Medal of Heraclius I, Emperor of Byzantium | Yale University Art Gallery

Late 1300's

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 279.09 g, 12:00, 94 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Lehman, B.A. 1913, and Joseph A. Thomas, B.A. 1928
Accession Number: 1959.13.31
Geography: Made in Burgundy
Culture: French, Burgundian
Period: 14th century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Emperor Heraclius on crescent, crowned, holding up r. in gesture of greeting, looking up toward rays of sun.

Reverse Description: Emperor in canopied biga r. turned away [from thje gate of Jersusalem?]

Provenance

Robert Lehman and Joseph A. Thomas, New York, to 1959; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

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