Conisists of the site of the potters quarters (derived from the Greek word for potery - ceramic) which was inside the city walls and the cemetary which was outside the city walls. The Pompeion - from the Greek word Pompi for Procession was used for preparations for the Panathenaic procession. In it original phase (4th century B.C.), it was a rectangular building with a propylon at the notherneastern corner, a peristyle court, and several adjoining rooms. The Pompeion seems to have been destroyed in 86 B.C., after which potters established workshops and kilns in on top of the ruins. In the 2nd century A.D. a large, 3-aisled storeroom was constructed. This storeroom was in turn destroyed during the Herulian invasion of 267 A.D., and the ruins were again taken over by potters and their kilns. Many burial sites and tombs of exceptional beuaty have been discovered there.

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