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)0.009 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 left face, below IG VII.3319 (gap of 0.01 m))
Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae; L. Preller in Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Philologisch-Historische Classe6(1854)200-202; 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)426; H. Collitz et aliiSammlung der griechischen Dialekt-InschriftenI(1884-1915)Göttingen390406b(Note: addendum); B. Latichew"Nouveaux actes d'affranchisement à Chéroneée et à Orchomène" in Bulletin de correspondance Hellénique8(1884)57-583b(Note: only through frag. b); J. M. Fossey(1991)Amsterdam42(October 1995)Peter J. Kastor(Note: Image manipulated with XV color editor)(October 1995)Peter J. Kastor(Note: Image manipulated with XV color editor)(October 1995)Peter J. Kastor(Note: Image manipulated with XV color editor)(October 1995)Peter J. Kastor(Note: Image manipulated with XV color editor)

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enth ) ), ...s the son of Antepi... dedi
cates his own slav e . . . as cons
ecrated to Sarapis, he making the dedication through the council according to the law.