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[Agora Object] H 163: Fragmentary Amphora or Olpe with Graffito

Eleven pieces comprising two non-joining fragments. To Young's publication of six pieces are now added five more, two of which help to complete to inscription. Part of the side wall with reserved panel ... 600 B.C ... Line 1: Ανδρογ[---] ho Δ[..]ιες Line 2: τοι Δι τ΄άναχτι hισ- Line 3: έδρασεν Line 1 contains a proper name, Androg ... , followed by a patronymic or an ethnic. ... But the tau after Δί may represent an elision of τεinstead of τοιin which case the title may belong to another deity mentioned in the missing part of line 2. Hemberg shows that Apollo receives the title Anax in Homer and Classical literature far more often than any other deity, and since, like Zeus, Apollo was worshipped on Mount Hymettos (Pausanias, I, 32,2), it is possible that the inscription is a dedication to both deities. ... Line 3 continues boustophedon from line 2 and preserves only one word,έδρασεν.