Kommos : A Minoan Harbor Town and Greek Sanctuary in Southern Crete

by: Shaw, J.W.

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Kommos : a Minoan harbor town and Greek sanctuary in southern Crete

Author:Joseph W. Shaw

Summary:As well as being an archaeological guide, this beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of 30 years of fieldwork and study at one of the lesser known, but most intellectually fascinating, sites in Crete. In prehistory, Kommos was a busy harbor town with trading links extending to Egypt and Sardinia.

171 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Contents:
Foreword
Chronological charts
Part I. The Kommos site
The Minoan town
The southern area and the monumental Minoan buildings
The Greek sanctuary (southern area)
Kommos and the sea
Part II. Pitsidia and the western Mesara
The Pitsidia/Matala community
The western Mesara
"A great Minoan triangle"
Part III. Thirty years of digging
Aims and methods
Financing
The beginning of a dig : some personal background
Negotiations
The first days
Part IV. Some thoughts on contribution
"The strange and wonderful"
"Minoan palaces"
Two monumental stoas
The "shipsheds"
Late Minoan II : "Independence at last"
"Domestic economy"
A question of attribution : Greek temple C
The Artemis temple in the plain
Cretan temples updated : the "Dreros" type
The "Phoenician" shrine and recognition
"Wrapping up" : a conclusion
Appendix : the written word and the digital dawn
Further reading
Bibliography
Credits
Index

Kommos : A Minoan Harbor Town and Greek Sanctuary in Southern Crete

by: Shaw, J.W.

• ISBN-13: 9780876616598 / 978-0-87661-659-8
• ISBN-03: 0876616597 / 0-87661-659-7
• American School of Classical Studies at Athens, , 2006

Price: 19,95 EURO

(in stock)