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 are rare
in Corinth before the Julian colony), and seven chamber tombs (also rare
before the Roman period). The burials ranged in date from the 5th
century B.C. to the 6th century A.D., and about 240 skeletons were
preserved for study. This volume publishes the results of these
excavations and examines the evidence for changing burial practices in
the Greek city, Roman colony, and Christian town. Documented are single
graves and deposits, the Robinson "Painted Tomb," two more hypogea, and
four built chamber tombs. Ethne Barnes describes the human skeletal
remains, and David Reese discusses the animal bones found in the North
Terrace tombs. The author further explores the architecture of the
chamber tombs as well as cemeteries, burial practices, and funeral
customs in ancient Corinth. One appendix addresses a Roman chamber tomb
at nearby Hexamilia, excavated in 1937; the second, by David Jordan, the
lead tablets from a chamber tomb and its well. Concordances, grave index
numbers, Corinth inventory numbers, and indexes follow. This study will
be of interest to classicists, historians of several periods, and
scholars studying early Christianity.
