"Type","dc-creator","Icon","dc-title","dc-subject","Collection","Chronology","dc-description","Redirect","UserLevel","dc-date","dc-publisher","Name","Id"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:color  0150::/Corinth/Photos/colorpositives/0150_sh.jpg::1764::1800","","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Acrocorinth","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Acrocorinth","Corinth:Monument:Acrocorinth"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:slide  1981::/Corinth/Photos/slides/1000-1999/sl1981.jpg::1800::1183","","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Acrocorinth, North Slope | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore","Corinth:Monument:Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:slide  2058::/Corinth/Photos/slides/2000-2999/sl2058.jpg::1800::1184","","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Acrocorinth, North Slope","Corinth","","In 1960, several Late Roman graves were excavated adjacent to the road to Acrocorinth by Henry Robinson.","","","","","Acrocorinth, North Slope","Corinth:Monument:Acrocorinth, North Slope"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:bw 1999 044 16a::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1999_044/1999_st_044_016A.jpg::1800::1180","","Corinthia | Penteshouphia | Ancient Corinth, East of | Aetopetra","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Aetopetra","Corinth:Monument:Aetopetra"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:bw 1995 046 14::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1995_046/1995_st_046_014.jpg::1800::1189","","Megara | Aghioi Theodoroi","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Aghioi Theodoroi","Corinth:Monument:Aghioi Theodoroi"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:bw 1998 067 17::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1998_067/1998_st_067_017.jpg::1800::1211","","Corinthia | Agios Basilios","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Agios Basilios","Corinth:Monument:Agios Basilios"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:bw  4404::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/4000-4999/4404_sh.jpg::1800::1426","","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Agora south central","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Agora south central","Corinth:Monument:Agora south central"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:bw  4239::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/4000-4999/4239_sh.jpg::1800::1333","","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Agora Southeast","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Agora Southeast","Corinth:Monument:Agora Southeast"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:digital 2019  1674::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2019 season photos/2019_1674.jpg::2000::1428","","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Agora southwest","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Agora southwest","Corinth:Monument:Agora southwest"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:digital 2014  0901::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2014 season photos/2014_0901.jpg::0::0","","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, East | Kraneion | Amphitheater","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Amphitheater","Corinth:Monument:Amphitheater"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:bw 1976 078 16a::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1976_078/1976_st_078_016A.jpg::1800::1210","","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, West | Anaploga","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Anaploga","Corinth:Monument:Anaploga"
"Monument","","Corinth:Drawing:270 021::/Corinth/Architectural_Plans/270_Anaploga_Sanctuary/270_021.jpg::1800::1247","","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, West | Anaploga | Anaploga Sanctuary","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Anaploga Sanctuary","Corinth:Monument:Anaploga Sanctuary"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:slide  1762::/Corinth/Photos/slides/1000-1999/sl1762.jpg::1800::1197","","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth","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.","","","","","Ancient Corinth","Corinth:Monument:Ancient Corinth"
"Monument","","","","Ancient Corinth, East","Corinth","","","","","","","Ancient Corinth, East","Corinth:Monument:Ancient Corinth, East"
"Monument","","","","Ancient Corinth, East of","Corinth","","","","","","","Ancient Corinth, East of","Corinth:Monument:Ancient Corinth, East of"
"Monument","","","","Ancient Corinth, North","Corinth","","","","","","","Ancient Corinth, North","Corinth:Monument:Ancient Corinth, North"
"Monument","","","","Ancient Corinth, West","Corinth","","","","","","","Ancient Corinth, West","Corinth:Monument:Ancient Corinth, West"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:digital 2014  0878::/Corinth/Photos/digital/2014 season photos/2014_0878.jpg::0::0","","Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Sacred Spring | Apsidal Temple (Temple B)","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Apsidal Temple (Temple B)","Corinth:Monument:Apsidal Temple (Temple B)"
"Monument","","","","Argolid | Argive Heraion","Corinth","","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.","","","","","Argive Heraion","Corinth:Monument:Argive Heraion"
"Monument","","Corinth:Image:bw 1995 032 18::/Corinth/Photos/negatives/year_roll/1995_032/1995_st_032_018.jpg::1214::1800","","Argolid","Corinth","","A county in the Peloponnese.","","","","","Argolid","Corinth:Monument:Argolid"