Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1140. Estimate $200.
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.
Sold For $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Kosmas. Hypatos and
comes of the Hieron, 9th century. PB Seal (26mm, 8.28 g, 12h).
QEOTOKE BOHQEI in cruciform monogram; T
w C
w [D](OY)
Lw in quarters / KOCMA/ V
PATw S K/[O]MITH TO[V]/ [I]EPOV in four lines; • above. Cf. BLS I 2077 (seal of same person); DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican -; Orghidan -; Jordanov -. VF, gray patina.
From the Robert E. Hecht Collection.
The Hieron was a fortress on the Bosporos near the entrance to the Black sea. From the 6th to the 9th centuries it was commanded by a comes, whose duties were to defend the approach to Constantinople and to oversee the collection of taxes on sea traffic.
