House X at Kommos: A Minoan Mansion Near the Sea Part 1: Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Selected Finds

By: Costis Davaras

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931534640
• ISBN13: 9781931534642
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 11.2"