This is proved by the inscription on the altar of Zeus, which runs thus: The dwellers here have set this boundary-stone Midway `twixt Pteleum and the Silver Strand, And raised this altar fair, that men may own That Zeus is Warden of our No Mans Land . If the reading is correct, ἀμμοπίη will be the marches, which belong to no one and are therefore put under the protection of Zeus. Blass reads μοίρης σημέϊον ἀμμορίης τε᾽ which leaves the last line rather in the air. Unknown