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commonmugwort.bsky.social
Ruins of Athens: asymmetrical loss

#Athens #UrbanPhotography #AbandonedPlaces
The open panel of a courtyard door. A derelict house in the Kerameikos neighbourhood. Wood painted pale blue surrounds a symmetrical wrought iron design a bit like a harp, two large spirals with vertical bars above. Probably there was originally glass behind- later boarded up, the boarding now broken. The left hand spiral is missing and a padlocked chain holds the door closed. Through the bars, at the end of a narrow corridor, concrete steps ascend to a landing and turn. The iron bars of the reinforced concrete show through. The landing is painted pale blue and has a window. The whole looks worn and dilapidated.
March 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
dberger43.bsky.social
If you're ever in Athens, go to the ancient cemetery of Kerameikos, in which you will find many happy turtles. Also amazing grave markers, and few tourists.
April 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ewg118.bsky.social
A handful of Athenian vases from the Yale University Art Gallery have been integrated into Kerameikos. The #LinkedArt JSON-LD was extracted from LUX and distilled into CIDOC-CRM integrated with Kerameikos concept URIs. #classicsbluesky kerameikos.org/id/yale
A screenshot of the page https://kerameikos.org/object/?uri=https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/1726, which is a Greek vase in the Yale University Art Gallery collection. It includes metadata, images, and a map showing the production place (Athens).
October 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
archaeohawke.bsky.social
#Glass Amphoriskos (small amphora), #Roman age (1st/2nd century AD), currently exhibited in Room 11 ("#Hellenistic and Roman ages") of the Kerameikos Archaeological Museum (#Athens).
📸 by Giovanni Dall'Orto,
#Ancient #artwork #art #History
November 4, 2023 at 4:46 AM
rocinante.bsky.social
Was fortunate enough to see in person both Parthenons within a few months’ time
The Parthenon in Athens, taken from pretty far away in the Kerameikos. The skeletal remains of the temple sit atop the Acropolis. The Propylaea and temple of Athena Nike sit to the right. The Parthenon in Nashville, taken from the northeast.
August 14, 2023 at 12:35 AM
justmayemoramx.bsky.social
A funerary bull, Pentelic marble turned to ghostlight (c. 345–340 BC). Kerameikós still whispers: names fade, bones dissolve, but stone endures—solemn, unblinking. Eternity hides in the cracks, where silence devours memory whole.

#Photography #VisualStorytelling #ArtHistory #AncientArt #photosky
Wilhelm von Plüschow (1852-1930), Boy sitting in front of the tomb for Dionysios of Kollitos (late 4th century BC) in the Street of Tombs in the Ancient Greek Kerameikos Cemetery (Athens) (1895).
September 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
schlep84.bsky.social
Was looking forward to a visit to the Kerameikos last week contemplating the road to Piraeus & the Long Walls, but it's currently closed. Sigh.
September 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
cronicas.bsky.social
El Cerámico (Kerameikos) es el nombre de un demo, barrio de los alfareros de la antigua Atenas, al noroeste de la Acrópolis de Atenas.​
Según Heródoto, su nombre proviene del griego κέραμος keramos, tierra cocida.
Para Pausanias, el nombre proviene más bien de Céramo, hijo de Ariadna y de Dioniso.
March 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Fascinating! Love the waving hand. The pillar grave markers are perhaps the simplest in the Kerameikos. There are slabs, some with relief carvings, entire family groups in deep relief, and fully 3 dimensional statues on some other graves.
April 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Athens by night: Kerameikos
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Night. Black and white. A street, a sidewalk, the moon overhead, a parked car. On a step outside a shuttered store, a pair of white plastic mannequin legs, female and disembodied, sits, knees bent.
January 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
vassilistsarnas.bsky.social
#Greece: A 65-year-old man was arrested following an homophobic attack in Keramikos, Athens, against a 28-year-old #gay man, on Saturday. First, he was yelled at by him & another man in a car. Later, they returned, to beat & injure him.
#homophobia
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Κεραμεικός: Συνελήφθη 65χρονος για ομοφοβική επίθεση σε βάρος 27χρονου
Στη σύλληψη ενός 65χρονου προχώρησαν οι Αρχές για ομοφοβική επίθεση σε βάρος ενός 27χρονου στην περιοχή του Κεραμεικού.
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November 27, 2024 at 10:57 AM
ahistoryofdogs.bsky.social
A stele depicting a fight between a dog and a cat. 510 BCE, relief from the Kerameikos necropolis in Athens, Greece. Now on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
February 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
belovedofoizys.bsky.social
Clicked on a YouTube trailer for "murder on Eridanos" because for some reason I thought it would be about a murder next to a stream in the Kerameikos and not a spaceship. I did think it was too good to be true...
November 18, 2024 at 1:53 PM
ewg118.bsky.social
More than 14,000 objects from @metmuseum.org added to Kerameikos.org, transformed from the CSV export on Github into #linkedart compliant CIDOC-CRM. Most of the objects are fragmentary, but some are intact vases, primarily Athenian in origin. kerameikos-project.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...
A screenshot of the Kerameikos.org page for Exekias, showing a Greek vase from the Met Museum overlaid upon a map and other example images.
September 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
archaeohawke.bsky.social
AncientBlueSky🏺

