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Childbirth deities at Dion

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 …

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‘Mulion’, the beloved dog accompanies the young Paulus in his funerary monument

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 …

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The Sundial from Dion

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 …

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