Knossos: The South House (BSA Supplementary Volume)

The South House at Knossos was excavated by Arthur Evans in 1908, with supplementary investigations in 1924, but was never properly published. Located immediately south of the Palace, the house was built as part of the great restoration programme in MM IIIB/LM 1A. Its fine Minoan Hall, Lustral Basin and Pillar Crypt are matched by many important finds, including a hoard of bronze implements, silver vessels and fresco fragments. Drawing on evidence from the Daybooks of Duncan Mackenzie and extant finds, especially the large corpus of Late Minoan pottery, P. A. Mountjoy now provides a detailed account of the excavation and an analysis of the building's history. J. M. Driessen offers an overview of the architecture, with special reference to the entrance system, and P. A. Mountjoy discusses the fresco fragments. The surviving pottery is thoroughly presented by C. Knappett, P. A. Mountjoy, and K. S. Christakis. Other chapters cover silver vessels (P. A. Mountjoy), objects of stone, bone, ivory, bronze and clay (R. D. G. Evely), loomweights (B. Burke) and seals (O. H. Krzyszkowska).