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Seal CXLVI 40
- Record Id:
- 040-002222380
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002222376
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000773.0x0000aa
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472343.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Seal CXLVI 40
- Title:
- Seal of Nicholas spatharokandidatos, secretary (asekretis) and judge of Chaldia and Derxene
- Scope & Content:
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Lead seal.
Obverse: bust of St Nicholas in episcopal garment holding the Gospel, flanked on both sides by inscription in columns; undetermined border.
Reverse: inscription of 6 lines; undetermined border.
Obverse: Ὁ ἅγιος Νικόλαος. Reverse: Νικολάῳ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ, ἀσηκρῆτις καὶ κριτῇ Χαλδίας καὶ Δερξηνῆς.
Translation: Obverse: Saint Nicholas. Reverse: Nicholas spatharokandidatos, secretary (asekretis) and judge of Chaldia and Derxene.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Detached Seals and Casts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002207963
036-002222376
040-002222380 - Is part of:
- Seal XXXV.196-CCIX.1 : Detached Seals
Seal CXLVI.37-65 : COLLECTION of bullæ, etc., of the Byzantine period, transferrecl from the Department of British and Mediæval Antiquities.
Seal CXLVI 40 : Seal of Nicholas spatharokandidatos, secretary (asekretis) and judge of Chaldia and Derxene - Hierarchy:
- 032-002207963[0644]/036-002222376[0004]/040-002222380
- 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:
- 1049
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Lead.
Dimensions: Diameter 25 mm.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Chaldia and Derxene.
Provenance:
Nicholas spatharokandidatos, secretary (asekretis) and judge of Chaldia and Derxene, 1st half of the 11th century.
Transferred from the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities in 1901.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum Trustees, 1907), p. 428.
Jean-Claude Cheynet, Sceaux de la collection Zacos (Bibliothèque nationale de France) se rapportant aux provinces orientales de l’Empire byzantin (Paris: BnF, 2001), no. 28 (reference).
Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Claudia Ludwig, Beate Zielke, and Thomas Pratsch, Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2013), , nos. 26127, 26142 [accessed 07 November 2021].
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)