Boeotia


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Description: quadrangular altar of dark grey-blue stone, broken at top, front badly worn; ornamented with wreathes, (on front and rear) heads of deer, (on right and left faces) bosses or paterae

0.91 m (height), 0.51 m (width), 0.365 m (depth)0.008-0.009 m

Create Date: 2nd c. BC (Albrecht)

Discovery: Khaironeia (Kaprouna, Kapraina)(no later than 1892)

Original Location: Khaironeia

Current Location: Khaironeia museum(22 July 1995)(Note: cat. #229)

(Note: on left face, below IG VII.3397 (gap of 0.018 m))
Bibliography: Inscriptiones Graecae

. . . being archon, in the month of . . .,
. . . NIKO KATA WIK . . .
. . . ...aon the son of Aristi ppos dedicates his
own slave, whose name is S o... . . .
. . . he was persuaded, So... . . .
he maki ng the dedication through the council according to
the law, and he deposited t he price . . .