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Seal XLIV 50

Record Id:

040-002209432

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

036-002209383

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000140.0x000065

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147473733.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Seal XLIV 50

Title:

Seal of Andronicus Ducas

Scope & Content:

Lead seal. On the obverse, the archangel Michael, standing facing, in imperial garb, holding an orb with a cross in his left hand and the imperial standard in his right, and flanked by the sigla; border of dots. On the reverse, metrical inscription of 5 lines preceded by decorative elements on a separate line; border of dots.

Obverse: … Μιχαήλ.

Reverse: Δούκαν σεβαστὀν Ἀνδρόνικόν με σκέποις.

Translation:

Obverse: … Michael.

Reverse: May you protect me, Andronicus Ducas the august (sebastos).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Detached Seals and Casts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002207963
036-002209383
040-002209432

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 50 : Seal of Andronicus Ducas

Hierarchy:

032-002207963[0168]/036-002209383[0049]/040-002209432

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:

1100

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

2nd third of the 12th century-3rd third of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Lead. The state of preservation of the seal hinders the description of the iconography and the reading of the inscription: the comparison between the modern photo and the image published by W. de Gray Birch shows a dramatic decay of the seal, which has now lost important parts on both sides and has been restored. The description of the iconography and the reading of the inscription has been established on the basis of Birch's catalogue, of the parallel seals, of the existing bibliography and of the electrotypes (Seal CXII 161-162).

Dimensions: Diameter 25 mm.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance: Andronicus Ducas, 2nd-3rd third of the 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. 653, no. 2.

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. 65, no. 17804 (photo at the end of the volume, plate II).

Vitalien Laurent, 'Les bulles métriques dans la sigillographie byzantine', in Ellenika, 4 (1931), p. 228, no. 108.

Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt, Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden, 2 vols (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2011-), I, Einteilung, Siegellegenden von Alpha bis inklusive My (2011), pp. 300-301, no. 655b.

Robert Feind, Verse auf byzantinischen Bleisiegeln, 2 vols (Regenstauf: Ed. M & S, Münzen und Sammeln, 2012-2013), I (2012), no. 465.

Michael Jeffreys et al., Prosopography of the Byzantine World, 2016 (King's College London, 2017), Andronikos 20144 http://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/person/Andronikos/20144/ [accessed 09 July 2022].

Dumbarton Oaks, Online Catalogue of Byzantine Seals, , nos. BZS.1951.31.5.249, BZS.1958.106.833 [accessed 09 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)

Names:

Andronicus Ducas Sebastos, 2nd third of the 12th century-3rd third of the 12th century

Related Archive Descriptions:

Seal CXII 161
Seal CXII 162