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"","Corinth","Corinth:Image:slide  1076::/Corinth/Photos/slides/1000-1999/sl1076.jpg::1800::1217","","Monument","","Corinth:Monument:Potters' Quarter","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, West | Potters' Quarter | Potters' Quarter","","Potters' Quarter","","Located at the western edge of the walled area of Corinth, the Potters’ quarter was a complex of workshops and domestic quarters used by potters for three centuries from the seventh century until the fourth century B.C. Excavations produced wasters (accidentally melted ceramics) of pottery made from the white marl clay underlying the limestone bedrock. Moulds indicate that the potters also made figurines, painted plaques, and votive shields. Later excavators found two stelai shrines.","",""
"","Corinth","Corinth:Image:slide  3499::/Corinth/Photos/slides/3000-3999/sl3499.jpg::1800::1169","","Monument","","Corinth:Monument:City Wall","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | City Wall","","City Wall","","The oldest portions of the City wall date from the late Geometric period. This early section was found at the edge of the terrace at the Potters’ Quarter about 1.5 kilometers west of the museum at Corinth. It is not known if this early wall belonged to a locally fortified part of Corinth or was part of a much more extensive early wall.; The Classical walls incorporated the acropolis, Acrocorinth. From the east side of the acropolis, the wall followed the summits of three low hills descending towards the Xerias River valley.  It then traced the line of the river terrace northwards to a point east of the amphitheater. There is evidence that it here turned west at least for a short distance before descending to the lower terrace. It followed the edge of this terrace westwards for a distance of about 2.7 kilometers. From the west side of the acropolis the wall descends a rocky ridge northwards past the Potters’ Quarter to the lower terrace. In all, the wall is about 10 kilometers long.; Traces of the long walls connecting the city wall to the sea have been followed and, in places, excavated. These walls contained and protected the ancient harbor at Lechaion and cut the east-west traffic across the plain. The eastern line extended from the northeast corner of the city enceinte 1.8 kilometers to a point west of the Prehistoric site of Korakou. The western line ran from the area of the Baths of Aphrodite 2.4 kilometers to a point west of the Lechaion Basilica church.","",""
"","Corinth","Corinth:Drawing:182 004::/Corinth/Architectural_Plans/182_Kokkinovrysi/182_004.jpg::0::0","","Monument","","Corinth:Monument:Kokkinovrysi","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, West | Kokkinovrysi","","Kokkinovrysi","","Literally “Red Spring”, Kokkinovrysi is located at the west end of the lower terrace on which the city of Ancient Corinth stood.  The spring is just outside the line of the ancient wall beside a road running westwards from the city. In 1962 and 1963 a rescue excavation uncovered a small sanctuary with a stele shrine. A favissa (pit) contained numerous terracotta figurines representing a ring dance around a central figure playing the flute. The shrine was probably dedicated to the nymphs and its history of use ran from at least the 7th until the late 4th century B.C. ; ; To the east of the spring are the remains of a potters’ kiln and to the west is the so-called “Shear Villa.” The villa was excavated in 1925 by T. L. Shear and contained the mosaics now displayed in the museum.  One shows a herdsman playing his flute in the shade of a tree as his cattle graze at the foot of a hill. Another is circular with a central head of Dionysus.","",""