A large marble relief of Classical times with an upright representation of a peculiar female figure. The slab is 1.20 m high and 0.60 m wide and is preserved fragmentarily, since there are clear indications that it continued upwards, where part of the figure is missing, and also to the right, as shown by a "tooth" formed in the upper right corner of the relief. The figure stands frontally, wearing a veil that forms a rich, short garment. The veil clings to the body, letting its form appear, and falls in dense, deep folds at the sides of the figure. With her right hand she holds an unbroken round object, on which the palm of her hand is preserved. In the left hand, which is completely worked, she holds a cylindrical object whose upper part has been left half-finished, perhaps a case. The left leg is the supporting leg while the right leg is raised and rests on the tips of the toes. The end of the folds of the garment near the right foot gives the impression of movement. The relief probably comes from a large funerary monument with sculptural decoration, or perhaps a temple. During ground-support works in the SE area of the site a section of a relief gravestone was revealed: the top right part is preserved, length 0.42 m, width 0.33 m and thickness 0.1 m. As the section shows, it was a large stele made of fine-grained white Parian marble. This stele belongs typologically to a class of island stelae represented on Paros in particular by several examples dating from the 5th century BC. On the well-smoothed surface of the front, to the viewer's left, a woman's hand is depicted in profile.
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