Boeotia


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Description: quadrangular stele of grayish stone, inscribed on front (IG VII.3301-3305) and left face (IG VII.3306-3307)

0.70 m (height), 0.45 m (width), 0.20 m (depth)

Create Date: 200-150 BC (Larfeld), beginning of 2nd c. BC (Albrecht)

Discovery: Khaironeia (Kaprouna, Kapraina), built into foundations of house in NE of village, near/along carriage road(1871)

Original Location: Khaironeia

Current Location: Khaironeia museum(Note: cat. #65)


Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae; P. Stamatakis"Epigraphai Boiotias anekdotoi" in Athenaion9(1881)353-54b'; G. N. Chatzidakis"Kritikai paratereseis eis tas ek Boiotias epigraphas, tas en to e' teukhei tou th' tomou demosieutheisas" in Athenaion10(1882)81-83; W. Larfeld(1883)Berlin4853e; H. Collitz et aliiSammlung der griechischen Dialekt-InschriftenI(1884-1915)Göttingen150389

( . . . being archon, in the month of ( Homoloios) (on the fifth) ), . . .
dedicates to Sarapis his own slave
. . ., he mak ing the dedication through the council
according to the law of the Kha ironeians . Present
for him, his son Samo kleis , and he deposited
the pric e with the city . . .