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

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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