Pompeion

archaeological site · 550 BC – 2099 AD

A building between the Dipylon Gate and the Sacred Gate used for preparing the Panathenaic procession during the Classical and Hellenistic periods, destroyed during the Sullan Sack in 86 B.C., restored ca. A.D. 144, and destroyed again in the Herulian Sack of A.D. 267.

Coordinates

37.97819, 23.71893

Also known as

Pompeîon (grc), Πομπεῖον (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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