Placed in a grove or in the garden of a wealthy house or public places, such as baths and theatre, this fountain statue of 1st century B.C., probably made of Pentelic marble, would have provided cool water on hot summer days.

A naked Silenus is fallen asleep using a large vase as a pillow. He embraces it with his left hand, while his closed slanting eyes, half-open mouth and the veins of his beard stretched out on the vase intensify the impression that he is in a deep sleep as if he been exhausted by drunkenness at some feast of Dionysus, as the wreath of ivy leaves on his bald head suggests.

He is seated on a plinth and, as he rests his torso on the vase, he has his right leg, which survives to mid-thigh, freely extended to the left, and his left leg folded back towards his body in a horizontal position. As a layer it has a panther skin that extends across the plinth to the mouth of the vase. In his right hand he holds a circular object, probably the stopper of the vase. From the mouth of the latter the water would come out through a pipe inside the vase.

The sculpture is of unknown origin. You can see it in the permanent exhibition "Thessaloniki, Metropolis of Macedonia".