Art Funded
Syracusan Decadrachm
Kimon (active 413 BC)
British Museum
413 BC
The medallion was struck from a die of which a considerable portion had broken away, so that the beautiful head looks as if it were rising out of an unworked block of metal. One of a series in commemoration of the victory over the Athenians in 413 BC. Transferred from the British Museum in 1950, no longer in the collection.
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: 4 cm
- ArtFunded in: 1912
- Presented by Henry Van den Bergh through The Art Fund
Provenance
Henry Van Den Bergh
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