For example:
This Peithagoras is the one who predicted Hephaestion and Alexander's deaths. His family were from Amphipolis, but what proof is there that he returned there from Babylon or had any connection with the tomb?In the second phase, the wall dividing room 3 from room 4, which is clearly later than the pebble
mosaic, on which it rests, was set up, the marble door between room 3 and room 4 was made,
the painted frieze was created which implies the function of the complex as an oracle. From that
moment the tumulus worked as a place where a seer predicted the future.
The years when this transformation took place are probably the same years when the seer Peithagoras
came back home from Babylon and may have predicted the deaths of Perdikkas and Antigonus in room
3 of the tumulus, i. e. the year after the death of Alexander the Great, the late 320 BC.
It is possible that room 2 of the tomb contained an equestrian statue of Hephaestion, but what about the dimensions? Is it big enough to contain the statue of a horse? What proof is there that this bronze originated in Amphipolis? From the photo the horse looks to be about life size, so it might fit into room 2. However the Prado head comes from a statue that was about 15 feet tall, so the two do not go together. The head has also not been identified by the museum as Hephastion for several years and dates to about 280 BC, the time when the Kasta tomb was sealed.There are two surviving elements of a bronze equestrian statue from Rome which probably were
part of the monument of Hephaestion made by Lysippus and Philon:
• a bronze horse found in Rome and kept there, in the Capitoline Museums, no. 1064,
whose Lysippan pedigree has been established;38 (fig. 26)
• a bronze head once in the Farnese Collection, then in the Collection of king Philip V of
Spain, in San Ildefonso, Palacio Real, now at Madrid, Prado, no. 99 E,39 which has been
recognized to be the portrait of Hephaestion.40 (fig. 27)
The piece of the relief from the base of the lion on top of the tumulus is also assumed to be Alexander, nut it is compared to a stele that shows what is plainly a groom holding his master's horse and shield while he makes an offering at an altar. His smaller size denotes his inferior status, and probably his youth. So, since we don't have the rest of the relief, why doesn't the Kasta fragment represent an attendant rather than Alexander? isn't it a bit fortuitous that the only bit that survives represents Alexander? I really don't know what to make of this article.