Boeotia

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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)

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

Discovery: Khaironeia (Kaprouna, Kapraina)(16 May 1852)(Note: excavated near taverna)

Original Location: Khaironeia

Current Location: Khaironeia museum(23 July 1995)

(Note: on front, below IG VII.3308)
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; W. Larfeld(1883)Berlin5154; H. Collitz et aliiSammlung der griechischen Dialekt-InschriftenI(1884-1915)Göttingen153400; J. M. Fossey(1991)Amsterdam42(October 1995)Peter J. Kastor(Note: Image manipulated with XV color editor)

( ( Amonias being archon), in the month of
( Homoloios) (on the fifte
enth) ), Aristokleis and Ni
kandros the sons of Kallikrates
dedicate their own sla
ve Herakleidas as consecrated
to Sarapis, they making
the dedication through the
council according to the l
aw, being present for Aristo
kleis also his son Kalli
krates, also being in agre
ement.

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