The Dipylon was a period of early iron swords, made on the lines of not the best type of bronze sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

'Dipylon' period, we find cremation and sepulture practised side by side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

In Crete, in graves of the period of geometrical ornament ( "Dipylon"), burning is more common than inhumation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fallen Heroes: Lines of Investigation] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Athens' Road of Heroes] Reference

In this case it is not the Dipylon period, say 900-750.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

The procession must be gathering outside the Dipylon Gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victor of Salamis] Reference

Dipylon vase, is reproduced, with permission, from the British.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

But at the Dipylon Gate an end was put to their converse with the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roads from Rome] Reference

Some of these Dipylon vases are of great size and served as funeral monuments.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

Interesting for our purpose is the verse incised on a Dipylon vase, found at Athens in 1880.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

But in some Attic Dipylon vases, in the pictures of funerals, we see no garments or sheets over the corpses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

By the age of the Dipylon vases with human figures, the shield had been developed into forms unknown to Homer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

The people of the Dipylon period sometimes cremated, sometimes inhumed, but they built no barrow over the dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

How did the ancient method return, overlapping and blent with the method of cremation, as in the early Dipylon interments?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

The Homeric poets, like the painters of the Dipylon period, describe the details of life as they see them with their own eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

At the northern end, where the porticos and the long Dromos street ran off toward the Dipylon gate, stood the shop of Clearchus the potter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victor of Salamis] Reference

Once more, the Homeric method is not that of the Dipylon period (say 900-750 B.C.) represented by the tombs outside the Dipylon gate of Athens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

The Homeric poems describe an age later than that of the famous tombs -- so rich in relics -- of the Mycenaean acropolis, and earlier than the tombs of the Dipylon of Athens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

"Dipylon age," a time of geometrical ornaments on vases, and of human figures drawn in geometrical forms, lines, and triangles, was quite unlike that of the Achaean age in many ways, for example, in mode of burial and in the use of iron for weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

But, if we are to admit that Homer knew not rings and seals, which lasted to the latest Mycenaean times, through the Dipylon age, to the very late AEginetan treasure (800 B.C.) in the British Museum, and appear again in the earliest dawn of the classical age and in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

The age of the Achaean warriors, who dwelt in the glorious halls of Mycenae, was followed, at an interval, by the age represented in the relics found in the older tombs outside the Dipylon gate of Athens, an age beginning, probably, about 900-850 B.C. The culture of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

Homeric poems are of one age, or, at least, all of them save "the original kernel" are of one age, namely, a period subsequent to the Mycenaean prime, but considerably prior to the Dipylon period, which exhibits a mixture of custom; cremation and inhumation coexisting, without barrows or howes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

Dipylon, or Double Gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Mycenaean prime, "not in the Dipylon period, not in any later period, say the seventh or sixth centuries B.C., and, necessarily, not of any subsequent period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

Dipylon period, 40.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

A Dipylon vase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

The Dipylon Gate at Carlsberg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogbot - forsiden] Reference

"Dipylon" period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference