Guy Sanders speaking at the 2009 meeting in Philadelphia
Once again Corinth and the Corinthia were well represented at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Guy Sanders presented the results of the 2007-2008 excavation seasons and in the same session on Late Antiquity, Amelia Brown spoke about her resent research in a talk entitled “Procopius, Justinian, and Greece at the End of Late Antiquity”. The papers from students conducting research at Corinth were of exceptional quality. Sarah James’ lecture argued that excavation material from Corinth strongly suggests that a ceramic industry existed in the city after 146 B.C. Late antique burial customs and the methodologies for the identification of non-Greek burials were the topic of a talk delivered by Jeremy Ott. Theo Kopestonsky offered primary research from her dissertation, discussing distinctive assemblages that indicate that nymphs were present and worshipped in the city of Corinth, as well as outside, in the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Kate Cooper discussed her quantitative data of the late eighth–sixth centuries B.C. highlighting differences in the selection of Corinthian pottery found at different types of sites within the same region. Other presentations on Corinthian subjects included Aileen Ajootian’s poster session on sculptural fragments from Corinth, Bill Caraher’s and David Pettegrew’s “Three New Sites in the Corinthian Countryside”, Laurie Kilker’s “A Setting for the Thesmophoria: the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Corinth”, and recent fieldwork from the Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project by Daniel Pullen and Thomas Tartaron.
