Chalkotheke
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Chris de Lisle Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Chris de Lisle Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Apr 30, 2024 05:45 PM
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History
The Chalkotheke was a treasury on the Acropolis of Athens, built in the late fifth or early fourth century BC to house metal objects, especially weapons and armour. Many inscribed inventories survive from the fourth century BC.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/764971247
37.97132, 23.72583
- Representative Locations:
- ToposText Location: Chalkotheke (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Building VII (English, unspecified date range)
- χαλκοθήκη (chalkothḗkē: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- Chalkotheke located on Acropolis of Athens (unspecified date range)
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treasury
Pleiades
Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, and Tom Elliott, 'Chalkotheke: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/764971247> [accessed: 20 December 2024]
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