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)0.01-0.011 mCreate 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.3324, 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)Berlin1608h; 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 Kaphisios
), in the month of (Boukatios)
(on the thirtieth)
),
Kraton the son of Aminios
and
Eugita the daughter of Nikaretos
, being in agreement as well their sons, dedicate their
slave-girl
Sosikha as consecrated to Serapis, her having remained
with
Kraton and Eugita so long as they live, without
complaint, they making the
dedication through the council according to the
law.