Coin Depicting the Goddess Kybele

Art Institute of Chicago

Coin Depicting the Goddess Kybele

Greek; Smyrna, Ionia (now Izmir, Turkey)

Date
2nd-1st century BCE
Medium
Bronze
Culture
Smyrna
Department
Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

The front (obverse) of this coin depicts the head of the goddess Kybele, facing right. On the back (reverse), the goddess Aphrodite Stratonikis is depicted standing to the right with her left hand resting on a short column and supporting a figure of the goddess Nike.

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Object type
AAT300037334

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