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Anonymous (twelfth/thirteenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin orans; lower left area effaced. Sigla: ̅Θ̅ : Μ(ήτηρ) Θ(εοῦ). Border of dots.  

Reverse

St George in military costume holding a lance in his right hand and holding a shield in his left. Inscription in two columns: |Γ|Ε.|Ρ|Γ : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Γε[ώ]ργ(ιος). Border of dots.

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin orans; lower left area effaced. Sigla: ̅Θ̅ : Μ(ήτηρ) Θ(εοῦ). Border of dots.  

Reverse

St George in military costume holding a lance in his right hand and holding a shield in his left. Inscription in two columns: |Γ|Ε.|Ρ|Γ : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Γε[ώ]ργ(ιος). Border of dots.

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.3469
Diameter 19.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 7, 5.81. 

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)