Isthmia - 2024

Corinth - Isthmia. Jon M. Frey (Mischigan State University) reports on fieldwork conducted at Isthmia in 2024, in collaboration with the University of Chicago / Notre Dame Excavations and Dr. Michael Arvanitis.

Much less survey was carried out than initially proposed due to the inability to secure the necessary permissions from the local property owners. At the intersection of the road to New Corinth and the road to Hexamilia, located 0.7 km southwest of the museum, no less than five distinct anomalies were revealed. These may represent graves at the out limits of the area excavated in 1968-1970 as the West Cemetery. More extensive survey in the area to the east of the temple temenos, in the area known as the East Field, showed a cluster of structures, resembling the remains of walls that meet at right angles along E-W and N-S axes, indicating a possible presence of rooms. Finally, survey to the south and east of the Roman bath also yielded indicators suggestive of buried architectural features.  To the south of the eastern rooms of the bath anomalies that are oriented north-south and east-west may represent the eastern continuation of a possible courtyard that is known on its western and southern sides.