Since the late nineteenth century, thirteen rock-cut inscriptions have been detected in the vicinity of Tel Gezer. Their date, function, and relationship to settlement history have all been debated. This article systematically relates the so-called “Boundary of Gezer” stones to the archaeology of the Hellenistic town on the tel. In doing so, it presents the first publication of an epitaph reused as the threshold of a house reportedly built in the 130s BCE. A boundary-making project of this nature was the result of the Hasmonean conquest of a stronghold of great strategic and ideological significance. The Gezer stones can be elucidated by means of comparison to boundary markers from Gerasa in Transjordan, Achaemenid Cilicia, and Greece. Code-switching between Greek and Hebrew/Aramaic, the bilingual boundaries distinguish between two forms of property, not two populations, providing important evidence for collective property rights in Second Temple Judaism.

自 19 世纪后期以来，在 Tel Gezer 附近发现了 13 处岩石铭文。它们的日期、功能以及与定居历史的关系都存在争议。本文系统地将所谓的“基色边界”石头与电话上的希腊化城镇的考古学联系起来。在这样做的过程中，它首次出版了墓志铭，该墓志铭被重新用作据报道建于公元前130 年代的房屋的门槛. 这种性质的边界制定项目是哈斯蒙尼征服具有重大战略和意识形态意义的据点的结果。可以通过与外约旦格拉萨、阿契美尼德西里西亚和希腊的边界标记进行比较来阐明基泽石。希腊语和希伯来语/阿拉姆语之间的代码转换，双语边界区分两种形式的财产，而不是两种人口，为第二圣殿犹太教的集体财产权提供了重要证据。