1951.31.4.1610: Histamenon of the Augusta Eudokia Makrembolitissa

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

Permissions

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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

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