Coin Portraying King Sapor II
Iranian (now Iran)
309-379
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 2.8 cm (1 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Khorasan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. William Nelson Pelouze
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the Sasanian king Sapor II, facing right.
On the back (reverse), a flaming pyre is shown between two standing figures.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
