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Fragmentary stele with a proxeny decree of the Boeotian Koinon honoring the Lakonian Timeas, son of Cheirikrates. Above the text is a relief of a warship, and above that a second relief depicting Athena Alea and the Dioskouroi. In the pediment crowning the stele is a small relief of the infant Herakles strangling the serpents.
Date 369/8 or ca. 365–363 B.C.
Medium marble
Dimensions height: 65 cm (25.5 in); width: 32.5 cm (12.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,65U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,32.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q49133
Accession number
1987.2973
Inscriptions

SEG 55.564bis:

  • Above the reliefs:
Πολυδεύκε̣ς, Κάστορ, Ἀθάνα{ς} Ἀλέα
  • Below the reliefs:
Θεός· ἔδοξε το͂ι δάμοι· Ἐργοτέλεος
ἄρχοντος· Ἰσμεινίας ἔλεξε· Τιμέα̣[ν]
Χειρικράτεος Λάκωνα πρό[ξε]-
νον εἶμεν κὴ εὐεργέτα[ν Βοιω]-
τῶν κὴ αὐτὸγ κὴ ἐκγό[νους]
κὴ εἶμεν [ϝοι] γᾶς κ[ὴ οἰκίας]
ΕΠΩΝ[---]
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