Kerameikos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 09, 2019 09:43 AM
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History
A district of ancient Athens located northwest of the Acropolis, the Kerameikos takes its name from the potters' workshops in the area; the portion of the district lying outside the Dipylon Gate served as a necropolis.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/97294452
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production center (manufacturing, fishing), catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Kerameikos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/97294452> [accessed: 26 January 2021]
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