Boeotia


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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)0.008-0.009 m

Create Date: 200-150 BC (Albrecht)

Discovery: Khaironeia (Kaprouna, Kapraina)(no later than 1807)(Note: in wall of church of Panagia)

Original Location: Khaironeia

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

(Note: on front, below IG VII.3323 and 3328, running all the way across)
Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae; Meletios2(1807)Venice334; J. Hobhouse, Baron Broughton2(1817)Philadelphia409(Note: reprints Meletius' transcriptions); ClarkeII.III(18xx)146; Hughes(18xx)340; A. BoeckhCorpus inscriptionum GraecarumI(1828-77)Berlin1608g; 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(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 Philoxenos ), in the month of (Alalkomeneos) (on the fifteenth) ),
Alexon the son of Rhodon dedicates his own slave Dionysia
as consecrated to Sarapis, her having remained with him, without complaint, all
the time of his life, he making the dedication through the council
according to the law.