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ID: 5004243
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5004243

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kerameikos (neighborhood)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Greece (nation)  ........  Greece (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Region of Attica (region (administrative division))  ............  Region of Attica (region (administrative division)) (P,U)
Hierarchy of Kerameikos (neighborhood)  ................  Kerameikos (neighborhood) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Greece (nation)  ........  Greece (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Region of Attica (region (administrative division))  ............  Region of Attica (region (administrative division)) (P,U)
Hierarchy of Athens (inhabited place)  ................  Athens (inhabited place) (P)
Hierarchy of Kerameikos (neighborhood)  ....................  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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