| Inventory Number: | H 528 | |
| Title: | Lower-Body Fragment with Graffito | |
| Description: | Apparently complete in a single letter: A; np letters to either side. Upside down to vessel. Single alphas are often found on objects dedicated to Athena, undoubtedly as abbreviations of the goddess' name (cf., for example, those from the sanctuary of Athena on the acropolis of Sparta: B.S.A. 30, 1928-1930, p. 251, fig. 6, nos. 1-11, 14, 22). Elsewhere single alphas may have some other meaning: e.g. the fourteen complete 5th c. examples from Olympia, W. Schiering, Olympische Forschhungen V, 1964, p. 156, no. 79, and the eleven from the Pnyx, G. Davidson and D.B. Thompson, Hesperia, Suppl. VII, Small Objects from the Pnyx: I, 1943, p. 29. The significance, if any, of single alpha from Hymettos is unknown. | |
| Context: | Altar area. | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 16 (1975), no. 158, p. 39, fig. 16, pl. 14. |
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