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Kerameikos

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Jan 09, 2019 09:43 AM — 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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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/97294452

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.978333, 23.718611

Locations:

Imagery Location of Kerameikos (750 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Kerameikos (English, modern)

Kerameikos makes connections with:

Kerameikos at Athenae (750 BC - AD 300)

Kerameikos receives connections from:

None

Place type:
production center (manufacturing, fishing), catacomb, cemetery, necropolis

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Related:

GeoNames 6947705

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
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: 21 January 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/97294452 |title=Places: 97294452 (Kerameikos) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=January 21, 2020 12:13 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Kerameikos