Corinth Excavations Well-Represented at AIA
The Corinth Excavations were the subject of many papers at the 2008 AIA Meetings in Chicago. Amelia Brown (University of California, Berkeley) and Jamieson Donati organized a very successful colloquium entitled “Corinthian Horizons: Space, Society and the Sacred in Ancient Corinth”. The session featured the work of five graduate students working on Corinthian material. The discussant was Professor Joe Rife co-director of the new excavations at Kenchries and was well attended by leading scholars of Corinth including Kathleen Slane, Betsy Gebhard, and Martha Rizzer to name a few. Amelia introduced the session:
Jamieson C. Donati (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) “Placing the Corinthian Agora: Urban Environment and Civic Space in Archaic and Classical Corinth”
Sarah James (University of Texas, Austin) “New Light on Hellenistic Corinth: A Third Century Deposit from Panayia Field”
Theodora Kopestonsky (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York) “Dancing Outside the City: The Kokkinovrysis Figurine Deposit”
Jeremy J. Ott (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) “They Died with Their Buckles On: Late Antique Burials in Corinth’s Forum”
Angela Ziskowski (Bryn Mawr College) “The Corinthian Exaleiptron: Examining Discrepancies in Pottery Context”
Brown, Donati, James and Kopestonsky are currently Associate Members of the School and all are former Regular Members of the program. In addition to “Corinthian Horizons,” a number of ASCSA and associated scholars also presented papers:
Aileen Ajootian (University of Mississippi)“The Sculptural Program of the Roman Odeion at Ancient Corinth”
James Herbst, and Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst (ASCSA Corinth Excavations) “The Looting, Excavation, and Findspot of the Penteskouphia Plaques”
Liane Houghtalin and John D. MacIsaac (University of Mary Washington) “Rethinking the Barbarous Radiate: Some Evidence from Carthage and Corinth”
Guy D. R. Sanders (ASCSA) and Michael J. Boyd (University of Sheffield) “Moving Homes: A Resistivity Survey of the Late Antique City Wall East of the Forum at Corinth”
Philip Sapirstein (Cornell University) “Reconstructing the Labor and Economic Investment of Fabricating an Early Corinthian Roof”