Boeotia
Description: revetment of white marble, inscribed on front and back, with plinths at top and bottom of upper portion; broken on both left and right sides
0.62 m (total height), 0.48 m (height between plinths), 1.03 m (width), 0.18 m (depth), 0.02 m (depth of plinths)0.04 m (line 1)Create Date: 250-200 BC (de Ridder), 220-200 BC (Albrecht)
Discovery: Orkhomenos(no later than 1895)(Note: found reused in Tomb 19 of French excavations)
Original Location: Orkhomenos
Current Location: Orkhomenos
Bibliography: A. de Ridder"Fouilles d'Orchomène" in Bulletin de correspondance Hellénique19(1895)157-611
. . . being registrar of Askh
lapios
.
. . . being archon, . . . and . . ., they
again making according to the law the dedication which has been
excised in the sanctuary of Asklapios, the one, (
(
Agasias being archon), in the
month
of . . .
)
made, dedicate their own house-slave Zopouros to Asklapios to be consecrated, so long as he
lives, and let it not be possibl
e for anyone to reduce to slavery
Zopouros
or lay hold of him. But if someone should reduce him to slavery or lay
hold of him, let the authority be the priest and the polemarchs, depriving and fining
the one doing any of these things, and let this be allowed as well
to, of the private scitizens, whomever is willi
ng.