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Barnabas monk (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Inscription in four lines. Indeterminate border.

Ο
ΔΗΓΙΤΡ,
,Θ,ΤΣ
ΔΛ,

Ὁδηγίτρ(ια) β(οή)θ(ει) τῷ σῷ δούλ(ῳ)

Reverse

Inscription in three lines. Indeterminate border.

Ρ
Ν
Χ̅

Βαρνάβᾳ (μον)αχ(ῷ)

Obverse

Inscription in four lines. Indeterminate border.

Ο
ΔΗΓΙΤΡ,
,Θ,ΤΣ
ΔΛ,

Ὁδηγίτρ(ια) β(οή)θ(ει) τῷ σῷ δούλ(ῳ)

Reverse

Inscription in three lines. Indeterminate border.

Ρ
Ν
Χ̅

Βαρνάβᾳ (μον)αχ(ῷ)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.363
Diameter 16.0 mm
Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Ὁδηγίτρια βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Βαρνάβᾳ μοναχῷ.

(Virgin) Hodegetria, help your servant, the monk Barnabas.

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