Posted by: Athina | November 27, 2008

Athens tram

The tram of Athens is an articulated vehicle of two-way direction and has the potential of coupling two vehicles with transport capacity of 56 seated passengers, including special seating places for people with disabilities and place for more than 200 standing passengers. The network of the Athens tram has a total of 48 stops and 3 terminals in the stations of Syntagma square, in Sef and in Voula hospital. In 16 stops of the tram of Athens the platforms are central, while in 30 stops the platforms are lateral, in the stations of SEF and Voula there are two central piers. The tram stations of the Athens tram have seats and covers for the passengers plus visual and audio information system, publishing and Revocation machinery, electronic equipment hovel, frames display information materials (eg maps), clock, waste baskets, hovel electronic systems, lighting and closed circuit television .

Attitudes system has been installed on passenger information through audio and communications through variable message signs for the arrival times of the tram and also for any delays or problems in services and other additional informations. Also, there is emergency phone , which is used only in case of emergencies in order to communicate with the Operation Control Center of the Tram or in cases of works on the network.

In all the tram stops in several intersections are installed closed-circuit television system for the safety of the  passengers and to prevent malicious actions, and  monitoring the movement of trams in sections of engagement with road vehicles.

All administrative and operational services of the Athens tram are housed in the area of the old Airport at Elliniko. There are buildings of the company (offices, electromechanical installations, etc.), the Operation Control Center, the crew of rolling stock, where is held maintenance, repair and cleaning of the vehicles. The Athens tram together with the other Athens means of transport like the buses (ΚΤΕΛ) and the metro are very important for the solution of the traffic congestion in Athens.

Posted by: Athina | September 25, 2008

History of the ancient city of Athens

The history of Athens offers a vast field of investigation to specialists, given the large number of documents that came to their attention.

Athens has been inhabited without interruption for at least 3 000 years. In the first millennium BC. AD, it became one of the main cities of ancient Greece and its cultural achievements during the fifth century BC. AD have created the foundations of Western civilization.

During the Middle Ages, the city declined before recovering under the Byzantine Empire. Athens has also been relatively prosperous during the Crusades in taking advantage of Italian trade. After a long period of decline under the Ottoman Empire, Athens has again emerged in the nineteenth century as the capital of the independent Greek state.

The formation of the name would, according to some, the Indo-European root ath-probably meaning “head” or “summit” because of the Acropolis fortress located at the top of the hill of the same name, would be the “core founder” of the city. This also explains the origin of the mythological legend about the birth of the eponymous goddess, Athena that output would be “army” of the head of Zeus.

According to Thucydides, the name of Athens would come from the plural Athena , because he said the city would have caused a cluster of villages which merged in a large city.

It was located in a fertile valley surrounded by rivers about 20 km from the Saronic Gulf, central Plains céphisiennes. To the east, located on Mount Hymettus and north Mount Penteli. The River Kifissos once flowed in the city. There have been many historical events during the long periode of Athens history.

The ancient Athens was very small compared to the modern megalopolis. It was, intramural, an area of 2 km from east to west and a little less from north to south at its peak, it had yet also “suburbs” outside the walls. The Acropolis, from the center of the city, stood to the south and the Agora to 400 meters north of it, in what is now the Monastiraki district. The hill of the Pnyx, which met the Ecclesia, the assembly of Athenian citizens, was in the west.
Traces of human occupation are attested from the Neolithic to the site of the Acropolis  in the form of a small fort. But it is only following the Ionian invasions that Attica is organized in cities, including Cecropia, the future Athens.

C. 1400 BC. AD it became an important center of the Mycenaean civilization. Unlike other Mycenaean cities (including Mycenae and Pylos), it is not plundered or abandoned during the invasion of 1200 Doric Ave. AD
The Athenians said Ionian be “pure” and maintained that they had not mixed with Dorien. However, Athens lost the importance it had in Mycenaean times and then somewhat dark into oblivion, was once again a small fortified place.

