horos

Japanese: horos
horos

…from the Greek word horos (plural horoi). In Homeric poetry, the older form of the word ouros is used to mean a boundary stone for public or private property, but in historical times it was a stone pillar erected at the boundary of a mortgaged property or near a house, on which the names of the debtor and creditor and the amount of the debt were usually inscribed.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "horos" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ギリシア語のホロスhoros(複数形ホロイhoroi)の訳。ホメロスの詩ではこの語の古い形であるourosは公有地や私有地の境界標石の意味で使われているが,歴史時代には抵当に入れられた土地の境や家屋のそばに立てられた石柱で,そこには債務者・債権者の名と負債額が刻まれるのが通例であった。…

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