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Modern Description: The poor remains of a large square enclosure, open to the sky and measuring about 30 meters on a side. Built in the early 5th century, at the command of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, it was dedicated to Aiakos, a hero of the island of Aegina, and contained blocks of Aiginetan stone to make him feel at home. By the early 4th century, however, it was used for the storage and distribution of substantial amounts of grain, suggesting Aiakos had returned to Aigina. Aiakos was one of the judges of the underworld and the results of judgments handed down in Athens were displayed on the walls of the building. (Agora Guide) See also the Grain Law of 374/3 BCE.
[Judith Binder: Aiakeion: ca. 506 B.C., temenos of the Aiginetan hero Aiakos in the Agora built in accordance with a Delphic oracle: Hdt. 5.89; POxy 2087 lines 16-18; Kearns, E. 1989, 47; the Aiakeion made watertight and provided with a door to serve as a public granary, Agora_I 7557, lines 14-16; Stroud, R. S. 1998, 51-53, 54, 85-108, 111, figs. 6-7; SEG 48 (1998) nos. 69, 96;]
Wikidata ID: Q3144678
Trismegistos Geo: 364

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