th-5th century AD
Miles Lewis
late Roman stone windows in Syria: the Kaisarîyeh,
Shaqqa
from Jabal-al-Arabe, now in the Souweida
Museum
Miles Lewis
stone window and fragments of a stucco grating from the cathedral complex, Poreč, Croatia, possibly AD 6th century
Miles Lewis
Sv Lovro [S Lorenzo in Pasenatico], Lovreč, near Poreč, Croatia, c 9th century: windowBasilica of S Silvestro, Trieste, Italy, 11th century: stucco window grille
Miles Lewis
crown glass: (left) a pane or table from Jerash, (centre) a plaster frame with the edges of two panes,
and (right) modern glass from Hebron, c 1930
D B Harden, 'Domestic Window Glass: Roman, Saxon and Medieval', in E M Jope [ed], Studies in Building History (London 1961), plate V
manufacture ofcrown glass:
the table onthe end of the punty
Raymond McGrath & A C Frost,Glass in Architecture and
Decoration (2nd ed, London 1961[1937]), p 75