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BOUNDARY

KOLLYTOS

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ABSTRACT inAthens, IG I31055 A Two rupestral horoi found on the Hill of the Nymphs : B (#opo?), are not a with reversed and ?io? (?opo? [retrograde sigmas]) as text edited. usually single boustrophedon Investigation of the possibility a deme

a boundary, prefaced by discussion of deme formation and territoriality, yields evidence that the ancient street that passed south of horos B on its route from the Agora to the saddle between the Hill of the that B marked

and the Pnyx divided the urban demes ofMelite and Kollytos. This argument challenges the traditional view that the Pnyx was inMelite. The an approximation of the full extent ofMelite. study concludes with

Nymphs

IGV 1055 B In 1835 Kyriakos S. Pittakis published the first edition of two Archaic rupes tral horoi (IGV 1055 A: ?opo? :?io? [retrograde with reversed sigmas] and IG I3 1055 B:h?poc?) that he had found four years earlier near the midpoint of the south edge of the northeast spur of the Hill of the Nymphs inwestern are the On of this bedrock spur rock-cuttings (Figs. 1-3).l plateau noted by topographers and archaeologists of the 19th century as remnants of

Athens

1. Pittakis 1835, pp. 460-461; the two

inscriptions

in the present B.

study

Marie

are referred

to

as horos A

and

horos

like to express my gratitude to the institutions and per following I would

sons who Greek Trianti,

to this

contributed

Ministry former

of Culture

study: the and A. I.

in the Greek

ephor

Service, Archaeological to study for publication horoi on the northeast

for permission the rupestral spur of the Hill

of theNymphs; Munindra Khaund for help with ?

The

computing American

technology; School

of Classical

Mauzy

the

illustrations; of Fig. drawing

for scanning and editing Anne Hooton for the

for 1; Craig Mauzy of Fig. 5; Judith Binder, preparation Kevin Glowacki, the Bookidis, Nancy late Michael Liberman,

Jameson, Molly

Mathilda

N.

Richardson,

S. Stroud, and Charles K. and to the anonymous Williams, Hespe ria referees, all of whom this improved Ronald

work

by generously ing and evaluating

or read discussing or all of it. I am part

to Dorothea Lalonde grateful especially assistance for her generous and support

Studies

at Athens

at all stages of the work. I am also to indebted V. Tracy, Director Stephen of the American of Classical School at Athens, the resources and

Studies

and Gennadius trustees

and

Libraries,

and other

to his

services

staff for

of the Biegen and to the

benefactors

of Grin

nell College for financial support of this study.Finally, Iwould like to thank Editor o? and Cullen, Tracey Hesperia, her for their care and patience colleagues in the of this publication. preparation are those of the All translations author,

unless

otherwise

noted.

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1.Western Figure A. Hooton, Agora

Athens. Excavations

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BOUNDARY

OF

MELITE

AND

KOLLYTOS

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Figure 2. Athens (1931) from the west; northeast spur of the Hill of the Nymphs in the foreground. Photo

courtesy Agora

Excavations

referred to by horos A.2 In antiquity visitors approached an Street" adjacent road, dubbed here "Nymphs/Pnyx a via to crude rock-cut the (Fig. 1), stairway (Fig. 3:C) up plateau of the a spur and then path (Fig. 3:D) with treads cut in its surface leading from east towest up the south edge of the spur.The two inscriptions are located on the north side of this m west of path about 12 stairway C; horos B lies 2.0 m north of the rock-cut path D, and horos A, directly behind and par allel to it, another 1.39 m to the north. Both inscriptions were cut facing south with the obvious intention that they be read from path D. Beginning the shrine of Zeus this shrine from

editio princeps, the two inscriptions have had a substantial and tradition, but one that has left many questions unanswered was a I unsolved. As problems preparing complete epigraphical study of horoi A and B for publication elsewhere, the question of the relationship of

with

Pittakis's

editorial

the two inscriptions loomed distinctly enough towarrant separate treatment here. Could they be explained in a common context, or did horos B have a separate purpose, and, was that purpose to mark the finally, boundary between the demes Melite and Kollytos? to the relationship of horoi A and B is the question of their in The of A horos has dating. dating prior publications ranged widely in the 6th and 5th centuries B.c.3 Its general appearance (Fig. 4) puts it among the oldest horoi published in /GI3, but we can rule out C. E. Ritchie's suggested upper and lower bars of a closed heta (B)4 as natural fissures parallel with Relevant

2. E.g.,

Pittakis

1852,

p. 683; Milch

h?fer 1885, p. 153;Wachsmuth 1890, pp. 255-256. Judeich (1931, p. 398) andWycherley (1978, p. 188) note the shrine

but

refer

to no

evidence

beyond

the horoi. 3. For

p. 188; Ritchie 1984, p. 540; Lazaridou 2002,

6th-century

date,

see Harri

son 1890, p. 108; Judeich 1931, p. 398; Ervin 1959, p. 156;Wycherley 1978,

6th/5th

century,

see Meritt, Lethen, century, mires 1957, p. 91, no. 37.

see

and Sta

the term using the early Attic letter H for the from Ionic Spiritus asper H (eta) for the long-^ vowel. 4.1

a

p. 40. For

IG I31055 A and B. For the early 5th

"heta"

follow

LSAG

to differentiate

in

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