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[Corinth Monument] Nezi Field

Excavations renewed south of the South Stoa in 2007 in an area where in the 1960s Henry Robinson uncovered several Byzantine buildings and and Early Modern/Ottoman Era house. These structures were further ...

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[Corinth Monument] North Cemetery

The north cemetery is actually part of a much larger funerary area which extends along the plain below the lower terrace on which Corinth stands. Excavations in 1915 to 1918 and 1928 to 1930 revealed ...

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[Corinth Monument] North Market

The southern half of a Roman market square surrounded by a colonnade was excavated on the North side of Temple Hill. Parts of the marble paving of the square and the gutter surrounding it were preserved ...

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[Corinth Monument] Northeast of Theater

In 2018 Chris Pfaff initiated excavations in a field directly adjacent and west of the old excavation dump and north of the Theater.

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[Corinth Monument] Northwest Shops

The shops were built immediately in front of the Northwest stoa later in the 1st century A.D. The large central chamber still preserves its stone vault. It is flanked by seven shops, which originally had ...

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[Corinth Monument] Northwest Stoa

The Northwest Stoa was once thought to have been a Hellenistic building refurbished in the Roman period. It is now understood to be entirely a Roman monument, built in the time of the emperor Augustus, ...

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[Corinth Monument] Oakley House west

In 1932, Oscar Broneer excavated a portion of a small Roman bath in the southwest corner of the ASCSA property. It was located to the west of Oakley House, the old excavation dig house.

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[Corinth Monument] Oakley south

In the early 1960's J. Anderson led a Berkely team to excavated the northwest corner of the Temenos of Temple E.

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[Corinth Monument] Odeion

The Roman Odeion of Ancient Corinth was a small, indoor theatre intended for musical events and rhetorical competitions. It consisted of a semicircular orchestra surrounded by seating, a stage building, ...

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[Corinth Monument] Old Museum

This is the first museum bought by the American School of Classical Studies to house the finds of the excavations. It now serves as storage for artifacts.

[Corinth Monument] Old_Bema, Schola

Structures on either side of the Bema.

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[Corinth Monument] Panaghia Villa

Fourteen rooms of a large Late Roman town house, or domus, include two with intricate geometric mosaic floors and one with a central marble fountain. Of two peristyle courts within the building, one featured ...

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[Corinth Monument] Panayia

The Panayia Field, southeast of the Forum, has been the site of excavations started in 1995 by Charles Williams and subsequently continued under the direction of Guy Sanders. Roman are the best preserved; ...

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[Corinth Monument] Panayia Bath

The Late Roman bath complex consists of four rooms; an entrance hall, an apodyterium (undressing room) that also served as a frigidarium (room with cold bath tubs), a tepidarium (warm room without tubs) ...

[Corinth Monument] Panayia Long Wall Building

Another structure to the south of the Panayia bath bears no relation to it except that the two buildings border a common parcel of land. Little is known about the function of the so-called “Long Building” ...

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[Corinth Monument] Panayia Villa

Fourteen rooms of a large Late Roman town house, or domus, include two with intricate geometric mosaic floors and one with a central marble fountain. Of two peristyle courts within the building, one featured ...

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[Corinth Monument] Peirene

Peirene is an important center of symbolism and tradition in the urban landscape of both Greek and Roman Corinth. Human activity is attested in the area from the Neolithic period, and the first efforts ...

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[Corinth Monument] Peribolos of Apollo

The court to the north of Peirene was identified by Pausanias as the “Peribolos of Apollo” in which was an image of the god and a painting depicting Odysseus on his return from Troy expelling his wife, ...

[Corinth Monument] Pietri

A property named for the Pietri family.

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[Corinth Monument] Propylaia

Propylaia on the Lechaion Road: The Propylaia, the main entrance to the Forum, consisted of three archways: one main and two smaller ones. At the time of Pausanias the gilded bronze chariots of Helios ...

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[Corinth Monument] Punic Amphora Building

The Punic Amphora Building was a commercial establishment located near a busy intersection of three roads. Dating to the mid-5th century B.C., the building contained many tons of fragments of transport ...

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[Corinth Monument] Quarries

Roman quarries opened within the city during the early Colony to the east and west of the Temple of Apollo.

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[Corinth Monument] Race Course

The remains of two successive stadia (race tracks) lie beneath the Roman forum. The apheteria (starting blocks) of both, lie directly to the west of the Julian Basilica. The orientation of the two phases ...

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[Corinth Monument] Race Course and Platform

A raised platform to the south of two successive race tracks may have been used for pale and pankrateion. The path Hellenistic phase of the race course caused the platform retaining wall to be slightly ...

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[Corinth Monument] Roman Bath (Great Bath on the Lechaion Road)

On his way from the forum north along the Lechaion road, Pausanias discusses one of the many bath houses in the city:

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[Corinth Monument] Roman Villa, Shear's

The remains of the villa are located about 1 km west of the theater. The villa is remarkable for the mosaic floors which are now house in the museum. One portrays a cowherd leaning against a tree playing ...

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[Corinth Monument] Sacred Spring

The Sacred Spring was a sanctuary rather than a public water source. The Sacred Spring complex has a long history lasting from the early 8th century B.C into the Hellenistic period with several phases ...

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[Corinth Monument] South Basilica

The south basilica appears to have been built using the earlier Julian Basilica as a prototype. The entrance to the basilica from the north was via a broad marble reveted concrete staircase in a court ...

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[Corinth Monument] South Stoa west

The Stele Shrine includes a square-shaped temenos enclosed by a wall, established in the mid-6th century B.C. Inside the temenos, a stele, evidence of burnt offerings, and an offering table are indications ...

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[Corinth Monument] Southeast Building

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 ...

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[Corinth Monument] St. John's

The church of St. Johns stood until 1938 when it was demolished to complete the excavation of the Forum to Roman levels. The original church was part of a thirteenth century monastic complex at the west ...

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[Corinth Monument] Tavern of Aphrodite

The name excavators initially gave to Building III one of four Classical buildings in the central archaeological site.

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[Corinth Monument] Temple A

Temple A is a Classical and Hellenistic structure which lay partly under the shops along the east side of the Lechaion Road and partly under the Peribolos of Apollo. Preserved are the foundations of a ...

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[Corinth Monument] Temple C

This tetrastyle prostyle Roman temple is flanked by a pi-shaped colonnade within a closed precinct on the road leading from the forum to the theater. Unfortunately Pausanias makes no mention of the building ...

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[Corinth Monument] Temple E

Standing 9 meters above the Forum, Temple E occupied as prominent a place in the Roman city as the Temple of Apollo. In its first phase, the temple had stone foundations, probably with a triple crepis ...

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[Corinth Monument] Temple E Decumanus

A major Roman east-west road immediately to the south of the Forum.