As a background to all
these offerings that existed in the area between the
bouleuterion and the athenian stoa operated the big
polygonal wall which was built in the second half of the
6 th. cent B.C. in order to retain the land of the dike
, above which the temple of Apollo was built. The wall
was built from stones with curved joints that had
excellent adaptation between them and give the lifeless
wall a face of life and variety. Above the stones have
been engraved in the hellenistic and roman age hundreds
of inscriptions that indicating slaves releasing , which
in this way they were under the guarantee of the god
Apollo.
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