"dc-title","dc-subject","Id","Name","UserLevel","dc-creator","dc-description","Chronology","Redirect","dc-publisher","Collection","Icon","dc-date","Type"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Acrocorinth","Corinth:Monument:Acrocorinth","Acrocorinth","","","Acrocorinth (575 meters high) was described by the Roman historian Polybius as one of the “fetters of Greece” because it controlled not only the route across the Isthmus, but also the pass between the Isthmus and Mount Oneion leading south towards Cleonai and Argos, and the coastal road west to Sikyon. The earliest fortifications now extant date to the later 4th century B.C. These were breached by Demetrius Poliorcetes from the location of the Sysipheum and later reduced and rendered indefensible by Mummius in 146 B.C. The present fortifications largely represent work and rework of the Byzantine, Ottoman, Venetian and Early Modern periods. Within the walls are the remains of the Ottoman period described by various travelers including Evliya Çelebi in 1668 and Wheler and Spon in 1676. They include the remains of mosques, fountains and houses. Next to the Upper Peirene fountain are the barracks of King Otto’s Bavarian garrison.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:color  0150::/Corinth/Photos/colorpositives/0150_sh.jpg::1764::1800","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Acrocorinth, North Slope | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore","Corinth:Monument:Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore","Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore","","","Excavations on the north slopes of Acrocorinth in the 1960’s and 70’s revealed a mass of small dining rooms both above and below and ancient road leading to Acrocorinth. They were arranged in parallel rows either side of a road and staircase ascending to a propylon which gave access to the area associated with the worship of Demeter and Kore.  In the Classical period there was no temple, simply rooms and a large stone lined pit containing ash, pig bones and pottery. The area also contained large quantities of votives including large scale terracotta statues. The identity of the goddesses is attested by graffiti on ceramics, the kinds of terracotta figurines, models of food on offering trays and a reference to it in Pausanias.  A small theater, seating no more than 100 people, was cut into bedrock on the south side. The earliest dining rooms were built in the late 6th century B.C. and the latest belonged to the Hellenistic period. ; In the Roman period refurbishment of the sanctuary was refurbished and the three small temples above the disused theater date soon after the middle of the 1st century A.D. The middle temple has a mosaic floor with a geometric pattern and a panel depicting two baskets flanked by snakes either side of a depiction of a pair of feet. A mosaic text identifies the benefactor as the neokoros Octavius Agathopous whose gift was made when “Chara was priestess of Neotera (Kore)” ; Worship at the sanctuary towards the end of the 4th century; in the 6th century the area was used as a cemetery.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:slide  1981::/Corinth/Photos/slides/1000-1999/sl1981.jpg::1800::1183","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Acrocorinth, North Slope","Corinth:Monument:Acrocorinth, North Slope","Acrocorinth, North Slope","","","In 1960, several Late Roman graves were excavated adjacent to the road to Acrocorinth by Henry Robinson.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:slide  2058::/Corinth/Photos/slides/2000-2999/sl2058.jpg::1800::1184","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Penteshouphia | Ancient Corinth, East of | Aetopetra","Corinth:Monument:Aetopetra","Aetopetra","","","Aetopetra is a hill (225x100m) located 3km west of Ancient Corinth, 1.6km east of Longopotamos, on the 92nd km mark of the Athens-Patras highway. Blegen observed pottery (EH, MH, and LH) and house walls on the surface at the southern part of the flat top there.  He also believed that the continuation of a Mycenaean road recorded by Steffen (Karten von Mykenai 1884) leading south to Kleonai came down the ravine at the mouth of which the site is situated.  ; Chatzipouliou-Kalliri (1984) noted surface pottery of N to LH IIIC Early date.  Excavations lasting a few days in the summers of 1978 and 1979 produced evidence for EH and MH habitation on the site. EH pottery comes from two bothroi.  EH II and III pottery (Dark-on-Light) was excavated. MH house walls and a child burial in a pithos was in the floor of a house.  Early and late MH pottery, an assemblage very similar to Korakou (Incised, Grey Minyan, Aiginetan MP, Dark Burnished, MP bichrome slipped and burnished) was excavated.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw 1999 044 16a::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1999_044/1999_st_044_016A.jpg::1800::1180","","Monument"
