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Eudokia sebaste (twelfth century, first half)

 
 

Obverse

Half-length of the Mother of God orans, the medallion of Christ before her. Sigla preserved at right: θυ̅ : [Μή(τη)ρ] Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, a cross above. Border of dots.

  
.ραφ..
σφραγιζ
.εαησ
ε̣Υοκι
Ασ

[γ]ραφ[ὰς] σφραγίζ(ω) [σ]εβαστῆς Εὐδοκίας

Obverse

Half-length of the Mother of God orans, the medallion of Christ before her. Sigla preserved at right: θυ̅ : [Μή(τη)ρ] Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, a cross above. Border of dots.

  
.ραφ..
σφραγιζ
.εαησ
ε̣Υοκι
Ασ

[γ]ραφ[ὰς] σφραγίζ(ω) [σ]εβαστῆς Εὐδοκίας

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.3602
Diameter 30.0 mm; field: 24.0 mm
Previous Editions

See Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden I, no. 483 (cited by the negative rather than the catalogue number).

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

γραφὰς σφραγίζω σεβαστῆς Εὐδοκίας.

I seal the letters of the sebaste Eudokia.