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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. ... 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. ... Jameson ,δράω should have more force, referring possibly to the performance of a rite, as it does in I.G., I, 4. The length of the lacuna at the end of line 2 and beginning of line cannot be determined but it seems clear that we are dealing with amore complex text that one involving the simple fact of writing.