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 frescoes to the reconstruction of civic life in Crete. Joseph W. Shaw is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Toronto.

• 1. The Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Diachronic Use of House X, by M.C. Shaw2. The Frescoes, by M.C. Shaw and A.P. Chapin3. The Miscellaneous Finds, by J.W. Shaw, M.C. Shaw, and J.G. Younger 4. The Faunal Remains, by D. Ruscillo 5. Summary and General Perspective, by M.C. Shaw ConcordanceReferencesIndexTablesFigures PlatesColor Plates

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 arrangement is very effective, and the survey of Glycymeris shells is highly welcome, given the intricacies of the material from House X. [...]Overall, the production of the volume is outstanding...The Lily Fresco from space X1, an obvious choice for the color frontispiece, has been wonderfully reproduced, as are all the plates and illustrations.[...] ...Shaws and their collaborators have...given us a very complete and authoritative picture of an important building from a key site in south Central Crete. -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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 frescoes to the reconstruction of civic life in Crete. Joseph W. Shaw is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Toronto.

• 1. The Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Diachronic Use of House X, by M.C. Shaw2. The Frescoes, by M.C. Shaw and A.P. Chapin3. The Miscellaneous Finds, by J.W. Shaw, M.C. Shaw, and J.G. Younger 4. The Faunal Remains, by D. Ruscillo 5. Summary and General Perspective, by M.C. Shaw ConcordanceReferencesIndexTablesFigures PlatesColor Plates

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 arrangement is very effective, and the survey of Glycymeris shells is highly welcome, given the intricacies of the material from House X. [...]Overall, the production of the volume is outstanding...The Lily Fresco from space X1, an obvious choice for the color frontispiece, has been wonderfully reproduced, as are all the plates and illustrations.[...] ...Shaws and their collaborators have...given us a very complete and authoritative picture of an important building from a key site in south Central Crete. -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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 frescoes to the reconstruction of civic life in Crete. Joseph W. Shaw is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Toronto.

• 1. The Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Diachronic Use of House X, by M.C. Shaw2. The Frescoes, by M.C. Shaw and A.P. Chapin3. The Miscellaneous Finds, by J.W. Shaw, M.C. Shaw, and J.G. Younger 4. The Faunal Remains, by D. Ruscillo 5. Summary and General Perspective, by M.C. Shaw ConcordanceReferencesIndexTablesFigures PlatesColor Plates

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 arrangement is very effective, and the survey of Glycymeris shells is highly welcome, given the intricacies of the material from House X. [...]Overall, the production of the volume is outstanding...The Lily Fresco from space X1, an obvious choice for the color frontispiece, has been wonderfully reproduced, as are all the plates and illustrations.[...] ...Shaws and their collaborators have...given us a very complete and authoritative picture of an important building from a key site in south Central Crete. -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review