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)0.01 m

Create Date: 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 right face, below patera)
Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae; L. Preller in Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Philologisch-Historische Classe6(1854)200tab. 10; 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; H. Collitz et aliiSammlung der griechischen Dialekt-InschriftenI(1884-1915)Göttingen154402(Note: also add. p.389-90); B. Latichew"Nouveaux actes d'affranchisement à Chéroneée et à Orchomène" in Bulletin de correspondance Hellénique8(1884)56-572c; J. M. Fossey(1991)Amsterdam42

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teenth) ), Epitimos the son of Samokl es and E
uphrosona, consecrated to the Mother of the Gods, de
dicate their own house-born slave Zoila as consec rate
d to Sarapis, her having remained with them so long a s
they live, they making the dedication through the
council according to the law.