Corinthian Matters

Category: Mortuary

  • Joseph Rife’s Isthmia IX available in JSTOR

    Several years ago, the American School’s long-running series on the Corinth excavations was released via JSTOR allowing anyone with access to JSTOR to browse thousands of digitized pages of archaeological volumes from Corinth. I have been hoping that digitized works of the Isthmia series might someday be released via JSTOR as well. I don’t know of what plans are in place for that end, but I did see that Joseph Rife’s…

  • Corinthiaka at the AIA Meeting: New Orleans, January 2015

    One of the small benefits of not attending the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America next month is that I will not have to spend Christmas break frantically working on a paper that I was unable to complete during a busy semester. On the other hand, New Orleans in January should be fantastic,…

  • Roman Tombs in Corinth: Caraher on Walbank on Slane

    If you’re a Corinthiaphile who doesn’t read Bill Caraher’s The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World blog, you should check in on it on occasion. Bill has one of the most successful and consistent blogs on ancient Mediterranean world on the interwebs. He has released insightful, smart, and humorous posts almost every day—minus weekends and holidays—since…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (December-February). Part 1

    With the end of last semester, holidays, and deadlines, I fell a bit behind on the Corinthian Scholarship Monthly posts. Yesterday I started to dig out, sift through emails, and find the gems in the bunch. This will be the first of two posts on new scholarship that went live in December to February. I’ll…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (November 2013)

    Your latest round of new Corinthian scholarship published or posted online in the last month – just in time for the holiday season. Feel free to reply to this post if you have something to add. If you are interested and qualified to review any of the following, contact me at corinthianmatters@gmail.com. For comprehensive bibliography…

  • Two Recent Finds from the Corinthia

    The Googlebots are proving less reliable than they once were. Here are two news stories from the last week or so that I just learned about via FB. These should be of obvious interest to Roman history and archaeology folk. First, another Roman chamber tomb has been found in Corinth. This tomb, like the Roman…

  • Mycenaean necropolis discovered near Aigio

    Not in the Corinthia but close. An archaeological team associated with the University of Udine has announced their discovery of a Mycenaean necropolis near Aigio, a town on the coast of the Corinthian Gulf about 50 miles west of Ancient Corinth. You can read about the discovery here: Archeologia, l’Università di Udine scopre una necropoli…

  • A New Roman Tomb in Corinth

    Construction activities across Corinth’s coastal plain and Isthmus  have frequently turned up spectacular remains of the city’s Greek and Roman past. Large-scale construction projects like the highways and rails especially have generated discoveries and led to salvage excavations. While salvage excavation employ methods that are not ideal, they do generate discoveries that end up in…

  • Isthmia IX now available

    I heard the good news this summer that Joseph Rife’s Isthmia IX: The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains, was finally available in published form.  The ASCSA website describes the work in these terms: This study describes and interprets the graves and human remains of Roman and Byzantine date recovered by excavation between 1954…

  • A Corinthian Pyxis Podcast

    At the start of a new semester at Messiah College, I have been looking for ways to make my lectures in the History of Western Civilization I a little more dynamic.  For example, I have spiced up old lectures about premodern economies by assigning all my students particular statuses (peasant, wealthy peasant, artisan, and elite)…