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English: During the Classical period an important public building in the Kerameikos in Athens, the Pompeion, stood inside the walls in the area between the two gates. This served a key function in the procession (pompē - πομπή) in honour of Athena during the Panathenaic Festival. It consisted of a large courtyard surrounded by columns and banquet rooms, where the nobility of Athens would eat the sacrificial meat for the festival. According to ancient Greek sources, a hecatomb (a sacrifice of 100 cows) was carried out for the festival and the people received the meat in the Kerameikos, possibly in the Dipylon courtyard; excavators have found heaps of bones in front of the city wall.
The Pompeion and many other buildings in the vicinity of the Sacred Gate were razed to the ground by the marauding army of the Roman dictator Sulla, during his sacking of Athens in 86 BC; an episode that Plutarch described as a bloodbath. During the 2nd century AD, a storehouse was constructed on the site of the Pompeion, but it was destroyed during the invasion of the Heruli in 267 AD. The ruins became the site of potters' workshops until about 500 AD, when two parallel colonnades were built behind the city gates, overrunning the old city walls. A new Festival Gate was constructed to the east with three entrances leading into the city. This was in turn destroyed in raids by the invading Avars and Slavs at the end of the 6th century, and the Kerameikos fell into obscurity. It was not rediscovered until a Greek worker dug up a stele in April 1863.
The Pompeion and many other buildings in the vicinity of the Sacred Gate were razed to the ground by the marauding army of the Roman dictator Sulla, during his sacking of Athens in 86 BC; an episode that Plutarch described as a bloodbath. During the 2nd century AD, a storehouse was constructed on the site of the Pompeion, but it was destroyed during the invasion of the Heruli in 267 AD. The ruins became the site of potters' workshops until about 500 AD, when two parallel colonnades were built behind the city gates, overrunning the old city walls. A new Festival Gate was constructed to the east with three entrances leading into the city. This was in turn destroyed in raids by the invading Avars and Slavs at the end of the 6th century, and the Kerameikos fell into obscurity. It was not rediscovered until a Greek worker dug up a stele in April 1863.
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Media in category "Pompeion"
The following 47 files are in this category, out of 47 total.
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24.Κεραμεικός GR-IA10-0061.jpg 2,592 × 1,674; 1.56 MB
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Athens Kerameikos 1.jpg 1,200 × 900; 266 KB
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Columns in Kerameikos Athens Greece.jpg 4,119 × 2,863; 11.12 MB
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Kerameikos Archeological park.jpg 5,184 × 3,456; 3.13 MB
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Kerameikos gate complex-ru.svg 1,653 × 1,225; 62 KB
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Kerameikos gate complex.svg 1,653 × 1,225; 127 KB
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Kerameikos Pompeion from S.jpg 4,620 × 2,891; 3.49 MB
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Kerameikos Pompeion from SE.jpg 4,688 × 3,101; 4.55 MB
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Kerameikos Pompeion propylon from SE.jpg 4,745 × 3,056; 4.37 MB
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Kerameikos, Athens - 51036687803.jpg 4,928 × 3,264; 12.76 MB
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Kerameikos, Athens - 51037408956.jpg 4,928 × 3,264; 12.85 MB
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Kerameikos, Athens - 51037409176.jpg 4,928 × 3,264; 9.26 MB
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Kerameikos, Athens - 51037413546.jpg 4,928 × 3,264; 8.46 MB
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Kerameikos, Athens - 51037516527.jpg 4,928 × 3,264; 8.85 MB
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Kerameikos, Athens - 51037516812.jpg 4,928 × 3,264; 8.14 MB
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Kerameikos16.JPG 2,848 × 2,134; 1.12 MB
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Kerameikos6 Athens.JPG 1,024 × 768; 248 KB
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Pompeion im Kerameikos von Athen.jpg 1,908 × 1,272; 1.19 MB
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Pompeion-2.jpg 4,608 × 2,184; 8.08 MB
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Pompeion-3.jpg 4,608 × 2,184; 8.32 MB
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Pompeion.jpg 4,032 × 1,908; 8.82 MB
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Propylon of Pompeion.jpg 4,032 × 1,908; 8.69 MB
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Propylon, Pompeion-Column.jpg 1,908 × 4,032; 10.09 MB
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Propylon, Pompeion-Detail.jpg 1,908 × 4,032; 10.92 MB
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Ruins of the Pompeion at Kerameikos Cemetery on May 30, 2020.jpg 6,000 × 4,000; 24.21 MB
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Ruins of the Pompeion at the cemetery of Kerameikos.jpg 6,000 × 4,000; 7.23 MB
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Sacred Gate and Pompeion, Kerameikos.JPG 3,648 × 2,736; 3.1 MB
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The Pompeion in Kerameikos Cemetery on June 27, 2021.jpg 6,000 × 4,000; 21.59 MB
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The Pompeion in Kerameikos Cemetery on March 1, 2021.jpg 6,000 × 4,000; 33.79 MB
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The Pompeion in Kerameikos Cemetery on September 3, 2020.jpg 6,000 × 4,000; 33.2 MB
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The ruins of the Pompeion at Kerameikos Cemetery on March 13, 2022.jpg 5,911 × 3,941; 29.73 MB
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X4.31 Athen, Keramikos.jpg 5,632 × 3,679; 4.02 MB
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Ágora de Atenas 02.jpg 4,000 × 3,155; 5.86 MB
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Ágora de Atenas 03.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 6.74 MB
