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Constantine IX Monomachos (1042-1055)

 
 

Obverse

Faint outline of a half-length representation of Christ wearing a tunic and himation. He has a nimbus cruciger. No readable epigraphy. Border of dots.

Reverse

Faint outline of half-length representation of Constantine IX wearing a crown with a cross and a loros. He is shown holding a long cross scepter in the right hand and a globus cruciger in the left. Portion of circular inscription at left. Border of dots.

.....A. . .

[Cωns]tan[tinos]

Obverse

Faint outline of a half-length representation of Christ wearing a tunic and himation. He has a nimbus cruciger. No readable epigraphy. Border of dots.

Reverse

Faint outline of half-length representation of Constantine IX wearing a crown with a cross and a loros. He is shown holding a long cross scepter in the right hand and a globus cruciger in the left. Portion of circular inscription at left. Border of dots.

.....A. . .

[Cωns]tan[tinos]

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.1712
Diameter 36.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 6, no. 73.10.

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

Translation

Cωnstantinos.

Constantine.

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)