"","Megara | Aghioi Theodoroi","Corinth:Monument:Aghioi Theodoroi","Aghioi Theodoroi","","","A village to the east of the Isthmus.  Northwest of the city of Ag. Theodoroi, in 1961, archaeologists unearthed the ruins of ancient Krommyona. Important discoveries were made like a statue of Apollo, many black-figured vases, geometric and lakoeideis graves. According to Stravona, the entire coastal region of the Saronic and the Eleusinian Gulf was named Krommyona. Krommyona until the 6th century. BC belonged to Megara and then to Corinth.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw 1995 046 14::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1995_046/1995_st_046_014.jpg::1800::1189","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Agios Basilios","Corinth:Monument:Agios Basilios","Agios Basilios","","","A village located 25 km south of Corinth.  Archaeological excavations prove that the area around Ayios Vasilios has been settled since pre-historical times. Zygouries, west of Ayios Vasilios, was excavated by the American archaeologist Carl Blegen in the 1920s. He found a Bronze Age settlement dating from approximately 1300 BC to 1320 BC.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw 1998 067 17::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1998_067/1998_st_067_017.jpg::1800::1211","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Agora south central","Corinth:Monument:Agora south central","Agora south central","","","Excavations in this area of the forum were conducted in 1936-38. Charles Morgan, M. Folse, and M. Campbell supervised the work on the Central Shops, Bema, and the Underground Shrine.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw  4404::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/4000-4999/4404_sh.jpg::1800::1426","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Agora Southeast","Corinth:Monument:Agora Southeast","Agora Southeast","","","Oscar Broneer and R. H. Howland excavated in this area of the forum in 1933-35.  Key monuments that they uncovered include the Central Shops and the South Stoa.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw  4239::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/4000-4999/4239_sh.jpg::1800::1333","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Agora southwest","Corinth:Monument:Agora southwest","Agora southwest","","","In this portion of the forum a major campaign of excavation was undertaken from 1933 to 1938.  Later Henry Robinson renuwed investigations here in the late 1950's.  In 1963 and 1965 C. K. Williams, II also excavated in the area.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:digital 2019  1674::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2019 season photos/2019_1674.jpg::2000::1428","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, East | Kraneion | Amphitheater","Corinth:Monument:Amphitheater","Amphitheater","","","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.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:digital 2014  0901::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2014 season photos/2014_0901.jpg::0::0","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, West | Anaploga","Corinth:Monument:Anaploga","Anaploga","","","Anaploga was the old name of the hamlet one kilometer southwest of the main archaeological site. The place is known today as Agioi Anargyroi. ASCSA director Henry Robinson undertook several small-scale excavations in the vicinity during the early 1960’s.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw 1976 078 16a::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1976_078/1976_st_078_016A.jpg::1800::1210","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, West | Anaploga | Anaploga Sanctuary","Corinth:Monument:Anaploga Sanctuary","Anaploga Sanctuary","","","ASCSA director Henry Robinson undertook several small-scale excavations in the vicinity of Anaploga during the early 1960’s. One of these exposed a Roman house with ornate later 1st or 2nd century A.D. mosaic floors now on display in the museum at Corinth. Another excavation revealed a small cemetery and an inspection hole that opened onto over 700 meters of underground water channels. One of the wells excavated contained a large quantity of Early, Middle and Late Corinthian pottery (early 7th to mid-6th century B.C.), much of it restorable.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Drawing:270 021::/Corinth/Architectural_Plans/270_Anaploga_Sanctuary/270_021.jpg::1800::1247","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth","Corinth:Monument:Ancient Corinth","Ancient Corinth","","","Corinth was a city-state on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece, roughly halfway between Athens and Sparta.  ASCSA excavations began in 1896 and continue to present.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:slide  1762::/Corinth/Photos/slides/1000-1999/sl1762.jpg::1800::1197","","Monument"
"","Ancient Corinth, East","Corinth:Monument:Ancient Corinth, East","Ancient Corinth, East","","","","","","","Corinth","","","Monument"
"","Ancient Corinth, East of","Corinth:Monument:Ancient Corinth, East of","Ancient Corinth, East of","","","","","","","Corinth","","","Monument"
"","Ancient Corinth, North","Corinth:Monument:Ancient Corinth, North","Ancient Corinth, North","","","","","","","Corinth","","","Monument"
"","Ancient Corinth, West","Corinth:Monument:Ancient Corinth, West","Ancient Corinth, West","","","","","","","Corinth","","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Sacred Spring | Apsidal Temple (Temple B)","Corinth:Monument:Apsidal Temple (Temple B)","Apsidal Temple (Temple B)","","","A single course of foundation blocks are all that remain of this building with its west facing apse and facade opening toward the road to Lechaion and Peirene.  A round base is located within the walls and an underground tunnel connects it to the Sacred Spring.  Pfaff reconstructs the facade with three square piers in-antis.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:digital 2014  0878::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2014 season photos/2014_0878.jpg::0::0","","Monument"
"","Argolid | Argive Heraion","Corinth:Monument:Argive Heraion","Argive Heraion","","","The Heraion of Argos is an ancient sanctuary in Argos, Greece. It was part of the greatest sanctuary in the Argolid, dedicated to Hera, whose epithet  ""Argive Hera"" appears in Homer's works. The memory was preserved at Argos of an archaic, aniconic pillar representation of the Great Goddess. The site, which might mark the introduction of the cult of Hera in mainland Greece, lies northeast of Argos between the archaeological sites of Mycenae and Midea. The traveller Pausanias, visiting the site in the 2nd century CE, referred to the area as Prosymna.","","","","Corinth","","","Monument"
