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Excavations at the Circular Building, Perachora

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

R. A. Tomlinson  and
K. Demakopoulou
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Abstract

The results of trial excavations conducted in the area above the head of the Heraion Valley, Perachora, are presented. It is argued that the circular building discovered is a collecting tank for rain-water, constructed in the fifth century BC, and a strong candidate for identification as the ‘circular building’ of Xenophon Hellenika IV v, despite the fact that it is not by the lake.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 80 , November 1985 , pp. 261 - 279
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1985

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References

1 BSA 64 (1969) 192.

2 Dunbabin house XIV BSA 193: other houses BSA 172–92.

3 For wooden clamps: Martin, Manuel d'architecture grecque 238, with examples.

4 Copings for free-standing walls are not generally discussed in the handbooks of building technique, which are not concerned with free-standing walls as with buildings. They were used most frequently, I suppose, to crown the battlements of fortifications, and though shown in many restored drawings (e.g. those of Herakleian ad Latmum) have generally disappeared. The best account is that of J.-P. Adam, L'Architecture militaire grecque 36–8, pls. 59–64, and especially the series at Kydna, L'Architecture militaire grecque 124–6, pl. 161 and fig. 82. Compared with the examples at Perachora, these are also gable formed, sloping both to the exterior and the interior, but are distinctly steeper angled. They do not, however, differ in width from the section of wall they covered and, therefore, did not project. There are projecting copings (again, steeply angled) at Messene (Adam, op. cit. pl. 86, fig. 29; pls. 205 and 206).

There are also similar copings from the Menelaion at Sparta, to be discussed in the full report of Dr Catling's work there.

For a different type of coping, with cornices to either side, Corinth XIV (The Asklepieion and Lerna) 67 fig. 18.

5 For this type of material, see C. W. Blegen, H. Palmer and R. S. Young, Corinth XIII (The North Cemetery), pp. 119–51.

6 Athenian Agora XII 34–5. I am grateful to Ian Morris for drawing my attention to this.

7 Peirene: Corinth I N 26 f. Lerna, Corinth XIV.

8 Agrileza, : Archaeological Reports (1977–1978) 13.Google Scholar

9 BSA 64 (1969) 157–72.

10 Bookides, N., ‘The Priest's House in the Marmaria at Delphi’, BCH 107 (1983) 149–55.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

11 BSA 64 (1969) 159: Such clamps also occur in the sixth-century temple: Perachora I 84, 85, 86, along with H clamps, and their use in the cistern, as in the temple, is irregular and haphazard.

12 There was a severe earthquake at Corinth in the third quarter of the fourth century BC: Corinth XV 1, 37, 47, 49.