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Seal XLIV 23
- Record Id:
- 040-002209405
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002209383
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000140.0x000002
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147473572.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Seal XLIV 23
- Title:
- Seal of John imperial sword-bearer (spatharios) and admiral (droungarios) of the Aegean Sea
- Scope & Content:
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Lead seal. On the obverse, cruciform invocative monogram with letters in the quarters; wreath border. On the reverse, inscription of 4 lines; wreath border.
Obverse: Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse: Ἰωάννῃ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ δρουγγαρίῳ τοῦ Αἰγαίου πελάγους
Translation:
Obverse: Mother of God aid your servant.
Reverse: John imperial sword-bearer (spatharios) and admiral (droungarios) of the Aegean Sea.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Detached Seals and Casts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002207963
036-002209383
040-002209405 - 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 23 : Seal of John imperial sword-bearer (spatharios) and admiral (droungarios) of the Aegean Sea - Hierarchy:
- 032-002207963[0168]/036-002209383[0022]/040-002209405
- 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:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 9th century -3rd half of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Lead.
Dimensions: Diameter 30 mm.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance: John imperial sword-bearer (spatharios) and admiral (droungarios) of the Aegean Sea, 2nd-3rd half of the 9th century.
Probably Subhi Pasha, Ottoman governor of Syria between 1871-1873.
Purchased by the British Museum 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.
Andreas Mordtmann, ‘Plombs byzantins de la Grèce et du Peloponnese’, in Revue Archéologique, 34 (1877), 47-70, p. 56, no. 39.
Gustave Schlumberger, Sigillographie de l’empire byzantin (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1884), p. 194, n. 1.
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. 20, no. 17541 (photo at the end of the volume, plate I).
Friedhelm Winkelmann, Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert. Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1985), p. 109.
Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Claudia Ludwig, Beate Zielke, Thomas Pratsch, Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2013), , no. 3278 [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)
- Names:
- Johannes, Basilicus Spatharius et Drungarius of the Egean Sea, 2nd half of the 9th century
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Seal CXII 81
Seal CXII 82