"Type","dc-title","Chronology","dc-creator","dc-date","Id","Collection","dc-publisher","Icon","UserLevel","Name","Redirect","dc-description","dc-subject"
"Card","","","","","Agora:Card:I-4231-1","Agora","","Agora:Card:I-4231-1::/Agora/Cards/I 4xxx/I-04231-1.jpg::2048::1403","","I 4231","","",""
"Publication","Horoi: Studies in Mortgage, Real Security, and Land Tenure in Ancient Athens","","Fine, J. V. A.","1951","Agora:Publication:Hesperia Supplement 9","Agora","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","","","Hesperia Suppl. 9 (1951)","","Horos markers were used to indicate when a property was mortgaged and who the creditors were. This study publishes known examples from ancient Athens and explores how the mortgage system may have worked. The book contains eight chapters: Chapter I presents 35 new horos mortgage inscriptions. Chapter II contains references to, or transcriptions of, all other known horos mortgage stones. Chapter III is devoted to a discussion of the use and physical properties of stone horoi and to the possible use of wooden horoi. Chapters V to VII provide careful analyses of the various kinds of contracts drawn up by the Athenians when the security consisted of real property. Chapter VIII attempts to date the introduction of mortgage contracts at Athens and to explain the lateness of this date—the earliest horos example probably dates to after the Peloponnesian War.",""
"PublicationPage","Fine, pp. 6-7, no. 12, photograph pl. 2","","","6 May 1936","Agora:PublicationPage:Agora-19-58","Agora","","Agora:PublicationPage:Agora-19-58::/Agora/Publications/Agora/Agora 019/Agora 019 058 (45).png::1495::2048","","Agora 19, s. 58, p. 45","","Agora 19",""
"Publication","Inscriptions: Horoi, Poletai Records, Leases of Public Lands","","Lalonde, G.V.","1991","Agora:Publication:Agora 19","Agora","American School of Classical Studies at Athens","Agora:Image:2009.09.0045::/Agora/2009/2009.09/2009.09.0045.jpg::382::500","","Agora XIX","","The three types of inscription from the Athenian Agora presented in this volume are all concerned with important civic matters. Part I, by Gerald V. Lalonde, includes all the horoi found in the excavations; most of them had been brought into the area for reuse at a later period. An introductory essay discusses the various purposes the horoi served, whether as markers of actual boundaries or private records of security for debt. The various types are illustrated in photographs. In Part II Merle K. Langdon publishes all the known records of the Athenian poletai, a board of magistrates charged with letting contracts for public works, leasing the state-owned silver mines and the privilege of collecting taxes, and leasing or selling confiscated property. The catalogue is preceded by an account of the nature of these transactions and the history of the poletai. Part III, by Michael B. Walbank, presents the records of leases for public and sacred lands, which once stood in the Agora; the documents are now in both the Agora and the Epigraphical Museums in Athens. The discussion considers the history and the terms of the leases. The three sections are followed by combined concordances and indices, with photographs of all stones not previously published.",""