Corinth Computer Project

Corinth Computer Project

A Collaboration Between

University of Arizona & University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology under the auspices of Corinth Excavations, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Since 1988 a research team from the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania has been involved in making a computerized architectural and topographical survey of the Roman colony of Corinth. Known as the Corinth Computer Project, the fieldwork has been carried out under the auspices of the Corinth Excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Dr. Charles K. Williams II, Director. 

About

• Introduction
• Project History
• People
• Contact
• News

Methodology

• Introduction
• Surveying
• Aerial Analysis
• Satellite Analysis
• Topographic Analysis
• Cartographic Modeling
• Spatial Analysis

Greek and Roman Corinth

• Greek City, pre–146 BC
• Roman History
• 146–44 BC
• 44 BC
• AD 70's
• Roman Forum, AD 150
• Grid Plan

Modern Corinth

• Introduction
• Methodology
• Timeline
• Village Maps
• Views
• Temple of Apollo
• Bazaar and Mosque
• Bibliography

Resources

• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Links
• Press

And see AWOL's Roundup of Resources on Ancient Geography

Announcing An Open Bibliography in Corinthian and New Testament Studies

An Open Bibliography in Corinthian and New Testament Studies

First a word on the Corinthian Studies library general. The most up to date bibliography for Corinthian Studies runs to 2,758 individual items and covers subjects from deep prehistory to the modern era. You can find other useful bibliographic lists of Corinthian Studies online, but you won’t find a more comprehensive and searchable open library than this one. You can access the bibliography in two ways:

1. On the web at the Corinthian Studies Group Library hosted at Zotero.org. Simply search the library as a whole, or search the collections within the library by keyword. This only requires that you visit the Corinthian Studies group library and search or browse through the collections.
2. As a downloadable RIS file, which can be imported into a bibliographic program such as Zotero, EndNote, or Reference Manager.

If you ask me, you should download and and install a reference managing program such as Zotero. Using software to mine the bibliography offers much more powerful and complex search capabilities than the web version. For an introduction to Zotero and further details about the Corinthian Studies bibliography, see this page. Zotero is free and easy to use. Try it.
The collected bibliography includes nearly a thosand entries related to ancient Christianity, Judaism, and New Testament Studies. As I noted a couple of years ago, there are plenty of select bibliographic lists floating about related to the Pauline mission, or the study of 1 and 2 Corinthians, but this collection has a number of key strengths that you will not find elsewhere. Some highlights for someone interested in understanding  scholarship on, say, some passage in 1 Corinthians (much of this applies to other subjects as well, of course):

• Free. It is completely free and open to public use, not locked inside a pay-to-use database.
• Comprehensive. The bibliography aims to be comprehensive. It includes articles and books from Urban Religion in Roman Corinth (2005), Corinth in Context (2010), and Corinth in Contrast (2013). It includes all relevant Corinthian studies material listed in the bibliography of Urban Religion in Roman Corinth, Corinth in Context, Corinth Volume XX, and Bridge of the Untiring Sea. And it includes works listed in a number of commentaries on 1 and 2 Corinthians, and relevant material from JSTOR and WorldCat searches (see this page for more information about coverage).
• Current. The coverage from 2010-2016 is especially good, and thereby offers up-to-date views of what scholars are saying today about Corinth and the New Testament situation.
• Open. Many of the entries include links to articles, books, and material that are partly or fully accessible online through journal websites, Google Books, Internet Archive, or Academia. Abstracts are included when available.
• Browsable. The library is divided into three main collections (I. Archaeology and History, II. New Testament, Judaism, and Early Christianity, and III. Geology) and tagged accordingly (.ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY or .CHRISTIANITY & JUDAISM or .GEOLOGY). These show up as the first three tags in the Tags area to the lower left of the Zotero Library (expand the tags if you don’t see them). An item may belong to multiple categories. You can also view the most recent material from 2015 by looking at the individual folders.
• Searchable.  The collection is tagged with keywords such as “Roman,” “1 Corinthians”, and “2 Corinthians”. Much of the New Testament material is also tagged by chapter, e.g.,  “_1 Cor. 13”. This is especially useful f you are looking for some discussion of an enigmatic passage in 1 Corinthians of a recent discussion of the love chapter.
• Variety.  The collection includes articles, books, PhD theses, and sermons

The bibliography is a work in progress. There are holes and inaccuracies and the entire collection needs better tagging. But it does provide a good place to start.
And it’s worth noting that the bibliography has been created largely through my own labor, and student help funded through work studies positions at Messiah College. If you’re interested in improving the quality of the collection, I’d be glad to have your help or support.

