Page "Klazomenai" Paragraph 4

The principal god of the city was Apollo.

According to myth, swans drew the chariot in which Apollo every year flew south from his winter home in the land of the Hyperboreans.

But Klazomenai was also home to large numbers of swans, and it is thought that the verb klazo was used to describe the call of the wild birds.

The swan on the obverse is both an attribute of Apollo and a pun on the name Klazomenai.