Architecture; Buildings; Social & civic facilities; Government facilities; Courthouses; Justice facilities; Mints; Stores & shops; Mercantile facilities; Commercial facilities; Markets; Shrines; Altars; Religious facilities; Temples;...
Includes: Hephaisteion; Kolonos Agoraios; Strategeion?; Tholos; Altar; Bouleuterion; Old Bouleuterion; Sanctuary of [?]; Poikile Stoa; Royal Stoa; Stoa of Zeus; Apollo Patroos; The Eponymous Heroes: [?] River; 12 Gods; Eschara; St. Philip; Hadrian...
"Every so often as the excavation continued, one of the workmen would shout: 'Another marble here!' In the end, we found ourselves - entranced and speechless - before a group of sculptures lying side by side: from west to east ([in this...
“Athens in the mid-fourth century BC. N4- Dromos, leading through the Kerameikos (the graveyard) to the Academy, L6- Dipylon Gate, N12- Piraeus Gate, H11- Agora, G16-Areopagus, C15-Acropolis, I19- Pnyx, G- Olympeion, B19- Kynosarges, B10-...
From Kerameikos, [Athens, Greece]. "Comparison of the head of the kouros from the Sacred Gate with the Dipylon Head leaves virtually no doubt that they were created by the same sculptor about 600 BC. He was the first Athenian marble-carver of...
From Kerameikos, [Athens, Greece]. "Comparison of the head of the kouros from the Sacred Gate with the Dipylon Head leaves virtually no doubt that they were created by the same sculptor about 600 BC. He was the first Athenian marble-carver of...
From the Sacred Gate, Kerameikos, [Athens, Greece]. "The latest work in the group is the Sphinx, which is dated to about 560 BC. All that we found [in spring 2002] was the upper part of the body, partly preserved wings, and the head. We...
