Conrad Steinmann playing one of his reconstructed auloi
Hill House and the ASCSA workrooms in the Museum of Ancient Corinth are very busy places this autumn. Things began to pick up at the beginning of October with a visit by Conrad Steinman and three of his colleagues who study ancient auloi. Reconstructing music is part of their research and Mr. Steinmann treated us to a short concert (see picture at right). Study on Jim Wiseman’s 1960’s excavations in the Gymnasium has resumed with the team of Wiseman, his wife Lucy, Melissa Moore Morison, and BU grad student Abby Crawford. Many studies of the excavations the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore are progressing and underway by Sonia Klinger (small finds with Gloria Merker), Elizabeth Milleker (sculpture), Ron Stroud (inscriptions), and Nancy Bookidis (lamps). Our year-round resident Associate Member Sarah James continues to make headway on her dissertation on Hellenistic Pottery deposits from the Panayia Field. Betsy Pemberton (who is also working on kernoi from Demeter and Kore) and Ian McPhee are present working toward the publication of Classical pottery from Mr. Williams’ excavations of the Forum and Texas A & M anthropology student Larkin Kennedy is looking at Late Antique skeletal material. Chloe Romano (Mycenaean pottery), Dexter Maben, Thoralf Schoder (Roman portrait sculpture), Dan Schowalter (Early Christianity), Ben Millis (Corinth Guide Book), and Jeremy Ott (Late Antique burials) stayed for shorter periods, and we expect Walter Penrose (cult of Aphrodite) and Ameilia Brown (Late Antique history of Corinth) later in October and November. And not least, our photographers Ino Ioannidou and Lenio Bartziotou are here in their 43rd year working with Corinth Excavations providing superb images for the publications that result from all of this activity.
Nancy, Ino, Betsy, Ian, and Ron sharing a laugh in the museum
