Kerameikos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 13, 2021 07:55 PM
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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
37.978333, 23.718611
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location of Kerameikos (750 BC - AD 640)
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- Kerameikos (English, modern)
- Kerameikos located at Athenae (750 BC - AD 300)
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ceramic production facility or area, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Kerameikos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/97294452> [accessed: 06 July 2022]
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