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Constantine Koskinas (twelfth century)

 
 

Obverse

St. George standing, holding spear in right hand and shield in left hand. Sigla: ο|α|γι|ογε|ρ|γιο, : ὁ ἅγιο(ς) Γεώργιο(ς). Indeterminate border.

Reverse

Inscription in five lines. Indeterminate border.

  
ΣΚΠΟΙΣ
ΜΕΜΑΡΤΥΣ̣
ΚΟΣΚΗΝΑΝ
ΚΝΑΝ
ΤΗΝ̣Ν̣
 · 

σκέποις με, μάρτυς, Κοσκηνᾶν Κωωσταντῆνων

Obverse

St. George standing, holding spear in right hand and shield in left hand. Sigla: ο|α|γι|ογε|ρ|γιο, : ὁ ἅγιο(ς) Γεώργιο(ς). Indeterminate border.

Reverse

Inscription in five lines. Indeterminate border.

  
ΣΚΠΟΙΣ
ΜΕΜΑΡΤΥΣ̣
ΚΟΣΚΗΝΑΝ
ΚΝΑΝ
ΤΗΝ̣Ν̣
 · 

σκέποις με, μάρτυς, Κοσκηνᾶν Κωωσταντῆνων

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.550
Diameter 29.0 mm
Previous Editions

Laurent, Vatican, no. 182. Cf. Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden II, no. 2076a. See also PBW : Konstantinos 20535.

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

Translation

σκέποις με, μάρτυς, Κοσκηνᾶν Κωνσταντῆνων.

Martyr, may you protect me, Constantine Koskinas. 

Commentary

Dodecasyllabic.

Bibliography

  • Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden, Vol. 2, Siegellegenden von Ny bis inklusive Sphragis (Open in Zotero)