I'm having a piece of
jewelry made for my initiation into the
Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. It is a ring, and, like the
Byzantine seal I wrote about in another
thread, features a
man-faced bull seal (which I'm having
engraved with various
Christian icons as my personal seal). On either
side of the ring I want two things--on one
side, a
Jerusalem cross, and on the other, the Theotoke boethei
monogram. My question is, does anyone have a clear,
schematic picture of the
monogram? I found this attached one online but it is a
bit too
stylized. And all the others I found are on actual
seals, so I don't want my jeweler to have to extrapolate from those. I do not have a large
Byzantine library but my guess is such a clear,
schematic image exists out there. Any
help greatly appreciated.
Nick
