Life and Death at a Port in Roman Greece: The Kenchreai Cemetery Project, 2002?2006

Rife, Joseph L.; Morison, Melissa Moore; Barbet, Alix; Dunn, Richard K.; Ubelaker, Douglas H.; Monier, Florence

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“…two elaborately decorated chamber tombs north of Cheliotomylos and the discussion of funerary painting in Charitonidis 1968, pp. 121-123;Pallas 1969; at Kenchreai, see Rife et al 2007, pp. 163-166.…”

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A Roman Corinthian Family Tomb and Its Afterlife

Walbank¹,

Walbank²

2015

Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studi

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. A ROMAN CORINTHIAN FAMILY TOMB AND ITS AFTERLIFEA funerary monument is something that exists to preserve memory.Ulpian, Dig. 11.7.2.6 ABSTRACT An elaborately decorated chamber tomb dating to the 2nd century a.d., the central element in a small cemetery excavated west of the city in 1931, has remained, until now, largely unpublished. We discuss the tomb's construction and decorative scheme, drawing upon the excavation notebooks and contemporary watercolors, and give a new interpretation. A revised reading of an epitaph, now securely linked to the tomb, leads to a discussion of the social status of the family, the tomb's contents, and its translation into a Christian burial place. It is a rare opportunity at Corinth to study a monumental tomb's architecture, epitaph, decoration, contents, and location as a whole.

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A Roman Corinthian Family Tomb and Its Afterlife

Walbank¹,

Walbank²

2015

Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studi

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“…Kenchreai was located on the eastern coast of the Isthmus of Corinth (Figure 1). This small but busy port serving the larger urban centre of Corinth flourished during the Roman era, from around the early 1st century AD until at least the early 7th century (Scranton et al ., 1978; Rife et al ., 2007, 143–146, 149–153). The main cemetery used by residents of Roman Kenchreai was located on Koutsongila, a low limestone ridge along the coast just north of the ancient harbour (Figure 2).…”

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“…Among the different burial types represented on Koutsongila, the subterranean chamber tombs are the most complex and impressive (Rife, 2007, 102–108; Rife et al ., 2007, 154–175). Each tomb was entered by way of a stairway descending from ground level down into a roughly square chamber cut into the limestone bedrock of the ridge.…”

Section: Roman Kenchreai and The Cemetery On The Koutsongila Ridgementioning

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“…These chamber tombs were used by local families who belonged to a local élite class (Rife, 2007; Rife et al ., 2007). According to extant epitaphs, the tombs were erected by individuals for use by their spouses, children, their descendents and sometimes their freedpersons.…”

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“…In 2002–2006, the Kenchreai Cemetery Project (KCP) investigated chamber tombs dating to the Early Roman period (middle‐late 1st to 3rd centuries AD) at the site of Kenchreai, the eastern port of Corinth in southern Greece (Figure 1). This interdisciplinary programme of exploration, directed by Rife, was sponsored by Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) and conducted under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens with the permission of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (Rife et al ., 2007; Sarris et al ., 2007). Since 2005, the authors have collaborated on the analysis of human skeletal remains recovered by KCP from a major cemetery on the northeastern periphery of the ancient settlement.…”

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Skeletal analysis and mortuary practice in an Early Roman chamber tomb at Kenchreai, Greece

Ubelaker

Rife

2011

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Recent exploration of the site of Kenchreai, the eastern port of Corinth in southern Greece, has focussed on a cemetery of subterranean chamber tombs dating chiefly to the Early Roman period (middle-late 1st to 3rd centuries AD). The copious but fragmentary human bones and teeth found in Tomb 10 have been disturbed since burial by natural processes, including bedrock erosion and the infiltration of moisture, roots and basic sediment, and by destructive looters. Nonetheless, the remains furnish considerable information about the mortuary practices of wealthy residents. Analysis of the remains in their archaeological and taphonomic contexts reveals that Tomb 10 contained at least 23 individuals, 15 inhumed in loculi and 8 cremated and placed in niches, sometimes in urns. The identification of males, females and subadults among the burned and unburned bones and teeth suggests that spouses, parents and children probably from several generations of the same lineage or household were buried here. The nature of the cremated fragments reflects a laborious process during which mourners burned bodies on substantial pyres at extremely high temperatures for a long time. Then they carefully extracted a representative sample of small fragments from throughout the reduced skeleton for burial at the tomb. This study contributes to a better understanding of mortuary practices in the Roman East, particularly the Greek world, where the chamber tomb was a common sepulchral type.

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Grigoropoulos

2024

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire

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Life and Death at a Port in Roman Greece: The Kenchreai Cemetery Project, 2002?2006

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A Roman Corinthian Family Tomb and Its Afterlife

Skeletal analysis and mortuary practice in an Early Roman chamber tomb at Kenchreai, Greece

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