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Seal of Romanos metropolitan of Kyzikos and synkellos (XI c.)
View through Harvard Museums
Obv.: The Virgin seated on a high-backed throne nursing ther Child.
Rev.; Inscription on seven lines
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
Title: Seal of Romanos metropolitan of Kyzikos and synkellos (XI c.)
Description:
Obv.
: The Virgin seated on a high-backed throne nursing ther Child.
Rev.
; Inscription on seven lines.
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