| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | NB239 P43 | |
| Area: | Anaploga Sanctuary | |
| Title: | Surface Find 600m west of Odeion | |
| Notebook: | 239 | |
| Page: | 43 | |
| Date: | 1962/03/06 | |
| Stratum: | Disturbance from plough at least 0.40m from surface. | |
| Notes: | 6 MARCH 1962 PAGE 43 ANAPLOGA SANCTUARY This site-temporarily so [illegible] lies in a field belonging to the widow of Papamichael, some 600m west of the Odeion, on the right (north) side of the road to Haghiki(?) Avargyroi(?), immediately east of the ravine in which we have thrown our excavation dump in 1959-1961. For plan of field, see Corinth Drawing 235. In December of 1961 or at least before January 2x, 1962, this field was ploughed for the owner by a tractor drawn plough belonging to Konst. Giambouranis and Evag. Tsibouris, both residents of Archaia Korinthos. In the course of the work they found a marble head [S-2682] of a deity (helmeted Athena?) [possibly, or Apollo], over life-size, with inset eyeballs and inset bronze eyelashes. The nose (a separate piece of marble) was missing, as were the inset pupils of the eyes. This find they reported to the Archaeological Service in Athens in late February and turned over to the [Corinth] Museum guards on March 2, 1962. 6 MARCH 1962 PAGE 44 Mr. Verdelis, the Ephor, requested us to dig briefly in the area where the head was found in an attempt to recover the nose and pupils. He also proposed that the ASCS conduct a full-scale excavation in the field in connection with the regular excavation campaign starting April 9. With four workmen we undertook today to dig in the area where Giambouranis and Tsibouris reported the discovery of the head (Corinth Drawing 235, area worked in red, southern half). During the day the man who drove the Giambouranis-Tsibouris tractor on the day of the discovery of the head reported that the head was in the area just north (north half of red on Drawing 235), and at end of day practically on the line between the two areas designated we found one of the locks of hair from the right side of the neck of the head. Tomorrow we shall dig the northern half of the area. Since the discovery of the head, the owner has planted his field [page 45] with olive trees and we are now forced to dig among them. In April we may remove some of the trees to facilitate a larger scale excavation. We have agreed with the son of the widow Papamichael that after the spring excavation we will refill our trenches and replant such olives as we removed, paying him some compensation for loss of growing time of the trees. If, however, the finds are such as to warrant leaving the trenches open, we will negotiate for the purchase of the property. Our digging today extends down barely 0.20m; disturbance by the plough went down at least 0.40m. The sherds found today therefore have no stratigraphic significance. In examining the field we note a few meters east of the area where we are digging a fragment of a marble entablature block. Elsewhere in the [page 46] field we see poros building blocks turned up by the plough and areas of earth which have been whitened by the destruction of underlying blocks of poros. The plan on Drawing 235 shows these remains and by the regularity of the lives suggests a rectangular structure with N-S interior divisions. Just a few meters N of the area where we are digging today is a well-shaft, the cover slabs of which were torn loose by the ploughing of December or January. I descend the well which is cut in virgin soil (hardpan) with a diameter of 0.90. The shape is open to 6.00m below the mouth; foot holds are cut in N and S faces of the shaft at intervals of ca. 0.40m. Above the hardpan the mouth of the well is formed by a rectangular construction of limestone blocks which restricts the opening to ca. 0.60 x 0.62m. (See diagram, next page). [page 47] | |
| Site: | Anaploga | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Object: S 2682 |
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