SEG 46.229 Marker of house of phratry Io[nidai] (?)

Marker of house of phratry Io[nidai] (?)

SEG 46.229 Date: ca. 400-350 BC

Boundary marker (horos)^[1] of house of phra[try] (?) Io[nidai] (?)

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References:

SEG 46.229 (Translated text) (PHI)

Finley, Horos Inscriptions, 171A

Agora XIX H118 (PHI)

Russo, Ripartizioni, FR26

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

Images: Agora Excavations - (1)

Monument type: Horos

Inscription type: Boundary marker

Findspot: Agora, built into a modern house (Ag. I 3280)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] AIO tentatively reproduces the text as I restored it, ZPE 110, 1996, 79-81 (SEG 46.229), which yields a boundary marker of a house "of the phratry Ionidai", citing as parallels for the wording the two phratry horoi, IG II² 2621 (Phratries, T1, "horos of phratry Achniadai") and 2622 (T23, "horos of house of phrateres"). Ionidai is otherwise known in Attica as a small deme (bouleutic quota 1-2) of the inland trittys of Aigeis (cf. SEG 39.148); but there were several demes which had names similar to or the same as phratries or groups within them (e.g. (Eteo)boutadai, Dekeleia/Dekeleieis, Thymaitis/Thymaitadai) and it would not be especially surprising to find the "house" of an extra-urban phratry in the area of the Agora. In 1996 I dated the inscription to "4th cent.-earlier 3rd cent.", but the lettering (e.g. large/fat round letters or parts of letters) now seems to me to suggest ca. 400-350 BC. On phratries cf. RO 5. For further discussion of the demes Kydantidai and Ionidai and of the putative phratry Ionidai see SEG 39.148.

Added: 21 Jan 2024
Updated: 22 Jan 2024
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