Tetradrachm (Coin) Depicting the Hero Herakles with the Features of Alexander the Great

Art Institute of Chicago

Tetradrachm (Coin) Depicting the Hero Herakles with the Features of Alexander the Great

Greek, minted in Cilicia

Date
336-323 BCE
Medium
Silver
Culture
Greece
Department
Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

The front of this coin depicts the mythical hero Herakles wearing a lion skin cloak. On the back, the god Zeus is depicted seated with an eagle in his right hand and a staff in his left.

The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Linked open data

Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.

Object type
AAT300037334

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.