Romanos III Argyros (1028-34)
Accession Number: BZS.1951.31.5.1664 (formerly Fogg 1664)
Previous Editions
DO Seals 6 no. 71.1
Diameter: 35 mm
Field: 34 mm
Weight: 27.57 g
Obverse
Half-length representation of Christ bearded, wearing a tunic and himation and holding the right hand in blessing and a book in the left. He has a nimbus cruciger; each arm contains a decoration consisting of five pellets. Sigla et left and right: Ἰ(ησοῦ)ς Χ(ριστό)ς. Circular inscription. Border of dots.
[Ἐμμ]ανουήλ.
Reverse
Half-length representation of Romanos III wearing a crown with a cross and pendilia and a loros. He holds a labarum with an imperial portrait in center in the right hand and a globus surmounted by a patriarchal cross in the left. Circular inscription. Border of dots.
[R]ωmanos autocra[t(or)].
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