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Davaras, Costis. Ed(S): Shaw, Maria C.; Shaw, Joseph W. - House X at Kommos - 9781931534642 - V9781931534642
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House X at Kommos

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Description for House X at Kommos Editor(s): Shaw, Maria C.; Shaw, Joseph W. Num Pages: 350 pages, 86 tables, 56 b/w figs, 29 b/w plates, 4 color plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3B; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 286 x 220 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1434.

House X is by far the largest and best appointed of the Minoan houses excavated at Kommos in south-central Crete, a Minoan harbor and settlement that later became the site of a Greek sanctuary. Situated on the seacoast of the western Mesara Plain, Kommos faces west toward the Libyan Sea. House X stands on the southern edge of the Minoan town, separated by a large slab-paved road from the monumental civic buildings built and used between the Protopalatial and Postpalatial periods. The description of the stratigraphic excavation of this elite house is published with numerous architectural plans along with the ... Read more

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Product Details

Publication date
2012
Publisher
Institute for Aegean Prehistory United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, United States
ISBN
9781931534642
SKU
V9781931534642
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-2

About Davaras, Costis. Ed(S): Shaw, Maria C.; Shaw, Joseph W.
Maria Shaw was formerly Professor at the University of Toronto where she taught for more than 30 years until retirement. She specialises in many aspects of Minoan Crete and Greek archaeology in the Aegean area, is a leading expert on Minoan and Mycenaean wall painting and has intesets raging from Aegean-Egyptian interconnections to representations of natural landscapes in Aegean ... Read more

Reviews for House X at Kommos
Chapter 2 by Maria Shaw and Anne Chapin...publishes the painted plasters from the building where floral landscapes are dominant. [...]A most important contribution of this new Kommos material is the evidence of so-called "preliminary sketch-lines", the first to be relatively securely identified outside Knossos. [...]Chapter 4 by Deborah Ruscillo is devoted to an exhaustive presentation of the faunal remains. The ... Read more

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