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Seal XL 72
- Record Id:
- 040-002208896
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002208860
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000140.0x000152
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472714.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Seal XL 72
- Title:
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Seal of Constantine metropolitan of Catania.
- Scope & Content:
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Lead seal. On the obverse, cruciform invocative monogram with letters in the quarters; undetermined border. On the reverse, inscription of 4 lines (the first one is lost); traces of a border of dots.
Obverse: Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ.
Reverse: Κωνσταντίνῳ μητροπολίτῃ Κατάνης.
Translation:
Obverse: Mother of God aid your servant
Reverse: Constantine metropolitan of Catania.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Detached Seals and Casts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002207963
036-002208860
040-002208896 - 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 72 : Seal of Constantine metropolitan of Catania. - Hierarchy:
- 032-002207963[0113]/036-002208860[0036]/040-002208896
- 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:
- 0760
- End Date:
- 0840
- Date Range:
- Late 8th century - Early 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Lead.
Dimensions: Diameter 25 mm.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Catania, Sicily
Provenance:
Constantine metropolitan of Catania, Late 8th-Early 9th century.Acquired in 1864, transferred from the Department of Coins and Medals.
- Publications:
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Antonino Salinas, ‘Sigilli diplomatici italo-greci’, Periodico di Numismatica e Sfragistica Italiana, 6 (1874), 216-218 (p. 217, no. 34, and pl. VIII, no. 10).
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. 370-371, n. 1-6.
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. 70, no. 17830.
Vitalien Laurent, Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzantin, V, L’église (Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1963), V/1, p. 702-703, no. 895.
John Martindale and others, Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (641-867), , Konstantinos 111 [accessed 14 July 2022].
Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Claudia Ludwig, Beate Zielke, Thomas Pratsch, Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2013), , no. 3943 [accessed 14 July 2022].
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 357