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Byzantine Empire, Andronicus I, September 1183 - 12 September 1185 A.D.
The maphorium (maphorion) was a loose sleeveless hooded outerwear mantel, cloak or shawl, worn by medieval women outdoors in public. The Virgin Mary is most often depicted wearing a maphorium, as seen in the icon below. It is a cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. At many stages of medieval culture it was unseemly for a married woman to show her hair. A maphorium might be elaborately starched, and creased and folded in prescribed ways, even supported on wire or wicker framing.BZ36595. Billon aspron trachy nomisma, DOC IV-1 3; SBCV 1985; CLBC I 5.3.1; Hendy pl. 18, 13; Grierson 1111; Morrisson BnF 62/Cp/(B)/03; Wroth BMC 5; Ratto 2168; Sommer 62.3, gVF, scyphate, Constantinople mint, weight 3.553g, maximum diameter 29.3mm, die axis 180o, Sep 1183 - 12 Sep 1185 A.D.; obverse the Virgin standing facing on dais, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium; she holds before her the nimbate head of the infant Christ, MHP (ligate) - ΘV (Greek abbreviation: Μητηρ Θεου; - Mother of God) across field; reverse ANΔPONIKOC ΔECΠOTHC (or similar), Andronicus, on left, standing facing, wearing divitision and loros, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left hand; Christ, on right, standing slightly left, IC - XC flanking, wearing pallium and colobium, Gospels in left hand, crowns emperor with right hand; SOLD
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