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LOT 3442
Byzantine Invocative PB Seal in the name of Leontios, Hypatos. 7th-8th centuries AD.
✠ ΘЄΟΤΟΚЄ ΒΟΗΘH in three lines / ΛЄΟNTIധ V[Π]ΑΤധ in three lines. Translation: Mother of God, help Leontios, hypatos. BZS.1958.106.962 (ΒΟΗΘЄI). Condition as seen.(16.83gr, 23mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceEx important private collection, North London, UK, 1990s.
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LOT 3442
Byzantine Invocative PB Seal in the name of Leontios, Hypatos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
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Byzantine Square Bronze Commercial Weight of Two Unciae. Circa 5th-7th century AD.
Estimate: £180 - 240 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £90
Engraved in outline (and inlaid with silver) large cross between Γᴑ B; all within wreath / Blank. Bendall, Byzantine Weights 71. 53.20gr, 31mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired in 1993. Private collection, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Late Roman PB Seal. Circa 4th-6th century AD.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Standing figure to left, holding uncertain object; illegible inscription around / Blank. 14.76gr, 19mm, 12h.
Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market circa 2004. From the private collection of a North West London gentleman. -
Islamic Polyhedral Bronze Weight of 50 Dirham. Circa 12th-15th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Fourteen-sided cubic weight, the sides decorated with pointillé border to each face; the square faces with cruciform pointillé infill. Cf. CPAI 1, 359. 169gr, 38mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired in 1994. Private collection, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
