ABSTRACT
The claim of Corinth is comparatively weak. Her pottery, though widely exported all through the eighth century, does not occur in the Levant before the last two decades. A closed deposit in the Corinthian Potters’ Quarter has produced an extensive graffito incised in a neat and compact style, giving a list of personal names. All the published and datable sherds from this context appear to be of the late eighth century, but it is not clear when the deposit was
sealed. Most epigraphists are reluctant to allow such accomplished writing until the sixth century, when closely comparable forms are known from Corinth.8
