Eirene (797–802)
Accession Number: BZS.1958.106.595 (formerly DO 58.106.595)
Previous Editions
DO Seals 6 no. 36.3; Zacos–Veglery, no. 40a. For a similar specimen see Likhachev, Nekotorye, 531, fig. 66.
Diameter: 27 mm
Field: 19 mm
Weight: 20.14 g
Obverse
Half-length representation of Eirene, wearing a crown with double pendilia surmounted by a cross and triangular projections, and a loros. She holds a globus cruciger in her right hand and in her left a cross scepter. Circular inscription beginning at top left. Border of dots.
Eirinῃ bas[ilissῃ].
Reverse
Blank.
Commentary:
On her gold coins, the empress Eirene is represented wearing a loros and a crown surmounted by a cross, which is framed by two triangular projections (for example, DOC 3.1:1a.1 [pl. 15]). Depicted here is type L (on the crown types, see DOC 3.1: pp. 128 and 130).
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 6: Emperors, Patriarchs of Constantinople, Addenda
- Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. 1
- Nekotorye stareishie tipy pechati vizantijskich imperatorov
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, vol. 3, Leo III to Nicephorus III (717–1081)
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