"","Argolid","Corinth:Monument:Argolid","Argolid","","","A county in the Peloponnese.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw 1995 032 18::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1995_032/1995_st_032_018.jpg::1214::1800","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, North | Asklepieion","Corinth:Monument:Asklepieion","Asklepieion","","","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.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:slide  1206::/Corinth/Photos/slides/1000-1999/sl1206.jpg::1800::1166","","Monument"
"","Asklepieion/Lerna","Corinth:Monument:AsklepieionLerna","Asklepieion/Lerna","","","","","","","Corinth","","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Theater District | East of Theater | Athena Trench","Corinth:Monument:Athena Trench","Athena Trench","","","An early trial trench between the Theater and the Temple of Apollo that sought to find the Sanctuary of Athena Chalinitis.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Drawing:165 000::/Corinth/Architectural_Plans/165_Athena_Chalinitis/165_000.jpg::1800::1388","","Monument"
"","Attika | Athens | Athenian Agora","Corinth:Monument:Athenian Agora","Athenian Agora","","","The ancient market place of Athens.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:slide  4014::/Corinth/Photos/slides/4000-4999/sl4014.jpg::1190::1800","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Athikia","Corinth:Monument:Athikia","Athikia","","","A village in the Corinthia 15 km south of New Corinth.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw 1971 034 31::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1971_034/1971_st_034_031.jpg::1800::1207","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | West Terrace | Babbius Monument","Corinth:Monument:Babbius Monument","Babbius Monument","","","The Babbius Monument is a circular monopteros on a podium dating to the early 1st century A.D. It consisted of eight Corinthian columns arranged in a circle supporting an epistyle and a conical roof. It was erected on a high concrete podium originally clad with marble revetment. The epistyle bears an inscription in Latin which reads “Cnaeus Babbius Philinus, aedile, pontifex, undertook the construction at his own expense, and the same, as duovir, approved it.”  Babbius Philinus was a rich freedman of Greek descent who served as a local official in the region.  The same individual also built the Fountain of Poseidon. The fountain was replaced by Temple J, perhaps also dedicated to Poseidon, during the reign of Commodus.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:digital 2014  0859::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2014 season photos/2014_0859.jpg::0::0","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, North | Baths of Aphrodite","Corinth:Monument:Baths of Aphrodite","Baths of Aphrodite","","","This was the name given, from the 19th century on, to a spring and cave in the former pleasure garden of the Ottoman Beys’ palace. It is located due north of the Forum on the line of the Lechaion Road and is at the head of a deep indentation of the high natural terrace. The garden embraced the entire indentation and was connected with the terrace above by a surviving monumental staircase. The torus molding of the stair’s outer wall suggests it was built during the period Venetian rule from 1687-1715 when the Governor’s residence stood site later occupied by the Beys’ palace.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Drawing:223 001::/Corinth/Architectural_Plans/223_Bath_of_Aphrodite/223_001b.jpg::1414::1800","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Lechaion Road Area | Baths of Eurykles","Corinth:Monument:Baths of Eurykles","Baths of Eurykles","","","Pausanias calls a bath beyond Peirene on the Lechaion Road the most famous of the many baths in Corinth. Near the entrance stood statues of Poseidon, Leucothea, Palaimon on a dolphin and Artemis hunting.  It was built by a member of the rich Laconian Euryclid clan. The walls were covered with revetment of different colored stones including Lapis Lacedaimonius from the family quarries at Croceae in Laconia. These baths were built in the Early Imperial period with extensive remodeling in the third quarter of the 1st century A.D. and, probably, in the 2nd century A.D.  They went out of use in the second half of the 2nd century A.D.; The Euryclids rose to prominence after the battle of Actium and the last of the line seems to have died in the early 2nd century. The remains of a large bath structure excavated on the east side of the Lechaion road have been identified with this building.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:digital 2014  0877::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2014 season photos/2014_0877.jpg::0::0","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Theater District | Baths of Hadrian","Corinth:Monument:Baths of Hadrian","Baths of Hadrian","","","The masonary ruins of this bath stand several meters above ground to the north of the theater.