In the eighth century BC. AD it becomes an important center of the Greek world because of its central location, its high on the Acropolis and access to the sea, an advantage over its rivals, the cities of Thebes and Sparta. Early in the first century it became a sovereign city-state, governed primarily by kings of Athens. They were at the head of Eupatridae (the “well born”), whose government was composed of a council which met on the hill of Ares, the Areopagus. This council elected representatives of the city, Archon and polémarques.

Posted by: Athina | June 4, 2008

The Panathinaikon Stadium of Athens

The Panathinaikon Stadium of Athens is located north of the hill Arditos and east of Zappeion hall .The Stadium allegedly from antiquity, in medieval times had stripped completely from its marbles as the most ancient buildings in Athens. When King Otto declared Athens as the capital of Greece only two stages of the right and left fronts of the entrance remained as visible ruins of the former stage.
 Around 1856 Evangelos Zappas offered to pay the costs for restoration of the stadium. Thus the development of projects awarded to F. Bylanze, but the realization of the project in this form was cancelled. In 1874, it was built the bridge of Ilissos before the Stadium . Then the track was levelled casual and in the depth of the field where placed wooden steps for the officials. In 1895 and the following year in order to make the planned international Olympic games decided the partial restoration with marble of the Stadium by the architect A. Metaxas. George Averoff one of the most important national benefactors has offered to finance the entire cost for the completion of the project. But because the time was not sufficient until 1896 and the first modern Olympics in Athens, it was completed only part of the field and all of the first series at least from the track. The renovations were completed in 1900.

Posted by: Athina | May 16, 2008

The district of Plaka in Athens

The Plaka is a district in the centre of Athens below the Acropolis. It borders the southern district of Makrygianni, with the area east of the temple of Zeus and Zappeion, north of the commercial centre of Athens and west of Monastiraki.
 
 After the second world war , the buildings of Plaka were preserved in their entirety as a Greek heritage, making Plaka as the only district of Athens in such an extent that one can see the city as it was 100 years ago. In Plaka use to be the main area of Athens nightlife , today there are museums, taverns, restaurants, cafes and tourist shops with goods, and buildings of famous citizens of the old Athens. 
 
In the Plaka section under the Acropolis there are the small districts of Anafiotika. This is a district built in Cycladic architecture and it was constructed by builders from the island of Anafi, who, in the second half of the 19 th century, seeking a quarter to build their homes, because the rental costs or purchase of land was expensive for them find this place.

Similar areas where internal migrants relocated and kept the architecture of their place of origin, are also in other areas of Athens.
 Near Plaka are the Acropolis and Syntagma metro and tram stops Syntagma and the Zappeion, while many lines of buses and trolley bus passing through the centre of Athens are near by.

Posted by: Athina | May 9, 2008

The Erechtheum of Athens

The Erechtheion, a temple on the Acropolis of Athens, was built  in the Ionian style in 420 to 406 BC  . The concept probably goes back to Pericles, who at the beginning of the construction died. As architects of the temple were Philokles and Archilochos under whose supervision the temple was completed around 406. Opposite Erechtheum is the temple of Parthenon the famous temple on the Acropolis of Athens.

It is build where the original palace of the mythical king Erechtheus I was. The temple complex sums in a number of old architectural form sculptures for a total of 13 deities and heroes. Thus, it contains the wooden, allegedly fallen from the sky sculpture image of the city goddess Athina, the annual festival at the newly decorated Panathenaia. It also includes the construction of the Earth tree in which Athena’s sacred snake lived, the sacred olive tree of the goddess, the salt source of the Poseidon who in a contest between Athena emerge, and the grave of the mythical King Cecrops I.

