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Statue of a Naxian marble Kouros found at Ancient Thera and on display in the National Archaeological Museum Athens. Naxian marble is a large-crystaled white marble which is quarried from the Cycladic Island of Naxos in Greece. It was among the most significant types of marble for ancient Greece and it continues to be quarried in modern times.
The Gate of Athena Archegetis is situated west side of the Roman Agora, in Athens and considered to be the second most prominent remain in the site after the Tower of the Winds. Constructed in 11 BCE by donations from Julius Caesar and Augustus , the gate was made of an architrave standing on four Doric columns and a base, all of Pentelic marble .
The fortifications of Classical Athens, including the Themistoclean Wall around the city and the Long Walls. The city of Athens, capital of modern Greece, has had different sets of city walls from the Bronze Age to the early 19th century. The city walls of Athens include: the Mycenaean Cyclopean fortifications of the Acropolis of Athens
The latter, while an inexact copy, is clearly informed by the Athenian original likely drawing on Le Roy’s work, then the only reference source before the publication of The Antiquities of Athens. Commissioned by the King of Prussia, the Gate inaugurated the Greek Revival in Germany even though the edifice deviated notably from the canonical ...
The remains of the Dipylon Gate today. The Dipylon (Greek: Δίπυλον, "Two-Gated") was the main gate in the city wall of Classical Athens.Located in the modern suburb of Kerameikos, it led to the namesake ancient cemetery, and to the roads connecting Athens with the rest of Greece.
The relief is made of Pentelic marble, and it is 2,20 m. tall, 1,52 m. wide, and 15 cm thick. [4] It depicts the three most important figures of the Eleusianian Mysteries; the goddess of agriculture and abundance Demeter, her daughter Persephone queen of the Underworld and the Eleusinian hero Triptolemus, the son of Queen Metanira, [3] [4] in what appears to be a rite. [1]
Athens, Greek mainland: Lintel block, largest 12.25 ~ 437–432 BC Propylaia [5] Athens, Greek mainland: Lintel block, relieving [A 1] 8.75 ~ 437–432 BC Propylaia [5] Athens, Greek mainland: Ceiling beam, west porch 10 ~ 421–405 BC Erechtheion [5] Athens, Greek mainland: Block over Pandroseion: 11.5 ~ 421–405 BC Erechtheion [5] Athens ...
The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance ...