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"","Standing 9 meters above the Forum, Temple E occupied as prominent a place in the Roman city as the Temple of Apollo. In its first phase, the temple had stone foundations, probably with a triple crepis measuring 44 x 23.5 meters, on which was constructed a limestone Doric temple with six columns across its facade. The temple enclosure was bounded by a wall to the west and by stoas on the north and south. It is dated to the early 1st century A.D., soon after the death of Augustus. ; In the late 1st century A. D. the temple was radically altered. The new building was built in the Corinthian order on a podium 3.4 meters high and was surrounded by a colonnade of 6 columns across the short sides and 12 along the long sides. The temple had a pronaos with two columns in antis and a long, narrow cella. The temple was completely enclosed by stoas during this phase. From Pausanias’s description, this temple appears to have been dedicated to Octavia, the sister of Augustus, although modern scholars have offered alternative suggestions.","","Monument","","Corinth:Drawing:127 001::/Corinth/Architectural_Plans/127_Temple_E_Temonos/127_001.jpg::1800::1287","","Corinth","Corinth:Monument:Temple E, Temenos","","","Temple E, Temenos","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Temple E, Temenos",""
"","The sanctuary of Asklepios is located in what was probably considered a healthy location on the north side of the city close to a supply of fresh spring water. It incorporated hospital facilities. The temple is represented only by foundation trenches cut in the limestone bedrock. The earliest remains, perhaps of the 5th century B.C., are represented by shallow cuttings within, and to the northeast of, the later temple. The 4th century B.C. temple stood in the middle of a rectangular enclosure and can be reconstructed as a rectangular cella faced with four Doric columns accessed by a short ramp up from the east. On the north side there is a stoa and, on the north and east sides, shallow colonnades that may have been used to display the life-sized terracotta body parts found during excavation. Doors on the west side entered into the abaton, where those in hope of a cure stayed, and to a space with steps descending to a plunge bath. A staircase at the north end of the abaton descends to the Lerna Court. After the foundation of the Roman colony, the temple was refurbished by Milesius, the son of a freed slave called Glaucus.The main approach to the Lerna court was by a steep ramp down from a springhouse to the southeast of the sanctuary. The court consists of a central rectangular space surrounded by colonnades on four sides. To the east of the court there was a suite of three dining rooms beneath the abaton of the Asklepieion. Each room originally contained 7 tables set before 11 stone couches. To accommodate the couches properly, three along each wall and two either side of the door, the entrance to each room was offset towards the south. On the south side of the court are a springhouse and four long reservoirs fed by water channels leading from the south. The court fell into disuse during the Roman period and it gradually filled with earth. In the 6th and 7th centuries Α.D. the court and reservoirs were used for Christian burials. The springhouse was converted into a small chapel and, later, a church was built at the bottom of the ramp.","","Monument","","Corinth:Image:slide  1206::/Corinth/Photos/slides/1000-1999/sl1206.jpg::1800::1166","","Corinth","Corinth:Monument:Asklepieion","","","Asklepieion","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, North | Asklepieion",""
"","In the early 1960's J. Anderson led a Berkely team to excavated the northwest corner of the Temenos of Temple E.","","Monument","","Corinth:Image:bw  6041::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/5000-9999/6041_int.jpg::1800::1347","","Corinth","Corinth:Monument:Oakley south","","","Oakley south","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Theater District | Temple E Temenos | Oakley south",""
"","The West Shops define the west end of the Roman forum. Twelve Shops, six either side of a broad staircase ascending to the entrance of Temple E’s precinct, had vaulted chambers parts of which still survive. The Corinthian capitals of the colonnade in front of the shops were particularly ornate. On each, in place of some of the acanthus leaves were carved a mask, variously a griffon, winged lion, a siren and human faces. In the late 4th century an earthquake did sufficient damage to the colonnade that it had to be repaired. Three blocks preserve an inscription commemorating the patronage of the Emperors Valentinian and Valens who caused the repairs to be made. The inscription dates either to A.D. 364-75 or A.D. 375-8 depending whether or not it refers to Valentinan I or Valentinian II.","","Monument","","Corinth:Image:digital 2014  0853::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2014 season photos/2014_0853.jpg::0::0","","Corinth","Corinth:Monument:West Shops","","","West Shops","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Temple E, Temenos | West Shops",""
"","Between 1911 and 1935, Leslie Walker Kosmopoulos excavated a total of 23 trenches in Ancient Corinth in the Forum, on Temple Hill, on the West Terrace, and around Temple E. Some of the material was stored in her house in Ancient Corinth until it was damaged by earthquake in August 1962 (Robinson 1963). ; ; Other artifacts and groups of artifacts were stored in the National Archaeological Muesum in Athens until 2020 when they were returned to the Archaeological Museum in Ancient Corinth. Anna Belza and Jeff Banks helped to process this material, which is labeled K-NAM.","","Monument","","Corinth:Image:digital 2020  1572::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2020 season photos/2020_1572.jpg::2048::1536","","Corinth","Corinth:Monument:Kosmopoulos Trenches","","","Kosmopoulos Trenches","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | | Kosmopoulos Trenches",""
"","The Forum, lying at the heart of the Roman City was the commercial and administrative center of the city. Its orientation conforms to the surviving Classical and Hellenistic buildings, such as the South Stoa, the Southeast Building and the Temple of Apollo, which were refurbished for use in the Roman Period. The entire area, almost 200 m. long and 100 m. wide, was paved with slabs made of hard Jurassic limestone. It was divided into upper (south) and lower (north) levels by the Central Shops which flanked the “Rostra” or “Bema”. In Late Antiquity the two levels were united by a broad series of steps which replaced the shops.; The buildings around the Forum were largely administrative and religious. They include three large civil basilicas, rows of shops, temples  and offices.","","Monument","","Corinth:Image:slide  0950::/Corinth/Photos/slides/0001-0999/sl0950.jpg::1800::1196","","Corinth","Corinth:Monument:Forum","","","Forum","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum",""
"","A large oval depression (79 meters long x 52 meters wide) in the fields 1.2 kilometers east-north-east of the Temple of Apollo is a remnant of the Roman amphitheater. A broad gap probably marks the Porta Triumphalis on the south side. Traces of a massive masonry and concrete wall which originally supported the superstructure are visible in the olive grove on the southeast and southwest sides. These suggest exterior dimensions of approximately 100 x 70 meters. Early last century four steps were visible, quarried from the oolitic limestone dune capping the marl deposits. These were either the seats themselves or cuttings for the placement of separately carved seats since robbed out. An early 19th century plan marks traces of seven staircases. The spacing suggests that these divided lower seating on each side into six kerkides, wedge-shaped seating areas. A diazoma, or horizontal walkway, may have divided the upper seating from the lower. The lowest part of the seating was cut into the marl and both this and the superstructure above ground were presumably built of stone quarried on site.; Katherine Welch who studied the superficial remains of the amphitheater has suggested that it was built in the late 1st century B.C. and thus belongs to the early years of the colony. It is possible that this is the amphitheater in which Lucius, the hero of The Golden Ass (written by the Roman author Apuleius), was to perform in public but was saved from embarrassment when he was transformed from a donkey back into a man.; The Amphitheater was later used by the Venetians as a place of quarantine (lazaretto). The remains were mapped by Francesco Grimani in 1700 and Abel Blouet, a surveyor with the French Morea expedition, in the 1830’s.","","Monument","","Corinth:Image:digital 2014  0901::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2014 season photos/2014_0901.jpg::0::0","","Corinth","Corinth:Monument:Amphitheater","","","Amphitheater","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, East | Kraneion | Amphitheater",""