The Kraneion Basilica resembles the Lechaion Basilica but at a much smaller scale. It lacks an atrium but does have a baptistery on its north side. It is a cemetery church with ample evidence of vaulted ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, East | Kraneion | Kraneion
The basilica is built on a sand spit separating the inner basins of Lechaion harbor from the sea. It consists of a three aisled structure with two atria at the west end and a transept and single apse at ... Corinthia | New Corinth | Lechaion | Lechaion Harbor Basilica
The main north-south artery (cardo maximus) of the Roman city ultimately linked the Agora of Corinth with the harbor of Lechaion on the Corinthian gulf 3 kilometers to the north. In the time of Augustus, ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Lechaion Road Area | Lechaion
Excavations carried out before contruction of the new museum yielded neolithic inhabitation levels. The soils were thin here and excavators reached bedrock quickly ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Museum
Rescue excavations in 2015 and 2016 that uncovered three Byzantine houses ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field
Excavations renewed south of the South Stoa in 2007 in an area where in the 1960s Henry Robinson uncovered several Byzantine buildings and and Early Modern/Ottoman Era house. These structures were further ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Nezi Field
The north cemetery is actually part of a much larger funerary area which extends along the plain below the lower terrace on which Corinth stands. Excavations in 1915 to 1918 and 1928 to 1930 revealed ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, North | North Cemetery
The southern half of a Roman market square surrounded by a colonnade was excavated on the North side of Temple Hill. Parts of the marble paving of the square and the gutter surrounding it were preserved ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Temple Hill | North Market
In 2018 Chris Pfaff initiated excavations in a field directly adjacent and west of the old excavation dump and north of the Theater ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Northeast of Theater
The shops were built immediately in front of the Northwest stoa later in the 1st century A.D. The large central chamber still preserves its stone vault. It is flanked by seven shops, which originally had ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Northwest Shops
The Northwest Stoa was once thought to have been a Hellenistic building refurbished in the Roman period. It is now understood to be entirely a Roman monument, built in the time of the emperor Augustus, ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Northwest Stoa
In 1932, Oscar Broneer excavated a portion of a small Roman bath in the southwest corner of the ASCSA property. It was located to the west of Oakley House, the old excavation dig house ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Theater District | Oakley House
In the early 1960's J. Anderson led a Berkely team to excavated the northwest corner of the Temenos of Temple E ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Theater District | Temple E
The Roman Odeion of Ancient Corinth was a small, indoor theatre intended for musical events and rhetorical competitions. It consisted of a semicircular orchestra surrounded by seating, a stage building, ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Theater District | Odeion
This is the first museum bought by the American School of Classical Studies to house the finds of the excavations. It now serves as storage for artifacts ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Lechaion Road Area | Old Museum
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 ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Panayia | Panayia Villa | Panaghia Villa
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; ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Panayia
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) ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Panayia | Panayia Bath | Panayia Bath
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” ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Panayia | Panayia Long Wall Building
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 ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Panayia | Panayia Villa
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 ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Lechaion Road Area | Peirene
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 ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth, East of | Penteskouphia
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 ... Corinthia | Perachora
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, ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Lechaion Road Area | Peribolos
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 ... A Greek city in the northwestern Argolid (now in modern Corinthia, near Nemea), in the
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 ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Lechaion Road Area |
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 ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum Southwest | Punic Amphora
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 ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Race Course
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 ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Race Course | Race Course and
On his way from the forum north along the Lechaion road, Pausanias discusses one of the many bath houses in the city: ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, North | Roman Bath (Great
