Thracian horseman
The Thracian horseman (also "Thracian Rider" or "Thracian Heros") is a recurring motif depicted in reliefs of the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the Balkans—mainly Thrace, Macedonia, Thessaly and Moesia—roughly from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. Inscriptions found in Romania identify the horseman as Heros and Eros (Latin transcriptions of Ἥρως) and also Heron and Eron (Latin transcriptions of Ἥρων), apparently the word hero used as a proper name. He is sometimes addressed in inscriptions merely as κύριος, δεσπότης or ἥρως.