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Seal XL 39

Record Id:

040-002208863

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

036-002208860

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000140.0x000121

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147472541.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Seal XL 39

Title:

Seal of Constantine patrikios, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Sicily

Scope & Content:

Lead seal.

Obverse: cruciform invocative monogram with letters in the quarters; wreath border.

Reverse: inscription of 5 lines; wreath border.

Obverse: Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Reverse: Κωνσταντίνῳ πατρικίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Σικελίας.

Translation: Obverse: Mother of God aid your servant. Reverse: Constantine patrician (patrikios) imperial first sword-bearer (protospatharios) and general (strategos) of Sicily.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Detached Seals and Casts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002207963
036-002208860
040-002208863

Is part of:

Seal XXXV.196-CCIX.1 : Detached Seals
Seal XL.37-95 : LEADEN bullæ, for the most part bearing monograms, of imperial and military officers and ecelesiastical dignitaries of Sicily…

Seal XL 39 : Seal of Constantine patrikios, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Sicily

Hierarchy:

032-002207963[0113]/036-002208860[0003]/040-002208863

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Seal XXXV.196-CCIX.1

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 seal

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0800

End Date:

0849

Date Range:

1st half of the 9th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Lead.

Dimensions: Diameter 30 mm.

Custodial History:

Origin: Sicily.

Provenance:

Constantine patrikios, protospatharios and strategos of Sicily, 1st third of the 9th century.

Acquired in 1864.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875, 2 vols (London: British Museum Trustees, 1877), II, p. 821.

Gustave Schlumberger, Sigillographie de l’empire byzantin (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1884), p. 214, n. 2 (no. 4).

Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum Trustees, 1887-1900), V (1898), p. 54, no. 17738.

Silvano Borsari, ‘L'amministrazione del tema di Sicilia’, Rivista storica italiana, 66 (1954), 133-158 (p. 156, no. 3-5).

Vitalien Laurent, ‘Une source peu étudiée de l'histoire de la Sicile au haut moyen âge: la sigillographie byzantine’, in Byzantino-sicula: Monumenti, omiletica, monachesimo, sigilli, umanesimo, agiografia, monete, ed. by Giuseppe Agnello and others (Palermo: Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici, 1966), 22-50 (p. 45-46, no. 1).

George Zacos, and Alexander Veglery, Byzantine Lead Seals (Basel: J. J. Augustin 1972), p. 1037, no. 1821.

John Nesbitt, and Nicolas Oikonomides, Catalogue of Byzantine seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, 1, Italy, North of the Balkans, North of the Black Sea (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1990), p. 26, no. 5.10.

Nikolaj Petrovič Lichačev, Molivdovuly Grečeskogo Vostoka, ed. by Valentina Samojlovna Šandrovskaja (Moscow: Nauka, 1991), LXVII, no. 2.

Ewald Kislinger, and Werner Seibt, ‘Sigilli bizantini di Sicilia: addenda e corrigenda a pubblicazioni recenti’, Archivio Storico Messinese, 75 (1998), 5-33 (p. 22, n. 72).

Mikaël Nichanian, and Vivien Prigent, ‘Les stratèges de Sicile. De la naissance du thème au règne de Léon V’, Revue des études byzantines, 61 (2003), 97-141 (p. 128, n. 213).

Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Claudia Ludwig, Beate Zielke, Thomas Pratsch, Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2013), , no. 3994/corr. [accessed 18 October 2021].

Dumbarton Oaks, Online Catalogue of Byzantine Seals, , nos. BZS.1951.31.5.2347, BZS.1958.106.1053 [accessed 18 October 2021].

Metadata provided by the cooperation among Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR8167 – Orient & Méditerranée, équipe Monde Byzantin, and the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the Institute of Classics of the University of Cologne. The publication of this item is currently in preparation by the abovementioned team.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Archive Descriptions:

Seal CXII 262