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Modern Description: Part of the Themistoclean Wall is visible through the grated window in the basement of Erechtheiou 20, with a gate at Erechtheiou 25. More substantial remains of the wall are accessible in the basement giftshop area of the Divani Acropolis hotel on Parthenonos St.
[Judith Binder: Themistoklean City Wall Gates: Gate at 25 Erechtheiou St.: thought to be the Mystai Gate (q.v.), Stavropoulos, P. D. 1965, fig. 21 no. 22; Travlos, J. 1971, 160
Gate XIII, South Gate, figs. 225-226, 219; put out of use after the mid-4th c. B.C., Brouskari, M. 1980, 14-16, 31, fig. 1, pl. 1; Conwell, D. H. 1993, 221-222; [even nowadays one can still see that the terrain slopes downward more sharply south of 25 Erechtheiou St. on the brow of the hill]]
Trismegistos Geo: 364

Info: A.E.

(Aspa Efstathiou, ToposText volunteer)

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