BYZANTINE SEALS. Theodora, 1055-1056. Seal or Bulla (Lead, 40 mm, 50.20 g, 12 h), Constantinople. + ЄMMA-NOYHΛ / IC - XC Draped bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing nimbus decorated with five pellets in each arm, holding Book of Gospels with his left hand and raising his right hand in benediction. Rev. [+ ΘЄOΔΩP' ΑΥΓOΥ]-CTΑ H ПOPΦΥΡ,ΓΕΝ,Τ Bust of Theodora Porphyrogenite facing, wearing ornate jewelled crown with pendilia and jewelled loros, holding staff surmounted by cross set on tendrils in her right hand, and raising her left hand in supplication. Seibt 19. Zacos I 82 var. (different boulloterion). Clear and with fine grey patina with light earthen deposits. Some scratches on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine.
From the Strategos Collection of important Seals, ex Solidus 8, 23 April 2016, 384.