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	Kerameikos
		Kerameikos was named after the community of the potters (kerameis) who occupied the whole area along the banks of river Eridanos.
		It was found at the cemetery of Kerameikos, in Athens.
		Dated to 430-420 B.C. Outside the city walls, along the sides of both roads lay the official cemetery of the city, which was continuously used from the 9th century B.C. until the late Roman period.
	www.yiannipalos.com /Kerameikos.html (265 words)

	Kerameikos: The Ancient Cemetery of Athens Archaeology Site and Museum
		Kerameikos was on the northwest fringe of the ancient city and and is now the outer edge of the areas visited by most travelers.
		Kerameikos is named after Keramos, son of Dionysios and Ariadne, hero of potters.
		Kerameikos is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 8am to 3pm.
	www.athensguide.com /kerameikos.html (709 words)

	ARCL2001: Lecture 16
		The most well-known cemetery of ancient Athens was located in the outer Kerameikos, on the north west side of the city.
		Grave stele of Hegeso from the Kerameikos Cemetery, circa 400 BC.
		Marble grave stele of Panaitios from the Kerameikos, circa 380 BC.
	teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au /archaeology/arcl2001/lecture_16.htm (1415 words)

	Kerameikos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The wall of the city of Athens was constructed in 478 B.C. and crossed the area of Kerameikos in a N-S direction.
		The hypostyle fountain was located on the left side of the entrance of the Dipylon gate and provided a continuous supply of water to the inhabitants of the city and the travellers.
		It was built in 307-304 B.C. he finds from the excavations of Kerameikos are exhibited in the Museum of Kerameikos and the National Archaeological Museum.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21103a/e211ca01.html (531 words)

	KERAMEIKOS \| Archaeological Sites \| Holidays in Greece \| On-line tourism and traveling services \| Holidayshop.gr
		During the ancient years Kerameikos used to be one of the most enchanting suburbs in Athens.
		Kerameikos also features two of the most important gateways to the ancient city of Athens, the Sacred Gate and the Dipylon, placed at the outset of the two most important processional roads of Athens leading to Elefsina and Thiasio Pedio respectively.
		The so - called exo Kerameikos was already used as a graveyard in 1300 B.C. and it remained a burial ground until the end of antiquity, soon becoming the most important cemetery in the city.
	www.holidayshop.gr /textsEn.asp?ElementId=2342 (1279 words)

	Athens' Ancient Graveyards
		A booklet prepared by the Ministry of Culture in 2000 catalogues these vestiges, reporting that the Kerameikos is home to fifteen species of birds and animals, one fish - a miniscule creature called the mosquito fish that can cope with the river's shrinking waters - and 188 plant species within its 40,000 square meters.
		The Dromos connected the Agora with the Academy and was lined with tombs and memorials to celebrated Athenians including Pericles and soldiers fallen in battle (with the exception of the heroes of Marathon).
		For a view of the Kerameikos as a whole, go to the hill, an ancient grave tumulus, opposite the entrance, where there is a map highlighting the various landmarks and monuments.
	www.helleniccomserve.com /ancientgraveyards.html (1784 words)

	Kerameikos - Wikipedia
		Der Kerameikos wird seit 1913 durch Ausgrabungen der Abteilung Athen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts erforscht.
		Wie bei antiken Begräbnisplätzen üblich, lag der Kerameikos außerhalb der Stadtmauern.
		Durch den Bach Eridanos wird der Kerameikos auch zu einem artenreichen Biotop.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kerameikos (259 words)

	FOCUS on GREECE - Kerameikos
		he ancient Kerameikos was on he north-west fringes of ancient Athens and extended both inside and outside the walls which now traverse the site of the excavations.
		It is believed that it streched from the northwest limits of the Agora to the grove named after the hero Academos.
		Strolling around them you will have the chance to admire the marble bull inside the enclosure of the tomb of Dionysios from Kollytos; also the replica of the well-known stele of Dexileos, placed where the original used to be and the stele of Hegeso (late 5th century B.C.).
	www.focusmm.com /greece/athen_2.htm (287 words)

