rupestral

Two rupestral horoi found on the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens, IG [I.sup.3] 1055 A ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [retrograde with reversed sigmas]) and B ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]), are not a single boustrophedon text as usually edited.

Pittakis published the first edition of two Archaic rupestral horoi (IG [I.sup.3] 1055 A: [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [retrograde with reversed sigmas] and IG [I.sup.3] 1055 B: [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) that he had found four years earlier near the midpoint of the south edge of the northeast spur of the Hill of the Nymphs in western Athens (Figs.

Although rural Attica has yielded several series of simple horoi from the 4th century or later that are viewed by a number of scholars as deme boundary markers, (28) within the innermost territory of the ancient asty there is not a single inscription that is demonstrably a deme boundary stone, and, in fact, horos B is the only known inscription within that area that is rupestral and limited to the word "horos." Although the inner urban area has yielded a fair number of one-word horoi inscribed on stelai, only four were in situ, one marking a shrine and three marking graves.

(53) The Attic countryside has yielded numerous series of abbreviated or single-word rupestral horoi that, in part because of their distance from population centers and their alignment on ridges or saddles over extensive terrain, have won considerable scholarly acceptance as deme boundary markers.

(76) There is no tradition about such contention between Kollytos and Melite, but we do not have all the evidence, and I suggest below that Melite may have used horos B and another rupestral marker to emphasize its claim to shrines on its own side of the border with Kollytos.

1), and therefore also just north of the proposed deme boundary of Melite, did not belong to the Nymphs and Demos, but that its rupestral horos (IG [I.sup.3] 1065: [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]), roughly contemporary with horos B, meant a "shrine of Nymphs of the deme," with the intent of asserting a territorial claim.