Byzantine Iconographic PB Seal of Zacharias. Circa 10th century AD. KЄ BOHΘЄΙ ΤѠ CѠ ΔΟVΛѠ, bird (peacock or goose?) advancing right, with ribbon around its neck, holding flower in beak / + ZAXAP HARACΠAΘ SACTPATXP HCTOΦΤ, ΦΙΛ ΟΧΔЄCΠ in five lines. Translation: Lord, help your servant Zacharias, imperial protospatharios and protostrator of Christopher the despot beloved of God. DOC -. 5.58g, 23mm, 12h.
Condition as seen.
From the inventory of a German dealer.