This large statuette represents a bearded male, with a himation and a wreath on his hair, reclining upon a rectangular couch, propped up by pillows. The discovery of similar statuettes made of terracotta or stone in the entrance passages (dromoi) of 4th c. BC tombs at Marion has prompted their interpretation as funerary offerings. The figure is thought to represent the dead as a symposiast. In his missing left hand he would have held a cup containing pharmakon, i.e. the wine that brought immortality, or possibly a flower whose perfume ensured the deceased’s happiness in the Other World. The subject of the dead participating in a funerary banquet was popular in both Greek and Near Eastern mortuary iconography. The illustrated statuette is the product of an important workshop at Marion, the provenance of other reclining and enthroned figures with mould-made faces, wheel-made limbs and hollow bodies, frequently decorated in polychromy. Terracotta funerary statuettes were expensive items, and their quality most probably reflected the status of the deceased in the local society.