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Anonymous (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

St George in military costume holding a lance in his right hand and a shield in his left. Inscription in two columns: |Γ̣Ε||ΡΓ.|Ο : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Γεώργ[ι]ο(ς). Indeterminate border.

Reverse

St Theodore in military costume holding a lance in his right hand and a shield in his left. Inscription in two columns: .|.|Ε.|||Ρ̣Ο̣Σ̣ : [ὁ ἅ(γιος) Θ]ε[ό]δωρος. Indeterminate border.

Obverse

St George in military costume holding a lance in his right hand and a shield in his left. Inscription in two columns: |Γ̣Ε||ΡΓ.|Ο : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Γεώργ[ι]ο(ς). Indeterminate border.

Reverse

St Theodore in military costume holding a lance in his right hand and a shield in his left. Inscription in two columns: .|.|Ε.|||Ρ̣Ο̣Σ̣ : [ὁ ἅ(γιος) Θ]ε[ό]δωρος. Indeterminate border.

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.3531
Diameter 21.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 7, no. 16.2.

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)