Corinthia - Chiliomodi - Ancient Tenea. Dr Elena Korka (Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the Ministry of Culture), reports on another successful excavation season at Chiliomodi. M. Kordosi field This year a section of the Hadrian aqueduct was located, allowing researchers to trace the route of the hydraulic system, that supplied ancient Corinth with water from Stymphalia. The aqueduct was located, at a length of 31 m. so far, in close proximity to the...

Corinthia - Chiliomodi - Ancient Tenea. Dr Elena Korka (Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the Ministry of Culture) reports on discoveries made during this year’s systematic excavation at Chiliomodi in Ancient Tenea. The 2022 excavation uncovered the domestic area of the Classical town of Tenea. A 145 m² public building yielded Archaic and Classical pottery, including miniature vases, lamps, and figurines depicting deities, banqueters, birds, and horses, as...

Ancient Tenea. Elena Korka (YPPOA) reports on discoveries made during this year’s systematic excavation at Chiliomodi, Corinth.

The aim of this year’s excavation was to complete the excavation of the rooms of the Roman bath (fig. 1), excavated already in 2019 and 2020, and to investigate the commercial buildings identified in 2020.

45m N of the bath complex and 2m below the ground, an Early Bronze Age deposit was found. It was covered in a thick layer of stones and a...

In October 2020, systematic archaeological research in Chiliomodi, Corinth, was completed under the direction of Dr. Elena Korka. Excavations had continued in the area of a bath complex located in 2019. To the west, areas for the supply of bath water were discovered. In the south, the excavation of the ‘changing rooms’ was completed, with a total area of ​​62 sq.m. The whole space was covered by clay floor slabs. The changing rooms to the east connect with two new rooms that are...

Ancient Tenea. Elena Korka (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports) and Paraskevi Evangeloglou (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports) report the following:

Occupying a strategic location controlling the roadway from Argos to ancient Corinth, Tenea was a prosperous city in the 8th century BC due to its participation in the colonization of Syracuse. Pausanias states that the residents of Tenea were Trojan prisoners that Agamemnon brought over after the fall of Troy. Strabo...

Ancient Tenea. Konstantinos Kissas and Georgios Giannakopoulos (LZ’ EPKA) report on the excavation held in ancient Tenea, which revealed 37 more tombs, and the continuation of the carriage road towards the N and the S.

An extensive cemetery on both sides of the ancient street came to light, dated between 560 to early third century BC. The burials were organized in four clusters, developed on either side of the carriageway, about 3.50 m from it. The ancient street was oriented...

Phaneromeni, Chiliomodi. E. Korka (Ministry of Culture) publishes a monolithic Archaic limestone sarcophagus with a painted scene on the interior of the lid, discovered in situ during the opening of a water channel in 1984, at a site in the territory of ancient Tenea. The interior walls of the sarcophagus (interior dimensions 1.7 x 0.69m, depth 0.5m; lid 2 x 0.9m, thickness 0.15m) were plastered and had painted decoration of two horizontal red bands separated by an off-white band. The scene on...