Kerameikos

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

References & Further Reading

http://www.visit-ancient-greece.com/kerameikos.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerameikos

http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh351.jsp?obj_id=2392

http://www.ancientathens3d.com/kerameikosEn.htm