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are traces of a third head. The whole is enclosed by an architectural framework,
which bears the inscription :

' Hermaios (dedicated this) to Zeus PMh'os1.'
On the other hand, the same site yielded two reliefs representing a snake
accompanied by the words :

'-dedicated (this) to Zeus PMliosV

Fig. 976.

As before3, we must suppose that the snake figures the soul of the divinised
dead, here conciliated by the euphemistic title Zeus ' the Friendly One.' Philios
is virtually a synonym of MeiMchiosK

Other reliefs, which probably derive from the same cult-centre in the Peiraieus,

1 Corp.inscr. Att.u. 3 Add. no. 1572^ E PMA 101A11 <t>I Al fl I = Epnaw Ad $i\lui.

- (1) I. C. Dragatses in the AeXr. 'Apx- 1888 p. 135, Corp. inscr. Att. iv. 2 no. 1572*:

a fragmentary marble slab inscribed JIAI and EN = [---Ad <f>]t\t[wt] j [av€dt)K]ev above

the relief of a snake. (2) I. C. Dragatses in the AeXr. 'Apx- 1888 p. 135 no. 3, Svoronos
Ath. Nationqlmus. p. 355 the relief of a snake with the inscription Att $[tXt]o;t [dvedrj^ev.

3 Supra p. 1111.

4 This explains the otherwise inexplicable gloss of Hesych. 0tXt6s (Soping corr. cpi\ios,
M. Schmidt cj. d<pddios?)' 6 aworpdiratos, /car' ev<prjfAifffj.[ei>]6v.