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Alexios I Komnenos (1081–1118)

 
 

Obverse

Christ seated on a high-back throne, wearing a tunic and himation and holding the right hand in blessing and a book in the left. He has a nimbus cruciger. No epigraphy visible. Border of dots.

Reverse

The emperor Alexios I bearded standing on a dais, wearing a a crown and a loros, an end of which is draped over the left wrist. He holds in a labarum in the right hand and a globus cruciger in the left. Circular inscription, beginning at 7:30. Border of dots.

αλειωδ,σποτ,τ,κ...ηνω

Ἀλεξίῳ δ(ε)σπότ() τ() Κ[ομν]ηνῷ.

Obverse

Christ seated on a high-back throne, wearing a tunic and himation and holding the right hand in blessing and a book in the left. He has a nimbus cruciger. No epigraphy visible. Border of dots.

Reverse

The emperor Alexios I bearded standing on a dais, wearing a a crown and a loros, an end of which is draped over the left wrist. He holds in a labarum in the right hand and a globus cruciger in the left. Circular inscription, beginning at 7:30. Border of dots.

αλειωδ,σποτ,τ,κ...ηνω

Ἀλεξίῳ δ(ε)σπότ() τ() Κ[ομν]ηνῷ.

Accession number BZS.1947.2.346 (formerly DO 47.2.346)
Diameter 28.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 6, no. 88.34.

Translation

Ἀλεξίῳ δεσπότ τ Κομνηνῷ.

Alexios Komnenos, despotes.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 6, Emperors, Patriarchs of Constantinople, Addenda (Open in Zotero)