Building Z at Kommos - An 8th-century pottery sequence (Mesara, ceramics)

Building Z at Kommos is built into one of the Late Minoan shipsheds of Buil ding P; its major phase of use is in the Middle Geometric period. The potte ry from the building, including earlier Iron Age material and some from pos t-use deposition, si fully published here. The totality gives the opportuni ty of seeing the various contemporary products of the Mesara in fuller deta il than is provided by other published sets of material. The purpose of the building is unclear, but it appears to have served a subsidiary function t o that of the temple to the north.