| Inventory Number: | H 187 | |
| Title: | Base Fragment of a Corinthian Alabastron with Graffito | |
| Description: | Left to right. [--ανέ]θεκε ho.- We might have expected ανέθεκεν in this inscription. The great majority of early Attic dedicatory inscriptions use the movable nu here, the only exceptions being where space or meter demand the shorter form: cf. A.E. Raubitschek, Dedications from the Athenian Acropolis, Cambridge, Mass., 1949, pp. 446-447. The erratic use of movable nu among the Hymettos inscriptions is simply an indication that we are dealing with a period before any customary usage was recognized and practiced. | |
| Context: | Votive dump. | |
| Chronology: | Early Corinthian | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 16 (1975), no. 13, p. 17, fig. 7. | |
| A.J.A. 44 (1940), p. 6, no. 1. |