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This volume continues the publication of excavations conducted by
the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the Sanctuary
of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth. It incorporates two bodies of
material: Greek lamps and offering trays. The lamps include those
made from the 7th through 2nd centuries B.C., together with a few
Roman examples not included in Corinth XVIII.2. They served to
provide light and to accompany the rites of sacrifice. The offering
trays differ from the liknon-type offering trays published by A.
Brumfield; they support a variety of vessels rather than types of
food and had a symbolic function in the Sanctuary rituals. They are
extremely common in the Sanctuary and only rarely attested
elsewhere.
In 1971, in the southwestern area of the Roman Forum of Corinth, a
round-bottomed drainage channel was discovered filled with the
largest deposit of pottery of the 4th century ever found in the
city, as well as some coins, terracotta figurines, and metal and
stone objects. This volume publishes the pottery and metal and
stone objects, and includes a re-examination of the coins by
Orestes Zervos. Some of the cooking ware has been subjected to
neu-tron activation analysis, and a statistical analysis of all
recovered pottery has been completed. The contents of Drain 1971-1
are important for the function of the Classical buildings in this
part of Corinth, especially Buildings I and II, and for the
chronology of the renovation program that included the construction
of the South Stoa, which was probably not built before the last
decade of the 4th century.
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