Kenchreai | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: Kenchreai

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Kenchreai

Country/region:

Greece/Peloponnese

Alternate names & spellings:

Cenchreae, Cenchriai, ...

Coordinates (N,E):

37.8829328 , 22.9908282

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

late roman/byzantine

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Site Description

Kenchreai was one of the two main port-towns of ancient Corinth. It sits on the Aegean Sea roughly 11 km east of Corinth.

The site was excavated from 1962-1969, and then excavations resumed in 2000 and have continued up to the present.

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Related Images

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Vessels 2

Kenchreai KE 551

Transport amphora

Kenchreai

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late roman/byzantine

Kenchreai KE 1529

Transport amphora

Kenchreai

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late roman/byzantine

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 0

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Site/Project URLs

Excavation website (https://www.kenchreai.org/)

Database Links

Pleiades (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570347)

TM Geo (Trismegistos) (https://www.trismegistos.org/place/15748)

Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Late Roman Amphora 1 (LRA 1)

4th - 8th centuries CE

Late Roman, Early Byzantine, Byzantine, Late Roman

Associated Petro-fabrics

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Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Heath, S.; Rife, J.L.; Bravo III, J.J.; and Blasdel, G. "Preliminary Report on Early Byzantine Pottery from a Building Complex at Kenchreai (Greece)" ISAW Papers 10 (2015)
Slane, K.W. and Sanders, D.R. "Corinth: Late Roman Horizons" Hesperia 74 (2005), 243-297

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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