Empress Theodora, Wife of Michael VII
Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1207. Estimate $3000.
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.
Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Theodora Doukaina Palaiologina. Wife of Michael VIII, 1253-1282. PB Seal (34mm, 35.92 g, 12h). Struck 1259-1282. MP
QV across upper field; Theotokos seated facing on thokos covered with cushion, wearing chiton and maphorion, holding child Christ /
QE/ODw/RA EV/CEBE/CTATH/ AV
G_/CTA in left field;
D_/KAI/NA H/
PALA[I]/OLO/GI[NA] in right (CTs ligate); Theodora standing facing, wearing crown with pendillia, divitision, and loros, right hand placed before breast in supplication, holding double lotus scepter in left hand. BLS I 122a-b corr. (scepter type); DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican 16; Orghidan -; Jordanov -; Seibt & Zarnitz, 1.3.3. Good VF, nice gray-brown surfaces.
From the Robert E. Hecht Collection.
