Regular member Dan Leon holds the prism while his partner takes a measurement with the total station.
The 2009 excavation began in Corinth last Monday, which is by one count the 95th year of field work on the site by the ASCSA. Work continues for the second full season in the area south of the South Stoa. A trial trench was opened here in the 1890’s and it was extensively investigated by Henry Robinson in the 1960’s who dug to Byzantine and Late Roman levels with the help of Charles Williams, Ron Stroud, Daniel Geagan, John Travlos, and others. The focus this year is to reveal the habitation and construction horizons of an 12th century AC domestic structure, which will then be conserved for presentation to the public. Regular members Scott Gallimore, Will Bruce, Ryan Boehm, Joanna Potenza, Dan Leon, and Ben Sullivan are working in this part. A second adjacent area is also being excavated with the intention of understanding the Early Modern, Frankish, and Byzantine levels. Stella Diakou and Cavan Concannon have already uncovered a destruction deposit in the Frankish phase of this section. Jason Harris and Mark Hammond are identifying the coins and working with the coin study collection in the Museum. Thanos Webb and Evi Margaritis have begun a sampling program for bone and other organics. Alicia Carter and Sara James are assisting Guy Sanders in the field and in the pot sheds. The season is organized in three three-week training sessions for regular and associate members of the School.
Ryan Boehm and Joanna Potenza in their area.
