Marble stele for Pathane and Polykrates. Probably a husband and wife. Relief depicts one figure sitting and two others (a woman and a child) standing beside him.
The Kerameikos steles are a collection of sculptures used as grave-markers (steles, sing. stele) in the Kerameikos necropolis of Attica. Kerameikos is located outside the Themistoclean Wall's Dipylon Gate. Stelai come in various shapes/designs and depict images varying from pottery to narrative scenes. They were often marble or limestone, and were carved or sculpted to depict the person being memorialized sometimes with relatives or slaves. Reliefs decorating the graves were meant to show the dead in their best light, using imagery to recognize their bravery in battle, or pathos, or wealth. These monuments marked the graves of Athenian men, fallen warriors, as well as non-citizens.[1] Women were also included in Kerameikos but typically it was the wealthiest or prominent women who were given stele.[2] In many vase paintings of grave scenes wreaths are seen resting at the base of stele. This was likely a popular way to adorn the graves of loved ones.
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The Kerameikossteles are a collection of sculptures used as grave-markers (steles, sing. stele) in the Kerameikos necropolis of Attica. Kerameikos is...
"ceramic" is derived). The "Inner Kerameikos" was the former "potters' quarter" within the city and "Outer Kerameikos" covers the cemetery and also the...
The Kerameikos Archaeological Museum is located in Kerameikos, Athens, Greece and was built in 1937. It houses many important early Geometric art pieces...
discovery of Dexileios's stele confirmed the location of the Kerameikos cemetery, which had been forgotten since antiquity. Kerameikossteles Dimitris Mytaras's...
Archaeological Museum in Athens (NAMA 3624) was found in 1870 in the Kerameikos in Athens, which now houses a replica of it. In its current condition...
sculpture. The stele fragment was discovered in 1953 by Threpsiades, in the remains of Athens' Themistoklean Walls. It hangs today in the Kerameikos Archaeological...
The grave naiskos ("small temple") is one of last tombstone steles erected in Kerameikos, the cemetery of classical Athens, before the issuance of the...
to them. Ancient Greek funerary vases Funeral oration (ancient Greece) Kerameikos, site of an extensive cemetery at Athens Lekythos, a type of vessel holding...
cemeteries as grave reliefs or shrines with statues, such as the stele of Aristonautes from Kerameikos in Athens and in the black-figure and red-figure pottery...
which houses the Toy Museum, the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art in the Kerameikos district, the Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Gallery in downtown Athens, the...
Athens's Theatre of Dionysus as well as in the Kerameikos, where his 1863 discovery of the Grave Stele of Dexileos helped to confirm that the site was...
instance, the lekythos on the Stele of Panaetius) or as a stone vessel. There are many in the funeral area at the Kerameikos in Athens, some of which are...
century. The Athenians normally buried their war dead in the Kerameikos cemetery, with a stele or marker vase to show the location of the deceased. However...
rather than artistic innovations. Dipylon Kouros, c. 600 BC, Athens, Kerameikos Museum. The Moschophoros or calf-bearer, c. 570 BC, Athens, Acropolis...
the ancient Kerameikos). It belonged to the Sabouroff collection and was acquired from this for the Antikensammlung Berlin in 1884. The stele is 160 cm...
was the cauliflower ear, which was depicted notably in the Boxer Stele from Kerameikos. Many who participated in these ancient boxing matches were gravely...
naiskos with a statue inside it and stood near the Dipylon Gate in the Kerameikos, the cemetery of ancient Athens. It was made from Pentelic marble and...
underway by the beginning of the 8th century BC. Cemeteries, such as the Kerameikos in Athens or Lefkandi, and sanctuaries, such as Olympia, recently founded...
Greece; however, the money was eventually exhausted on excavations in the Kerameikos cemetery of Athens. Karo remained at Halle until 1930, when he returned...
Pittakis's career as Ephor General saw the discovery, in 1861, of the Kerameikos cemetery; the excavations which took part here under Pittakis have been...
of Athena in Athens (c. 530-500). Dipylon Kouros, c. 600 BC, Athens, Kerameikos Museum The Moschophoros or calf-bearer, c. 570 BC, Athens, Acropolis Museum...
Athens. In 1863, he led the archaeological society's excavations in the Kerameikos cemetery, one of the few places where ancient funerary monuments could...
BC, Ptolemaic Kingdom, Egypt; detail of the Nile mosaic of Palestrina. A stele of Dioskourides, dated 2nd century BC, showing a Ptolemaic thureophoros...
and the Titan Anytos. In 1900, during rescue excavations in the Outer Kerameikos, he uncovered the Nessos Amphora, a late seventh-century BCE amphora which...
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...
Dimitris Kalamaras: The dead fighter (platform level) Clearhos Loukopoulos: Stele (platform level) Costas Koulentianos: Nouvelle Generation IX (platform level)...
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