Sepulchral stele from Kolindros-Pieria

No abstractThe stele with index No. 8166 of Thessaloniki Museum, is presently exhibited at the Dion Museum and was found at the rural area of Kolindros-Pieria.It is a rectangular stele (0,84x0,50m), with a pedimental rectangularcrowning and relief within a tablet, framed by pillars and epistyle. The reliefrepresents as the main figure a horseman dressed like a soldier; he is holdinga bottle in his right hand. Facing him is a female figure seated on a stool. The two central figures are surrounded by young slaves.The representation’s theme is unusual for grave stelae up to the Helle­nistic years, although the same figures isolated appear very early in Greek art.On the upper part of the stele shows the inscription ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΣ ΙΠΠΟ­ΤΟΥ and on the epistyle of the tablet ΗΡΩΕΣ. The stele is dating from the late 2nd or early 1st C B.C