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ID: 5004243
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5004243
Record Type:
administrative
Kerameikos (neighborhood)
Note:
Site where most ancient travelers entered Athens, since roads from Piraeus, Eleusis & Boeotia converged here on road from the Academy; noted for the Eridanos brook & an ancient cemetery.
Names:
Kerameikos
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
Pausanias recorded that the name referred to the hero Keramos, son of Dionysos & Ariadne
Κεραμεικός
(
C
,
V
,
Greek
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Greece
(nation) (
P
)
............
Region of Attica
(region (administrative division)) (
P,
U
)
................
Kerameikos
(neighborhood) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Greece
(nation) (
P
)
............
Region of Attica
(region (administrative division)) (
P,
U
)
................
Athens
(inhabited place) (
P
)
....................
Kerameikos
(neighborhood) (
P
)
Place Types:
neighborhood (
preferred
,
C
)
............
burials here date from at least 12th cen. BC
archaeological site (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Κεραμεικός..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World online (2000-)
Kerameikos..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Blue Guide: Athens (1981)
81
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Blue Guide: Athens (1981)
81
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Blue Guide: Greece (1981)
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