Boeotia
Description: architectural piece (parastade?) of "Granitsa" or "Lebadeia" marble (dark grey-blue stone), inscribed on lateral faces (A, B), recesses carved at three corners (right A, right B, left B)
1.50 m (height), 0.48 m (width), 0.30 m (depth)Create Date: a', b', g', d': 100-50 BC (Pappadakis), beginning of 2d c. BC (Albrecht), before 171 BC (Schachter)
Discovery: Koroneia(no later than 1916)(Note: in wall between doors of sanctuary in deserted chapel of Agia Paraskeue, northeast of ancient Koroneia, between Soulenariou and Koutomoula)
Original Location: Koroneia(Note: Kharopeion)
Current Location: Koroneia?(Note: same location?)
Bibliography: N. G. Pappadakis"Peri to Kharopeion tes Koroneias" in Arkhaiologikon Deltion2(1916)217A(Note: four manumissions (a', b', g', d'); d' inscribed between 15th and 16th lines of g'); E. Schwyzer(1923)Leipzig247503A(Note: on Ab' only); L. Darmezin"Quelques problèmes relatifs à l'affranchissement en Béotie"(1985)Paris327, 330-31(Note: on Ab' only; provides French translation); A. Schachter1(1981)4-6(Note: on Ab' only; also referenced in Teiresias E82.164); A. Schachter2(1986)7-8 n.3(Note: on date)
And let no one lay claim
to or lay
hold of or reduce
to
slavery for
any
othe
r
Euamer
os,
nor of the descendants of
Euameros
anyone, on whatever
pretext, nor the
heirs of Heirodo
tos. But if someone should reduce
to
slavery Euam
e
ros or any of the descendants of
Euameros,
let her punish him, the
priestess of Kharops
Herakleis
and, of the Boi
o
tians, whoever is willing.
Witnesses:
Onasimos
the son of
Asopon
,
Ophelan
dros
the son of Autenetos
,
Oliou
mpikhos the son of Glaukinos
,
So
krateis the son of Klion
.
God. Go
od fort
une. (
(
Mnasixenos being ar
chon), in the month
of
(Thiouios)
),
Opheleimos
the son of Nikippos
dedicates
his own serv
ant Soura as
consecrated to
Herakleis Kha
rops, her having remained
with him so long as
he lives, without complaint.
Let her remain as
well
with
Philon, until the whole shall
have passed, of
years, twenty-
one. After this
time, let her
atte
nd
Philon at the sacrific
es,
all of them, and Nikippos
at
the (Akrea). Let her follow
as well
the the road of the Boio
tians each year
during both the
(Akrea) and the (Panamia)
in the customary fashion.
But if someone should reduce to
slavery
Soura, let the aut
hority be the priestess of
He
rakleis Kharops
and of the Boiotians, whoever is wil
ling. Witnesses:
Andron
the son of Mnasippos
,
Nikippos
the son of Polioukrates
,
Thion
the son of Saandros
,
Pandon
the son of Thiozotos
. God. Good
for
tune. (
(
Phen
ias
being archon), in the mon
th of
(Homoloios)
),
Pando
n
the son of Dion
and
Oloum
pikha the daughter of Mines
dedi
c
ate their own house-
born sl
aves Dioniousia and
Soura to Kharops
Herakleis
,
them having remai
ned, without complaint, with
P
andon and Oloumpikh
a
,
as before. Bu
t if
someone
should lay hold of them, let them
de
prive him, of the Boiotians, whoever is wi
l
ling, and the prie
stess of Herakle
is
. Witnesses:
Herm
eos the son of Kallippos
,
Meliton the son of Philok
les
,
Aristion
the son of
Homoloikhos
,
Pour
rikhos the son of Timon
.
God. Good fortune.
(
(
Kaphi
sias being archon),
in the
mon
th of (Alalkomeni
os
)
(on the second)
),
Nikon the son of Agasi
as
,
Parthena his ow
n servant, dedica
tes as consecrated to Kharops
Herakleis
, her having remai
ned with Nikon so long as he lives,
Nikon. Let it not be possible for any
one Parthena
to reduce
to slavery. But if not, let the
authority
be the priestess, depriving him,
and of the Boiotians, whoever is willing.
Witnesses:
Alexon the son of Euro
umakhos
,
Timandros the son of Kaphiso
philos
, Teis... . . .,
Philotas
the son of Nikon
.