Romanos Argyropolos, patrikios and imperial notarios

Obverse

Theotokos Kyriotissa (bust, with medallion in front of her) sigla, with vertical inscriptions

Reverse

Text 6 lines

Μήτηρ Θεοῦ | ῾Η Κυριώτισσα. / Θεοτόκε βοήθει ῾Ρωμανῷ πατρικίῳ καὶ βασιλικῷ νοταρίῳ τῷ ᾿Αργυροπώλῳ

Mother of God | the Kyriotissa. / Theotokos aid Romanos Argyropolos, patrikios and imperial notarios

Diameter: 21

Date: 11th c. (second half)

Seals

  • Athens (Konstantopoulos) 428
  • Hermitage M- 464
  • Hermitage M- 5781
  • Hermitage M- 5785
  • Hermitage M- 10094

Published

  • Konstantopoulos, Nom. Mous. no. 428
  • Stavrakos no. 26
  • Lichačev, Istoričeskoe značenie no. 73
  • Seibt, review of Vannier, Argyroi p. 325
  • Laurent, Corpus II no. 209
  • Šandrovskaja - Seibt p. 50, n. 167
  • Cheynet - Vannier, Argyroi p. 84
  • Koltsida-Makri, Iconography of Virgin p. 33