Boeotia


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Description: large rectangular block of white limestone, inscribed on front and right face; top and bottom smoothed or finished; front, right and left faces finished; back unfinished

1.155 m (height), 0.195 m (width), 0.16 m (depth)0.01-0.02 m

Create Date: end of 3rd-first quarter of 2d c. BC

Discovery: Khaironeia(1952)(Note: along road leading south out of town)

Original Location: Khaironeia

Current Location: Khaironeia museum(July 1995)(Note: in yard)

(Note: on front, below SEG 28 (1978) 444 (gap of 0.032 m))
Bibliography: P. Roesch and J. M. Fossey"Neuf actes d'affranchisement de Chéronée" in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik29(1978)124-2528(Note: provides French translation); Teiresias; Bulletin épigraphique; H. Gallet de Santerre et al."Chronique des fouilles en 1952" in Bulletin de correspondance Hellénique77(1953)219; "Archaeological report" in Journal of Hellenic Studies(1953)120; J. M. Fossey(1991)Amsterdam137-55drawing, p.120(Note: addenda)

( ( Wanaxidamos being ar
chon), in the mont
h of (Boukatios) (on the eig
hteenth) ), Ni
kodamos the son of Time
netos dedica
tes his own s
ervant Zoi
la as consecrated to
Artamis
Eileithia, her
having remained so
long as he lives, Niko
damos. Witnes
ses: Noneis the son of Hip
pon , Diono
usios the son of Athanias .