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Headword:
*kerameikoi/
Adler number: kappa,1356
Translated headword: Kerameikoi, Potters' Quarters
Vetting Status: high
Translation: There were two Kerameikoi [sc. in
Athens], one inside the city, the other outside, where they used to give a public burial to those who had died in war, and make the funeral speeches.
*kerameikoi/: du/o h)=san *kerameikoi/, o( me\n e)/ndon th=s po/lews, o( de\ e)/cw: e)/nqa kai\ tou\s e)n pole/mw| teleuth/santas e)/qapton dhmosi/a| kai\ tou\s e)pitafi/ous e)/legon.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v.
Kerameikos, commenting on Antiphon fr. 41 Sauppe (and citing Callikrates/Menecles [FGrH 370 F4b] for the information given).
See also
kappa 1354,
kappa 1355,
kappa 1357, and (on the Kleisthenic deme Kerameis, within it)
kappa 1360. Modern scholars prefer to define the
Kerameikos not as two locations but a single, large one in NW
Athens, stretching from the
Agora to the Dipylon Gate and the extramural cemetery beyond.
OCD(4) p.300 (Ceramicus)
Keywords: definition; geography; historiography; military affairs; rhetoric; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 November 2000@06:33:33.
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