Boeotia


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Description: stele of greyish stone inscribed on 3 faces; IG VII.3347-3350 on front (badly worn), 3351-3353 on right face, 3354-3355 on left face

0.665 m (preserved total height incl. molding), 0.515 m (height of preserved front face), 0.385 m (width), 0.27 m (depth)

Create Date: 200-150 BC (Larfeld, Albrecht)

Discovery: Khaironeia (Kaprouna, Kapraina), built into foundations of house in NE of village, near/along carriage road(November 1880)

Original Location: Khaironeia

Current Location: Khaironeia museum(21 July 1995)(Note: cat. #74)


Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae; P. Stamatakis"Epigraphai Boiotias anekdotoi" in Athenaion9(1881)354-56g'1.3; H. Collitz et aliiSammlung der griechischen Dialekt-InschriftenI(1884-1915)Göttingen151393; W. Larfeld(1883)Berlin48-4953f(C)

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(on the fifteenth) ), Xenon the son of Arkhedamos de
dicates his own slave Meliton as consecrated to
Sarapis, not belonging to anyone, he making
the dedication through the council according to the
law.