Boeotia
Description: quadrangular base or small altar of grey marble; IG VII.3375-3376 on front, 3377 on right face
0.475 m (height incl. moldings), 0.33 m (height excl. moldings), 0.32 m (width), 0.27 m (depth)0.011 mCreate Date: 200-150 BC (Larfeld), beginning of 2nd c. BC (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(21 July 1995)(Note: cat. #67)
Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae; P. Stamatakis"Epigraphai Boiotias anekdotoi" in Athenaion9(1881)319-20; R. Dareste, B. Haussoullier, and T. ReinachRecueil d'inscriptions juridiques grecques(1892-1904)Paris2407; C. Michel(1900)Brussels924-251396; J. M. Fossey(1991)Amsterdampl. 43(October 1995)Peter J. Kastor(Note: Image manipulated with XV color editor)
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(Being archon in Khaironeia
Ariston
),
in the month of (Agrionios)
(on the fifteenth)
),
Theon the son of Theomnestos
, of Phanatis, dedica
ted in
Khaironeia as consecrated to Sarapis h
is own house-born slave whom he held as house-born, whose
na
me is Soson, he making the dedication
through the the council according to the law of the Khai
roneians.
And let him pay off, Soson, the
contribution-loan, which
Theon gathered in Phanatis,
the
account in the name of Theon, until to an end co
mes the
contribution-loan. As to the house, of which he holds the pos
session,
Armeas the son of Ariston
, of Phanatis, en
trusted with it by
Soson, let him pay o
ff,
Soson, the loan on it, and let him
order him to hand over
t the purchase price of the house,
Armeas to Theon. Witnesses:
Ariston the son of Armeas
,
Eudamos and
Ekhekrates the
sons of Euphanes, of Phanatis,
Eraton the son of Aminios
,
Antigon the son of
Aristogeiton
,
Pyrrinas the son of Homoloikhos
, of Khaironeia.