Dipylon

This is commonly called Dipylon pottery, from the fact that the cemetery near the Dipylon, the chief gate of ancient Athens, has supplied the greatest number of specimens.

A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

The Dipylon was a period of early iron swords, made on the lines of not the best type of bronze sword.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

In Crete, in graves of the period of geometrical ornament ( "Dipylon"), burning is more common than inhumation.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

I am thus led, on a general view, to suppose that the poems took shape when iron was very well known, but was not yet, as in the "Dipylon" period in Crete, commonly used by sword-smiths.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

It is quite possible that certain notable differences between the poems and the monuments "(of Mycenae)" in burial, for instance, and in women's dress may be due to changes which arose within the Mycenaean age itself, in that later part of it of which our knowledge is defective -- almost as defective as it is of the subsequent 'Dipylon' period.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

'Dipylon' period, we find cremation and sepulture practised side by side.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

The lays are concerned with "good old times"; presumably between 1500 and 1100 B.C. Their pictures of the details of life harmonise more with what we know of the society of that period from the evidence of buildings and recent excavations, than with what we know of the life and the much more rude and barbaric art of the so-called "Dipylon" period of "geometrical" ornament considerably later.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

Finally, the area was doubtless altered more when first Philip V of Macedon, in 200 B.C., and then the Roman general Sulla, in 86 B.C., attacked Athens at the western (Dipylon) gate.

Fallen Heroes: Lines of Investigation 2000

The close proximity of the plot to the ancient road leading from the Dipylon Gate to the Academy, the retaining wall of which has been discovered in the neighboring plot, places it within the boundaries of the Dêmosion Sêma, the state cemetery of Athens, which had developed on either side of the road.

Fallen Heroes: The Excavations at 35 Salaminos Street 2000

The 120-foot-wide road stretched for nearly a mile between the Dipylon Gate, near the Kerameikos cemetery, and Plato's Academy, a park and gymnasium on the outskirts of classical Athens.

Athens' Road of Heroes 1997