Thracian horseman

[13] Under the Roman Emperor Gordian III the god on horseback appears on coins minted at Tlos, in neighboring Lycia, and at Istrus, in the province of Lower Moesia, between Thrace and the Danube.

The motif of a horseman with his right arm raised advancing towards a seated female figure is related to Scythian iconographic tradition.

[17] Apart from syncretism with other deities (such as Asclepios, Apollo, Sabatius), the figure of the Thracian Horseman was also found with several epithets: Karabasmos, Keilade(i)nos, Manimazos, Aularchenos, Aulosadenos, Pyrmeroulas.

One in particular was found in Avren, dating from the III century CE, with a designation that seems to refer to horsemanship: Outaspios, and variations Betespios, Ephippios and Ouetespios.

[18] Bulgarian linguist Vladimir I. Georgiev proposed the following interpretations to its epithets:[19] Bulgarian linguist Ivan Duridanov [bg] interpreted the following theonyms: Related to the Dioscuri motif is the so-called "Danubian Horsemen" motif of two horsemen flanking a standing goddess.

However, some reliefs have also been found in Roman Dacia - which gives the alternate name for the motif: "Dacian Horseman".

[23] Scholarship locates its diffusion across Moesia, Dacia, Pannonia and Danube, and, to a lesser degree, in Dalmatia and Thracia.