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Seal XCVIII 94
- Record Id:
- 040-002217060
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002217057
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000526.0x000080
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472483.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Seal XCVIII 94
- Title:
- Seal of Peter asekretis and krites of the Thracesion
- Scope & Content:
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Lead seal.
Obverse: bust of the Mother of God; traces of sigla on either side; border of dots.
Reverse: inscription of 6 lines; border of dots.
Obverse: Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Reverse: Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Πέτρῳ ἀσηκρῆτις καὶ κριτῇ τῶν Θρᾳκησίων.
Translation: Obverse: Mother of God.Reverse: Mother of God aid your servant Peter secretary (asekretis) and judge (krites) of the Thracesion.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Detached Seals and Casts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002207963
036-002217057
040-002217060 - Is part of:
- Seal XXXV.196-CCIX.1 : Detached Seals
Seal XCVIII.92-97 : LEADEN BULLÆ Of the Byzantine period
Seal XCVIII 94 : Seal of Peter asekretis and krites of the Thracesion - Hierarchy:
- 032-002207963[0380]/036-002217057[0003]/040-002217060
- 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:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Lead.
Dimensions: Diameter 25 mm.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Thracesion theme, western Asia Minor.
Provenance:
Peter asekretis and krites of the Thracesians, 11th Century.
Acquired by the British Museum in 1892.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum Trustees, 1894), p. 388.
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), pp. 84, no. 17915.
John Nesbitt, and Nicolas Oikonomides, Catalogue of Byzantine seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, 3, West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996), pp. 11-12, no. 2.25 (parallel specimens).
Michael Jeffreys et al., Prosopography of the Byzantine World, 2016 (King's College London, 2017), Michael 7 http://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/person/Petros/20122/ [accessed 07 November 2021].
Dumbarton Oaks, Online Catalogue of Byzantine Seals, , nos. BZS.1955.1.2618, BZS.1958.106.1139 [accessed 27 October 2021] (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 Archive Descriptions:
- Seal CXII 591
Seal CXII 592