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grbs-15565	Ito, Tadashi	Irrigation Holes in Ancient Greek Agriculture	2015	16	.pdf	application/pdf	4831	255	79	Table 5: Holes for plants Dimensions Vines Figs Olives Reference 4 feet 3 feet Syll.3 963.27–32 4 or 3 feet Gp. 5.12, 2.46.1 2.5–3 cubits Gp. 9.6.4 Depth less than 2.5 feet Diameter less than 2 feet Xen. 19.3 The Geoponika supplies important evidence for the use of γῦροι on sloping lands: 2.46.2: καὶ τὸ πλέθρον δὲ τῶν παλαιῶν ἀµπέλων, ἐν τῇ εὐέργῳ, καὶ βοτάνας µὴ ἐχούσῃ, καὶ πλαγίᾳ γῇ ὑπὸ τριῶν πολλάκις ἐργάζεσθαι, ἐν δὲ τῇ σκληροτέρᾳ καὶ βοτανώδει εʹ. A plethron of old vines, in easily worked ground, with no weeds, even on sloping land, is often worked by three people, or if more difficult and weedy by five. In this paper the author considers irrigation holes (i.e. the γῦρος)5 on sloping land, using the Geoponika6 compiled in the tenth century by the emperor Constantine VII, and demonstrates that there were holes, not terraces, on sloping land in antiquity.	cache/grbs-15565.pdf	txt/grbs-15565.txt