Boeotia
Description: round altar of greyish marble, decorated with three deer's heads linked by garlands
1.10 m (height), 0.60 m (diameter)0.008-0.010 mCreate Date: 250-200 BC (Larfeld), 197-188 BC (Albrecht)
Discovery: Skripou(no later than 1867)(Note: in forecourt of monastery of Panagia Theotokos)
Original Location: Orkhomenos
Current Location: Skripou(July 25, 1995)(Note: same location)
(Note: facing tree, to left of IG VII.3202, 3203; 0.03 m gap above)Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae; P. Decharme"Recueil d'inscriptions inédites de Béotie" in Archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires, ser. 24(1867)4861(Note: provides French translation); R. Meister"Die inschriftlichen Quellen des böotischen Dialekts, 1" in Bezzenberger Beiträge zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen5(1880)21726; W. Larfeld(1883)Berlin3127; H. Collitz et aliiSammlung der griechischen Dialekt-InschriftenI(1884-1915)Göttingen192497(Note: also add. p.394); P. Cauer(1883)Leipzig207-208300; B. Latichew"Nouveaux actes d'affranchisement à Chéroneée et à Orchomène" in Bulletin de correspondance Hellénique8(1884)6810; S. Reinach(1885)Paris118-19; R. Dareste, B. Haussoullier, and T. ReinachRecueil d'inscriptions juridiques grecques(1892-1904)Paris2374; C. Michel(1900)Brussels9241393
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