ASCSA Digital Collections

[First posted in AWOL 12 February 2010, updated 29 January 2016]

ASCSA Digital Collections

Explore the collections of the American School of Classical Studies by using the sidebar on the left or the search box above.
To confine your search to a single collection, click on one of the links below.
Libraries
Ambrosia: Union Catalog of Libraries
Excavations
Corinth Excavations
Athenian Agora Excavations
Archives
Alison Frantz Photography
Dorothy Burr Thompson Photography
Archaeological Photographic Collection
Photographs from the Historical Archives
Ion Dragoumis Correspondence

Sign in to view unpublished material. Material that has been published is made completely available to the public. Material that is unpublished can be viewed only by researchers who have obtained the necessary permission to study the material in person.

Everything (777,299)

Publications (246,313)

Reports (149)

Letters (2,823)

Places and Monuments (345)

Plans and Drawings (14,150)

Images (215,107)

Objects (101,703)

Coins (22,844)

Deposits (1,755)

Notebooks (762)

See also: Open Access Publications: Publications of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Free app: Take a Field Trip to Corinth

Take a Field Trip to Corinth
by Andrew Reinhard
07/17/2014

Following on the heels of the app and interactive Ebook for the Athenian Agora, the ASCSA is happy to announce a new, free app to help you explore Ancient Corinth with content from the forthcoming Ancient Corinth: A Guide to the Site and Museum.http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/News/newsDetails/take-a-field-trip-to-corinth

Field Trip
The ASCSA partnered with Google earlier in 2014 to enable you to tour Ancient Corinth on-site on your smartphone. iPhone, Android, and Google Glass* users can download the free Field Trip app from the iTunes and Google Play stores, tick the box for ASCSA content, and then walk around Ancient Corinth. You will be notified by your device’s GPS when you approach any of over 50 Corinth monuments. View images, descriptions, links to more information on ascsa.net, and related Hesperia articles. Field Trip frees you to tour Ancient Corinth however you like in whatever direction you choose. Once you've explored the site inside the fence, use Field Trip to find your way to the Odeion, the Gymnasium, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, and elsewhere.

Field Trip for iPhone
Field Trip for Android

*Field Trip on Google Glass includes voice-activation. Internet connection (WiFi or 3G/4G) required for use on all devices.

57 Newly Open Access Ebooks from The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Open Access Ebooks

Many volumes within the Corinth ("Red Book"), Athenian Agora ("Blue Book"), and Hesperia Supplement series are out of print, and there are no plans to reprint the volumes at least for the next few years. In 2014, the Publications Committee of the ASCSA's Managing Committee voted unanimously to allow PDFs of these out-of-print volumes to be posted to the ASCSA's website as Open Access. You may freely read, download, and share these files under the BY-NC-ND Creative Commons license (non-commercial use; you must cite the ASCSA as the source; you may not make derivatives). The scans were created by JSTOR, and through the ASCSA's Content Sharing Agreement with JSTOR, we can make these PDFs available to individuals at no charge.

To read a PDF on your screen, click on its title once. To download, either right-click (Windows) or control-click (Mac) and choose the "Save Link As . . . " option from the menu that appears. Most Internet browsers will open a PDF file directly. You can open and read PDF files on your computer using free software such as Adobe Reader.

NB: Some of these files are quite large, so please be patient when either opening them directly online, or when downloading them. Filesizes have been included for each Ebook in parentheses following the title.

Athenian Agora

I. Portrait Sculpture (66 MB)
II. Coins: From the Roman through the Venetian Period (18 MB)
III: Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia (51 MB)
IV: Greek Lamps and Their Survivals (64 MB)
V: Pottery of the Roman Period: Chronology (71 MB)
VI: Terracottas and Plastic Lamps of the Roman Period (43 MB)
VII: Lamps of the Roman Period: First to Seventh Century after Christ (81 MB)
VIII: Late Geometric and Protoattic Pottery: Mid-8th to Late 7th Centiry B.C. (53 MB)
IX: The Islamic Coins (13 MB)
X: Weights, Measures, and Tokens (54 MB)
XI: Archaic and Archaistic Sculpture (105 MB)
XIII: The Neolithic and Bronze Ages (108 MB)
XIV: The Agora of Athens: The History, Shape, and Uses of an Ancient City Center (138 MB)
XV: Inscriptions: The Athenian Councillors (73 MB)
XVI: Inscriptions: The Decrees (111 MB)
XVII: Inscriptions: The Funerary Monuments (100 MB)
XIX: Inscriptions: Horoi, Poletai Records, and Leases of Public Lands (43 MB)
XX: The Church of the Holy Apostles (32 MB)
XXI: Graffiti and Dipinti (16 MB)
XXIV: Late Antiquity: A.D. 267-700 (80 MB)
XXVI: The Greek Coins (66 MB)
XXVIII: The Lawcourts at Athens: Sites, Buildings, Equipment, Procedure, and Testimonia (52 MB)
DOWNLOAD ALL (1.4 GB ZIP file)

