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Kerameikos Archaeological Museum

The Kerameikos Archaeological Museum is located in Kerameikos, Athens, Greece and was built in 1937. It houses many important early Geometric art pieces that date as far back as 860 BC. It was expanded in the 1960s by the Boehringer brothers of Boehringer Ingelheim fame. Its official address is Ermou, Athens 125, Greece.

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Kerameikos Archaeological Museum

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The Kerameikos Archaeological Museum is located in Kerameikos, Athens, Greece and was built in 1937. It houses many important early Geometric art pieces...

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Kerameikos

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"ceramic" is derived). The "Inner Kerameikos" was the former "potters' quarter" within the city and "Outer Kerameikos" covers the cemetery and also the...

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Boxer Stele Fragment from Kerameikos

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remains of Athens' Themistoklean Walls. It hangs today in the Kerameikos Archaeological Museum. In ancient Greece, there were very few rules in boxing - it...

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Funerary naiskos of Demetria and Pamphile

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Pamphile's death. It is made of marble and now kept at the Kerameikos Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece, with inventory number P687, while a copy...

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Curse

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Ancient Greek curse tablet, text written onto a lead sheet, 4th century BC, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens....

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Delphi Archaeological Museum

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dead link] Banou, Eleni S.; Bournias, Leonidas K. (2014). Kerameikos. Delphi Archaeological Museum (e‑book). Electronic library. Latsis Foundation. ISBN 978-960-98364-8-7...

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Kouros

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level. Sounion kouros New York Kouros Kouros Porte Sacrée Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens (KAMA) Athens C. 590–570 BCE: this period witnesses...

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Athens

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Christian Museum, as well as museums at the ancient Agora, Acropolis, Kerameikos, and the Kerameikos Archaeological Museum. The city is also the setting...

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Spindle whorl

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Brooklyn Museum Whorl (12th or 13th century) found in Poland Ancient Greek spindle whorls, 10th century BC, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens Muisca...

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Pottery of ancient Greece

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and restoration of ancient Greek pottery Tanagra figurine Kerameikos Archaeological Museum Ancient Greek crafts "The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum ('Corpus...

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Sickle

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suggesting a symbolic or religious significance attached to the artifact. In archaeological terminology, Bronze Age sickles are classified by the method of attaching...

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Kerameikos steles

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The Kerameikos steles are a collection of sculptures used as grave-markers (steles, sing. stele) in the Kerameikos necropolis of Attica. Kerameikos is...

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Thiseio

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Agora of Athens, Stoa of Attalos, the Temple of Hephaestus and Kerameikos Archaeological Museum can be entered from Thiseio; all others: the National Observatory...

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Hellenistic art

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fragments from the National Archaeological Museum, Athens The Poseidon of Melos, from the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Paintings and mosaics...

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Silo

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of Tel Tsaf in the southern Levant contain the earliest known silos. Archaeological ruins and ancient texts show that silos were used in ancient Greece...

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Outline of Athens

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Art Jewish Museum of Greece – its collection describes the history and culture of the Greek Jewish community. Kerameikos Archaeological Museum – displays...

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Benaki Museum

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the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art in the Kerameikos district, the Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Gallery in downtown Athens, the Benaki Museum Pireos street...

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Toy

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well as representations of tools used by adults, are readily found at archaeological sites. The origin of the word "toy" is unknown, but it is believed that...

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Aryballos

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Thodis and Chairippos are handsome. Exhibited in Room 8 of the Kerameikos Archaeological Museum (Athens). Media related to Aryballoi at Wikimedia Commons Advanced...

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Play therapy

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Little horse on wheels, Ancient Greek children's toy. From a tomb dating 950–900 BCE, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens...

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Geometric art

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period Mycenaean pottery Apulian pottery Orientalizing period Kerameikos Archaeological Museum Snodgrass, A. M. (December 1973). "Geometric Art - Bernhard...

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Classical sculpture

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Funerary lion found at the Sacred Gate at the Kerameikon. Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens, c. 590–580 BC The Classical period saw changes in...

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Grave Stele of Dexileos

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cemetery in the Kerameikos cemetery of Athens. It was found in situ, but moved during World War II, and is now on display in the Kerameikos Museum in Athens...

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Archaeological excavation

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In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. An excavation site or "dig" is the area being studied...

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Kyriakos Pittakis

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influential role in the early years of the Greek Archaeological Service and was a founding member of the Archaeological Society of Athens, a private body which...

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Aineta aryballos

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Stirrup Jar from Athens and the 1871–2 Private Excavations in the Outer Kerameikos". Annual of the British School at Athens. 106: 167–200. doi:10.1017/S0068245411000074...

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