House X at Kommos A Minoan Mansion near the Sea Part 1 Architecture Stratigraphy and Selected Prehistory Monographs 1st Edition by Maria C Shaw ,Joseph W Shaw ISBN 1931534640 978-1931534642

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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 cataloged small finds and tables of data on the floral and faunal materials. The excavated fresco fragments are also discussed and illustrated.

Table of contents:

1. 1 Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Diachronic Use of House X

   (pp. 1-52)

   1 Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Diachronic Use of House X

   (pp. 1-52)

   House X is by far the largest and best appointed of the Minoan houses excavated at Kommos, a Minoan harbor¹ and settlement that later became the site of a Greek sanctuary (Shaw and Shaw, eds., 1995, 1996, 2000, 2006). Situated on the seacoast of the western Mesara, Kommos faces west toward the Libyan Sea. House X stands on the southern edge of what we call the Minoan town, separated by a large slab-paved road (Road 17) from the monumental civic buildings built and used between the Protopalatial and Postpalatial periods (J.W. Shaw 1996a; M.C. Shaw 1996e; Shaw et al. 2006).²…

    
2. 2 The Frescoes(pp. 53-74)

   2 The Frescoes(pp. 53-74)

   Painted plasters have been found in nearly every room of House X (Fig. 2.1). Examples with floral or other decorative patterns were found in Spaces X1–X4, X6, X8, X9, X11/X12, X14, and X16. This evidence for an extensive painting program is one of several factors that marks House X as an elite dwelling, at least in local terms, for the plasters found in other houses at Kommos were either unpainted or simply painted in solid colors—mostly Venetian red (M. C. Shaw 1996f). In the palatial Building T, the only other building where paintings were found, the elite architecture…

    
3. 3 Miscellaneous Finds

   (pp. 75-92)

   3 Miscellaneous Finds

   (pp. 75-92)

   Joseph W. Shaw, Maria C. Shaw and John G. Younger

   The catalog of finds presented in this chapter is structured by the categories of non-pottery artifacts from the monumental buildings and the houses of the Minoan town described in previous Kommos publications (Shaw and Shaw, eds., 1996, 2006). The well-preserved occupational strata of House X, however, yielded a wider variety of objects related to food preparation and artisanal activities relative to those of the large civic buildings that had major storage functions.

   Since House X lay at the lower edge of a hillside affected by erosion and slope wash, the archaeological deposits were particularly dense. The longevity of the house…

   The faunal assemblage from House X provides an excellent source of information for the study of the Minoan diet and the exploitation of local marine resources. With centuries of domestic occupation and changing phases of architecture, House X offers a unique glimpse into the daily lives of its occupants from the LM IA to the LM IIIB periods. The animal remains provide insights into aspects of Minoan culture such as diet, personal adornment, lifeways, and, in the case of material from the house’s shrine, ritual as well.

   Faunal remains from several Minoan houses uncovered in the Hilltop and Hillside excavations…

    

   In this chapter I review the topography of House X, its architectural plan and the changes it underwent over time, and the activities that may be inferred from the finds in order to evaluate the role, status, and use of the building both in local terms and with respect to its larger geographical context. The chronological framework of the house has been delineated through the study of is stratigraphy and the dating of the pottery, the latter having been undertaken primarily by J. B. Rutter (see Rutter, forthcoming; also Betancourt 1990; Watrous 1992). Rutter’s study, which formsPeople also search for:

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