Boeotia

Description: base or altar of dark grey and white stone, moldings at top and bottom; back and left face unfinished, top smoothed with four clamp cuttings. Guidelines for inscriptions 3322-3328

0.765 m (height), 0.635 m (width), 0.395 m (max. depth)0.01 m

Create Date: 200-150 BC (Albrecht)

Discovery: Khaironeia (Kaprouna, Kapraina)(no later than 1455)(Note: in wall of church of Panagia)

Original Location: Khaironeia

Current Location: Khaironeia museum(18 July 1995)(Note: cat. #90)

(Note: top left side of front)
Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae; CyriacusXXXIII220(Note: conflation of last line of 3321 with first few lines of 3322; edited in Muratorius and in Corsinus); L. MuratoriusII(1739-40)MilanDXCI5(Note: edition of Cyriacus p.XXXIII #220); CorsinusII443(Note: edition of Cyriacus p.XXXIII #220); DorvilleIII155-?; Meletios2(1807)Venice334; J. Hobhouse, Baron Broughton2(1817)Philadelphia409(Note: reprints Meletius' transcriptions); O. Müller(18xx)475(Note: ed. 1); ClarkeII.III(18xx)146; Hughes(18xx)340; A. BoeckhCorpus inscriptionum GraecarumI(1828-77)Berlin1608b; P. Lebas and P. FoucartII: Inscriptiones grecques et latines (Grèce, Iles)(18xx)Paris797; B. Latischew"Die Festzeit der Pamboiotien" in Mitteilungen des deutschen archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung7(1882)32, n.1; C. Michel(1900)Brussels9241395(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)(October 1995)Peter J. Kastor(Note: Image manipulated with XV color editor)

( (Being archon Diokleis the son of Simmias ), in the month of
(Homoloios) (on the fifteenth) ), Dexxip
pa the daughter of Athanias , being present for her her husband
Samikhos the son of Philoxenos , dedicates
her own slaves Kallis and Pythis
and the slave-boy from Kallis, whose n
ame is Nikon, as consecrated to Serapis, them ha
ving remained with Dexippa the daughter of Euboulos , my
grandmother by nature, all the time of
her life, without complaint; the off
spring from them in the time
of their obligation, let them be
slaves of Dexxippa the daughter of Athanias ,
she making the dedication through
the council according to the law.