3. Inner Kerameikos: Potter’s Quarters within the city
Outer Kerameikos: cemetery and public graveyard outside the city
walls
478 BC: Building of city wall after Persian invasion – funerary
sculptures built into the wall
The area outside the city walls on both sides of the roads became
the official cemetery of the city. State graves, for notable statesman
and warriors, were built near Dipylon Gate
The Sacred Way to Eleusis was an important part of the area
Pompeion: where the nobility of Athens would eat the sacrificial
meat for the Panathenaic festival
