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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.31.4.1610
People
Eudokia Makrembolitissa, Byzantine (r. 1067)
Title
Histamenon of the Augusta Eudokia Makrembolitissa
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
1067 CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Constantinople (Thrace)
Period
Byzantine period, Middle
Culture
Byzantine
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/169602

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gold
Metal
AV
Technique
Struck
Dimensions
4.45 g
Die Axis
6
Denomination
histamenon
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Obverse Inscription: +IhSXISRCIX RCSNLambdaNTIhM (first h backwards).
  • Reverse Inscription: +MIX EY DeltaK KPsiNS

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
DOC 3.2, 1.1 (p. 783)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.31.4.1610
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obv.: Christ seated on square-backed throne (Type IIc) facing, bearded, with cross nimbus wearing tunic and himation; r. hand raised in front of body in blessing, l. holds book by spine on knee. Double border of dots.

Rev.: Three figures standing facing. In center, Eudocia, on dais, wearing modified loros and kite-shaped panel and crown with pinnacles and pendilia, holding in r. knobbed scepter; l. hand on breast. To l., Michael wearing modified loros with loros-waist and crown with cross and pendilia, holding in r., gl. cr., in l., akakia. To r., similar figure of Constantius, but gl. cr. in l. and akakia in r. Double border of dots.

Publication History

  • Alfred R. Bellinger, ed., Catalogue of Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection (Washington, D.C, 1992), vol. 3, part 2, 783, cat. 1.1
  • Ioli Kalavrezou, Byzantine Women and Their World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 102/figs. 41a, 41b

Exhibition History

  • Byzantine Women and Their World, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/25/2002 - 04/28/2003

Verification Level

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