This is the unique marble throne of Eurydice, Alexander’s paternal grandmother, found inside the double-chambered Macedonian Tomb of Aigai (Vergina) in Macedonia, 340 BC.
Made of gilded and painted marble, its back depicts Pluto and Persephone, while a number of embossed and gilded flowers and animals, as well as statuettes of ‘korai’ adorn almost all its visible parts.
Eurydice was an Ancient Macedonian queen and wife of king Amyntas III of Macedon (337–317 BCE).