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Constantine Kantakouzenos (twelfth century)

 
 
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Obverse

A military saint standing, holding spear and shield. Details indistinct. No sigla visible. Indeterminate border.

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Reverse

Inscription in six lines. Border of dots.


ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣ
.ΜΑΡΤ̣ΥΣΤΝ̣
ΓΡΑΦ̣̣ΝΚ̅Ν
Κ̣ΑΤΑΚΟΥΝ̣
.ΚΓΕ̣ΝΣΚΑΤ
Η̣ΓΜΕ̣Ν̣̣

σφραγὶς [ὁ] μάρτυς τῶν γραφῶ[ν] Κων(σταντίνου) Κατακουζηνῶν [ἐ]κ γένους κατηγμένου

Obverse

A military saint standing, holding spear and shield. Details indistinct. No sigla visible. Indeterminate border.

Reverse

Inscription in six lines. Border of dots.


ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣ
.ΜΑΡΤ̣ΥΣΤΝ̣
ΓΡΑΦ̣̣ΝΚ̅Ν
Κ̣ΑΤΑΚΟΥΝ̣
.ΚΓΕ̣ΝΣΚΑΤ
Η̣ΓΜΕ̣Ν̣̣

σφραγὶς [ὁ] μάρτυς τῶν γραφῶ[ν] Κων(σταντίνου) Κατακουζηνῶν [ἐ]κ γένους κατηγμένου

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.820
Diameter 33.0 mm
Previous Editions

Cf. Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden II, no. 2694.
Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

σφραγὶς ὁ μάρτυς τῶν γραφῶν Κωνσταντίνου Κατακουζηνῶν ἐκ γένους κατηγμένου.

The martyr seals the correspondence of Constantine, descended from the family of the Kantakouzenoi.

Commentary

Dodecasyllabic.

Bibliography

  • Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden, Vol. 2, Siegellegenden von Ny bis inklusive Sphragis (Open in Zotero)