DOI article:
Buck, Carl Darling: Discoveries in the Attic Deme of Ikaria, 1888
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IXSCRIPTIOXS FROM IK ARIA.
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has never been legally vested in him, but has been continually trans-
ferred from one party to another. The process of genuine mortgaging,
however, existed alongside the one just described, and we even have
boundary-stones inscribed in this fashion, as opo? ^copiov Ti/u.f)<; evofai-
Xofjuevns ^avocrrpaTco Ucuav(LeijX.~K (C. I. A., IT, 2, 1134).
No. 3.
Fragment of thin marble slab: height, 0.21 m.; width, 0.22; height
of letters varies from 0.02 to 0.035.
lH 0 § X f \ P I O 6'p]o? xwPL°
ililO I K I AS Kal'] oUla<;
iH p A A\ E H-TA-H
Tre7r~\pafj.evm>
1HK S E I I- X [* hrl X]vaet ■ XI*
HHI I A I Upa^)Ja
Translation.—"Boundary of land and house sold upon condition of
equity of redemption for 1500 drachmas."
Comment.—The letters of the inscription may be assigned to the fourth
century, and I feel confident that the 0 at the end of the first line
stands alone for the spurious diphthong, though, owing to the fact that
the stone is broken at this point, it is impossible to be certain that
a Y was not inscribed. The content of this inscription is identical
with that of No. 2, except that in this case the amount involved is ex-
pressly stated. In the last line the marks before the iota may well be-
long to I, and we may conjecture that the person to whom the prop-
erty was sold was the Praxias mentioned in No. 1 as one of the choregoi.
This, however, must not be considered as more than a mere possibility,
as the traces before the iota might equally well belong to E.
No. 4.
Block of roughly-cut greyish stone, broken on both sides and at the
bottom: height, 0.175 m.; width, 0.31; height of letters, 0.02. It has
been published by Milchhofer,3 who saw it in the wall of the Byzantine
church the demolition of which was an important part of the work
at Ikaria. By its removal from the wall a few additional letters have
become visible, although, by reason of the roughness of the stone and
3 Mitlheilungen, Athen., xn, p. 311.
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has never been legally vested in him, but has been continually trans-
ferred from one party to another. The process of genuine mortgaging,
however, existed alongside the one just described, and we even have
boundary-stones inscribed in this fashion, as opo? ^copiov Ti/u.f)<; evofai-
Xofjuevns ^avocrrpaTco Ucuav(LeijX.~K (C. I. A., IT, 2, 1134).
No. 3.
Fragment of thin marble slab: height, 0.21 m.; width, 0.22; height
of letters varies from 0.02 to 0.035.
lH 0 § X f \ P I O 6'p]o? xwPL°
ililO I K I AS Kal'] oUla<;
iH p A A\ E H-TA-H
Tre7r~\pafj.evm>
1HK S E I I- X [* hrl X]vaet ■ XI*
HHI I A I Upa^)Ja
Translation.—"Boundary of land and house sold upon condition of
equity of redemption for 1500 drachmas."
Comment.—The letters of the inscription may be assigned to the fourth
century, and I feel confident that the 0 at the end of the first line
stands alone for the spurious diphthong, though, owing to the fact that
the stone is broken at this point, it is impossible to be certain that
a Y was not inscribed. The content of this inscription is identical
with that of No. 2, except that in this case the amount involved is ex-
pressly stated. In the last line the marks before the iota may well be-
long to I, and we may conjecture that the person to whom the prop-
erty was sold was the Praxias mentioned in No. 1 as one of the choregoi.
This, however, must not be considered as more than a mere possibility,
as the traces before the iota might equally well belong to E.
No. 4.
Block of roughly-cut greyish stone, broken on both sides and at the
bottom: height, 0.175 m.; width, 0.31; height of letters, 0.02. It has
been published by Milchhofer,3 who saw it in the wall of the Byzantine
church the demolition of which was an important part of the work
at Ikaria. By its removal from the wall a few additional letters have
become visible, although, by reason of the roughness of the stone and
3 Mitlheilungen, Athen., xn, p. 311.