Coordinates: 38.040925 23.53858
Photos (2007) in Panoramio/Google Earth.
Measurements: only few in 2007.
The general ground plan of Eleusis is based on other diagrams.
However, some important changes have been made.
The great Eleusinian relief (450 BC),
National Archaelogical Museum of Athens.
Demeter (left), Kore and Triptolemos (center).
Height: 2.20 m (3φ MC).
Width: 1.558 m (3φ\/2 MC).
Ratio: \/2.
It was found in the small church of St. Zacharias,
where there was a temple of Triptolemos (Paus. A' 38.5).
"Metron Ariston" is a book written in 2002 and published on 11 February 2003 in Athens,Greece (275 pages - in Greek). ISBN 960-8286-06-9 Contents: Introduction (about the new measurements made in 2002 and the Megalithic Cubit), Tiryns, the Pyramid of Proetus, Mycenae, Orchomenos (Boiotian), Hyle (Gla), Pylos and Crete, Athens, Parthenon and Stonehenge.
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Friday, August 5, 2016
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The Eleusinian Mysteries
Caryatis Kistophoros from the Lesser Propylaea.
On her head she carries the kiste (a box) ornamented
with the Eleusinian symbols (a kernos, wheat and poppies).
Friday, April 20, 2012
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