SEG 59.349 Boundary marker of agricultural estate on Aigina

Boundary marker of agricultural estate on Aigina

SEG 59.349 Date: 455-445 BC or 431-404 BC

ὅρος.

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SEG 59.349 (Translated text) (AIO)

Polinskaya, Horoi on Aigina, no. 17

Translation by: James Hua

Monument type: Rock

Inscription type: Boundary marker

Findspot: Aigina (Sphendouri) (In situ)

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[1] This rupestral boundary marker (horos), inscribed on a flat piece of bedrock face east 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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