Boeotia
Description: quadrangular altar of dark grey-blue stone, broken at top, front badly worn; ornamented
with wreathes, (on front and rear) heads of deer, (on right and left faces) bosses or
paterae
0.91 m (height), 0.51 m (width), 0.365 m (depth)0.028-0.030 m
Create Date: unknown
Discovery: Khaironeia (Kaprouna, Kapraina)(16 May 1852)(Note: excavated near taverna)
Original Location: Khaironeia
Current Location: Khaironeia museum(23 July 1995)
(Note: at top of preserved front)
Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae; L. Preller in
Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der
Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Philologisch-Historische Classe6(1854)197-200tab. 9; A. Conze and A. Michaelis in
Annali dell' Instituto arch. Rom.33(1861)771-3; R. Meister"Die inschriftlichen Quellen des böotischen Dialekts, 2" in
Bezzenberger Beiträge zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen6(1881)416; J. M. Fossey(1991)Amsterdam42(October 1995)Peter J. Kastor(Note: Image manipulated with XV color editor)
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