Boeotia
Description: fragments of a base or quadrangular altar of dark grey-blue stone; decorated with olive branches and heads of deer, joined by garlands; IG VII.3356-3365 on front, 3366-3372 on right face, 3373-3374 on left face
fragments a-b: 0.465 m (height), 0.87 m (width), 0.455 m (depth); fragment c: missing; fragment d: 0.51 m (height), 0.60 m (width), 0.38 m (depth); fragment e: 0.68 m (height), 0.165-0.272 m (width), 0.32 m (max. depth)0.008 mCreate Date: 200-150 BC (Larfeld, Albrecht)
Discovery: Khaironeia (Kaprouna, Kapraina), built into foundations of house in NE of village, near/along carriage road(1871)
Original Location: Khaironeia
Current Location: Khaironeia museum(23 July 1995)(Note: cat. #123)
(Note: on fragment b, below IG VII.3371)Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae; P. Stamatakis"Epigraphai Boiotias anekdotoi" in Athenaion9(1881)356-59d'2.4; D.M. Schaps"A disputed slave in Boeotia" in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik20(1976)63-64(Note: provides English translation)(October 1995)Peter J. Kastor(Note: Image manipulated with XV color editor)
(
(Being archon Dioklidas
), in the month of (Dama
trios)
(on the thirtieth)
),
Aristo the daughter of Kallikrates
,
being present for her her husband
Euandros
the son of Timogiton
, and Kallikrates, Simias,
and Kephisodoros the
sons of Simias, being present for them
their father Simias, submit a document to
the archons
through the council, that they are in agreem
ent with the dedication, which he
made,
Philoxenos the son of Philoxenos
, of
Orkho
menos, for Ptolemaios, (in the
year in which Euboulos
was archon).