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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 second 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 sixth 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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