Corinth Monument: Southeast Building
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Monument
Name:   Southeast Building
Description:   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 had two suites of three rooms built symmetrically along the axis of a central corridor. It has been suggested that this may have been either an archive building or library.
The building was partially demolished to make space for the Julian Basilica to the north in the first decade of the 1st century A.D. It was rebuilt on a different plan in the second quarter of the 1st century. A door from the north end of the portico gave admittance to a room divided into three aisles by colonnades each of three columns and two pilasters. At the south end was a transverse room entered from the central aisle. Fragments of an inscription found in and around the building suggest the building was erected by the same Gn. Babbius Philinus who built the Babbius Monument and Fountain of Poseidon at the west end of the forum.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Plans and Drawings (31)
Images (143)
Objects (265)
Notebook: 191