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    The Dipylon inscription is a short text written on an ancient Greek pottery vessel dated to c. 740 BC. It is famous for being the oldest (or one of the...
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    Epigraphy (redirect from Inscription)
    Behistun Inscription Bitola inscription Bryggen inscriptions Decree of Themistocles Dipylon inscription Duenos Inscription Edicts of Ashoka Inscription of Abercius...
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    The Dipylon Amphora (also known as Athens 804) is a large Ancient Greek painted vase, made around 760–750 BC, and is now held by the National Archaeological...
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    Dipylon Kraters are Geometric period Greek terracotta funerary vases found at the Dipylon cemetery; near the Dipylon Gate, in Kerameikos. Kerameikos is...
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    to date are the Dipylon inscription and the text on the so-called Cup of Nestor, both dated to the late 8th century BC, inscriptions of personal ownership...
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  • pieces of graffiti inscriptions left by Carian mercenaries who served in Egypt. A number of clay tablets, coins and monumental inscriptions have also been...
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    the Shuvalov Painter (Berlin F2414) with famous erotic scene The Dipylon inscription, c. 740 BC, perhaps the earliest datable Greek writing Squat oinochoe...
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  • addition of non-Phoenician upsilon (Υ). History of the Greek alphabet Dipylon inscription Woodard, Roger D. (2008). The Ancient Languages of Europe. Cambridge:...
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    Spartan Girl Bust of Antinous Capitoline Venus Daidala Diadumenos Dipylon inscription Funerary naiskos of Aristonautes Funerary Stela of Demokleides Great...
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  • Diphros Diple (textual symbol) Dipoenus and Scyllis Dipylon Amphora Dipylon inscription Dipylon krater Dipylon Master Dirce Disciples of Plotinus Discobolus...
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    depicting a battle scene with an inscription below it. The stele was discovered in 1863 in the family plot of Dexileos at the Dipylon cemetery in the Kerameikos...
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  • c. 800–750 BC. The oldest substantial text known to date is the Dipylon inscription. Hermodike I was the royal link between Phrygia and Aeolia and the...
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  • theory of literacy toward a theory of culture itself. He said of the Dipylon inscription, a poetic line scratched into a vase and the earliest Greek writing...
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    presence of a secondary passageway along the long axis of the structure; as a dipylon arch with a single passageway, the lower level of the Arch of Hadrian falls...
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  • that was made by the Dipylon painter in around 760–750 BC. The vase was a grave marker to an aristocratic woman in the Dipylon cemetery. This was the...
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    900–850 BC) one finds only abstract motifs, in what is called the "Black Dipylon" style, which is characterized by extensive use of black varnish, with...
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    takes the form of a naiskos with a statue inside it and stood near the Dipylon Gate in the Kerameikos, the cemetery of ancient Athens. It was made from...
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    Indravarma reliquary, year 63, or sometimes referred to as the Avaca inscription, is an ancient reliquary from the area of Bajaur in ancient Gandhara...
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    present location (the Baltimore Painter), find location (the Dipylon Master), inscription, habitual potter (the Kleophrades Painter), shape, and so on...
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    commissioning the statue were indicated by size rather than artistic innovations. Dipylon Kouros, c. 600 BC, Athens, Kerameikos Museum. The Moschophoros or calf-bearer...
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    bull from the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens (4th century BC) Hoard of gold jewellery from Avola, Sicily, (370–300 BC) Dedicatory inscription by Alexander the...
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    Artemis Kalliste was worshiped in Athens in a shrine which lay outside the Dipylon gate, by the side of the road to the Academy. W. S. Ferguson suggested...
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    against the Democrats. It was located on the Sacred Way, just outside the Dipylon. The main source for the events, Xenophon, tells that Pausanias acted against...
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    necropolis of Attica. Kerameikos is located outside the Themistoclean Wall's Dipylon Gate. Stelai come in various shapes/designs and depict images varying from...
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  • "Observations on the Nestor's Cup Inscription," HSCP 80 (1976) 25–40 "Syntax and Metrics in the Dipylon Vase Inscription," Studies in Greek, Italic, and...
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    it depicts an idealized version of the Panathenaic procession from the Dipylon Gate in the Kerameikos to the Acropolis. In this procession held every...
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    org. Retrieved 2019-08-28. Sheppard, Jennifer M. (1981-01-01). "The Inscription in Manet's "The Dead Christ, with Angels"". Metropolitan Museum Journal...
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  • Pausanias, the statue was kept in a temple of Demeter located near the Dipylon gate, the main entrance to ancient Athens. The temple was perhaps the same...
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    Cloisters Cross contains more than 92 intricately carved figures and 98 inscriptions. A similar 12th-century French metalwork reliquary cross contains six...
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  • which he took to be a container for a cremation burial from the nearby Dipylon cemetery. In modern times, the vase has become the name-piece of the Nessos...
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