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Seal XLIV 46

Record Id:

040-002209428

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

036-002209383

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000140.0x000019

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147473704.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Seal XLIV 46

Title:

Seal of John Triakontaphyllus, head of palace (curopalates)

Scope & Content:

Lead seal.

Obverse: St Demetrius on the left and St Nicholas on the right, both standing facing. St Demetrius is in military garb, holding a spear in the right hand and a shield in the left; St Nicholas is in ecclesiastical garb, wearing a long tunic (chiton) and holding the Gospel in his left hand, while his right hand is raised in a gesture of blessing in front of his chest. Border of dots.

Reverse: inscription of 5 lines preceded by a cross; border of dots.

Obverse: Ὁ ἅγιος Δημήτριος. Ὁ ἅγιος Νικόλαος.

Reverse: + Κύριε βοήθει Ἰωάννῃ κουροπαλάτῃ τῷ Τριακονταφύλλῳ.

Translation: Obverse: St Demetrius. St Nicholas. Reverse: Lord aid John Triakontaphyllus head of palace (curopalates).

The left part of the obverse and the corresponding right part of the reverse are crushed. The description of the obverse and the reading of the obverse and reverse are partly based on a parallel specimen in this collection, better preserved.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Detached Seals and Casts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002207963
036-002209383
040-002209428

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 46 : Seal of John Triakontaphyllus, head of palace (curopalates)

Hierarchy:

032-002207963[0168]/036-002209383[0045]/040-002209428

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:

1075

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 11th century - first quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Lead.

Dimensions: Diameter 20 mm.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

John Triakontaphyllus, head of palace (curopalates), Late 11th century - Early 12th century.

Acquired in 1873.

Publications:

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.

Gustave Schlumberger, Sigillographie de l’empire byzantin (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1884), p. 710, no. 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. 32, no. 17607.

Gustave Schlumberger, 'Sceaux byzantins inédits (sixième série)', in Revue Numismatique, 20 (1916), p. 41, no. 320.

Konstantinos M. Konstantopoulos, ΒυζαντιακάμολυβδόβουλατουενΑθήναιςΕθνικούΝομισματικούμουσείου (Athens, 1917), nos. 391, 391α (parallel specimens).

Jean Ebersolt, Catalogue des sceaux byzantins (Paris: Feuardent Frères, 1922), p. 29, no. 357 (probable parallel specimen).

Vitalien Laurent, 'Bulletin de sigillographie byzantine. Quinze années de découvertes et d'étude (1915-1929)', in Byzantion, 5 (1929), p. 586, no. 1.

Christos Stavrakos, Die byzantinischen Bleisiegel mit Familiennamen aus der Sammlung des Numismatischen Museums Athen (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2000), pp. 390-391, no. 265 (parallel specimens).

Ivan Jordanov, Corpus of Byzantine Seals from Bulgaria, 3 vols (Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institut with Museum, 2003-2009), 2, Byzantine seals with family names (2006), pp. 414-415, no. 728.

Jean-Claude Cheynet, Turan Gökyldırım, and Vera Bulgurlu, Les sceaux byzantins du Musée archéologique d'Istanbul (Istanbul: Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, 2012), p. 410, no. 5.42a-b (parallel specimens).

Michael Jeffreys et al., Prosopography of the Byzantine World, 2016 (King's College London, 2017), Ioannes 20129 http://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/person/Ioannes/20129/ [accessed 08 July 2022].

Dumbarton Oaks, Online Catalogue of Byzantine Seals, , nos. BZS.1958.106.3095, BZS.1951.31.5.1940, BZS.1947.2.1323, BZS.1947.2.1324 [accessed 08 July 2022] (parallel specimens).

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 Material:

For two specimens of the same issuer see also Seal XLIV 45 and Seal XLIV 47.