Pompeion
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Chris de Lisle
Creators: Chris de Lisle
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 28, 2024 02:06 PM
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History
A building between the Dipylon Gate and the Sacred Gate used for preparing the Panathenaic procession during the Classical and Hellenistic periods, destroyed during the Sullan Sack in 86 B.C., restored ca. A.D. 144, and destroyed again in the Herulian Sack of A.D. 267.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/973421832
37.9781910696, 23.7189344192
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: Πομπείον (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Πομπεῖον (Pompeîon: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 300)
- Pompeion located in Athenae (550 BC - AD 300)
- Pompeion abuts Dipylon Gate (550 BC - AD 300)
- Pompeion located in Kerameikos (550 BC - AD 300)
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Pleiades
Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Pompeion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/973421832> [accessed: 02 May 2024]
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