| Inventory Number: | H 222 | |
| Title: | Upper-Body Fragment with Graffito | |
| Description: | An incised five-pointed star, partly broken off at left. A similar star scratched on a late 7th. c. B.C. plate from Smyrna is called an owner's or merchant's mark: L.H. Jeffery, B.S.A. 59, 1964, p. 40, no. 12. In the 5th c. the star may have sometimes been an apotropaic symbol: cf. W. Schiering, Olympische Forschungen V, 1964, p. 155, no. 67, and p. 157. | |
| Context: | Votive dump. | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 16 (1975), no. 168, p. 39, fig. 17, pl. 15. |