Kerameis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.S. Traill Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J.S. Traill Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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A deme of ancient Attica that was located in the center of Athens to the northeast of the Dipylon Gate.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579975
37.978127, 23.7188
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 21283 (550 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Kerameis (550 BC - AD 300)
- Kerameis located at Athenae (unspecified date range)
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settlement, deme (Athenian)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 59 B3 Kerameis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: NW Dipylon [V - city - 6]. Pausanias claims that the deme derives its name from the hero Ceramus, supposedly the son of Dionysus and Ariadne.
J.S. Traill, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Kerameis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579975> [accessed: 01 February 2025]
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