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Alexios Komnenos Angelos, sebastokrator (1185-1195)

 
 

Obverse

St. George mounted on a horse. On either side, the inscription: |γεργιοσ : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Γεώργιος. Linear border.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines (featuring many ligatures), a cross above. Linear border.


αλεΞιου
σραγισμα
κολα
σeaokρα
.ορντοσαγ
.ελνυμ

Ἀλεξίου σφράγισμα Κομνηνῶν κλάδου σεβαστοκρα[τ]οροῦντος Ἀγ[γ]ελωνύμου

Obverse

St. George mounted on a horse. On either side, the inscription: |γεργιοσ : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Γεώργιος. Linear border.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines (featuring many ligatures), a cross above. Linear border.


αλεΞιου
σραγισμα
κολα
σeaokρα
.ορντοσαγ
.ελνυμ

Ἀλεξίου σφράγισμα Κομνηνῶν κλάδου σεβαστοκρα[τ]οροῦντος Ἀγ[γ]ελωνύμου

Accession number BZS.1958.106.4825
Diameter 35.0 mm
Previous Editions

Oikonomides, Dated Seals, no. 124; Zacos-Veglery, no. 2745; see also Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden I, no. 81.

Translation

Ἀλεξίου σφράγισμα Κομνηνῶν κλάδου σεβαστοκρατοροῦντος Ἀγγελωνύμου.

Seal of the sebastokrator Alexios, a descendant of the Komnenoi whose name is Angelos.

Commentary

The owner of this seal is the future emperor Alexios III Angelos who had been made sebastokrator by his brother Isaac upon the latter's accession to the throne in 1185. Alexios's preference for his Komnenian ancestry is evident in the inscription (Κομνηνῶν κλάδου), words which distinguish the metrical inscription on this seal from others issued by him (Laurent, Bulles métriques, no. 591; Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden I, no. 89).

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