Monumental marble relief of the Thracian Hero. Ht 1.75 m. Found in Thessaloniki, it may have been the focal point of an important urban sanctuary.

Votive tablet of the Three Nymphs from a shrine on Lesbos. Ht 27 cm. Their iconography entirely Greek, the Nymphs were often naked or lightly clothed but in less Hellenized areas the traditional long robes were often preferred. In South Thrace the number of their tablets is only exceeded by those of the Hero. Probably also through Greek influence, the cult was popular in the lower Dnieper region.

Carpic urn from Poienesti. Ht 34.5 cm. The clay 'soup tureen', part of the Daco-Getic wheelmade repertoire by the 1st century ayps, was adapted by the Carps as a burial urn. Sarmatian influence added naturalistic zoomorphic handles.

Bendis, detail from an Attic stele.

Aspects of the Thracian Hero depicted on the Letnitsa plaques. A rounded plaque shows him as a mighty hunter, spearing a boar, a dead wolf beneath his horse's hooves. Others use a symbol, usually inserted into the space at the Hero's back, to indicate the range of his powers, perhaps further emphasized by the horns motif edging. Hts 5 cm.

Family funerary stele from Piperitsa, middle Strymon valley. The appearance of the Thracian Hero on funerary stelai in the 2nd to 3rd century, either representing or accompanying Roman-style portraits of the newly dead, symbolized their heroization, thus achieving immortality and a position to benefit the living.