The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Tetradrachm: Head of Apollo (obverse); Lion (reverse)
c. 334–323 BCE
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
The lion and star on the reverse connect to the sun god, Apollo, on the obverse.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.- Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1916.993