Boeotia
Description: architectural piece (parastade?) of dark grey-blue stone with white and yellow flecks, inscribed on lateral faces (C, D), recesses carved at three corners (right C, right D, left D) broken into two pieces (mended break on lower half)
upper half: .69 m (preserved height), 0.28 m (width), 0.39 m (depth); lower half: .785 m (preserved height), 0.32 m (width), 0.50 m (depth)0.006-0.01 mCreate Date: ia', ib' 100-50 BC (Pappadakis), beginning of 2d c. BC (Albrecht), before 171 BC (Schachter); ig': 100-50 BC (Pappadakis, Albrecht), shortly after 171 BC (Schachter)
Discovery: Thebes?(no later than 1902)
Original Location: Koroneia(Note: Kharopeion)
Current Location: Thebes museum(Note: inv. #1905-05B)
Bibliography: N. G. Pappadakis"Peri to Kharopeion tes Koroneias" in Arkhaiologikon Deltion2(1916)217D(Note: three manumissions (ia', ib', ig')); A. Schachter2(1986)7-8 n.3(Note: on date)
. . . dedicates his own house-
slav
e to
Kharops
He
rakleis
, Euame
ros
, to be
consecrated and fr
ee. And
let it not be possible
for anyone to reduce
to slaver
y
Euameros
in an
y manner.
But if someone should r
educe
him to slavery, let d
eprive
him the priestess an
d who
ever else is willi
ng. Witnesses:
Sosiklei
s
. . .
Pourrikhos
the son of
Timon
,
Thioklida
s
. . .
Timon A. . .
God.
Good for
tune.
(
(
Mnas
ixenos being a
rchon
), in the mon
th of (Agri
onios
)
) . . .
...ion d
edicates his own
ser
vant . . .
. . .
. . . them having remained with him,
so long as he live
s, and with his wife
Harmodia,
without complaint.
Wh
en they sh
ould die,
Heirodoto
s
and
Harmodia
,
let them bur
y them,
Onasimos
and
Dio
niousio
s
, and do
the cu
stomary
things, all
of them, each y
ear
for t
hem having d
ied.
Let it not be po
ssib
le to red
uce to sl
avery
Dioniou
sios
and
Onasim
os, neither for,
of the he
irs of Heirodot
os
, anyone nor for any
o
ther in
any
manner, but f
ree
let them be. But if someone sh
ould reduce
them to sla
very, let both the pries
tess of Kh
ar
ops
Herakleis
dep
rive him
and serve as
protector, and, of the o
thers, whoever is wi
lling,
on the grounds that consec
rated they are
and
free, Dio
niousios
and
Onasimos, and that which
they
possess. Witnes
ses:
Pro
xenos and Phanonda
s
the sons of
Kalli
kritos,
Polioudo
ros the son of T
imasenetos
, Alexia
s
. . .