	AthensNews onLine SEARCH
		A booklet prepared by the ministry of culture in 2000 catalogues these vestiges, reporting that the Kerameikos is home to fifteen species of birds and animals, one fish - a minuscule creature called the mosquito fish that can cope with the river's shrinking waters - and 188 plant species within its 40,000 square metres.
		This does not mean that you will see anything more exotic than a tortoise or a caper bush, but I find it comforting that hedgehogs may be napping in a shady burrow or that the Callas impersonator concealed in the branches of a Jerusalem thorn tree is actually a Sardinian warbler.
		Although the Kerameikos is a park nowadays, in ancient times it was right in the thick of the city.
	www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12956&m=A24&aa=1&eidos=S (1876 words)

	The Hegeso, Dexileos and Ilissos and other Stelai
		My translation: Go to the Kerameikos to see the bas-reliefs of those who were the centre of a world, and who tomorrow will be unknown and ignored - the moment where the short life finishes and eternal death begins.
		Dexileos Stele a gravestone at the Kerameikos cemetery (Street of the Tombs), height 1.75 m, c.
		Inscription above tells us that it was erected for the young warrior named Dexileos the son of Lysanias (Teisandros (or Tisandrus) and Eubolides the regents of the city when he was born and when he died respectively) fallen in the 394 Corinth battle in as one of five persons of a cavalry group.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Arts/Stele.htm (753 words)

	GREEKISLANDS.COM - ATHENS, THE CAPITAL OF GREECE
		When in 478 BC the first walls of Athens were being built, this place was a section of the ancient demos of Keramaies and was divided into two parts: the inner Kerameikos inside the town and the outer Kerameikos to the west, outside the walls.
		The Outer Kerameikos was the cemetery of Athens from prehistoric to historic times.
		Sections of the walls of the Themistoclean enclosure have survived at Kerameikos.
	www.greekislands.com /athens/keram_s.htm (378 words)

	FSP-Greece-2005: April 2 Photos: Neha
		The Kerameikos cemetery stood in the area between the Sacred Gate and the Dipylon Gate.
		The Kerameikos cemetery contains one of the best preserved examples of the ancient city walls, which are pictured here.
		Some believe that it marked the boundary of a road called Kerameikos that connected to the road that led to the Academy.
	projectsx.dartmouth.edu /blog/classes/greece2005/archives/april_3_2005_0441_am/000497.html (861 words)

	The Hellenophile
		At Kerameikos archaeologists have discovered more than 7,000 ostraka, shards of pottery containing the names of ostracised Athenian statesmen.
		The decision to build a tunnel under Kerameikos was made, incredibly, with the approval of the Central Archaeological Council, an advisory board of the ministry of culture, often accused of being politicised its 16 members included only six archaeologists, the rest being professors, architects and geologists.
		But, at nearly the last moment--the station for the new route was 90% complete--the Ministry of Culture conceded that the plan was ill-considered, and officials re-routed the underground trains.
	blogs.salon.com /0001147/categories/theHellenophile/2003/09/10.html (271 words)

	Kerameikon
		The Kerameikos is the name of the deme or part of Athens to the northwest of the Acropolis and includes an extensive area both within and outside of the city walls.
		Thucydides describes the panic caused by the plague, which struck Athens and Sparta in 430, lasting for two years, killing a third of the population.
		The disease reappeared in the winter of 427 B.C. The Greek archaeologist Efi Baziotopoulou-Valavani[?], who excavated the site, has dated the grave to between 430 and 426 B.C. Elsewhere
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ke/Kerameikon.html (102 words)

