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Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Antiochus I, II or III (?)
3rd-2nd century BCE
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 3 cm (1 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Syria
- 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 of this coin portrays Antiochus facing right.
On the back, the god Apollo sits on a rounded stone called an omphalos.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