 Erechtheion, is well known for the main facade and the pillars of six girls figures the Caryatids . They were also described as caryatids (according to the Vitruvius they named after the city Karya in the Peloponnese), but it is not known exactly who they represent. One of the six was brought in 1811 by Lord Elgin in to Britain (now in the British Museum) and the remaining five have been replaced by replicas to avoid further damage from smog the originals are in the Acropolis Museum.

Posted by: Athina | May 7, 2008

The stoa of Attalus

The stoa of Attalus in Athens Greece is a portico built on the agora of Athens by Attalus II Philadelphus, King of Pergamon, circa 150 BC. in appreciation of the education received in the city penthouse. It was rebuilt in the same from 1953 to 1956 by the American School of Archaeology with funding from JD. Rockefeller and now houses the Museum of Ancient Agora in Athens.

Typical of Hellenistic art, the stoa of Attalus is a building large-scale, long by 116 wide and 50 metres by 20 metres 05. It has two floors: the ground floor belongs to the Doric order and the first floor to the Ionic order, and the two levels are connected by two staircases located at the ends of the building. The walls are made of Piraeus limestone, marble facade of Penteli and the roof is covered with tiles.

The hosts during antiquity twice twenty-one shops, each measuring 4 meters 91 on 4 metres 66: the premises are leased by the State Athens. It is therefore a shopping mall but also a place of sociability where citizens can gather and discuss while sheltering from the sun during the summer and cold in winter.

Posted by: Athina | January 13, 2008

The Benaki museum in Athens

The Benaki Museum one of the best Athens museums, ranks among the great benefactions which have enriched the material assets of the Greek state. At the same time, it is the oldest museum in Greece, which functions as a Foundation under Private Law.

Through its extensive collections covering several different cultural fields, as well as its more general range of activities which serve more than one social need, the Benaki Museum is perhaps the sole instance of a complex structure within the wider network of museum foundations in Greece.

This group of collections comprises many distinct categories totaling more than 30.000 items illustrating the character of the Greek world through a spectacular historical panorama: from antiquity and the age of Roman domination to the medieval Byzantine period, from the fall of Constantinople (1453) and the centuries of Frankish and Ottoman occupation to the outbreak of the war for independence in 1821, and from the formation of the modern state of Greece (1830) down to 1922, the year in which the Asia Minor disaster took place.

The Numismatic Museum of Athens Greece, with a history going back to 1829, is one of the few of its kind in the world and the only such museum in the Balkans. It provides continuous educational support for Hellenism in terms of numismatics, history and art history.

The strength of the collection lies in some six hundred thousand coins covering the ancient Greek world, the Roman and Byzantine periods, western Mediaeval times and modern times, “hoards” (closed numismatic groups), weights, lead stamps, medals and precious stones. About ten thousand volumes devoted to the special field of numismatics, to Athens history, to seals and to archaeology, as well as off prints, fascicles, and general publications cover the archaeological material. In addition there is an extraordinarily rich archive of documents.

The Iliou Melathron (The Palace of Ilion), the house of Heinrich Schliemann, which houses the Numismatic Museum, is a work of the German architect Ernst Ziller in the style of buildings of the Italian Renaissance adapted to the neoclassical spirit of the late 19th century. The building was inaugurated on the 10th of January, 1881. The walls inside are decorated with wall paintings copying Pompeian themes and the finds of Schliemann at Troy and Mycenae.

With many activities, such as scientific and informative publications (in printed as well as electronical form), cycles of educational lectures, lectures, symposia, the organization of periodic and occasional exhibitions, educational programs, participation in international programs, the Museum will become a centre of research and attraction for scholars and for the wider public.

Conservation of metal objects belonging to the Museum and coins from the excavations of the Archaeological Ephorates is carried out in the fully equipped laboratory.

The exhibition of the objects, provided with electronical support, is organized to show various themes (history of the Museum, donors, life and work of Heinrich Schliemann, the architect of the Iliou Melathron, an introduction to numismatics, the mints of Athens and of Alexander the Great, Greek colonization, numismatic “hoards”, portrait heads, statues and coins, mythological representations, buildings, fauna, flora, etc.).

