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 ...
Located at the western edge of the walled area of Corinth, the Potters’ quarter was a complex of workshops and domestic quarters used by potters for three centuries from the seventh century until the fourth ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
At the east end of the Central Shops, immediately to the south of the apheteria (starting lines) of the Classical and Hellenistic stadia (running tracks), the original Circular Monument may date to the ...
The oldest portions of the City wall date from the late Geometric period. This early section was found at the edge of the terrace at the Potters’ Quarter about 1.5 kilometers west of the museum at Corinth ...
The site procured by the ASCSA in the early 1900s to place the soil removed from the excavations. Agios Athanasios used to stand on the spot which is north of the Central Area and east of the Theater ...
Early excavators sunk dozens of strip trenches around Ancient Corinth in the first years of the excavation in an attempt to understand the topography of the ancient city.
A series of buildings flanking the street descending the terrace immediately to the east of the theater was excavated in the 1980’s by C. K. Williams II. Two of the buildings (Buildings 1 and 3) were food ...
