During the Classical antiquity, the herms were surmounted by a head of Hermes and served as signposts; they were located at crossroads, or delimited sacred areas. By the Hellenistic period, heads of other gods or famous mortals began to decorate herms, and their religious nature was lost. On the primary side of the quadrangular pillar there was a phallus, a symbol inherited to Greeks by the Pelasgians (Herodotus 2.51).

This herm carries a head of God Dionysus. Both the beard and the long hair refer to the artistic style of the Archaic period (e.g. ancient kouroi). He wears a turban-like headdress of loosely ribbons on his head. The stone inlay of the white part of its left eye is still preserved.