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Definition of Dipylon gate

1. Noun. A gateway to the west of ancient Athens near which a distinctive style of pottery has been found.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipylon Gate

Literary usage of Dipylon gate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Athenian Agora: A Short Guide by John McK. Camp (2003)
"... looking along the entire course of the Panathenaic Way from the Dipylon Gate (bottom) to the Acropolis (top); view from the northwest. Figure 5. ..."

2. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"Then follows a very careful account of the discovery of Dipylon graves, not only in the great necropolis outside the Dipylon gate, but also in other parts ..."

3. Guide to the Eastern Mediterranean: Including Greece and the Greek Islands by inc. Macmillan, firm publishers London, Macmillan & Co, Macmillan, firm, publishers, London (1904)
"Following the Themis- toclean wall along to the left, we come to the Dipylon gate itself. As only the foundations remain, the traces are difficult to make ..."

4. The History of Greece from Its Commencement to the Close of the Independence by Adolf Holm (1902)
"... it included the still visible Dipylon gate, and, approaching the Ilissus and receding from it again, enclosed the citadel in a fairly wide circuit. ..."

5. A Handbook of Greek and Roman Sculpture by Edmund von Mach (1905)
"Outside the Dipylon gate, Athens 360 . . Grave Relief, similar to relief of ... Outside the Dipylon gate, Athens 366 . . Grave Relief of a Horseman, ..."

6. Attic Grave Reliefs That Represent Women in the Dress of Isis by Elizabeth J. Walters (1988)
"257. 4 Wycherley, Stones of Athens, p. 257. On the large monuments found here near the Dipylon gate, see Ohly, AA (Jdl 80), 1965, pp. 314-. ..."

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