Didrachm (Coin) Depicting the Goddess Athena

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

400-335 BCE

Greek

Obverse: Head of Athena to left, with crested helmet
Reverse: Man-headed bull to right

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Greek
Title: Didrachm (Coin) Depicting the Goddess Athena
Place: Oria (Minted in)
Date: 400 BCE–335 BCE
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Reverse: ΑИΙΔΥ
Dimensions: Diam.: 2.2 cm (7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
Reference Number: 1922.4919
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The Art Institute of Chicago, “Ancient Greek and Roman Coins,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 72, 5 (September-October 1978), p. 2 (ill.).
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 29.

Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

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