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231, Lot: 297. Estimate $150.
Sold for $490. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 13th century. PB Seal (47mm, 45.57 g, 12h). Half-length bust of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary), holding Christ child, heads facing slightly toward each other / +THC/ OKTAΓON(OV)/ ΘЄVTOKO/ CΦPAΓIC/ ΠЄΛω in five lines. BLS II 789. Fair, rough surfaces, dent on reverse, edge chipped at bottom.


The Octagon was was a vaulted structure in Constantinople. It was destroyed in 532 during the Nika riots, and a church dedicated to the Theotokos Oktaganos was erected over the spot at an uncertain point.