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Seal XLIV 20
- Record Id:
- 040-002209402
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002209383
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000140.0x0003e7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147473459.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Seal XLIV 20
- Title:
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Seal of Leo imperial first sword-bearer (protospatharios) and governor (strategos) of the Kibyrrhaiotai
- Scope & Content:
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Lead seal. On the obverse, circular inscription, in the field, patriarchal cross flanked by tendrils; border of dots. On the reverse, inscription of 5 lines; border of dots.
Obverse: + Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse: + Λέοντι βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ τῶν Κιβυρραιωτῶν
Translation:
Obverse: + Lord aid your servant.
Reverse: + Leo imperial first sword-bearer (protospatharios) and governor (strategos) of the Kibyrrhaiotai
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Detached Seals and Casts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002207963
036-002209383
040-002209402 - Is part of:
- Seal XXXV.196-CCIX.1 : Detached Seals
Seal XLIV.2-154 : LEADEN bullæ of Eastern emperors, prelates, public officers, etc., mostly with Greek legends and religious monograms. Among them…
Seal XLIV 20 : Seal of Leo imperial first sword-bearer (protospatharios) and governor (strategos) of the Kibyrrhaiotai - Hierarchy:
- 032-002207963[0168]/036-002209383[0019]/040-002209402
- 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:
- 0950
- End Date:
- 0999
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Lead. Broken in two pieces along the channel, 20% missing.
Dimensions: Diameter 25 mm.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Kibyrrhaiotai.
Provenance:
Leo imperial first sword-bearer (protospatharios) and governor (strategos) of the Kibyrrhaiotai, 2nd half of the 10th century.
Acquired by the British Musuem in 1873.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875, 2 vols (London: British Museum Trustees, 1877), II, pp. 826-828.
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. 19, no. 17533.
John Nesbitt, and Nicolas Oikonomides, Catalogue of Byzantine seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1994), nos. 59.25a-b (parallel specimens).
Olga Karagiorgou, ‘Die Sigillographische Sammlung des Benaki Museums in Athen’, in Studies in Byzantine Sigillography, 9 (2006), 33-47, pp. 40-41 (parallel specimen).
Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Claudia Ludwig, Beate Zielke, Thomas Pratsch, Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2013), , no. 24604 [accessed 03 March 2023].
Michael Jeffreys et al., Prosopography of the Byzantine World, 2016 (King's College London, 2017), Leon 20205 http://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/person/Leon/20205/ [accessed 03 March 2023].
Dumbarton Oaks, Online Catalogue of Byzantine Seals, , nos. BZS.1951.31.5.76, BZS.1951.31.5.1414 (parallel specimens) [accessed 03 March 2023].
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 73
Seal CXII 74