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Trachy of Manuel Komnenus-Doukas of Thessalonike
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Obv.: Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne with back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast.
Rev.: Full-length figure of ruler on l., and of archangel Michael nimbate, holding between them labarum on long shaft. Emperor wears stemma, divitsion, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type. Archangel wears short tunic and (sagion?) held wrapped around him.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
Title: Trachy of Manuel Komnenus-Doukas of Thessalonike
Description:
Obv.
: Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne with back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast.
Rev.
: Full-length figure of ruler on l.
, and of archangel Michael nimbate, holding between them labarum on long shaft.
Emperor wears stemma, divitsion, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type.
Archangel wears short tunic and (sagion?) held wrapped around him.
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