The excavation of the Pompeion in the beginning of the 20th century, Keramikos Station. Keramikos is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis. It was the potters' quarter of the city, from which the English word "ceramic" is derived. During the Classical period an important public building, the Pompeion, stood inside the walls in the area between the two gates. This served a key function in the procession in honor of Athena during the Panathenaic Festival. It consisted of a large courtyard surrounded by columns and banquet rooms, where the nobility of Athens would
The excavation of the Pompeion in the beginning of the 20th century, Keramikos Station. Keramikos is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis. It was the potters' quarter of the city, from which the English word "ceramic" is derived. During the Classical period an important public building, the Pompeion, stood inside the walls in the area between the two gates. This served a key function in the procession in honor 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. The building was destroyed in 86 BC during the conquest and plundering of Athens by Sulla. 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. In the 6th century it was once more invaded and destroyed in raids by the invading Avars and Slavs, and the Kerameikos fell into obscurity. It was not rediscovered until a Greek worker dug up a stele in 1863. Archeological excavations in the Kerameikos began in 1870 under the auspices of the Greek Archaeological Society. They have continued from 1913 to the present day under the German Archeological Institute at Athens.
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