Drachm (Coin) Portraying King Phraates IV
38-2 BCE
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 1.9 cm (3/4 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 Parthian King Phraates IV, facing left.
On the back (reverse) the legendary founder of the Parthian empire, King Arsaces, is portrayed as a kneeling archer in a field of Greek text.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