	Old Site, New Tricks
		Excavations have been ongoing at the Kerameikos, an ancient cemetery just outside Athens' city wall, for nearly a century and a half.
		The kouros is similar to an over life-size one in the National Museum in Athens found in several pieces, the first in the Kerameikos more than 70 years ago, and a life-size one acquired by New York's Metropolitan Museum in 1932.
		An ecstatic Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, head of the German Archaeological Institute excavations at the Kerameikos, told Reuters "A hundred years ago, archaeologists discovered the first finds of the sculptor and we were almost certain that that was it.
	www.archaeology.org /0207/newsbriefs/kerameikos.html (269 words)

	Kerameikos - Athens Info Guide
		Kerameikos werd genoemd naar de pottenbakkersgemeenschap die het hele gebied langs de oevers van de Eridanos rivier bewoonden.
		Het Kerameikos kerkhof strekte zich voorbij de Dypylon poort uit.
		Informatie over het Kerameikos museum vind je op onze museum pagina.
	www.athensinfoguide.com /nl/wtskerameikos.htm (503 words)

	Secret of Ancient Athenian Plague Unraveled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kerameikos, Athens’s ancient cemetery, has yielded conclusive evidence as to the nature of the plague that decimated a third of the population of the ancient city and influenced the outcome of the Peloponnesian Wars.
		Recent findings from a mass grave in the Ancient Cemetery of Kerameikos in central Athens show typhoid fever may have caused the plague of Athens, ending centuries of speculation about what kind of disease killed a third of the city’s population and contributed to the end of its Golden Age.
		Examined by a group of Greek scientists coordinated by Dr Manolis Papagrigorakis of Athens University’s School of Dentistry, the findings provide clear evidence that Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi was present in the dental pulp of teeth recovered in remains from the mass grave.
	www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=7648 (513 words)

	Attica's Ancient Healing Center
		A booklet prepared by the Ministry of Culture in 2000 catalogues these vestiges, reporting that the Kerameikos is home to fifteen species of birds and animals, one fish – a miniscule creature called the mosquito fish that can cope with the river’s shrinking waters – and 188 plant species within its 40,000 square meters.
		After Themistocles had walls erected around Athens the moment the Persians fled – it might have been too much to expect the fleet, its wood walls, to hold fast a second time – the Kerameikos was divided in two sections, the Outer and Inner.
		For a view of the Kerameikos as a whole, go to the hill, an ancient grave tumuls, opposite the entrance, where there is a map highlighting the various landmarks and monuments.
	www.helleniccomserve.com /riverrunsthroughit.html (1580 words)

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		Athens's most famous cemetery was in the northwest corner, in the Kerameikos or Potters' Quarter outside the Sacred and Dipylon Gates.
		Cremation and inhumation burials dating back to the 11th century BC Sub-Mycenaean period have been excavated here by Greek and German archaeologists.
		During the 7th century, earth mounds were constructed over both individual graves and family plots, and large vases continued to serve as markers.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /Greek_World/cemeteries.html (367 words)

	Kerameikos - Athens Info Guide
		The Kerameikos cemetery extended beyond the Dipylon Gate.
		Following the funeral, first degree relatives had to perform rituals every year on specific dates in honor of the deceased.
		You can find information on the Kerameikos museum on our museum pages.
	www.athensinfoguide.com /wtskerameikos.htm (560 words)

	FSP-Greece-2005: April 2: Jackie and Neha Reporting
		We began at the city walls and proceeded to examine the Sacred Gate, the Dipylon Gate, the fountain house, the Pompeion, and the streets themselves, the Sacred Way (and the branch known as the ‘Street of Tombs’) and the road to the Academy.
		The Kerameikos, being the cemetery of Athens, served as a symbolic end to our stay in Athens.
		One striking thing about the Kerameikos is how close it was to the Agora.
	projectsx.dartmouth.edu /blog/classes/greece2005/archives/april_3_2005_0442_am/000498.html (756 words)

