Boundary stone
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a stone · boundary-stone · great and rugged and black
in the texts
On Halonnesus
A boundary marker mentioned in the altar inscription as evidence of the Chersonese limit.
The dwellers here have set this boundary-stone Midway `twixt Pteleum and the Silver Strand, And raised this altar fair, that men may own That Zeus is Warden of our No Mans Land.
Iliad
A large black stone, once used by men to mark a field's boundary, seized by Athena to strike down Ares.
She drew back and with her strong hand seized a stone that was lying on the plain - great and rugged and black - which men of old had set for the boundary of a field.