Boeotia
Description: stele? of grey-blue stone, broken at top and bottom, tapering toward bottom; inscribed on narrow side
0.26 m (height), 0.21 m (max. width), 0.012-0.13 m (depth),0.006-0.012 mCreate Date: 200-150 BC (Roesch), 197-188 BC (Albrecht)
Discovery: Orkhomenos(Note: built into chapel of Agioi Anargyroi)
Original Location: Orkhomenos
Current Location: Thebes museum(Note: #24 of inventory of 1936-38)
Bibliography: P. Roesch"Inscriptions béotiennes" in Bulletin de correspondance Hellénique94(1970)157-605fig. 5
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. . . being archon,
(
being hierarchs
N...
the son of
...os, Isi...
the son of
Proxenos
)
), they
dedi
cate,
Damo
n
the son of Ariston
an
d
Philokratia the daughter of P
o
liouklidas
, their o
w
n house-born
slave Zopo
u
ra to be con
secrated to the Mo
ther of the G
o
ds, and let it not be pos
s
ible for anyon
e
to lay hold o
f
or to reduce to s
l
avery Zo
poura. But if
not, let the authority
b
e the a
rchons
. . .