In the 2nd century A.D. a wealthy resident of the Roman-occupied Epirus, orders a marble sarcophagus for his last trip. He asks to the artist who will make it that its long sides demonstrate a scene from the war of Troy: Priamos, the father of dead Hector, bringing a ransom and asking Achilles to hand over the body of his son. The choice in decoration is not accidental. According to the myth, the son of Achilles, Neoptolemos, after the Trojan events, settles in Epirus with Andromachi, the widow of Hector. Their son is Molossos, primogenitor of the royal dynasty of Aiakides of Epirus. Pyrros, the most prominent member of the dynasty, appreciates his family connection with the hero, and in order to widely remind this connection, he has silver coins and staters cut, with the forms of Achilles and his mother, Thetis, printed on them.