In July 2008 I was in Malia on the island of Crete. It struck me in the so-called pillar crypt on some blocks in which the stratification of the limestone was not horizontal, but diagonal.
Malia, Crete. View from the grand staircase to the so-called pillar crypt (center).
are usually blown off the rough blocks of limestone blocks in the quarry by wedge splitting from the soil. One benefit of this natural layering of the rock. This means that it cleaved along the layer from which, inevitably results in that the finished blocks, the edges usually parallel or at right angles to the natural layers of stone blocks.
Malia, so-called pillar crypt, western back wall.
The western rear wall of the so-called pillar crypt in Malia, however, has several cuboids, which runs the layering of the stone almost diagonal. This is a sure sign that the ingot of the box was not created by wedge splitting, but had been sawn off. It is noteworthy also that the blocks were offset so that the diagonal layers of adjoining Blocks were each placed in reverse. The layers are based almost against each other.
The phenomenon of inclined rock strata found yet another cube walls in Malia, and even individual blocks - such as the Kryptenpfeilern with the cult character ("stone marks, double axes etc.) can be seen.
It is in this kind of stone processing is an early example from the Minoan period. Almost exactly the same stone processing by sawing - especially the alternating tilt of adjacent blocks - I found the so-called Concordia temples in Agrigento, Sicily. The mutual "supporting" been the sloping rock strata seems a consciously applied structural (static?) measure in the ancient art to be offset.
Agrigento, Sicily. Krepis the so-called Temple of Concordia, with alternating slanted rock layers in the sawed blocks .
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