The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports has the copyright of the photographs of antiquities and of the actual antiquities that comprise the visual content of the photographs. [...] Mount Lykabettos overlooked the site on the east; the Ancient Agora rose towards the Acropolis to the southeast, and the low hills of the Nymphs, the Pnyx and the Muses rose to the south. [...] One final indication of the emotion over the discovery of the ancestral cemetery of the Athenians −the “cemetery of Agia Triada” as the site was then known− and of the international impact 22 The burial enclosure of Dionysios from the deme of Kollytos on the Street of Tombs. [...] In collaboration with the German Archaeological Institute, the Ephorate’s first and foremost concern is to conserve and restore those monuments at the site which have suffered the greatest depredations of time: the outer wall (proteichisma), the retaining walls of the river Eridanos, the plaster of the funerary precincts, the mortuary shrine (naïskos) of Agathon, and the mosaic floors in the dinin. [...] After the abolition of the Mycenaean feudal system and the fall of the wanax (anax on the Linear B tablets) who controlled Attica from the fortified Acropolis, the local rulers, the basileis (pa-si-re-u in the Myce- naen archives) assumed rule of the settlements.
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