Hadji Mustafa is the popular name of a fountain at the base of Acrocorinth. The fountain consists of a cistern for collecting water from the nearby spring and an arched facade built of limestone and reused ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Acrocorinth, North Slope | Hadji Mustafa
In 1998, a small rescue excavation by the ΛΖ ΕΠΚΑ was undertaken across the street from the Great Bath excavation. Several apsidal plunges around a circular room were uncovered ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, North | Ioannou Bath east of
An irrigation channel was built to carry water from Lake Stymphalus to the Isthmus of Corinth in the mid 1960’s. In the course of excavating the channel several Roman tombs were found at the edge of the ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, North | Irrigation Channel
The Julian Basilica closes the east end of the Roman forum. It was a two story structure with cryptoporticus below and a peristyle hall above. The basilica was built in the early years of the 1st century ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | Forum | Julian Basilica |
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 ... Corinthia | Justinian's Wall
Literally “Red Spring”, Kokkinovrysi is located at the west end of the lower terrace on which the city of Ancient Corinth stood. The spring is just outside the line of the ancient wall beside a road running ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, West | Kokkinovrysi
Korakou is a hill (260x115m) 35m above sea level overlooking the Corinthian Gulf at the western end of the city of New Corinth. Blegen excavated here in the summers of 1915 and 1916. He used the results ... Corinthia | New Corinth | Korakou
Between 1911 and 1935, Leslie Walker Kosmopoulos excavated a total of 23 trenches in Ancient Corinth in the Forum, on Temple Hill, on the West Terrace, and around Temple E. Some of the material was stored ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Central Area | | Kosmopoulos Trenches
This ancient suburb of Corinth lay to the east of the city near the line of the city wall. Here Pausanias saw the tomb of Diogenes the Cynic of Sinope. Nearby, the grave of the famous courtesan Lais was ... Corinthia | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Corinth, East | Kraneion | Kraneion
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
