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Anonymous (eleventh/twelfth century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. John the Theologian. Details indistinct. Epigraphy on either side: |ι̅|οθ|εο|λ, : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Ἰω(άννης) ὁ Θεόλ(ογος). Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, a cross above. Border of dots.


σημαν
τρονου
περη̣γ̣ρα
φ̣η̣ηλοι
το̣δε̣

σήμαντρον οὗπερ ἡ γραφὴ δηλοῖ τόδε

Obverse

Bust of St. John the Theologian. Details indistinct. Epigraphy on either side: |ι̅|οθ|εο|λ, : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Ἰω(άννης) ὁ Θεόλ(ογος). Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, a cross above. Border of dots.


σημαν
τρονου
περη̣γ̣ρα
φ̣η̣ηλοι
το̣δε̣

σήμαντρον οὗπερ ἡ γραφὴ δηλοῖ τόδε

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.3608
Diameter 20.0 mm
Previous Editions

Cf. Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden II, no. 1928.

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

σήμαντρον οὗπερ ἡ γραφὴ δηλοῖ τόδε.

The letter shows whose seal this is.

Bibliography

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