Cleveland Museum of Art
Stater: Pegasos (obverse); Head of Athena (reverse)
- Date
- c. 350–338 BCE
- Medium
- silver
- Culture
- Greece, Corinth
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 97380
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
On the obverse of this coin, the divine winged horse Pegasos takes flight, its front legs rearing up to the left. On the reverse, Athena, who gave the Corinthian hero Bellerophon the reins to tame Pegasos, wears a Corinthian-style helmet and is accompanied by a mask of the satyr-god Silenos. Repeated in this coinage, the story of Pegasos became an integral part of Corinthian mythology. The archaic letter Ϙ, koppa, on the obverse abbreviates the early spelling of Corinth (ϘΟΡΙΝΘΟΣ).
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- Credit line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
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