Fisher/Monumentality, 7. Court-Centred Buildings at Kalavasos, Maroni, and Alassa

In Chapter 7, I analyze three court-centred buildings from the LC IIC-IIIA: Building X at Kalavasos Ayios Dhimitrios, the Ashlar Building at Maroni-Vournes, and Building II at Alassa-Paliotaverna. Each of these three buildings is assumed to be the centre of administrative and economic power for their respective sites and, probably, their wider regions. Despite some superficial formal similarities and shared functions, they materialized monumentality in quite different ways. In each case, I discuss the broader excavation and architectural history of the site, the building’s specific context, and its extant architecture. This is followed by an in-depth micro-scale analysis of the syntactic and architectural properties of the various spaces that comprise each building and my interpretation of how these properties structured social interaction within the building.