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Drawing:166 001::/Corinth/Architectural_Plans/166_Baths_of_Hadrian/166_001.jpg::1800::1384","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Central Shops | Bema","Corinth:Monument:Bema","Bema","","","The Bema was a complex marble structure dating from the middle of the 1st century A.D. which dominated the face of the terrace of the Upper Forum at Corinth. It took the form of an open propylon with a Π-shaped ground plan, which stood on a rectangular pedestal measuring 15.6 x 7.2 m. This pedestal had a crepis with two steps and on the north projected 3.00 m. above the level of the Lower Forum. Its superstructure consisted of eight pillars, the three central intervals between which were open while the two pairs at each end were blocked with walls and benches. The pedestal was flanked by two unroofed rooms (exedras) that had benches on two of their three sides. In addition to these rooms, there were marble staircases communicating between the Lower and Upper Forum. ; The Bema was the venue for public ceremonies, from which the assembled citizens were addressed by the proconsul of Corinth. It is thought to have corresponded to the Bema mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles: the Apostle Paul was brought to the Bema by the elders of Corinth’s synagogue, who accused him of subversive teaching against the Mosaic law. The proconsul Gallio, however, judged that the teaching did not constitute an offence against Roman law. ; In the Byzantine period, a Christian church with at least two phases was built on the site and ruins of the Bema. The second phase was a three-aisled basilica (11th-12th century). On both sides of the Bema were the main shops of the Forum, the remains of which can still be seen by modern visitors.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:digital 2014  0867::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2014 season photos/2014_0867.jpg::0::0","","Monument"
"","Bema, Schola","Corinth:Monument:Bema, Schola","Bema, Schola","","","","","","","Corinth","","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Building II","Corinth:Monument:Building II","Building II","","","One of four classical buildings south of the race course.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:digital 2014  0864::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2014 season photos/2014_0864.jpg::0::0","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, North | Byzantine Ephoreia","Corinth:Monument:Byzantine Ephoreia","Byzantine Ephoreia","","","","","","","Corinth","","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Captives' Facade","Corinth:Monument:Captives' Facade","Captives' Facade","","","An ornate two story facade located in front of the early basilica flanks the Lechaion Road between the North Shops and the Monumental Gate. The upper story consisted of a row of six larger-than-life-size figures standing against Corinthian piers. The two best preserved pillars represent men in eastern dress wearing Phrygian caps. Two heads of women from the same monument indicate that the males were accompanied by female figures. They may have been personifications of geographical places. The monument has been thought to commemorate the victories of the Emperor Septimius Severus over the Parthians in A.D. 197.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:digital 2014  0876::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2014 season photos/2014_0876.jpg::0::0","","Monument"
"","Captives' Façade","Corinth:Monument:Captives' Façade","Captives' Façade","","","","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw  0440::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/0001-0999/0440_gp.jpg::1800::1336","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Forum Southwest | Centaur Bath","Corinth:Monument:Centaur Bath","Centaur Bath","","","The Centaur Bath was built in late 5th century B.C. and; abandoned in the late 4th century B.C. The preserved; remains of this bath include a furnace room, a network of; waterpipes, a central room with a mosaic floor, and,; unusually for a bath, a dining room. The pebble; mosaic of the central room includes a central panel with a; black and white wheel framed at its corners, two of which; survive, one including a centaur, for which the bath is; named.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:slide  0059::/Corinth/Photos/slides/0001-0999/sl0059.jpg::1212::1800","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area","Corinth:Monument:Central Area","Central Area","","","The area of the main archaeological site at Ancient Corinth.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Image:bw  0388::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/0001-0999/0388_sh.jpg::1800::1335","","Monument"
"","Central area and theater district","Corinth:Monument:Central area and theater district","Central area and theater district","","","","","","","Corinth","","","Monument"
"","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Central Shops","Corinth:Monument:Central Shops","Central Shops","","","The central shops run from the Circular Monument to the Bema and from the Bema to the Doric colonnade extending from the West end of the South Stoa. The shops separated the  Forum proper from the upper Forum in front of the South Stoa. The eastern series is of fifteen shops of which the central structure is larger than the others and had a tetrastyle portico. The interior was furnished with a marble floor and two bases against the rear wall probably supported statues. It may have been a cult room or office. The western series consists of fourteen shops culminating at a structure perhaps used for cult of Dionysus. The building has rectangular rooms flanking an semi-circular room and portico in front.; In the 5th century the shops were demolished and replaced by a staircase uniting the upper and lower levels of the Forum.  This stair is the widest known in the ancient world.","","","","Corinth","Corinth:Drawing:025 001::/Corinth/Architectural_Plans/025_Central_shops_and_Bema/025_001.jpg::1800::942","","Monument"
"","Central shops and Bema","Corinth:Monument:Central shops and Bema","Central shops and Bema","","","","","","","Corinth","","","Monument"