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    them today. During the Classical period an important public building, the Pompeion, stood inside the walls in the area between the two gates. This served...
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    Layout of the gate complex of Kerameikos in c. 300 BC, including the Dipylon, the Sacred Gate, and the Pompeion...
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  • that Plutarch referred to as the "so called Iaccheion". Nearby was the Pompeion, the building which was the assembly point for the procession celebrating...
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    by a moat and a secondary wall (proteichisma). The construction of the Pompeion in the empty space between the Dipylon and Sacred Gate began shortly after...
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    Shrines and Festivals p.58 in Neils 1996. Before the construction of the Pompeion c. 400 BC the Leokoreion was the marshalling point for the festival procession...
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    Vergina. The use of a peristyle design may have been inspired by the nearby Pompeion, but there was no close model for the design. Some aspects of the colonnade...
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    Wilhelm Kraiker and Karl Kübler, based on finds from the Kerameikos and Pompeion cemeteries in Athens and Salamis. The existence of the style was initially...
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  • late Hellenistic architecture and the topography of ancient Rhodes. Das Pompeion und seine Nachfolgerbauten, de Gruyter, Berlin 1976 (Kerameikos, Bd. 10)...
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