This inscription was published with a French translation and commentary by B. Helly, "A Larisa: Bouleversements et remise en ordre de sanctuaires" ( Mnemosyne, 1970 ). The same author has recently provided a revised text of part of the inscription in "Les hippodromes et les concours hippiques dans la Grèce antique", pp.99-118 ( OpenEdition ). This English translation has been made from the Greek text in SEG.
The survey was probably carried out by two hieromnemones, who were religious officials appointed each year in Larisa. Their report uses a local system of land area measurement, which is found in some other inscriptions. 1 kapbolaia = 100 square feet = 10ft x 10ft. 1 plethron = 10,000 square feet = 100ft x 100ft. If this was a decimal system of measurement, then the intermediate unit, the pelethraia, would be equivalent to 1,000 square feet.
. . . and irregular (?) hieromnemones . . . and a stele for the . . . in a rectangle . . . an ancient passage Arsidai . . . and [a piece of land], 5 plethra, 4 pelethraiai, .. kapbolaiai, 2 square feet - and two wells; this is possessed by ...lykos, son of Petrichos.
10 And outside the city, near the caves, a stele for Athena Lageitarra and another for the Graces; and near the gates of the Lykeion, a stele for Zeus Hyperdexios.
Sanctuary of Apollo: a stele of Apollo Promantas and a stele of Apollo Delphaios, and the land has been measured, excluding the roads and entrances, 9 pelethraiai, 4 kapbolaiai; this is possessed by Aga ..., son of Philokrates.
Stele of Demeter Ploutia, [outside] the city, on the right side of Pythion, in the M..., and a piece of land surrounded by a ditch, 4 plethra, 7 pelethraiai, 1 kapbolaia.
Sanctuary of Athena Patria, outside [the city], 20 on the left [side] of Pythion as one goes towards Krannon, near the ox-stall called (?) Hipparcheion, where there are many steles collapsed on the ground, and a piece of land, 2 plethra, 7 pelethraiai, 5 kapbolaiai.
And near (?) the sanctuary of Athena, a stele of Athena Thersys, collapsed on the ground, . . . and a piece of land, 1 plethron.
For the hero Ionios, called Epaphaios, near the Hipparcheion, an enclosure, and on the left hand, we found steles for [Zeus] of Olympos, and of Ennodia Mykaika . . .; after which we found more steles in the same place, [one] 30 of Zeus, which is collapsed, and one of Hera; there remains an inscription [with] letters: "Skeibeis and Hipparchos, hieromnemones, removed . . . of Apollo Tempeitas". Outside the city we found 3 plethra of a cultivated field, and 9 pelethraiai of a [smaller?] one; and we surveyed in addition . . . a passage, 3 plethra, 3 pelethraiai, .. kapbolaiai. The cultivable part of these fields, is possessed by Philiskos, son of ... , 5 plethra, 1 pelethraia, [1] kapbolaia.
For Zeus Phonios, in the domain of Archannos, a piece of land, .. [plethra], close to the summit, near the heroes Tim... 40 above, where the stones and the (?) existing foundations . . ., by the corner room of the palaistra of Panta...
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