Boeotia
Description: round altar of greyish marble, decorated with three deer's heads linked by garlands
1.10 m (height), 0.60 m (diameter)Create 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)
Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae; H. Collitz et aliiSammlung der griechischen Dialekt-InschriftenI(1884-1915)Göttingen395499a; B. Latichew"Nouveaux actes d'affranchisement à Chéroneée et à Orchomène" in Bulletin de correspondance Hellénique8(1884)745
(
(
Apollonidas being archon), (being priest
Antigenes
the son of Soukrateis
), (being hierarchs
Sosibios the son of Pouthilles
,
Ageisinikos
the son of Soukrateis
)
); they dedicate,
Damatrikhos the son of
Damoklidas
and
Hippare
ta the daughter of
Philoxenos
and Damoklidas and Philoxenos and Timokrat
es
and
...mia the daughter of Damatrikhos,
their own house-slaves Souros
and Sour
ina to be consecrated to Sarapis and Isis, and
let it not
be possible for anyone to lay hold of or red
uce to slavery . . .
ONA. But if
someone should lay hold of them, let the auth
ority be the priest and the hi
erarchs and the members
of the coun
cil depriving and fin
ing.