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)0.004-0.014 m

Create Date: 200-150 BC (Albrecht)

Discovery: Khaironeia (Kaprouna, Kapraina)(no later than 1884)(Note: in wall of church of Panagia)

Original Location: Khaironeia

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

(Note: on right face)
Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae; ClarkeII.III(18xx)146; Hughes(18xx)340; P. Lebas and P. FoucartII: Inscriptiones grecques et latines (Grèce, Iles)(18xx)Paris797; B. Latichew"Nouveaux actes d'affranchisement à Chéroneée et à Orchomène" in Bulletin de correspondance Hellénique8(1884)541c(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 Apollodoros ),
in the month of (Panamos) (on the fift
eenth) ), Pythis, consecrated to Sara
pis, being present for her the hierar
ch, dedicates the one from her house-born slave
Karais born, the sl
ave-girl whose name is Niko, as con
secrated to Sarapis, her having remai
ned with her, without complaint,
so long as she lives, she making
the dedication through the
council according to the
law.