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Modern Description: The Panayia Field, southeast of the Forum, has been the site of excavations started in 1995 by Charles Williams and subsequently continued under the direction of Guy Sanders. Roman are the best preserved; these cut back earlier building phases to the level of their foundations. This fact means that Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and earlier Roman levels are represented only by features, such as graves, pits, foundations, cisterns and cellars, that cut into the pebbly red “stereo” or bedrock.
Fourteen rooms of a large Late Roman town house, or domus, include two with intricate geometric mosaic floors and one with a central marble fountain. Of two peristyle courts within the building, one featured an internal stream running inside the colonnade. Another room contained a long concrete pool. The house was decorated with wall paintings and one small room contained a crèche of small scale sculpture. Dating the building’s use is problematic because very little material culture was preserved on the floors under the destruction horizon. While the mosaics suggested a date in the 2nd century A.D., the use fill of a well dates to the late 3rd century. Since the well went out of use with the construction of the walls built over it, the mosaics and their architectural setting should be later. When the long concrete pool was poured, the foundations cut a large pit containing pottery dating to the Tetrarchic period, possibly even as late as Constantine (c.274–337 A.D.). Coins in the destruction debris suggest that it burnt down before the end of the same century.
Trismegistos Geo: 1163

Info: Corinth Excavations

(Corinth Excavations, American School of Classical Studies, ascsa.net)

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