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

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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