Pelasgic wall

The Pelasgic wall or Pelasgian fortress or Enneapylon (Greek: Εννεαπύλον; nine-gated) was a monument supposed to have been built by the Pelasgians, after levelling the summit of the rock on the Acropolis of Athens. The wall was believed to be 6 m (20 ft) thick according to archaeological remains of the site.^[1] Thucydides^[2] and Aristophanes^[3] call it "Pelargikon", "Stork wall or place". "Pelargikon" refers to the line of walls at the western foot of the Acropolis.^[4] During the time of Thucydides, the wall was said to have stood several meters high with a large, visible fragment at 6 m (20 ft) broad, located on to the south of the present Propylaia and close to the earlier gateway.^[5] Today, the beveling can be seen but the foundation of the wall lies below the level of the present hill.

The Parian Chronicle^[6] mentions that the Athenians expelled the Peisistratids from the "Pelasgikon teichos". Herodotus^[7] relates that before the expulsion of the Pelasgians from Attica, the land under Hymettus had been given to them as a dwelling-place in reward for the wall that had once been built around the Acropolis.

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  Sketch of the course of the Pelasgic wall.
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  Pelasgic wall on the summit of the Acropolis, south of the Modern Museum
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  Southwest wing of the Propylaea and Pelasgic wall.