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E-Sale 96  5 May 2022
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Lot 1617

Estimate: 50 GBP
Price realized: 120 GBP
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Byzantine Iconographic PB Seal in the name of Andronikos Doukas Angelos. Circa second half of 12th century AD. The Annunciation: on right, the Virgin, nimbate, wearing chiton and maphorion, standing, facing before a backless chair, attitude of hands indistinct; on left, the angel Gabriel, nimbate, advancing towards Virgin with right hand raised in benediction, inscription O XAIΡЄΤΙCΜΟC between the two figures: OXAI (or XЄ) at the top center, PЄ T I C between the figures, M O C on the right / ΑΝΑΝΔΡ[Є] ΜTPMЄѠC(sic) MA[...]Α ΝΔΡΟΝΙΚΟ[Ν] ΔΟVΚΑΝΜ[Є] ΠΑΡΘЄΝЄCΚ[Є] ΠΟΙ[C] in seven lines. Translation: Virgin Mother, may you protect me, Andronikos Doukas. Cf. BLS I 2738; cf. BZS.1958.106.1334. 25.69g, 32mm, 12h.

Condition as seen.

From the Vitangelo Collection.

Andronikos Doukas Angelos (circa 1133-1185) was the son of Theodora Komnene and the father of the emperors Isaac II and Alexios III.
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