Cleveland Museum of Art
Stater: Head of Nymph (Obverse); Nike (Reverse)
- Date
- c. 420–400 BCE
- Medium
- silver
- Culture
- Greek, minted at Terina (South Italy)
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 97374
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Coins from the South Italian colony of Terina are notable for their sophisticated reworkings of other cities’ designs. On the obverse of this tetradrachm is a female head with short, wavy hair, possibly modeled on the Syracusan nymph Arethousa. The reverse captures an intimate moment as Nike sits, tenderly holding a bird, much like young women in Athenian funerary sculptures. Nike sits on a cippus , a pillar used as a boundary stone or grave marker.
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- Credit line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
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Ancient Greek Silver TetradrachmsThese objects are all tetradrachm coins, a standard ancient Greek silver denomination, depicting various deities and symbols from Greek city-states and territories across the Mediterranean.
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