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Anonymous (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

The Virgin holding a medallion of Christ before her. Sigla: ̣̅Θ̣̅. : Μή(τη)ρ Θ(εο)[ῦ]. Border of dots.

Reverse

The Archangel Michael wearing a chlamys with a tablion, holding a scepter with a trefoil tip in his right hand and a globus held up high in his left. No surviving inscription. Border of dots.

Obverse

The Virgin holding a medallion of Christ before her. Sigla: ̣̅Θ̣̅. : Μή(τη)ρ Θ(εο)[ῦ]. Border of dots.

Reverse

The Archangel Michael wearing a chlamys with a tablion, holding a scepter with a trefoil tip in his right hand and a globus held up high in his left. No surviving inscription. Border of dots.

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.3429
Diameter 18.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 7, no. 9.1 (dated to the mid-eleventh century).

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 7: The Iconographic Seals (Open in Zotero)