English: The ancient Deme of Koile was located at the hillsides and the deep ravine between the hills of the Mouses and the Pnyx. The Deme of Koile was protected by the Themistoclean Wall and reached its full flower in the Classical period. The significant traffic axis of Koile, which in times of siege served the city’s import-export traffic and was a means for food-supply, begins at the Acropolis and traverses the neighborhood in the direction of the harbor of the Piraeus through the Long Walls. With the construction of the “Diateichisma” (end of 4th century B.C.) the deme gradually declined in importance. The “Road through Koile” became narrower as it was taken over for the tombs of an expanding roadside cemetery in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, with its exedrae and clusters of graves marked by funerary columellas with the names of the deceased. Text: Information board at the archaeological site.