Section St of the 'Cyclopean' Wall is found

 Peter Barkevics, has re-established the location of segment St of the 'Cyclopean Wall'. [1]  It is at 37.913404° N, 23.004431° W.  Formerly this was on an olive grove owned by the Statiris family.[2]  After being described by Broneer et al, some years ago, it was acquired by its present owners.  The wall is positioned in the front yard of a bed and breakfast.  Some stones appear to be occluded by building in the back of the property.  This section of the wall is 237 meters from segment Sk on a bearing, from Sk, of 282.79°.

The owner allowed Pete to photograph freely but would only allow two reduced-size images to be reproduced on this blog.

North face of St looking W

North face of St looking E

All photographs are the property of Peter Barkevics and all rights are reserved.

In this next photo we see the B&B property as it looks in Google Earth:

Here is a copy of the drawing that Broneer made of St.[3]

In this final photo I superimpose Broneer's drawing over a GoogleEarth image of the B&B in question.

Here I have fit the drawing to the stones as best I could. It seems clear that the north face runs E-W through the center of the lawn. The south face is partly covered by the driveway and, in the back, by the building of a shed.

Peter Barkevics has interesting observations about the current condition of this wall. He writes:

"The current owner, ..., says there have been several floods of water from Mytika area after heavy rain in past years. A culvert has been built between the houses above his and it discharges over his courtyard. The discharge has eroded some of the area and the wall was affected. ... All I can say is that a quick survey of the site by the archaeological service would be a good idea. It's only a day's work for a survey team ... "

I want to thank Peter for his untiring work in finding and documenting these wall fragments.  They are important for understanding Greece's Late Helladic history. Shamefully they have so far been given, not analytical, but mythologizing treatment.

Footnotes

[1] First described by Broneer and Kardara. For section St see Morgan [1999] 440, no. 2, 'Section St (Statiris Property)'. Also Broneer [1966] 349 and fn. 8.

[2] Broneer [1966] 349.

[3] Broneer [1966] 350, fig. 2, no. 5.

Bibliography

Broneer [1966] :  Broneer, Oscar. ‘The Cyclopean Wall on the Isthmus of Corinth and Its Bearing on Late Bronze Age Chronology’, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (35:4). 1966. Online here.

Kardara [1971] : Kardara, Chrisoula. 'The Isthmian Wall; (A Retaining Wall for a Road)', Athens Annals of Archaeology (4:1), 85-89. 1971.  Online here.

Morgan [1999] :  Morgan, Catherine. Isthmia VIII; The Late Bronze Age Settlement and Early Iron Age Sanctuary . The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, New Jersey. 1999.