Coin Depicting the Amazon Smyrna
Ancient Roman (now Izmir, Turkey)
175-200
- Medium
- Bronze
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 1.8 cm (3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Smyrna
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of William F. Dunham
- 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 depicts a draped bust of the Amazon Smyrna, facing left, with a bipennis (double axe) over her shoulder. On the back (reverse), is a ship prow facing to the right.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
