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Anonymous (eleventh/twelfth century)

 
 

Obverse

St George in military costume holding a lance in his right hand and a shield in his left. Inscription in two columns: |Γ|Ε̣||Ο|Σ̣ : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Γεώργιος. Border of dots.

Reverse

St Theodore in military costume holding a lance in his right hand and a shield in his left. Inscription in two columns: |ΘΕ||ΡΟ, : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Θεώδ(ω)ρο(ς). Border of dots.

Obverse

St George in military costume holding a lance in his right hand and a shield in his left. Inscription in two columns: |Γ|Ε̣||Ο|Σ̣ : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Γεώργιος. Border of dots.

Reverse

St Theodore in military costume holding a lance in his right hand and a shield in his left. Inscription in two columns: |ΘΕ||ΡΟ, : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Θεώδ(ω)ρο(ς). Border of dots.

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.3536
Diameter 20.0 mm; field: 12.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 7, no. 16.29.

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)