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)0.006-0.01 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 right face, below SEG 28 (1978) 450 (gap of 0.02 m))
Bibliography: P. Roesch and J. M. Fossey"Neuf actes d'affranchisement de Chéronée" in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik29(1978)131-3289,8(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)

( ( Klion being archon), in the m o
nth of (Theiliouthios)
(on the thirtieth) ), Iason
the son of Hageisias dedica t
es to Artamis
Elithia as consecrated his
own house-born slave
Agatho, her having
remained with him so long as
he lives, he maki
ng the dedica
tion through the co u
ncil according to
the law.