Boeotia


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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; P. Decharme"Recueil d'inscriptions inédites de Béotie" in Archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires, ser. 24(1867)4922(Note: provides French translation); R. Meister"Die inschriftlichen Quellen des böotischen Dialekts, 1" in Bezzenberger Beiträge zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen5(1880)217-1827; W. Larfeld(1883)Berlin3128; H. Collitz et aliiSammlung der griechischen Dialekt-InschriftenI(1884-1915)Göttingen192498

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(being hierarchs Sokra teis
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to be consecrated to Sara pis
and Isis, and let it not be possible
for anyone to lay hold of Nioumo
or reduce her to slavery. But if
someone should lay hold of her, let the authority be the prie st
and the hierarchs and the members of the counc il
depriving and fin
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