1951.31.4.1713: Apsron trachy of John II, Constantinople

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1951.31.4.1713

People

John II, Byzantine (r. 1118 - 1143)

Title

Apsron trachy of John II, Constantinople

Classification

Coins

Work Type

coin

Date

1122-1143 CE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Constantinople (Thrace)

Period

Byzantine period, Middle

Culture

Byzantine

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/75140

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Electrum

Metal

EL

Technique

Struck

Dimensions

4.32 g

Denomination

trachy

Inscriptions and Marks

• Obverse Inscription: IC XC

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

DOC 4.1, 8d.3 (p. 263)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore

Accession Year

1951

Object Number

1951.31.4.1713

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Obv.: Christ bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back, r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospel in l.; triangle of pellets at each end of cushion on throne.
Rev.: Full figure of emperor on l. and St George, nimbate and beardless, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft with small globe at the base

Publication History

• Alicia Walker, The Emperor and the World: Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power, Ninth to Thirteen Centuries C.E., Cambridge University Press (New York, 2012), p. 126, fig. 51.

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