id: 111426 accession number: 1929.914 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.914 updated: 2022-01-04 15:09:12.597000 Drachm: Forepart of Lion (obverse); Head of Aphrodite (reverse), 465–449 BC. Greek, minted at Knidos (Karia). Silver; diameter: 1.7 cm (11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.914 title: Drachm: Forepart of Lion (obverse); Head of Aphrodite (reverse) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 465–449 BC creation date earliest: -465 creation date latest: -449 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Greek, minted at Knidos (Karia) technique: silver department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Coins find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 1.7 cm (11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Charles T. Seltman, Berkhamsted, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1929 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1929- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Although produced in the Classical period, this profile head of Aphrodite retains an Archaic look. digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cahn, Herbert A. Knidos: die Münzen des sechsten und des fünften Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1970. page number: No. 72, pp. 45-6, & 226, Tafel 16 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.914/1929.914_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.914/1929.914_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.914/1929.914_full.tif