Ebook: Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth’s Northern Cemetery
Author: Kathleen W. Slane
- Genre: History // Archaeology
- 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)
- Series: Corinth: results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 21
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
- Language: English
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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...