| Inventory Number: | H 232 | |
| Title: | Base Fragment of a Closed Vessel with Graffito | |
| Description: | Fragment from the lower wall and bottom of a closed vessel with flat bottom. Inscription incised on the inside of the sherd after the pot was broken. It is complete and written retrograde Σημιοι Δι This epithet is not attested elsewhere, but it must express the idea of Sign-giving Zeus from σημειον or σημα, a sign of the gods. That a weather sign is meant is suggested by the fact that the term διοσημία was used later, especially at Athens to denote atmospheric phenomena: cf. Cook, Zeus II, pp. 4-5. For Zeus the Sign-giver (Zeus Semaleos) on Mount Parnes, see Appendix B. | |
| Context: | Votive dump. | |
| Writing: | Σημιοι Δι | |
| Chronology: | 7th c. B.C. | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 16 (1975), no. 2, pp. 13, 15, fig. 6, pl. 2. | |
| References: | Image: 2009.01.0076 |
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