Zeus : a study in ancient religion . a. ^ Mommsen Feste d, Stadt Athen pp. 421 n. 4, 424. ?* Corp. inscr. Att. \ no. .504 50I A! 50^0H and a little lower down no. 505 H0P05-^ Miss M. Hamilton Greek Saints and their Festivals Edinburgh and London 1910p. 58 f. Cp. supra i. 563 n. 4. Zeus Meilichios 1115 At Alopeke {Angelokepoi^ Ampelokepoi) near Mount Lykabettos^ Zeus againappears 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 itsfront face engraved as follows ^ in lettering of the late fifth cent
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . a. ^ Mommsen Feste d, Stadt Athen pp. 421 n. 4, 424. ?* Corp. inscr. Att. \ no. .504 50I A! 50^0H and a little lower down no. 505 H0P05-^ Miss M. Hamilton Greek Saints and their Festivals Edinburgh and London 1910p. 58 f. Cp. supra i. 563 n. 4. Zeus Meilichios 1115 At Alopeke {Angelokepoi^ Ampelokepoi) near Mount Lykabettos^ Zeus againappears 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 itsfront face engraved as follows ^ in lettering of the late fifth century : H I E P O N :- Sanctuary A I O ^:M I oiZ&nsMi- H X I O :A Itchios, (G)- H5:AOH N e, Athen- A I A 5 aia. The grouping of the god with Ge, if not also the discovery of his boundary-stonein a well, is significant of his underground nature. (5) Zeus Meilichios on the another Athenian cult seems to have connected Zeus Meilichios as agod of fertility with underground waters. In 1893 A. N. Skias, when exploring. Fig. 947 1 S. Reinach Le sanctuaire dAthena et de Zeus Meilichios a Athenes in the Hell. 1892 xvi. 411—417. 2 S. A. Koumanoudes in theE0. A/ox> 1889 pp. 51—54 no. i = Corp, inscr. Att. iv. no. 528^ ie/oojI Atos Mi|Xix^oi;, (r)|77S, \v\ The reading (r)^s, here adopted byA. Kirchhoff, was suggested independently by vSemitelos and Diels (O. Kern in the 1891 xvi. 10 n. 2), and is accepted by O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 2558 f.,Mommsen Feste d. Stadt Athen pp. 421 n. 3, 424, W. Larfeld Handbuch der griechischenEpigraphik Leipzig 1898 ii. i. 69. 1116 Appendix M the bed of the Ilissos, discovered in the two reservoirs beneath the rocky barrierof the later Kallirrhoe four slabs carved in relief. Of these slabs two were foundclose together in the basin ^ adjoining the chapel of Saint Photeine, and with
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