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Auction 2  11 May 2018
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Lot 371

Estimate: 350 CHF
Price realized: 800 CHF
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Byzantine Seals. Seal (Lead, 27 mm, 14.14 g, 12 h), Constantinus, chartoularios and kommerkiarios of Adra... (Adramyttion?), circa 11th century. O / N/H-K/O/ΛA/O Facing bust of St. Nicholas, wearing pastoral vestments, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. +KωNS/TANTINO / XAP૪,S, / KOMЄPK / AΔPA' in fine lines. DOC -. Stavrakos -. A very well made seal of fine style. Minor deposits, otherwise, extremely fine.


We cannot exclude that Constantinus was active in Hadrianeia, but it is more probable that Adra... stands for the city of Adramyttion, which was an important Byzantine administrative center in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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