Relief on a pedimented decree stele

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Honorific decree on a pedimented relief stele for the Syracusan Alcetas' Horse with an olive wreath below, probably to a racing victory. Alcetas, king of the Molossians, had been adopted by Leptines during his exile in Syracuse. Caste of a late Classical stele, 373 BC.

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