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Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete, Volume IV: The Greek Sanctuary. Part 1 & 2

by: Shaw, J.W.

Price: 325,00 EURO

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Category: Kommos / South Crete
Code: 920
ISBN-13: 9780691050805 / 978-0-691-05080-5
ISBN-10: 0691050805 / 0-691-05080-5
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 2000
Publication Place: New Jersey
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 1333
Book Condition: New
Comments: 705 photos, 214 line illus

 Kommos : an excavation on the south coast of Crete
Authors:Joseph W. Shaw, Maria C. Shaw, Philip P. Betancourt, Livingston Vance Watrous

Kommos, located on the south coast of Crete, is widely known for its important sanctuary of the Greek period for its earlier role as a major Minoan harbor town. Volumes II and III in this series, dealing with the Minoan pottery, have already been published. Volume I, Part I (1995), offered a general introduction to the site, followed by chapters on the archaeological exploration of the area, its geology, fauna and flora, land use, as well as on the Minoan implements and industries. Now Volume I, Part II introduces the Kommos town (Joseph W. Shaw), and analyzes and interprets the houses on the hilltop (Maria C. Shaw and Lucia F. Nixon) and hillside (James C. Wright and John McEnroe). There is a catalog of miscellaneous finds from the houses (Mary K. Dabney, Katherine A. Schwab, Maria C. Shaw, John Bennet, Helene Whittaker, David Reese, and Olga Kryszowska), followed by synthetic chapters on town planning and domestic architecture (Maria C. Shaw) and site development (Joseph W. Shaw). Combined, the interrelated Kommos volumes present an unusually thorough, interdisciplinary interpretation of a prehistoric site in Greece. An excavation by the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens


Kommos, a coastal site in south central Crete, has a long history highlighted by a prosperous Minoan settlement and port and a post-Minoan Greek sanctuary. Volume IV of the series documents the excavation of Kommos, focusing on the sanctuary and covering the full spectrum of its use and development during its life span from c. 1020 B.C. to A. D. 200. It thus provides a unique perspective on the history of religion and cult from the sub-Minoan to the early Roman Imperial periods.Produced in two parts (text and plates), the book includes individual chapters on the architecture and stratigraphy (J. W. Shaw); the Greek inscriptions and the many graffiti (E. Csapo, D. Geagan, A. Johnston); the votive sculpture (M. C. Shaw); the remarkable series of stratified Greek, Phoenician, and Roman pottery deposits (P. Callaghan, A. Johnston, P. Bikai, J. Hayes); the miscellaneous finds (numerous authors); and the flora and fauna (D. Reese, M. Rose, T. Shay, and J. Shay), with emphasis on evidence for animal sacrifice. A concluding chapter by J. W. Shaw synthesizes the evidence presented and places the sanctuary at Kommos in perspective with Cretan temple and cult development.Using an interdisciplinary approach to over a thousand years of activity, the contributors have produced a definitive study of a Greek sanctuary in this volume.


Contents:
Part 1: Text Preface ix Abbreviations xiii List of Tables xv Chapter 1: The Architecture of the Temples and Other Buildings by Joseph W. Shaw 1 Chapter 2: The Iron Age Inscriptions by Eric Csapo, Alan W. Johnston, and Daniel Geagan 101 Chapter 3: The Sculpture from the Sanctuary by Maria C. Shaw 135 Chapter 4: The Iron Age Pottery from Kommos by Peter J. Callaghan, Alan W. Johnston, Patricia Maynor Bikai, John W. Hayes, and Richard E. Jones 210 Chapter 5: Miscellaneous Finds by John W. Hayes, Alan S. Walker, Mary K. Dabney, Nancy J. Skon-Jedele, Joseph W. Shaw, Deborah K. Harlan, Katherine A. Schwab, David S. Reese, and Paul J. Anderson 336 Chapter 6: The Iron Age Fauna by David S. Reese, with contributions by Mark J. Rose and Deborah Ruscillo 415 Chapter 7: The Charcoal and Seeds from Iron Age Kommos by C. Thomas Shay and Jennifer M. Shay 647 Chapter 8: Ritual and Development in the Greek Sanctuary by Joseph W. Shaw 669 References 733 Concordance 769 Index 797 Part 2: Plates List of Plates v List of Foldouts xix

 
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Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete, Volume IV: The Greek Sanctuary. Part 1 & 2

by: Shaw, J.W.

  • ISBN-13: 9780691050805 / 978-0-691-05080-5
  • ISBN-03: 0691050805 / 0-691-05080-5
  • Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2000

Price: 325,00 EURO

1 copy in stock