Eridanos () was the small stream that flowed from a source in the foothills of the Lykabettos, through the Agora of ancient Athens in Greece to the archaeological site of the Kerameikos, where its bed is still visible.

The Kerameikos Mouseum is housed there, in a small neoclassical building that houses the most extensive collection of burial-related artifacts in Greece, varying from large-scale marble sculpture to funerary urns, stelae, jewelry, toys etc.

This pottery is best known from the cemeteries of Kerameikos in Athens, the island of Salamis located in the Saronic Gulf off Attica, Skoubris in Lefkandi ( Euboea ), and the markets of Athens ( Agora ), Tiryns, and Mycenae.

Over the years the museum has been further endowed by various donors, and it now includes the seaside Kouloura Mansion in Palaio Phaliro, which is to house a Children's Toys Collection, the Benaki Islamic Art Museum in the Kerameikos district, the Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Museum in downtown Athens, and the Penelope Delta House in Kifissia, which houses the Historical Archive Collection.

Kerameikos | Kerameikos Archaeological Museum in Athens

At Athens, the traveller Pausanias was informed in the second-century CE that the cult of Aphrodite Urania above the Kerameikos was so ancient that it had been established by Aegeus, whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself.

During the construction of Kerameikos station for the expanded Athens Metro, a plague pit and approximately 1, 000 tombs from the 4th and 5th centuries BC were discovered.

Latest findings in the Kerameikos include the excavation of a 2. 1 m tall Kouros, unearthed by the German Archaeological Institute at Athens under the direction of Professor Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier.

For the Panathenaic festival, arguably the most important civic festival at Athens, a torch race began at the altar, which was located outside the sacred boundary of the city, and passed through the Kerameikos, the district inhabited by potters and other artisans who regarded Prometheus and Hephaestus as patrons.

Both cemeteries such as the Kerameikos in Athens or Lefkandi and sanctuaries such as Olympia, recently-founded Delphi or the Heraion of Samos, first of the colossal free-standing temples, are richly provided with offerings including items from the Near East, from Egypt and from Italy made of exotic materials such as amber or ivory, while exports of Greek pottery demonstrate contact with the Levant coast at such sites as Al Mina and with the region of the Villanovan culture to the north of Rome.

The earliest known combination lock was excavated in a Roman period tomb on the Kerameikos, Athens.

File: 1257-Keramikos Museum, Athens-Iron tool-Photo by Giovanni Dall ' Orto, Nov 12 2009. jpg | Ancient Greek iron hoe, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens.

Iron Age burials, in the Kerameikos and other locations, are often richly provided for and demonstrate that from 900 BC onwards Athens was one of the leading centres of trade and prosperity in the region ; as were Lefkandi in Euboea and Knossos in Crete.

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek iron sickle, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens.

The Kerameikos was the potters ' quarter of Athens.

The neighborhoods of Plaka ( Πλάκα ), Monastiraki ( Μοναστηράκι ), Psiri ( Ψυρρή ) and Kolonaki ( Κολωνάκι ) are all within walking distance, and most of the famous sites of ancient Athens are nearby, including the Acropolis ( Ακρόπολις ), the Theater of Dionysus, the Areopagus, the Ancient Agora of Athens ( Αρχαία Αγορά των Αθηνών ) with Hadrian's Library, the Tower of the Winds in the Roman Agora, the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, the Arch of Hadrian ( Αψίς του Ανδριανού ), the Temple of Olympian Zeus ( Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός ), the Pnyx ( Πνύκα ), the Philopappos Monument ( Μνημείο του Φιλοπάππου ) on the Hill of the Nymphs, the Kerameikos Cemetery ( Νεκροταφείο Κεραμικού ), the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ( Μνημείο του Αγνώστου Στρατιώτη ) and Lycabettus Hill.

A mass grave and nearly 1, 000 tombs, dated to between 430 and 426 BC, have been found just outside Athens ' ancient Kerameikos cemetery.

File: 1017-Keramikos Museum, Athens-Spindle-whirls, 10th century BC-Photo by Giovanni Dall ' Orto, Nov 12. jpg | Ancient Greek spindles, 10th century BC, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens

The walk from Athens to the Academy was 6 stadia ( 1 mile ) from the Dipylon gates ( Kerameikos ).

Down the hill from the museum, visitors can wander among the Outer Kerameikos ruins, the Demosion Sema, the banks of the Eridanos where some water still flows, the remains of the Pompeion and the Dipylon Gate, and walk the first blocks of the Sacred Way towards Eleusis and of the Panethenaic Way towards the Acropolis.

The " Inner Kerameikos " was the former " potters ' quarter " within the city and " Outer Kerameikos " covers the cemetery and also the Dēmósion Sēma ( δημόσιον σῆμα, public graveyard ) just outside the city walls, where Pericles delivered his funeral oration in 431 BC.

Its course has been for the most part covered since ancient times, and was only visible outside the ancient walls in the district of Kerameikos.

According to ancient Greek sources, a hecatomb ( a sacrifice of 100 cows ) was carried out for the festival and the people received the meat in the Kerameikos, possibly in the Dipylon courtyard ; excavators have found heaps of bones in front of the city wall.

At the suggestion of Themistocles, all of the funerary sculptures were built into the city wall and two large city gates facing north-west were erected in the Kerameikos.

The procession to Eleusis began at Kerameikos ( the Athenian cemetery ) on 19th Boedromion from where the people walked to Eleusis, along what was called the " Sacred Way " ( Ιερά Οδός, Hierá Hodós ), swinging branches called bacchoi.

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.

* Kerameikos, Ergebnisse Der Ausgrabungen by Wilhelm Kraiker, Karl Kubler

Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos | Kerameikos museum c. 390 BC

Archaeological excavations in the Kerameikos began in 1870 under the auspices of the Greek Archaeological Society.

* Ursula Knigge: Der Kerameikos von Athen.

Überraschende Neufunde archaischer Skulptur im Kerameikos in Athen.

* Akten des Internationalen Symposions Die Ausgrabungen im Kerameikos, Bilanz und Perspektiven.

* www. athensinfoguide. com Kerameikos

His nephew Aristocreon erected a statue in his honour in the Kerameikos.

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