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Image: Dedication of altar to Hestia from Karneades, Taormina, 121840

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Description: Metric dedication of an altar to Hestia from Karneades of Barke, his wife Pythias and their daughter Eraso beside the Temple of Serapis (IG XIV 433). Lapidary and epigraphic collection of the Greek Theatre of Taormina. Found in Taormina. Inscriptionː "Beside these walls of Serapis the warden of the temple Karneades of Barke, son of Eukritos, o foreigner, and his spouse Pythias and his daughter Eraso placed to Hestia a pure altar, as a reward for this, o you that governs the marvellous dwellings of Zeus, grant to them a lovely auspiciousness of life."
Title: Dedication of altar to Hestia from Karneades, Taormina, 121840
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