Planned also is the sale of publications, copies and so on, to be on the first floor and a cafe in the garden.

In its endeavor to communicate to a broad spectrum of the public both the obvious, self-evident significance of numismatics and the less-apparent, concealed aspect of the art, which has attended human vanity throughout the ages, the Numismatic Museum of Athens, in collaboration with the Archaeological Receipts Fund, has published a series of elegant, concise guides for visitors to the exhibition in the Iliou Melathron, which illustrates the importance of coins, here arranged by subject, as a source of knowledge and delight.

Posted by: Athina | January 13, 2008

Byzantine Athens

The church of the Holy Apostles is one of the oldest Christian churches (early 11th century A.D.) in the area of the ancient Greek Agora. It stands a little South of the Stoa of Attalus. A minute church, it has four apses and a narthex with the lower part of the walls built of massive blocks and the upper section in stone masonry, lined with bricks. Sotira Likodimou (Russian Church) This is the largest medieval structure in Athens. It was built in 1031, as part of a Roman Catholic monastery that survived until 1701, on the ruins of Roman Baths, formed an important monastic group, till its destruction from the Turks. The building was restored by Czar Alexander II in the 1850s. It is now used as the Russian Orthodox Church of Athens.It stands in Filellinon str. and belongs to the octagonal style with dome. Map of Athens – Regions – Athens center map – photo gallery Map of Piraeus – Regions – photo gallery Kapnikarea The church of Panagia is built on the ruins of an ancient temple, dedicated to a female goddess, possibly Athena or Demeter.This church stands in the middle of the street, about half way up on Ermou Street, and dates to the end of the 11th century A.D. Originally, it had been built in the cruciform style with dome supported on four pillars. Later, the small porch was added on the southern side and also the chapel on the northern side and the external narthex with the watershed roof on the western side. Church of Saint George Lycabettus   This is a white church situated at the  of Lycabettus Hill, with a spectacular view over Athens. It is said that in ancient times on this site stood the temple of the Akraios Zeus. The exact date of its construction is not known. It can be reached either on foot or by the cable car. The Kaisariani Monastery   The Monastery lies at a short distance to the east of Athens, on a hillside at the foot of Mt. Hymettos. It is enclosed by a high wall with two gates, one on the east and one on the west side. The interior of the church is decorated with wall paintings dated before 1700. Monastery of Daphni   Built in the 11th century, it is one of the finest Byzantine Monasteries around Athens

Posted by: Athina | January 13, 2008

What the tourists see in Athens

The Diogenes Lamp is a choregic monument of the 4th century B.C. which stands at the junction of Lysicrates and Lord Byron Streets. It served as a pedestal for the bronze tripod set upon its summit – a trophy for the victor of a choregic contest.
The Clock Of Andronikos Kurrhestes
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This is located outside the western entrance to the Roman Market. It was constructed in the lst centrury B.C. by the astronomer Andronikos from Kyrrhos in Macedonia and is shaped like an octagonal tower. It served as a form of meteorological station since it combined a sundial and water clock and also had a weathervane to show the direction of the wind. Each face is adorned with a relief representing the wind blowing from that direction, hence its nickname in Greek “aerides” meaning “the winds”.(Thus Tower of Winds).

Kerameikos
 Kerameikos was named after the community of the potters (kerameis) who occupied the whole area along the banks of river Eridanos or according to the traveller Pausanias was named after Keramos a hero of the demos of Kerameis.
The walls of Athens, which were constructed in the 5th century B.C. by Themistocles, divided the area into two sections, the “inner” and “outer” Kerameikos. The wall had two gates, Dipylon and the Sacred Gate, placed at the outset of the two most important processional roads of Athens, the Panathenaic Way which led to the Acropolis, and the Sacred Way which led to Eleusis. Outside the city walls, along the sides of both roads lay the official cemetery of the city, which was continuously used from the 9th century B.C. until the late Roman period.
The ancient demos of Kerameikos included an area much larger than the one excavated. It is believed that it stretched from the north west limits of the Agora to the grove named after the hero Academos.

