Sacred Gate Kouros in Athens
The "Sacred Gate Kouros".
600-590 BC.
From the Sacred Gate area
The Kerameikos, named after the potters who worked here, played an important role in the history of ancient Athens but the main interest is the large cemetery from antiquity.
The site has many ruins and rubble in addition to a few surviving funerary monuments and copies of statues. Even with an audioguide, it requires a lot of imagination to make much sense out of this historically important venue.
The small museum is well worth seeing. It has many of the original sculptures and other archaeological finds at the site. (Many more are in the National Archaeological Museum). The most famous is the bull from the grave of Dionysios of Kollytos.
The 5-Day Combined Ticket includes entry to the most important archaeological sites in Athens:
- Acropolis & Slopes (including Parthenon)
- Kerameikos
- Hadrian's Library
- Olympieion (Temple of Zeus)
- Roman Agora (Forum)
- Aristotle's School (Lyceum)
Sacred Gate Kouros in Athens
The "Sacred Gate Kouros".
600-590 BC.
From the Sacred Gate area
The Kerameikos, named after the potters who worked here, played an important role in the history of ancient Athens but the main interest is the large cemetery from antiquity.
The site has many ruins and rubble in addition to a few surviving funerary monuments and copies of statues. Even with an audioguide, it requires a lot of imagination to make much sense out of this historically important venue.
The small museum is well worth seeing. It has many of the original sculptures and other archaeological finds at the site. (Many more are in the National Archaeological Museum). The most famous is the bull from the grave of Dionysios of Kollytos.
The 5-Day Combined Ticket includes entry to the most important archaeological sites in Athens:
- Acropolis & Slopes (including Parthenon)
- Kerameikos
- Hadrian's Library
- Olympieion (Temple of Zeus)
- Roman Agora (Forum)
- Aristotle's School (Lyceum)