detail of a Black-and-White Style Middle Protoattic oinochoe - "Oinochoe of the Rams," ca. 650 BCE, depicting Odysseus escaping from the cave of the cyclops.
By the Ram Jug Painter.

Aegina - Kolonna Archaeological Museum.

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--]kritobolas:a
--]uagora

poros limestone. Archaic. From Vardia, Aegina.
Aegina - Kolonna Archaeological Museum, inv. 2267

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--]kritobolas:a
--]uagora

poros limestone. Archaic. From Vardia, Aegina.
Aegina - Kolonna Archaeological Museum, inv. 2267

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hόρος
τεμένος
Ἀπόλλων-
[ο]ς Ποσει-
δῶνος

"boundary - precinct of Apollo/Poseidon"

Aegina - Kolonna Archaeological Museum, inv. 2408.
IG IV^2 798; IG I^3 1483

I. Polinskaya, "Fifth-Century Horoi on Aigina: A Reevaluation" in Hesperia 78 (2009), 231-267 (this is her no. 4) argues convincingly that the Aiginetan horoi date between 431 and 404 BCE, when Athens repopulated the island with her own citizens.

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hόρος
τεμένος
Ἀθεναίας

horos / temenos / Athenaias
"boundary - precinct of Athena"
Marble.
Aegina archaeological museum, inv. 2410

I. Polinskaya, "Fifth-Century Horoi on Aigina: A Reevaluation" in Hesperia 78 (2009), 231-267, argues convincingly that the Aiginetan horoi (boundary markers) date between 431 and 404 BCE, when Athens repopulated the island with her own citizens.

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