A visit to Kerameikos in Athens

Kerameikos (Υπότιτλοι στα Ελληνικά - Embedded subtitles in ENG )
Kerameikos was the kerameis’ (potters') quarter of the city. From kerameis derives the English word "ceramic".
The site includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls. The "Inner Kerameikos" was the former "potters' quarter" within the city and "Outer Kerameikos" covers the cemetery and also the Dēmósion Sēma (public graveyard) just outside the city walls, where Pericles delivered his funeral oration in 431 BC. The cemetery was also where the “Sacred Way” began, along which the procession moved for the Eleusinian Mysteries. The quarter was located there because of the abundance of clay mud carried over by the Eridanos River.
After the construction of the city wall, the Sacred Way and a forking street known as the Street of the Tombs again became lined with imposing sepulchral monuments belonging to the families of rich Athenians, dating to before the late 4th century BC. The construction of such lavish mausolea was banned by decree in 317 BC, following which only small columns or inscribed square marble blocks were permitted as grave stones.
There is also a small well organized museum. The Kerameikos Museum houses the most extensive collection of burial-related artifacts in Greece, varying from large-scale marble sculpture to funerary urns, stelae, jewelry, toys etc. The original burial monument sculptures are displayed within the museum, having been replaced by plaster replicas in situ. The museum incorporates inner and outer courtyards, where the larger sculptures are kept.
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