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Alexios I Komnenos (1081–1118)

 
 

Obverse

Christ seated on a high-back throne, wearing a chiton and himation and holding the right hand in blessing and a book in the left. His feet rest on a dais. He has a nimbus cruciger; each arm contains a decoration consisting of one pellet. No epigraphy visible. Border of dots.

Reverse

The emperor Alexios I bearded standing on a dais, wearing a crown and a loros, an end of which is over the left wrist and is decorated with five dots. He holds a labarum in the right hand and a globus cruciger in the left. No epigraphy visible. Border of dots.

Obverse

Christ seated on a high-back throne, wearing a chiton and himation and holding the right hand in blessing and a book in the left. His feet rest on a dais. He has a nimbus cruciger; each arm contains a decoration consisting of one pellet. No epigraphy visible. Border of dots.

Reverse

The emperor Alexios I bearded standing on a dais, wearing a crown and a loros, an end of which is over the left wrist and is decorated with five dots. He holds a labarum in the right hand and a globus cruciger in the left. No epigraphy visible. Border of dots.

Accession number BZS.1958.106.518 (formerly DO 58.106.518)
Diameter 28.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 6, no. 88.2.

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)