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[Corinth Monument] Panaghia Villa

Fourteen rooms of a large Late Roman town house, or domus, include two with intricate geometric mosaic floors and one with a central marble fountain. Of two peristyle courts within the building, one featured ...

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[Corinth Monument] Panayia

The Panayia Field, southeast of the Forum, has been the site of excavations started in 1995 by Charles Williams and subsequently continued under the direction of Guy Sanders. Roman are the best preserved; ...

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[Corinth Monument] Panayia Bath

The Late Roman bath complex consists of four rooms; an entrance hall, an apodyterium (undressing room) that also served as a frigidarium (room with cold bath tubs), a tepidarium (warm room without tubs) ...

[Corinth Monument] Panayia Long Wall Building

Another structure to the south of the Panayia bath bears no relation to it except that the two buildings border a common parcel of land. Little is known about the function of the so-called “Long Building” ...

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[Corinth Monument] Panayia Villa

Fourteen rooms of a large Late Roman town house, or domus, include two with intricate geometric mosaic floors and one with a central marble fountain. Of two peristyle courts within the building, one featured ...

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[Corinth Monument] Peirene

Peirene is an important center of symbolism and tradition in the urban landscape of both Greek and Roman Corinth. Human activity is attested in the area from the Neolithic period, and the first efforts ...

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[Corinth Monument] Penteskouphia

Early modern hamlet at the foot of the kastraki of the same name and to the west of Ancient Corinth. The village and the kastraki are in the general vicinity of the find spot of the painted plaques of ...

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[Corinth Monument] Perachora

A distinctive feature of the Corinthian landscape, this peninsula projects in to the Corinthian Gulf north of Corinth and the Lechaion Harbor. The Sanctuary of Hera is situated in a small cove on the ...

[Corinth Monument] Perdikaria

A prehistoric site identified by Carl Blegen between Kyras Vrysi and New Corinth.

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[Corinth Monument] Peribolos of Apollo

The court to the north of Peirene was identified by Pausanias as the “Peribolos of Apollo” in which was an image of the god and a painting depicting Odysseus on his return from Troy expelling his wife, ...

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[Corinth Monument] Phlius

A Greek city in the northwestern Argolid (now in modern Corinthia, near Nemea), in the Peloponnese, said to be named after the Greek hero Phlias but formerly called Araethyrea.

[Corinth Monument] Pietri

A property named for the Pietri family.

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[Corinth Monument] 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 ...

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[Corinth Monument] Propylaia

Propylaia on the Lechaion Road: The Propylaia, the main entrance to the Forum, consisted of three archways: one main and two smaller ones. At the time of Pausanias the gilded bronze chariots of Helios ...

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[Corinth Monument] Punic Amphora Building

The Punic Amphora Building was a commercial establishment located near a busy intersection of three roads. Dating to the mid-5th century B.C., the building contained many tons of fragments of transport ...

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[Corinth Monument] Quarries

Roman quarries opened within the city during the early Colony to the east and west of the Temple of Apollo.

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[Corinth Monument] Race Course

The remains of two successive stadia (race tracks) lie beneath the Roman forum. The apheteria (starting blocks) of both, lie directly to the west of the Julian Basilica. The orientation of the two phases ...

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[Corinth Monument] Race Course and Platform

A raised platform to the south of two successive race tracks may have been used for pale and pankrateion. The path Hellenistic phase of the race course caused the platform retaining wall to be slightly ...

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[Corinth Monument] Roman Bath (Great Bath on the Lechaion Road)

On his way from the forum north along the Lechaion road, Pausanias discusses one of the many bath houses in the city:

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[Corinth Monument] Roman Villa, Shear's

The remains of the villa are located about 1 km west of the theater. The villa is remarkable for the mosaic floors which are now house in the museum. One portrays a cowherd leaning against a tree playing ...

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[Corinth Monument] Sacred Spring

The Sacred Spring was a sanctuary rather than a public water source. The Sacred Spring complex has a long history lasting from the early 8th century B.C into the Hellenistic period with several phases ...