	97.9.12
		160, 161, 163) and one irrelevant photograph of a grave monument in the Kerameikos Excavations (fig.
		166 is a miserably inadequate "topographic sketch plan of the Kerameikos Excavations" from a guidebook by Philadelpheus published in 1973, whereas the author could have had for the asking one of the excellent recent plans of the Kerameikos Excavations drawn up by the architects of the German Archaeological Institute.
		In contradistinction to the author's own noteworthy efforts, my planting in the Kerameikos is not worthy to be termed landscaping and is left anonymous.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1997/97.9.12.html (3779 words)

	BENAKI MUSEUM - THE BULDINGS COMPLEX IN KERAMEIKOS
		The Islamic art collections of the Benaki Museum are housed in a complex of neo-classical buildings located in the historical centre of Athens, at the corner of Agion Asomaton and Dipylou street, in the Kerameikos district.
		This complex of buildings was presented to the Museum by the late Lambros Eftaxias, who in his later years served as Honorary President of the Museum Board of Trustees.
		During this preservation work a section of the ancient city wall of Athens and an ancient tomb were uncovered at the level of the houses' foundations.
	www.benaki.gr /museum/buildings/keramikos/en (249 words)

	Kerameikos - Dilos Holiday World
		Kerameikos according to the traveller Pausanias was named after Keramos a hero of the deme of Kerameis.
		The ancient demos of Kerameikos included an area much larger than the one excavated.
		It is believed that it stretched from the north west limits of the Agora to the grove named after the hero Academos.
	www.dilos.com /location/10219 (360 words)

	Who's to Blame for Destruction of Ancient Sites?
		From the recent 98th Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Archaeology (for a full Fragments of Time wrap-up of the event click Report: The 98th AIA Annual Meeting) held December 28-30, 1996, in New York City, came news of continued large-scale destruction of ancient sites.
		While many people would have us believe that "tomb robbers" and "metal detecting hobbyists" are causing massive widespread harm, the truth is that the greatest of all threats to critical archaeological sites like the Kerameikos come from the constant expansionary pressures of modern society.
		Such is the case at Kerameikos which is being severely and irreparably destroyed by excavations related to the construction of a new underground Metro station in Athens, according to reports from Greece.
	www.antiquities.net /blame.htm (400 words)

	Worth Seeing in Athens - Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The worst plundering of the monuments took place in the beginning of the 19th century by Lord Elgin.
		Outside the city walls, along the sides of both roads lay the official cemetery of the city, which was continuously used from the 9th century B.C. until the late Roman period.
		The museum of Kerameikos was built in 1937 on the plans of H. Johannes, with a donation of Gustav Oberlaender.
	www.meandertravel.com /athens/athens.php?details=worthseeinginathens1&&m=9&md=sc9 (1240 words)

	The Dark Age Spanned
		The series of burials which are supposed to fill the dark centuries between the end of the Mycenean age and the time of the Proto-Attic ware of the seventh century are located near the north-western Dipylon gate of Athens and in the Kerameikos cemetery next to it.
		The burials in the Kerameikos are associated with the style named “Protogeometric”—characterized by a narrow band of decoration around the middle of the vase, with the rest of the vessel having a fl glaze.
		The Kerameikos burials continue into the Geometric period, but the bulk of Athenian Geometric pottery has been found near the Dipylon gate.
	www.varchive.org /nldag/spanned.htm (1279 words)

	The Ancient City of Athens: Kerameikos
		The "inner Kerameikos" (from the Greek Agora to the Dipylon and Sacred Gates) was the "potter's quarter" of the city.
		The "outer Kerameikos" (from the city walls towards the Academy), included the famous cemetery and the "demosion sema" (public burial monument) where Perikles delivered his funeral oration in 431 B.C. Browse the Image Catalogue (click on any thumbnail to view larger image)
		Official publications of the excavations in the Kerameikos conducted by the German Archaeological Institute.
	www.stoa.org /athens/sites/kerameikos.html (167 words)

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