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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Monument | |
| Name: | Justinian's Wall | |
| Description: | In 146 B.C. the Roman general Mummius reduced the walls of Corinth to make them unusable for defensive purposes. No wall was considered necessary until the Late Roman period when a shorter circuit was constructed within the Classical enceinte. Timothy Gregory identified traces of massive masonry, including the so-called Epistyle Wall, as belonging to this Justinianic wall. His reconstruction shows a 5.3 kilometer enceinte (approximately a square of sides 1.5 by 1.3 kilometers) with the Roman forum at its center. He considered it to date to the early 5th century. Another hypothesis, based on recent resistivity survey, is that the wall enclosed an area about one quarter of this area and left the Roman Forum outside to the west. This hypothesis suggests a mid-6th century date for the wall and explains how the Forum could have been used for later 6th century burial when the law prohibited burial within the walls. | |
| Site: | Justinian's Wall | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Images (4) Objects (5) Notebook: 111 |
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