SEG 59.347 Boundary marker of agricultural estate on Aigina

Boundary marker of agricultural estate on Aigina

SEG 59.347 Date: 455-445 BC or 431-404 BC

Boundary marker.^[1]

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SEG 59.347 (Translated text) (AIO)

Polinskaya, Horoi on Aigina, no. 15

Translation by: James Hua

Monument type: Rock

Inscription type: Boundary marker

Findspot: Aigina (Sphendouri) (In situ)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This rupestral boundary marker (horos), inscribed on a boulder northeast of Sphendouri in the south of Aigina, is one of 18 engraved around Aigina in the second half of the fifth century BC (IG IV² 2, 792-804, 1074, SEG 59.347-350). For details on the function, dating, and authorship of these inscriptions, see IG IV² 2, 803 with notes. Given this inscription’s situation on a rocky outcrop, with a wide viewshed over the Saronic gulf, Polinskaya, Hesperia 78, 2009, 231-67, argues that this precinct at Sphendouri served a strategic military function for the Athenian cleruchs as well.

Added: 19 Aug 2025
Updated: 19 Aug 2025
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