GREECE MACEDONIA PIERIA DION MUSEUM

The archaeological museum of Dion, established 1983, houses artefacts from ancient Dion and the wider area. - Above right: Grave offerings of an archaic infant burial, from the acropolis of Leivithra. - Below left: Statue of Herakles; a famous sculpture of the mid-5th century BC, skilfully copied by an artist of the 2nd century AD, from the Villa of Dionysos. - Below centre: Statue of Dionysos, from the frigidarium of the Great Baths. - Below right: Marble cult statue of Aphrodite Hypolympidia.

Above left: Grave stele of a young girl (450 - 440 BC). - Above right: Relief of Isis-Demeter from the sanctuary of Isis, Hellenistic period. - Below left: Relief of the hero Kandylidas (2nd century BC). - Below centre: Trajanus, Roman emperor (98 - 117 BC), admirer of Alexander the Great; from the Praetorium. - Below right: Hydraulis (1st century BC?), found in 1992 in ancient Dion. It is an early type of pipe organ blown by air, the world's first keyboard instrument, and the predecessor of the modern church organ. The hydraulis found in Dion is the only find of its kind in Greece and the oldest discovered specimen of its kind in the world.

Above left and centre: Female statue (details unknown). - Above right: Head of Zeus, from ancient Dion. - Below left: Female portrait (1st century AD), from the sanctuary of Isis. - Below centre: Female portrait. - Below right: Statue of Hygieia (1st century AD), daughter of Asklepios.

Below left: Statue of Panakeia, daughter of Asklepios (2nd century AD); from the Great Baths. - Below centre and right: Statue of Podalirius, the young son of Asklepios (2nd century AD); also from the Great Baths.