[Corinth Monument] Solomos

A modern village on the southeast slope of Acrocorinth

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[Corinth Monument] South Basilica

The south basilica appears to have been built using the earlier Julian Basilica as a prototype. The entrance to the basilica from the north was via a broad marble reveted concrete staircase in a court ...

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[Corinth Monument] South Stoa west

The Stele Shrine includes a square-shaped temenos enclosed by a wall, established in the mid-6th century B.C. Inside the temenos, a stele, evidence of burnt offerings, and an offering table are indications ...

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[Corinth Monument] Southeast Building

The portico 13 ionic columns which closed the east end of the upper forum served as the entrance to the Southeast building. In its earliest form, probably in the first half 1st century B.C., the building ...

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[Corinth Monument] St. John's

The church of St. Johns stood until 1938 when it was demolished to complete the excavation of the Forum to Roman levels. The original church was part of a thirteenth century monastic complex at the west ...

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[Corinth Monument] Tavern of Aphrodite

The name excavators initially gave to Building III one of four Classical buildings in the central archaeological site.

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[Corinth Monument] Temple A

Temple A is a Classical and Hellenistic structure which lay partly under the shops along the east side of the Lechaion Road and partly under the Peribolos of Apollo. Preserved are the foundations of a ...

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[Corinth Monument] Temple C

This tetrastyle prostyle Roman temple is flanked by a pi-shaped colonnade within a closed precinct on the road leading from the forum to the theater. Unfortunately Pausanias makes no mention of the building ...

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[Corinth Monument] Temple E

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 ...

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[Corinth Monument] Temple E Decumanus

A major Roman east-west road immediately to the south of the Forum.

[Corinth Monument] Temple E northwest

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 ...

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[Corinth Monument] Temple E south

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 ...

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[Corinth Monument] Temple E, Southeast

The central focus of the Frankish area consists of a large open court with a colonnade of reused Roman columns. It is on a scale similar to what had once been considered the “Market Place” of the medieval ...

[Corinth Monument] Temple E, Southwest

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 ...

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[Corinth Monument] Temple E, Temenos

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 ...

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[Corinth Monument] Temple Hill

Once a ridge of limestone upon which sat the Temple of Apollo, the Romans quarried to the east and particularly to the west, leaving the temple and it immediate vicinity.

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[Corinth Monument] Temple Hill, Basilica

A small church on the northeast corner of Temple Hill.

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[Corinth Monument] Temple of Apollo

The seven standing columns of the Archaic temple are one of the most prominent landmarks of Corinth. The dedication of the temple to Apollo is deduced from Pausanias’ description of Corinth combined with ...

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[Corinth Monument] Theater

The theater was a place in which dramatic and musical events were staged. In the Roman period staged fighting was added. The theater has several phases. The original structure was built late in the 5th ...

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[Corinth Monument] Theater District

Area northwest of the central archaeological site which includes the Theater and the Odeion.

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[Corinth Monument] Tile Works

To the north of the junction of the road leading to the village from the Argos road is a shed covering a well preserved tile kiln. The kiln consists of two long fire chambers over which were once built ...

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[Corinth Monument] Tomb, Painted

A Roman chamber tomb with wall paintings.

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[Corinth Monument] Tombs northeast of Ancient Corinth

A series of Roman chamber tombs north of the Classical City Walls.

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[Corinth Monument] Tombs, Tseilolofos

A series of Roman chamber tombs north of the Classical City Walls.

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[Corinth Monument] Tseliolophos

Another name for Cheliotomylos, a hillock just north of the Classical city walls, upon which evidence for prehistoric activity was found.

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[Corinth Monument] Upper Peirene

A subterranean spring on Acrocorinth.

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[Corinth Monument] West Shops

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 ...

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[Corinth Monument] West Terrace

The buildings in the west end of the Roman Forum date from the 1st and 2nd century A.D. In contrast to most temples of both the Greek and Roman periods in Greece, the temples each stood on a high podium ...

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[Corinth Monument] Yiriza

Plateau located 500 m west of Gonia. Blegen excavated 10 trenches with EH pottery in 1916. LH II/IIIB (C?) chamber tomb cemetery was discovered in 1979 during illegal excavations in the Ginis property ...

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[Corinth Monument] Zygouries

Prehistoric site excavated by Carl Blegen.