★ RARE Seal !!! ★

Byzantine lead seal of Evdia patrikia
(ca 12th cent.).
A rare seal!
Obverse: Bust of the Mother of God, facial, nimbate, wearing chiton and maphorion (iconographic type of "Nikopoios"), with Jesus Christ as infant in medallion on her chest, sigla ΜΡ-ΘV (Mother of God), dotted border.

Reverse: Inscription in 5 lines, +ΘΚΕR/ΤΗCΗΔ,/ΕVΔΙ,Π/ΑΤΡΙΚ/ΙΑ = Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῇ σῇ δούλῃ Εὐδίᾳ πατρικία (Mother of God help your servant Evdia patrikia), dotted border.

Condition: Very Fine

Weight: 12,9 gram
Diameter: 20,4 mm