#Glass Amphoriskos (small amphora), #Roman period (1st/2nd century AD).

Currently exhibited in, Room 11 (Hellenistic and Roman ages) of the Kerameikos Archaeological Museum (#Athens).

📸 by Giovanni Dall'Orto,
#Ancient #Art #History
December 19, 2024 at 12:21 AM
circa-candace.bsky.social
The Kerameikos, Athens, taken by William Woodhouse in the 1890s. The monument for Demetria and Pamphile was revealed during the 1870 excavations of the Archaeological Society at Athens under the direction of St. Koumanoudis, K.D. Mylonas, v. Stais & G. Oikonomou 🏺📜
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A black and white image of an archaeological site with paths around marble and stone standing monuments of different height and preservation. On the left in the foreground is a large monument depicting two women inside a rectangular frame.
December 1, 2024 at 11:23 PM
2btraveling.bsky.social
#TravelTuesday photo: a large bull that was once atop a grave at the #Kerameikos Archaeological Site in #Athens, #Greece
February 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
thedancinggrad.bsky.social
Visited more today than I thought I would! Agora, Kerameikos, Acropolis, and Areopagus down. Now to feast at To steki tou ilia (I hope you haven't oversold the lamb chops @FlintDibble & @guerrist) and take it easy before the Acropolis and National Archaeological Museums tomorrow!
November 19, 2024 at 2:46 AM
classicsacademy.bsky.social
The Sacred Gate Lion (590-580 BC) in Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens.

📸 DoccyT Flickr

🏺Ancientbluesky
January 23, 2024 at 10:57 PM
artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Any leads on detail photos of this guy (the Sacred Gate/Kerameikos kouros), in the Kerameikos Archaeological Museum (Athens)? I really want to see what the back of his hand looks like (pinkie finger visible?), a good profile, and close ups of mouth and fillet. Here's hoping!
January 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
lizlgenealogy.bsky.social
Fabulous! If you don’t already have the whole trip planned out, try to stop at Kerameikos if you can. It was my favorite site when I was studying abroad in Athens and now it has a modern (small) museum on site too.
October 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
circa-candace.bsky.social
Art Guide Australia has published a wonderful piece by Michelle Wong on our exhibition Kerameikos at CCWMuseum Sydney Uni. I'll keep sharing more from the phenomenal artists in the show here as well. 📜🏺
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Reviving the potter’s quarter
In an expansive show at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, seven leading Australian ceramic artists have reinvigorated one of Australia’s oldest museum collections by creating a contemporary potter’s quarter—...
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November 28, 2024 at 11:03 PM
archaeologytravel.bsky.social
The complete tombstone, found near the Sacred Way in Athens, 430-420 BC.

#TombstoneTuesday
🏛 Kerameikos Archaeology Museum
📍 Athens 🇬🇷
February 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM