Kenchreai Quarries Survey. Chris Hayward (Edinburgh/BSA) reports on this project’s final fieldwork season, during which research questions arising from the 2013 survey and subsequent study were pursued. Fieldwork had four components: pick-up survey of a sherd concentration near the northern edge of the 2013 field area southwest of the so-called ‘Ploughed Field’; geophysical investigation, using magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar, of specific targets; excavation to investigate site...

Kenchreai Quarries Survey. Chris Hayward (Edinburgh/BSA) reports on the second of two planned study seasons of field data and finds recovered in 2013. Research has focused mainly on the larger of the two quarried areas at Kenchreai – Complex A (Fig. 1). Other than one sherd from Complex B, all Prehistoric pottery was recovered from the area later occupied by Complex A. Two foci of Prehistoric activity occur in the north, centred on the Ploughed Field and Peripheral Areas 3 and 7, with...

Kenchreai. J.L. Rife (ASCSA/Vanderbilt) and J.J.Bravo, III (ASCSA/Maryland) report on the 2015 season of excavations at Kenchreai. The focus was on the large building complex located on the Threpsiades property, first investigated by the Archaeological Service in 1976. The complex is located along the modern highway and ca. 50 m northwest of the south mole of the harbor (Fig. 1). In 2015 we nearly finished clearing of vegetation and loose garbage from the 1976 trenches was almost completed,...

Kenchreai. J. L. Rife (ASCSA/Vanderbilt) and J. J. Bravo III (ASCSA/Maryland) report on the study of a large building complex on the Threpsiades property (along the modern Isthmus-Epidavros road ca. 200 m northwest of the south harbour mole) which was first excavated in 1976 by K. Kristalli-Votsi of the Greek Archaeological Service. (Fig. 1). Cleaning revealed a structure measuring ca. 41m north-south and at least 26m east-west (the walls continue far under the highway) consisting of a...

Kenchreai Quarries Survey. C. Hayward (Edinburgh/BSA) reports on continuing study of the large ploughed field in Complex A (Fig. 1) and the ‘inscribed quarries’ in Complex B to date and characterise activity in broad terms of settlement, supply, or production, and to assess the scale on which provision was made for different forms of activity (and from what sources of supply). The ‘ploughed field’ yielded ca.40% of all the pottery collected in the 2013 survey (over 11,000 sherds and...

Kenchreai Quarries Survey. C. Hayward (Edinburgh) reports on the first season of intensive pick-up survey in the ancient quarries of Kenchreai, conducted to identify the periods of quarrying and the types and locations of post-quarrying activity. Building upon his earlier close study of these quarries, the results of this combined archaeological and geoarchaeological survey will for the first time permit a holistic understanding of a major Greek quarry complex, the material culture of stone...

Kenchreai. J. Rife (ASCSA/Vanderbilt) reports on a study season focused on Area TA, the site of an Early Roman funerary monument (late first century AD), an adjacent Early Christian (sixth-century) basilica, and a concentration of 18th- to 19th-century small structures. The Early Roman tomb (previously published in Hesperia 40 [1971] 205-231) is now seen to have been erected in two phases. First, a narrow chamber, perhaps for a cremation burial or a sarcophagus (3.8 x 3.2m), was built on a...

Kenchreai, Koutsongila. E. Korka (Ministry of Culture) and J. Rife (ASCDA/Vanderbilt) report on cleaning following illicit excavation in the Early to Middle Roman chamber Tomb 2. The dromos and chamber of the tomb had been excavated in 2009, and the roof of the rock-cut chamber stabilized with scaffolding. The loculi were not examined at that time, but were damaged by illegal incursion. Disturbed fills were therefore removed from the floor of the chamber before loculi V and VI and from...

Kenchreai, Koutsongila ridge. E. Korka (Ministry of Culture and Tourism), J. Rife (ASCSA/Vanderbilt University) and K. Kissas (Director, ΚΖ' ΕΠΚΑ), with P. Kasimi (ΚΖ' ΕΠΚΑ), report on the 2009 excavation season on the Koutsongila ridge north of the ancient harbour (Figs 1-2). In area A, activity concentrated on the wall found in 2007 and the areas to the west and east. A further 4m long stretch was uncovered, continuing south (Fig. 3). The wall rests at the base of a small hill;...

Kenchreai, Koutsongila. E. Korka (Ministry of Culture), J. Rife (ASCSA/Macalester College) and P. Kasimi (ΛΖ' ΕΠΚΑ) report on a further season of excavation on the Koutsongila ridge N of the anc. harbour in the 3 major areas begun in 2007. Nine new trenches were opened and 5 distinct buildings explored (Fig. 1). Area A is the open slope at the S end of Koutsongila, with a commanding view of the harbour (Fig. 2). Exploration focused on a substantial long wall and a rectangular building,...

Kenchreai, Koutsongila ridge. E. Korka (Ministry of Culture), J. Rife (ASCSA/Macalester College) and P. Kasimi (ΛΖ' ΕΠΚΑ) report on excavation, study and conservation on the Koutsongila ridge, N of the anc. harbour (Fig. 1). Excavation concentrated in 3 major areas (A, B, C, Fig. 2). In 2004, geophysical survey in area A (at the S end of the ridge overlooking the harbour) had revealed a large rectangular enclosure: monumental blocks remain on the surface. Excavation revealed a N−S...

Kenchreai, Koutsongila. L’exploration du cimetière romain et paléochrétien sur le versant Est de la colline Koutsongila, au Nord de Kenchréai (v. plan dans BCH 127 [2003] Chron., p. 746, fig. 50), s’est poursuivie en 2005 et 2006 sous la direction de J. L. Rife. L’effort a porté sur le relevé topographique (fig. 1), l’étude des mortiers et des peintures murales, l’analyse des ossements et des trouvailles. Il en ressort que la nécropole a surtout été utilisée à l’époque...