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Constantine metropolitan (seventh/eighth century)

 
 

Obverse

St Sophia standing, nimbate, holding a book in her left hand and a cross in her right hand. Vertical inscriptions on the left and right: .|.Ο|.Ι|.Β|Ο|Η|ΘΙ. Wreath border.

[Ἅγια Σ]ο[φ]ί[α] βοήθι

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Wreath border.

κν
σταντι
νμητ
ροπολι
τη

Κωνσταντίνῳ μητροπολίτῃ

Obverse

St Sophia standing, nimbate, holding a book in her left hand and a cross in her right hand. Vertical inscriptions on the left and right: .|.Ο|.Ι|.Β|Ο|Η|ΘΙ. Wreath border.

[Ἅγια Σ]ο[φ]ί[α] βοήθι

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Wreath border.

κν
σταντι
νμητ
ροπολι
τη

Κωνσταντίνῳ μητροπολίτῃ

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.706
Diameter 23.0 mm
Previous Editions

Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 931.

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

Translation

Ἅγια Σοφία βοήθι Κωνσταντίνῳ μητροπολίτῃ.

St. Sophia, help Constantine, metropolitan.

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