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Zeus Meiltchios 1115
At Alopeke (Angelokeftoi, Ampelokepoi) near Mount Lykabettos1 Zeus again
appears to have borne a chthonian character. A roughly squared block of Pen-
telic marble, found in an ancient well of this locality, has the upper part of its
front face engraved as follows2 in lettering of the late fifth century B.C. :
HI E P O N : Sanctuary
A I 0 5:M I of Zeus Mi-
ll X I O :A lichios, (G>
H5:AOH N e, Athen-
A I A <> aia.
The grouping of the god with Ge, if not also the discovery of his boundary-stone
in a well, is significant of his underground nature.
(5) Zeus Meiltchios on the Ilissos.
Yet another Athenian cult seems to have connected Zeus Meilichios as a
god of fertility with underground waters. In 1893 A. N. Skias, when exploring
Fig. 947
1 S. Reinach ' Le sanctuaire d'Athena et de Zeus Meilichios a Athenes' in the Bnll.
Corr. Hell. 1892 xvi. 411—417.
2 S. A. Koumanoudes in the'E0. 'Apx- 1889 pp. 51—54 no. 1 = Corp. inscr. Att. iv. 1.
3 no. 5281 lepbv j Atos MtjXtxiou, (r)|?)s, 'A6r]v\alas. The reading (r)^s, here adopted by
A. Kirchhoff, was suggested independently by Semitelos and Diels (O. Kern in the Ath.
Mitth. 1891 xvi. 10 n. 2), and is accepted by O. Hbfer in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 2558 f.,
Mommsen Feste d. Stadt Athen pp. 421 n. 3, 424, W. Larfeld Handbuch der griechischen
Epigraphik Leipzig 1898 ii. 1. 69.
At Alopeke (Angelokeftoi, Ampelokepoi) near Mount Lykabettos1 Zeus again
appears to have borne a chthonian character. A roughly squared block of Pen-
telic marble, found in an ancient well of this locality, has the upper part of its
front face engraved as follows2 in lettering of the late fifth century B.C. :
HI E P O N : Sanctuary
A I 0 5:M I of Zeus Mi-
ll X I O :A lichios, (G>
H5:AOH N e, Athen-
A I A <> aia.
The grouping of the god with Ge, if not also the discovery of his boundary-stone
in a well, is significant of his underground nature.
(5) Zeus Meiltchios on the Ilissos.
Yet another Athenian cult seems to have connected Zeus Meilichios as a
god of fertility with underground waters. In 1893 A. N. Skias, when exploring
Fig. 947
1 S. Reinach ' Le sanctuaire d'Athena et de Zeus Meilichios a Athenes' in the Bnll.
Corr. Hell. 1892 xvi. 411—417.
2 S. A. Koumanoudes in the'E0. 'Apx- 1889 pp. 51—54 no. 1 = Corp. inscr. Att. iv. 1.
3 no. 5281 lepbv j Atos MtjXtxiou, (r)|?)s, 'A6r]v\alas. The reading (r)^s, here adopted by
A. Kirchhoff, was suggested independently by Semitelos and Diels (O. Kern in the Ath.
Mitth. 1891 xvi. 10 n. 2), and is accepted by O. Hbfer in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 2558 f.,
Mommsen Feste d. Stadt Athen pp. 421 n. 3, 424, W. Larfeld Handbuch der griechischen
Epigraphik Leipzig 1898 ii. 1. 69.