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Alexios I Komnenos (1081–1118)

 
 

Obverse

Christ seated on a high-back throne, wearing a tunic and himation and holding a book in the left hand. Sigla visible at right: χσ̅ : [(ησοῦ)ς] Χ(ριστό)ς. Border of dots.

Reverse

The emperor Alexios I is represented with the same heavy features noted on BZS.1955.1.4341. He stands to front on a dais and wears a crown and a loros. He a labarum in the right hand. Remains of a circular inscription visible at left. Border of dots.

αλεΞιωδεσ............

Ἀλεξίῳ δεσ[πότ() τ() Κομνηνῷ].


Obverse

Christ seated on a high-back throne, wearing a tunic and himation and holding a book in the left hand. Sigla visible at right: χσ̅ : [(ησοῦ)ς] Χ(ριστό)ς. Border of dots.

Reverse

The emperor Alexios I is represented with the same heavy features noted on BZS.1955.1.4341. He stands to front on a dais and wears a crown and a loros. He a labarum in the right hand. Remains of a circular inscription visible at left. Border of dots.

αλεΞιωδεσ............

Ἀλεξίῳ δεσ[πότ() τ() Κομνηνῷ].


Accession number BZS.1955.1.4344
Diameter 34.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 6, no. 88.21.

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)