Some Inscriptions in Attic demes
| Autor: | G. R. Stanton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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| Zdroj: | The Annual of the British School at Athens. 91:341-364 |
| ISSN: | 2045-2403 0068-2454 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0068245400016543 |
| Popis: | In recent years several inscriptions, including a deme decree (IGii21181) thought to have been found at Sounion, have been reassigned to Rhamnous. The community of Sounieis dedicated a kouros to Zeus even before it had been incorporated in the Athenian state as a deme. The sole remaining deme decree (IGii21180) suggests that the deme centre must have been about 4 km N of the cape, though there was another centre of population at the cape in classical times. Over time the deme sought to protect its resources, possibly against state mining activities but more certainly against inroads by shepherds or goatherds from other demes. Indeed, this was a surprisingly widespread activity, with some eight series of rupestral boundary inscriptions now known. In some cases, as at Sounion, there seems to have been cooperation between demes or reciprocal hostile responses to incursions by grazing animals. The attribution of this burst of protective activity to the 4th century BC is strengthened by the thorough survey of the region in which one deme (Atene) was situated; this shows that the area was uninhabited between the end of that century and the 4th century AD. |
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