Corinth

I.6: The Springs: Peirene, Sacred Spring, Glauke (text and plates) (49 MB and 6 MB respectively)
III.1: Acrocorinth: Excavations in 1926 (7 MB)
III.2: The Defenses of Acrocorinth and the Lower Town (55 MB)
IV.1: Decorated Architectural Terracottas (9 MB)
V. The Roman Villa (59 MB)
VI: Coins, 1896-1929 (11 MB)
VII.1: The Geometric and Orientalizing Pottery (16 MB)
VII.2: Archaic Corinthian Pottery and the Anaploga Well (46 MB)
VII.3: Corinthian Hellenistic Pottery (25 MB)
VIII.1: Greek Inscriptions, 1896-1927 (11 MB)
VIII.2: Latin Inscriptions, 1896-1926 (10 MB)
VIII.3: The Inscriptions, 1926-1950 (44 MB)
X: The Odeum (29 MB)
XI: The Byzantine Pottery (83 MB)
XII: The Minor Objects (149 MB)
XIII: The North Cemetery (68 MB)
XIV: The Asklepion and Lerna (36 MB)
XV.1: The Potters' Quarter (37 MB)
XV.2: The Potters' Quarter: The Terracottas (44 MB)
XVI: Mediaeval Architecture in the Central Area of Corinth (40 MB)
DOWNLOAD ALL (818 MB ZIP file)

Hesperia Supplements

1: Prytaneis: A Study of the Inscriptions Honoring the Athenian Councillors (20 MB)
2: Late Geometric Graces and a Seventh Century Well in the Agora (39 MB)
3: The Setting of the Periclean Parthenon (7 MB)
4: The Tholos of Athens and its Predecessors (33 MB)
5: Observations on the Hephaisteion (30 MB)
6: The Sacred Gerusia (8 MB)
7: Small Objects from the Pnyx I (28 MB)
8: Commemorative Studies in Honor of Theodore Leslie Shear (34 MB)
9: Horoi: Studies in Mortgage, Real Security, and Land Tenure in Ancient Athens (36 MB)
10: Small Objects from the Pnyx II (63 MB)
11: Fortified Military Camps in Attica (25 MB)
12: The Athenian Constitution after Sulla (34 MB)
15: The Lettering of an Athenian Mason (29 MB)
18: Lasithi: A History of Settlement on a Highland Plain in Crete (10 MB)
DOWNLOAD ALL (374 MB ZIP file)

See Open Access Publications: Publications of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

And see Open Access Journal: Hesperia

Current Corinthian Scholarship

[First posted in AWOL 2 December 2011. Updated 15 October 212] 

Corinthian Matters

David Pettegrew's excellent blog Corinthian Matters has since the beginning of 2011 had a monthly feature entitled:

Corinthian Scholarship

which summarizes newly appeared scholarship on Corinth and Corinthia.  Some of it is open access, all of it is useful.

See linked data for Corinth via awld.js

See linked data for Corinthia via awld.js

 There is now a Zotero Group for Corinthian Studies

The Corinthian Studies Zotero Group is devoted to scholarship on the history, archaeology, natural environment, and religion of the city and region. As of October 11, 2012, the Corinthian Studies group library contains 1,535 bibliographic items related to Corinthian studies.

The library is divided into two collections: I. Archaeology and History; and II. Early Christian Studies. The former is sub-divided into collections for Corinth, Isthmia, and the Corinthia (the broader region); the latter is sub-divided into collections for 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Paul and Early Christianity, and Patristic studies. Additionally, the Archaeology & History and Early Christian Studies collections contain sub-folders devoted to a) recent scholarship and b) all articles and books (unsorted).