Systematic excavations on the site were begun in 1870 by the Greek Archaeological Society under the direction of St. Koumanoudis, and were continued during the following decades in collaboration with the German archaeologists A. Brueckner and F. Noack. In 1913, the Greek Government entrusted the excavations to the German Archaeological Institute, which is still conducting the investigation of the site.

The most important monuments of the site are:

Part of the Themistocleian wall. The wall of the city of Athens was constructed in 478 B.C. and crossed the area of Kerameikos in a N-S direction.
Dipylon was the greatest and most official gate of the city of Athens, also constructed in 478 B.C. It had two passageways that gave access to an internal courtyard with four towers erected at its corners. From this gate started the procession of the Panathenaea, the most important festival of ancient Athens, following the Panathenaic Way that led up to the Acropolis.
The Pompeion. Spacious building with a peristyle courtyard, used for the preparation of festival processions. In the Pompieion were kept the sacral items used at the Panathenaic procession. Dated to the end of the 5th century B.C.
The Sacred Gate was one of the gates of the city wall built by Themistocles in 478 B.C. It allowed the passage of river Eridanos and of the Sacred Way, the processional way that led to Eleusis. It was protected by two square towers and had a courtyard divided into two parts, one of which was occupied by the bank of the river. Dated to 478 B.C.

Grave circle. In this precinct was found the famous stele of Hegeso, dated to 410 B.C.

Marble bull in the plot of Dionysios of Kollytos ( 345 – 338 B.C. ).

The “Demosion Sema”, the public cemetery of the city, extended just outside the Dipylon gate. The graves were constructed along the sides of the road which became very wide (up to 40 m.) outside the walls. A part of the “Demosion Sema” cemetery has been brought to light in 1997, during a rescue excavation.
The Fountain House. The hypostyle fountain was located on the left side of the entrance of the Dipylon gate and provided a continuous supply of water to the inhabitants of the city and the travellers. It was built in 307-304 B.C.

The finds from the excavations of Kerameikos are exhibited in the Museum of Kerameikos and the National Archaeological Museum.
Tombs and Stylae
Its tombs and steles are what Kerameikos is mainly known for.
Strolling around them you will have the chance to admire the marble bull inside the enclosure of the tomb of Dionysios from Kollytos; also the replica of the well-known stele of Dexileos placed where the original used to be and the stele of Hegeso (late 5th century B.C.).
If you wish to see the original stelae as well as other finds from the excavation you must walk to the Museum near Ermou Street.

The relief (above image, left item) shows Hegeso seated, taking a jewel out of a box that her female slave is holding. It is believed that the background of the relief and the jewel were painted blue and gold respectively. At the top of the stele her name is engraved: Hegeso Proxeno.

The skill with which the melancholy expression on Hegeso’s face and the folds of her dress are depicted is beyond description.
 
Hadrian’s Library
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The rectangular building of the Library comprises a Corinthian propylon on the west side, an open peristyle courtyard, three projecting conches on each of the long sides, a library, study and lecture halls.

It was built in A.D. 132 by emperor Hadrian, was destroyed by the Herulae in A.D. 267, and was subsequently incorporated into the Late Roman fortification wall. It was repaired by the Roman eparchus Herculius in A.D. 412, and in the 5th century the quatrefoil building of the Early Christian church was constructed in the centre of the peristyle court. After its destruction, a three-aisled basilica was erected on its ruins in the 7th century, which was in turn superseded by the single-aisled church of Megale Panaghia, in the 11th century.

