id:			98304
accession number:	1917.979
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.979
updated:		2021-07-29 09:00:37.524000

Triobol (Hemidrachm): Chimaera (Obverse); Dove (Reverse), 400-323 BC. Greece, Sikyon, (Peloponnese). Silver; diameter: 1.7 cm (11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1917.979

title:				Triobol (Hemidrachm): Chimaera (Obverse); Dove (Reverse)
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series:				
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creation date:			400-323 BC
creation date earliest:		-400
creation date latest:		-323
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creditline:			Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
copyright:			

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culture:	Greece, Sikyon, (Peloponnese)
technique:	silver
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Greek
type:		Coins
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CREATORS

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measurements: Diameter: 1.7 cm (11/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	ΣΙ
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	inscription:	I
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Stories From Storage
	opening date:   2021-02-07T05:00:00
	<i>Stories From Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Charles T. Seltman, Berkhamsted, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1917
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1917-
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fun fact: 
The monstrous chimaera adds a goat head and snake-headed tail to the already fearsome lion.

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wall description: 
The lion, king of the beasts and an animal associated with regal and heroic power, featured prominently on the coinage of many ancient Greek city-states. Artists placed the lion in a variety of poses, sometimes including the whole body, at other times the foreparts or just the head. Although it may once have roamed nearby, for many Greeks the lion was a monster nearly as exotic as the Chimaera, of which it formed a part (together with a goat head and snake-headed tail, as seen on this Sikyonian coin).
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"Accessions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 4 (1917): 64-67.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 64
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136092

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IMAGES

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