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Proxeny Decrees from Megara

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

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At the west end of the mediaeval castle on the Megarian Minoa the front surface of the west wall has fallen away. The foundations of the wall thus laid bare consist of large square blocks of poros and blue limestone from Hellenic buildings. The corner block is of blue limestone and is inscribed in three columns on its upper surface. On the face of the second and third columns are traces of mortar which show that there was originally a course above the stone. The block is 1·12 m. in breadth and ·55 m. in height. Its depth cannot be ascertained, as it is buried almost up to the surface. At the top is a margin 10 cm. in width, extending along the whole length of the stone. The inscription is below the margin, and the three columns are separated by vertical grooves. The first column is ·355 m. in breadth, the second ·32 m., and the third ·265 m.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1913

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page 86 note 1 Though there seems to be no very early evidence for this peculiarity at Megara, it may nevertheless have been an early tendency of the Megarian dialect, for a similar form appears at Chalkedon, , Θέγειτος, S.G.D.I. 3055.Google Scholar

page 86 note 2 I.G. vii, 1–14; S.G.D.I. 3003–3014.

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page 87 note 1 B.C.H., l.c. p. 277; cf. Minns, , Scythians and Greeks, p. 515.Google Scholar

page 87 note 2 B.C.H., l.c. p. 286, note 2; Inscrr. Orae Septentrionalis Ponti Euxini, i, Nos. 185–187, ii, 77, 80. Cf. i, 189, ii, 70.

page 87 note 3 C.I.G. 3794.

page 87 note 4 I.G. vii, 1.