Category: Periods
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Corinthian Scholarship (November)
Hard to believe that December is already here – quite a lot of new scholarship delivered electronically in November. Bronze Age Erika Weiberg, “The invisible dead : The case of the Argolid and Corinthia during the Early Bronze Age,” in Helen Cavanagh, William Cavanagh and James Roy (eds.), Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese: Proceedings…
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Reading Faith and Occupation in Late Antique Graffiti
Last month, Bill Caraher posted a working draft of a paper on the Christian landscapes of the Corinthia in which he discusses a variety of Christian graffiti–crosses, fish, Chi-Rhos, and prayers inscribed in stone–scratched in mortar and stone on churches, baths, walls, and villas of the Late Antique Corinthia. Bill argues that these symbols shed light on…
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Sarah James on Hellenistic Pottery at Corinth
Visitors to this site may be aware that we maintain a running list of Corinthian archaeology and history dissertations completed over the last decade. The American School Excavations in Ancient Corinth website also regularly features young scholars who are either working on dissertations related to the urban center or have recently finished theses. From these…
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Some Perspective on American Excavations in Corinth: Byzantium and the Avant Garde
I couldn’t make it last week to Grand Forks to hear Franklin & Marshall College professor Kostis Kourelis speak on the topic of Byzantium and the Avant Garde. Thanks to Bill Caraher and the Center for Instructional and Learning Technologies at the University of North Dakota for streaming the lecture live. The video, audio, and…
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Going to San Francisco for the Society of Biblical Literature? An Invitation to Contribute
The annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature runs this week from Saturday to Tuesday and will offer more than 50 papers related in some way to the study of Corinth. In August, I posted a comprehensive list of these Corinthiaka papers that deal with, variously, the history and archaeology of the city, the…
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Kostis Kourelis on Byzantium and the Avant Garde
Professor Kostis Kourelis of Franklin and Marshall College will speak today at 4 PM CST on the American School Excavations at Corinth in the 1930s. The presentation at the University of North Dakota is the 2011 Cyprus Research Fund Lecture. As Bill Caraher notes at here, he “will tell the unlikely story of how the…
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Did a tsunami destroy ancient Lechaion?
In early July, Andreas Vött and his colleagues announced that sometime in the 6th century AD, a tsunami destroyed ancient Olympia, the famous site of pan-Hellenic athletic contests. In considering recent scholarship on historical tsunamis in the Gulf of Corinth, I pondered here at Corinthianmatters whether there was any evidence for tsunamis in the Corinthia. …
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What was shipped in Greek amphoras? A reevaluation through DNA analysis
One of the big stories covered by archaeology blogs last month was the announcement that a team of researchers had determined the ancient content of Greek amphoras through the analysis of residual DNA. News of this discovery appeared in this article in Science and this one in Nature, and both summarized a technical article now…
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Life Among Ruins
The Department of Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam recently launched a new website “Byzantine & Ottoman Archaeology: Digging up answers in the Medieval Mediterranean” as the official site for their VIDI-Research Project on material culture in the eastern Mediterranean after antiquity. The project researchers Joanita Vroom, Fotini Kondyli, and Yasemin Bagci are examining the…
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Corinthian Scholarship (October)
Bronze Age A recent M.S. thesis on the site of Kalamianos in the the southern Corinthia: some beautiful images of the site: Peter Dao, “Marine Geophysical and Geomorphic Survey of Submerged Bronze Age Shorelines and Anchorage sites at Kalamianos (Korphos, Greece),” M.S. Thesis, McMaster University 2011. Archaic-Hellenistic Some Corinthian B amphoras in: Brendan P. Foley,…
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