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Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth’s Northern Cemetery

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"Rescue excavations were carried out along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth by Henry Robinson, the director of the Corinth Excavations, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens on behalf of the Greek Archaeological Service, in 1961 and 1962. They revealed 70 tile graves, limestone sarcophagi, and cremation burials (the last rare in Corinth before the Julian colony), and seven chamber tombs (also  Read more...

Author(s): Kathleen W. Slane
Series: Corinth: results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 21
Publisher: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Year: 2017

Language: English
Pages: xxx+270
Tags: Corinth (Greece) -- Antiquities;Corinth (Greece) -- Antiquities, Roman;Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Corinth;Tombs -- Greece -- Corinth;Burial -- Greece -- Corinth;Tombs -- Rome;Burial -- Rome;Grave goods -- Greece -- Corinth;Christianity -- Greece -- Corinth;Corinth (Greece) -- Religious life and customs;HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece;Antiquities;Burial;Christianity;Classical antiquities;Excavations (Archaeology);Grave goods;Tombs;Greece -- Corinth;Rome (Empire)

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Bibliography and Abbreviations
Explanatory Notes
1. Introduction and Summary of Results
2. Single Graves and Deposits
3. The Painted Tomb
4. The Tombs by the Tile Works
5. Other Chamber Tombs to the East
6. The Human Skeletal Remains
7. The Animal Remains
8 The Architecture of the Chamber Tombs
9. The Movable Objects
10. Cemeteries, Burial Practices, and Funeral Customs
Appendix 1. The 1937 Roman Chamber Tomb at Hexamilia and Its Finds. Appendix 2. The Lead Tablets from the Chamber Tomb with Sarcophagi and Its WellConcordance A. Corinth Grave Index
Concordance B. FlÃÞmig Numbers and Publications of Corinthian Tombs
Concordance C. Corinth Inventory
General Index
Index of Potters' Marks
Indexes of Bone and Pottery Lots
Plans
Plates.