Editing Eleusinion (section)

==Location==
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The sanctuary is located on the lower part of the northern slope of the [[Acropolis]], just to the south of the [[Athenian Agora]]. The western boundary was the [[Panathenaic Way]], along which the Post-Herulian Wall was built in the late third century AD.{{sfn|Miles|1998|p=1}} The southern limit is the [[Peripatos (Acropolis of Athens)|perimeter road]] running around the upper slopes of the Acropolis.{{sfn|Miles|1998|p=1}} The northern boundary was the northern branch of the [[Street of the Tripods]].{{sfn|Miles|1998|pp=11-12}} The distance from north to south is about 200 metres.{{sfn|Miles|1998|p=11}} The eastern border is unknown, but may have been up to 200 metres from the western edge.{{sfn|Miles|1998|pp=11-12}}

The general location of the sanctuary was known from references in [[Xenophon]], [[Philostratus]], [[scholia]] to [[Aristophanes]], and especially [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], who places it above the Enneakrounos (nine jets) fountain, which he locates in the south central Agora.{{sfn|Miles|1998|p=2}} The site was excavated as part of the American excavations of the Athenian Agora, in 1936-1939 and 1959–1960.{{sfn|Miles|1998|p=xxi}} Only a strip from the western edge of the sanctuary has been excavated, varying in width from 18 to 40 metres. Many structures known from literary sources have not been found and are presumed to be located further east, under modern housing.{{sfn|Miles|1998|p=1}}

Inscriptions, sculpture, and votive vessels relating to the Eleusinian cult are found throughout the Agora, but they cluster mainly in the area of the Eleusinion. Three inscriptions found in the area specifically state that they were to be set up in the Eleusinion. These factors confirm the identification of the site as the Eleusinion.{{sfn|Miles|1998|pp=6-7}}