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Anonymous (twelfth/thirteenth century)

 
 

Obverse

St Nicholas blessing with his right hand and holding a gospel book in his left. Inscription in two columns: .|̣Ι|ΚΟΛ̣||Ο, : [ὁ ἅ(γιος)] Νικόλαο(ς). Border of dots.

Reverse

St George in military costume holding a lance in his right hand and a shield in his left. Inscription: ̣|Γ̣Ε|Ρ|Ο̣Σ : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Γεώργιος. Border of dots.

Obverse

St Nicholas blessing with his right hand and holding a gospel book in his left. Inscription in two columns: .|̣Ι|ΚΟΛ̣||Ο, : [ὁ ἅ(γιος)] Νικόλαο(ς). Border of dots.

Reverse

St George in military costume holding a lance in his right hand and a shield in his left. Inscription: ̣|Γ̣Ε|Ρ|Ο̣Σ : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Γεώργιος. Border of dots.

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.3529
Diameter 22.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 7, 15.37.

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)