Judith Muñoz Sogas, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) judithmunozsogas@gmail.com Kommos 1. Introduction ‘Any Phoenicians sailing to the western Mediterranean would have been foolish to avoid the Aegean’ and especially the island of Crete [Fig. 1.1].[1]  Even though trade between Crete and other Mediterranean regions had already been established before the tenth century BC, it was …