¹ I have benefited greatly from the comments of many scholars during the preparation of this article. Those who have offered suggestions that have improved the text and saved me from many errors include R. S. Stroud, M. H. Jameson, G. Lalonde, S. Lambert, and G. Shipley. I would also like to thank B. Millis for his help at Asprokampos and for his discussions concerning the inscriptions. The British School at Athens kindly granted me permission to republish No. 1 and permission to publish No. 2 was granted by the 4th Ephoratc of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities.

² For the inscriptions from the Asprokampos area, see IG iv. 414 23; Payne, H. G. et al. , Perachora i (Oxford, 1940), 7–8Google Scholar (SEG xi. 239 43); Wiseman, J., The Land of the Ancient Corinthians (SIMA 50; Göteborg, 1978), 34–6Google Scholar, figs. 34 and 37 (SEG xxviii. 377–8). The large number of sarcophagi from the site clearly indicates a cemetery in the area. For comparisons with this cemetery at Asprokampos and others in the Corinthia, see Stroud, R. S., ‘A Corinthian epitaph’, Horos, 10–12 (1992–1928), 239–43Google Scholar. The Zoodochos Pege chapel itself was built within a classical fortification wall, constructed in polygonal masonry. For a plan of the fortification, see Wiseman, Land, 34, fig. 32. For other remains in the area around Asprokampos, see Robinson, C., Corinth, i. i. 42Google Scholar; Wiseman, Land, 33–6, figs. 31–6; Sakellariou, M. and Faraklas, N., Corinthia—Cleonae (AGC 3; Athens, 1971), appendix II, 2–3Google Scholar.

³ For example, Wiseman noted that in 1970 he could barely make out through the whitewash just three inscriptions built into the Zoodochos Pege chapel. In January 1999, I could make out only two. Furthermore, SEG xxviii. 378, which was deposited by Wiseman ‘against the north wall of the church in July 1970’ is no longer there.

⁴ Wiseman, Land, 42 n. 123 mentions this inscription but he did not see it. Lazzarini, M., Le formule delle dediche votive nella Grecia arcaica (Rome, 1976), 215Google Scholar, no. 274, incorrectly reports that it is now located in the National Museum, Athens. The inscription was not included in Jeffery, LSAG ².

⁵ Perachora, i. 7 8 = SEG xi. 227. Dunbabin mistakenly referred to the chapel of Zoodochos Pege as the Panaghia. Unfortunately, I was unable to find any additional information about this inscription in the Perachora archives, which are now housed in the British School at Athens.

⁶ LSAG ² 124.

⁷ LSAG ² 116.

⁸ If this is true, then other urnnscribed, joining fragments may also be built into the wall.

⁹ The two-dotted punctuation mark was reproduced in both SEG xi. 227 and Lazzarini, no. 274.

¹⁰ Punctuation in Corinthian Archaic inscriptions is known only from sherds from the Potter's Quarter and a painted plaque from Penteskouphia; see LSAG ² 116 and 441.

¹¹ Perachora, i. 136, pl 43, nos. 5–7 (SEG xi. 226) and LSAG ² 143, no. 7 where the inscription is dated to c. 525–500. As far as I am aware, it is the only example of this type of punctuation, see also (PI, LSAG ² log). A similar mark is attested on an inscription from Aigina (P2, LSAG ² 109) where the vertical stroke is followed by two vertically aligned dots.

¹² Perachora, i. 265 n. 1.

¹³ I can find no examples of inverted letters among Corinthian epichoric inscriptions cut on stone from left to right.

¹⁴ For our Emenidas, see LGPN iii.A, s.v. Ἐμμενίδας (2), 141 and for the other attestation of it with a single mu, see FD iii. 3.2, no. 385, 1. 11 (date?). The name Emmenidas is especially common from Delphi in inscriptions from the 2nd–Ist c. BC.

¹⁵ See Lazzarini (n. 4), 215, no. 274. his between 600 and 450 BC.

¹⁶ For the date, see LSAG ² 122 4, no. 7.

¹⁷ For example, see Corinth, viii. i. 1, 27; SEG xi. 223 5; IG iv. 358. See also the comments at LSAG ² 116.

¹⁸ See also LSAG ² 118 and 128–9, no. 27 which Jeffery also places ‘at the end of the sixth century’.

¹⁹ Compare the inscription from Kivouria (Κιβουρία), Corinthia, recently published by Stroud on which only four different letters survive. Stroud (above n. 1), 243, discusses the difficulties in dating Corinthian epichoric texts, placing his between 600 and 450 BC.

²⁰ For examples of this formula, see Raubitschek, A. E., Dedications from the Athenian Akropolis: A Catalogue of the Inscriptions of the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BC (Cambridge, Mass., 1949), 419–24Google Scholar and Lazzarini (n. 4), nos. 210–345. For a few examples within Lazzarini's collection where the name precedes the verb, see nos. 77, 89, 91, and 95.

²¹ Perachora, i. 7. Payne saw this inscription in Perachora village, but records its findspot as ‘the south side of the [Asprokampos] plain.’ The text of the inscription is: ΔΙΟΣ ΜΙΛΙΧΙΟΥ.

²² For parallels, see Hansen, P. A., Carmina Epigraphica Graeca: Saeculorum VIII–V a. Chr. n. (Berlin and New York, 1983), nos. 253 and 280Google Scholar.

²³ Compare Corinth, viii, i, no. 22, 11. 3–5 where the letters along the right side are cut slightly lower in the line than those to the left.

²⁴ For examples of similar markers, see IG ii² 2562 and Agora, xix, no. H66.

²⁵ Compare Corinth, viii. i, no. 22, where the recorded fine is 8 obols. If our stone does indeed record a fine, the amount 30 would have been a very large one.