During the Turkish occupation it became the seat of the Voevode (Governor) and in 1835, the barracks of king Otho were erected in the place of the Voevodalik.
The first excavations on the site were carried out by W. Doerpfeld and St. Koumanoudis, in the central and eastern part of the monument, after the great fire of 1885, which damaged the Agora (Bazaar) and the church of Megale Panaghia.

Between 1942 and 1950 a second excavation campaign was conducted by the Italians, and later by A. Orlandos and I. Meliades. Between 1970 and 1980, J. Travlos carried out excavations at the NE auditorium and the quatrefoil building. Since 1987 the 1st Ephorate of Antiquities has been conducting systematic excavations in the west section of the monument.
In the years 1960-70 restoration work was carried out at the west facade and the colonnade of the basilica of Megale Panaghia, and in 1975-76 the Propylon was consolidated. The 1st Ephorate is currently preparing a study for the reconstruction of the Propylon and the south wing of the facade of the building.

The most important monuments of the site are:
- Quatrefoil Building. The building with the four apses, dated to the 5th century A.D., was an Early Christian church with a peripteral narthex, exonarthex and a wide peristyle atrium on the west side.

- Church of Megale Panaghia. The first church was a three-aisled basilica, built in the 7th century A.D. on the ruins of the quatrefoil building which had been destroyed in the 6th century A.D. The basilica was in its turn destroyed in the 11th century A.D. and a single-aisled church with a chapel to the north was erected in its place. It survived for centuries but was burnt down in 1885.

- Ruins of a church. The north wall and remains of the sanctuary are preserved. The church lies to the north of the quatrefoil building and dates from the 17th century A.D.
 
The Stoa of Attalus
 
This was built by Attalus the Second, King of Pergamos (159-138 B.C.) purely for trading purposes. It was a two-storey building with internal and external rows of pillars which lead into 21 shops on each floor. Fully restored today, the arcade is used as a museum with entrances giving on to Theseion (Thissio) Square and Andrianou Street. It contains mostly finds from the excavations carried out in the area of the Agora. Among these are numerous inscriptions, statues, reliefs, pieces from the temples of Hephaistos and Ares, thousands of vases, coins, bronze articles, miniatures, etc. Some of the more interesting items found are the weight and measurement standards, a clay water clock, part of the ballot box used for the election of city officials in Athens, a bronze shield taken from the defeated Spartans on the island of Sfaktiria “ostraka” (sherds) bearing the names of well-known Athenians such as Aristides the Just, Kallixenos and others, as well as an inscription containing a law passed in 336 B.C. against tyranny.

Posted by: Athina | January 13, 2008

Athens historical past

The are many important museums in Athens, the Byzantine Museum was founded in 1914. From 1930 on it has been housed in the “Ilisia” mansion, which belonged to the Duchess of Placentia and was built in 1848 by the architect Stamatis Kleanthes. It was transformed into a museum by the architect Aristotle Zachos. Today an addition is being made and a large extension with basement and buildings in part above ground. The architectural design is by Manos Perrakis.
The collections of the Byzantine Museum show the course of Greek art from the 4th to the 19th century. They comprise sculptural works, paintings and small works of all sorts. These works represent the artistic production of the Greek area, and other regions both central and peripheral of the Byzantine empire and subsequently of Hellenism on into post-Byzantine times.

The Museum collections include the following:

- Byzantine and post-Byzantine ikons.
- Sculpture
- Manuscripts
- Wall paintings
- Mosaics
- Small objects (cloth, coins, pottery, metal objects, silver)
- Wood carvings
- Patterns (anthibola), bronze engravings, lithographs
- A collection of old prints (incunabula)
- A collection of copies of paintings

The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum (ILJM) is a centre for international jewelry studies. On permanent display are the creations by Ilias Lalaounis, an Athenian jeweler and goldsmith, elected member to the French Academy des Beaux-Arts. The Museum organizes temporary exhibitions on various aspects of modern or antique jewelry and runs a series of educational and cultural activities.

