Among the grave altars built into the northern wall of Dion, an altar stood out for its size, its proportions and especially the way its inscriptions were arranged. For this reason, the altar was detached and in situ replaced by a cast (Fig. 1). Fig. 1 Today the altar is on display in the courtyard …
DEDICATION OF L. TREBIUS LEO TO ZEUS HYPSISTOS Among the votive images in the sanctuary of Zeus Hypsistos in Dion is that of Lucius Trebius Leo. The monument, composed of three parts, features an Ionic capital of white marble attached to a smooth, unfluted column of green marble. On top of the capital sits an …
The birth of a child is one of the most important events in a woman’s life. In ancient times, people invented deities that protected childbirth, because the risk of complications was high, as medicine was still far from the leaps achieved in our days. In Homer’s epics, the main goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia, stands by …
The funerary monument of Paulus was found in secondary use in the northern wall of Dion but probably originates from the northern cemetery of the city. It consists of an intact white marble altar and dates from the second half of the 2nd century AD. The façade of the monument bears a seven-line inscription, the …
‘Mulion’, the beloved dog accompanies the young Paulus in his funerary monument Read More »
In 1915 the Ephor of Antiquities G. Oikonomos published a grave altar he saw in the garden of a private house in Karitsa, apparently coming from the northern cemetery of Dion. The altar, dated back to the second half of the 2nd c. or the beginning of the 3rd c. A.D., is interesting because, in …
A well-known type of grave monument during the imperial times is the altar. An inscribed altar with engraved decoration, found built in the eastern part of the late wall of Dion, is of particular interest. Sabinus and Nikandra made this grave together from their own shoulders remembering death. The metrical inscription informs us that the spouses Sabinus and Nikandra …
On April 19, 1914, the Ephor of Antiquities Georgios Oikonomos wrote that on his tour to “Kalivia of Karitsa”, i.e. the outskirts of Malathria (nowadays Dion), he located two joining fragments of an inscription that had been built into the small post-Byzantine monastery church of Saint Paraskevi. These inscriptions had not been noticed by the …
The area south of the city, where the sanctuaries of Dion have been discovered since 1973, was previously occupied by private fields, orchards, and tobacco plantations. In 1936 a farmer found an ancient marble object and gave it to the museum. The find was a sundial. It consists of a hemispherical concave plate that bears …
A statue of the last Macedonian king Perseus (179-168 BC) was dedicated to the Muses and Dionysus by the “Musaistai”, an association (“synodos”) of organized worshipers of the Muses. The dedication was made to honor the king for his virtue, his benefaction to their association and his piety to the gods, as indicated by the …
Perseus, the last Macedonian king and the worshipers of the Muses Read More »
