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Alexios I Komnenos (1081–1118)

 
 

Obverse

Christ seated on a high-back throne. He has a nimbus cruciger. No epigraphy or border visible.

Reverse

The emperor Alexios I bearded standing, wearing a crown and a loros, an end of which is draped over the left wrist. He holds a labarum in the right hand and a globus cruciger in the left. Remains of a circular inscription at right. No visible border.

..........ποτ.........

[Ἀλεξίῳ δεσ]πότ[ῃ τῷ Κομνηνῷ].


Obverse

Christ seated on a high-back throne. He has a nimbus cruciger. No epigraphy or border visible.

Reverse

The emperor Alexios I bearded standing, wearing a crown and a loros, an end of which is draped over the left wrist. He holds a labarum in the right hand and a globus cruciger in the left. Remains of a circular inscription at right. No visible border.

..........ποτ.........

[Ἀλεξίῳ δεσ]πότ[ῃ τῷ Κομνηνῷ].


Accession number BZS.1955.1.4345
Diameter 34.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 6, no. 88.22.

Translation

Ἀλεξίῳ δεσπότῃ τῷ 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)