Obverse: Head of Amphitrite (?) right, in stephane and veil; behind, lotus-tipped sceptre and krater Reverse: Poseidon standing left, nude, resting on raised knee, right foot on Ionic column, bird on fulmen beside him
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Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 29.
Seth D. Pevnick, Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life. exh. cat. (Tampa: Tampa Museum of Art; London: D. Giles Limited, 2014) p. 169 (illus.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
Omaha, NE, Joslyn Art Museum, Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life, February 6 - May 11, 2014 ; traveled to Tampa Museum of Art, June 14 - November 30, 2014, and Hanover, NH, Hood Museum of Art, January 17, 2015 - March 15, 2015.
Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
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