ABSTRACTS - The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Hans Lohman, Professor, Institute for Archaeology at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
The So- Called Diolcos; An Ancient Slipway ?
Instead of a regular timetable-like organized transport of ships over the Isthmos at Corinth, the extant
literary sources testify to sporadical large-scale military operations during which a limited number of
warships – mostly triremes – were brought from the Saronic to the Corinthian gulf or vice versa. This did
not happen on the road of unknown but doubtless postarchaic age excavated by N. Verdelis in the 1950th
but over land by means of wooden rolls and draught animals. The road consists of reused blocks of a large
archaic or classical building, perhaps from the so called Long Walls of Corinth or similar construction.
Considering the lack of clear stratigraphical evidence its age remains uncertain. For the time being it seems
most plausible that such demolition waste was most likely at hand after the demolition of Corinth by the
Romans in 146 B.C. Wether the road replaced the harbours of Corinth during the period of obliteration or
dates even after the refoundation of the city as Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthus by Julius Cesar in 44 B.C. - it
served the transport of goods by means of verhicles but not the transport of ships in any case.
Daniel J. Pullen, Professor and Chairman, Department of Classics, The Florida State University,
Tallahassee , USA
Thomas F. Tartaron, Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of
PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, USA
Korphos-Kalamianos: A Mycenaean Harbor on the Saronic Coast of the Corinthia
In this paper we describe the first two seasons of fieldwork undertaken by the Saronic Harbors
Archaeological Research Project (SHARP). This project focuses on a large Mycenaean harbor settlement at
the location Kalamianos near Korphos village, and on other Mycenaean settlements and activity areas in
the surrounding territory. Kalamianos is a rare example of a Mycenaean urban port, even more unique
because the architectural foundations are exposed on the surface rather than buried, giving us the nearly
complete layout of a Mycenaean town of approximately eight hectares before any excavation. In 2007 and
2008 our investigations involved surface mapping of architecture at Kalamianos and other sites, detailed
documentation of these and other features, recovery and collection of surface artifacts on the site and in a