The Orpheus monument on the Slovene square in front of the Town's Tower is almost 5 metres high (4,94 x 1,82 x 0,39 m), and is the biggest monument of its kind unearthed in the Roman Province of the Upper Pannonia. Erected on the site where it was discovered, the monument has generated interest since the 16th century, and has thus become a symbol of the town by the river Drava. It got the name Orpheus after mythological representations carved in relief on it. Originally a tombstone, made of Pohorje marble it, was erected in the 2nd century AD to the then town's mayor - Marcus Valerius Verus, according to the Latin inscription which is now hardly legible. The carved reliefs on the monument represent faith into new life. On top in the corners lie two lions holding rams' heads in their paws. Between the lions is the representation of Serapis, Greco-Egyptian god symbolizing a hope of rebirth. Beneath the lions' scene, there is a relief in the tympanum showing Selene, the goddess of the moon, who, every night, leans over her dead lover Endymion trying to awaken him from his eternal sleep with kisses of her beams. In the spandrels next to the tympanum two nude winged geniuses are represented.
Between the gable-end and the inscribed field, the central relief is carved, showing a scene with Orpheus who turns to his lyre in sorrow for his lost Eurydice. His lament moves even the animals that gather around him in the cave, and the gods of the Underworld who return his beloved to him. The scene now hardly visible was carved in the lower relief part of the tombstone. In the Middle Ages, the tombstone was used as a pillory, called "pranger". Two iron rings for tying convicts were fastened to the lower part of the monument and seriously damaged the inscription.
