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Modern Description: "Underlying the north end of the Stoa of Attalos are the slight remains of a group of buildings dating to the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Largely open courtyards, they seem to have served as the lawcourts of the city, designed to accommodate the 201 or 501 Athenians who regularly made up a jury. As in the American system, these courts had the final say as to the legality and interpretation of any law, and essentially represent the sovereign power of the state. The identification is based largely on the discovery of a container made of drain tiles set on end holding seven of the inscribed bronze ballots used by jurors to render their verdicts. (Agora Guide)
[Judith Binder: Square Peristyle: lawcourt (?), ca. 300 B.C., unfinished bldg. beneath the north end of the Stoa of Attalos: Agora_XXVII, 50-133, figs. 1-2, 8-13, pl. 5:b; possibly the Heliaia, Agora_XXVIII, Illustration 5, figs. 7-10, pls. 3-4 and Index s.v. Square Peristyle
Alphabetic section labels, ca. 300 B.C. — SEG_44 233 (1994); R. F. Townsend in Agora_XXVIII, 109, pls. 3-4 ]
Wikidata ID: Q24204688
Trismegistos Geo: 364"

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