The Athens museum of Lalaounis operates as a non-profit cultural institution; following the combined approval of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Finance the Museum is a registered charity. The ILJM opened to the public in December 1994. It is housed in the old Ilias Lalaounis workshop on the south slope of the Acropolis. The building, a beautiful 1930s house, was renovated by Vassilis Gregoriadis on plans prepared by Bernard Zehrfuss.

The permanent exhibition displays 3000 pieces of jewelry and micro-sculpture from 45 collections designed by Lalaounis in the period 1940-1992. They include jewelry inspired by prehistoric art, Bronze Age Greece, Greek jewelry from the Classical and the Hellenistic periods, Byzantium, the art of Persia, the Ottoman Empire and the Far East, as well as creations marking developments in technology and science, from breakthroughs in biology to space travel.

The exhibition is documented by trilingual labels in Greek, English, and French. Guided tours are also given in German and Italian. A variety of videos in Greek, English, and French are available for show at all times in a specially provided Projection Room. Actual jewelry craftsmen may be seen at work in the Museum’s Model Workshop. There is a Cafe and restaurant on the ground floor, and a roof garden with a view to the South side of the Parthenon

The Epigraphical Museum was founded in 1885 and it was established in the ground floor of the building of the National Archaeological Museum, which was constructed between 1866 and 1889, according to architectural plans by L.Lange and E.Ziller.
It was renovated and extended in six new rooms, during the years 1953-1960, according to plans of the architect P.Karantinos.
It comprises a collection of Attic inscriptions and also a collection of inscriptions from other districts of Greece.

Decree of the Athenian people assembly (Demos) ordering, after a proposal of Themistocles, the evacuation of Athens, the mobilization of the fleet and other measures, before the Persian invasion in Attica in 480 B.C. (3rd cent. B.C. copy from Troizen). Height 0,61, width 0,37, thickness 0,09 m.

Sacred law concerning temple-worship on the Acropolis (including the so called Hekatompedon temple). The inscription is the finest example of stoichedon writing (letters arranged in ranks) of the Archaic period, (485/4 B.C.). Height 1,175, width 1,02, thickness 0,125 m.

Stele with building accounts concerning the construction of the Erectheion and the Parthenon on the Acropolis in the year 408/7 B.C. Height 0,955, width 0,445, thickness 0,10 m.

Stele, on which specifications (syngraphai) have been engraved for the construction of the “skeuotheke” (arsenal) at Piraeus, entrusted to the architects Philon and Euthydomos (347/6 B.C.). Height 1,175, width 0,54, thickness 0,10 m.
Inscribed poros stele, dedicated to the goddess Athena, concerning the institution of the Panathenaic Games (566 B.C.). Height 0,36, width 0,68, thickness 0,25 m.

Fragment of lime stone with a graffito found on the Athens Acropolis. The two preserved lines are written boustrophedon (i.e., from right to left and from left to right). The graffito is one of the earliest examples of Greek writing on stone (8th cent. B.C.). Height 0,082, width 0,081, thickness 0,015 m. On the Erehtheion are to be seen th Caryatides.
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Stele found in Eleusis with a decree of the Athenian people assembly (demos) concerning the offerings (“aparchai” i.e.first fruits) of cereals to the Eleusinian goddesses Demeter and Kore (Persephone) (circa 422 B.C.). Height 1,33, width 0,50, thickness 0,095 m.

Stele with the text of the Second Athenian League (378/7 B.C.). Height 1,99, width 0,50, thickness 0,17 m.
Stele bearing a 409/8 B.C. copy of the Draconian laws (7th cent. B.C.), concerning homicide. Height 1,025, width 0,72, thickness 0,135 m.
Altar dedecated to Apollo Pythios by Peisistratos the younger, grandson of the tyrant, during his archonship in Athens (circa 521 B.C.). Height 0,18, width 1,85, thickness 0,55 m.

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