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Archaic sculptures of the Sacred Gate [Kerameikos, Athens, Greece], as found during excavation.
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Archaic sculptures of the Sacred Gate [Kerameikos, Athens, Greece], as found during excavation.
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Title
Archaic
sculptures
of the
Sacred
Gate
[Kerameikos
,
Athens
,
Greece]
, as
found
during
excavation
.
Date
600-560 BCE?
Cultural Context
Aegean
Ancient Greek
Greek
Athenian
European
Western European
Style/Period
Greek (ancient)
Archaic (Greek)
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Statues
Fragments
Overhead views
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Myths (literary documents)
Mythology (literary genre)
Legends (folk tales)
Folk tales
Folklore
Sphinxes
Kouroi
Men (male humans)
Hairstyles
Animals
Wild animals
Wildlife
Lions
Sitting
Bases (object components)
Back views
Composite views
Profiles (figures)
Front views
Columns (architectural elements)
Fluting
Excavations (sites)
Archaeological sites
Cemeteries
Documentary photographs
Subject
Sculpture
Myths
Legends
Sphinxes
Supernatural beings
Fictitious characters
Men
Backs (Anatomy)
Hairstyles
Lions
Wild cats
Animals
Sitting
Architectural elements
Structural elements
Columns
Archaeological sites
Cemeteries
Expedition photographs
Description
"
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
photo]
, from
front
to
back)
, a
reclining
lion
, a
fragment
of a
Doric
capital
, the
kouros
, the
Sphinx
, the
front
part
of the
seated
lion
, a
fragment
of an
Ionic
column
with its
capital
, and the
back
part
of the
seated
lion
,
which
is
unfortunately
in a
poor
state
of
preservation
.
Apart
from the
Doric
capital
,
which
was of
brown
limestone
, they were
all
made
of
marble
. The
two
capitals
did
not
belong
to an
architectural
ensemble
, but had been
used
as
statue
bases
.
[��]
The
statues
originally
stood
on the
funerary
monument
of an
aristocratic
family
, and had
fallen
victim
to the
plundering
of
Athens
and its
cemeteries
by the
Persians
in the
year
480
BC
.
[…]
But how
did
these
sculptures
come
to be
where
they were
found
,
beneath
the
Sacred
Way
?
When
the
Athenians
were
able
to
return
to their
city
after
the
Greeks
defeated
the
Persians
in
[…]
479
BC
,
Themistokles'
first
concern
was to
erect
new
fortification
walls
. The
programme
was
implemented
[…]
using
all
available
building
material
.
It
was then
decided
to
increase
the
space
enclosed
by the
wall
,
which
, with its
two
gates
, the
Dipylon
and the
Sacred
Gate
,
cut
through
the
ancient
cemetery
in the
Kerameikos
.
Funerary
sculptures
that had
fallen
here and been
damaged
during
the
Persian
attack
were
incorporated
as
building
material
in the
foundations
of the
wall
[…]
. The
group
of
sculptures
found
in
spring
2002
had been
placed
beneath
the
earth
road
that
ran
from the
newly
created
Sacred
Gate
. They were
put
here to
strengthen
the
road
at a
point
where
it
was
increasingly
flooded
by the
Eridanos
River
.
Evidence
for this
second
use
of the
sculptures
is
provided
by the
traces
of
wear
on them from the
wheels
of
carriages
. In a
later
phase
, the
banks
of the
Eridanos
were
protected
by a
wall
, and
some
of the
water
was
channeled
off
through
the
overflow
pipe
,
beneath
which
we
found
the
kouros.
"
(Excerpt
by
Wolf-Dietrich
Niemeier
,
pp
.
73-74
,
76)
Location Depicted
Kerameikos (Athens, Greece)
Athens (Greece)
Greece
Material
Marble (rock)
Rock
Stone (rock)
Technique
Sculpting
Carving (processes)
Work Type
Sculpture
Statues
Kouroi
Sphinxes
Columns
Excavations (sites)
Expedition photographs
Documentary photographs
Archaeological sites
Source
Valavanis, Panos. Great Moments in Greek Archaeology. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. (p.73, fig.4).
Rights
© 2007 Kapon Editions, Athens, Greece. Source of illustration in Valavanis: German Archaeological Institute (Athens) / W.-D. Niemeier.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
758-05.jpg
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