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Constantine X Doukas (1059-67)

 
 

Obverse

Christ seated on a lyre-backed throne, wearing a tunic and himation and holding the right hand in blessing and a book in the left. He has a nimbus cruciger. Sigla visible at left: [(ησοῦ)]ς [Χ(ριστό)ς]. Faint traces of a circular inscription. Indeterminate border.

Reverse

Two figures: at left, the emperor Constantine X standing, wearing a loros and holding the right hand before his chest and a globus cruciger in the left; and at right, the Mother of God standing, wearing a chiton and maphorion, the right hand uplifted and touching the emperor’s crown in blessing. No epigraphy visible. Indeterminate border.

Obverse

Christ seated on a lyre-backed throne, wearing a tunic and himation and holding the right hand in blessing and a book in the left. He has a nimbus cruciger. Sigla visible at left: [(ησοῦ)]ς [Χ(ριστό)ς]. Faint traces of a circular inscription. Indeterminate border.

Reverse

Two figures: at left, the emperor Constantine X standing, wearing a loros and holding the right hand before his chest and a globus cruciger in the left; and at right, the Mother of God standing, wearing a chiton and maphorion, the right hand uplifted and touching the emperor’s crown in blessing. No epigraphy visible. Indeterminate border.

Accession number BZS.1955.1.4327 (formerly DO 55.1.4327)
Diameter 30.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 6, no. 78.3.

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)