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Anonymous (mid-eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Archangel Michael standing on a suppedion, wearing the imperial loros and holding a trefoil scepter in his right hand and a globus cruciger in his left. Sigla: Χ|ΑΧ|ΜΗ : Ἀ(ρ)χ(άγγελος) Μηχ(αὴλ). Border of dots.

Reverse

St George standing, in civil costume, holding a small cross in his right hand, his left hand is indistinct. Inscription in two columns: Ο̣|Α|ΓΙ|Ο,ΓΕ|Ρ|ΓΙ|Ο|Σ : ὁ ἅγιο(ς) Γεώργιος. Border of dots.

Obverse

Archangel Michael standing on a suppedion, wearing the imperial loros and holding a trefoil scepter in his right hand and a globus cruciger in his left. Sigla: Χ|ΑΧ|ΜΗ : Ἀ(ρ)χ(άγγελος) Μηχ(αὴλ). Border of dots.

Reverse

St George standing, in civil costume, holding a small cross in his right hand, his left hand is indistinct. Inscription in two columns: Ο̣|Α|ΓΙ|Ο,ΓΕ|Ρ|ΓΙ|Ο|Σ : ὁ ἅγιο(ς) Γεώργιος. Border of dots.

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.3488
Diameter 28.0 mm; field: 21.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 7, 12.19.

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)