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Leo Skleros, magistros, vestes, vestarches and judge of Aigaion Pelagos (eleventh century)

 
 
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Obverse

Part of a larger image of the Virgin orans holding the medallion. No sigla or inscription visible.

[Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ]

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Reverse

Only the final two lines of a longer inscription of six lines remain. Border of dots.

.ΕΛΑΓ
.ΣΚΛΗΡ,

[Λέοντι μαγίστρῳ, βέστ(ῃ), βεστάρχῃ, (καὶ) κριτ(ῇ) τοῦ Ἐγαίου Π]ελάγου[ς τ]ῷ Σκληρ(ῷ)

Obverse

Part of a larger image of the Virgin orans holding the medallion. No sigla or inscription visible.

[Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ]

Reverse

Only the final two lines of a longer inscription of six lines remain. Border of dots.

.ΕΛΑΓ
.ΣΚΛΗΡ,

[Λέοντι μαγίστρῳ, βέστ(ῃ), βεστάρχῃ, (καὶ) κριτ(ῇ) τοῦ Ἐγαίου Π]ελάγου[ς τ]ῷ Σκληρ(ῷ)

Accession number BZS.1955.1.3317
Diameter 15.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 40.15b.
Cf. parallel specimens in Athens (Konstantopoulos, no. 98a) and in the Lihačev Collection (Lihačev, IZIGI, 91); republished by Seibt, Skleroi, no. 20 (pl. 4, nos. 13, 14).

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Λέοντι μαγίστρῳ, βέστῃ, βεστάρχῃ, καὶ κριτῇ τοῦ Ἐγαίου Πελάγους τῷ Σκληρῷ.

Theotokos, help your servant Leo Skleros, magistros, vestes, vestarches and judge of Aigaion Pelagos.

Commentary

This specimen is edited with reference to its far better preserved parallel BZS 1958.106.1677. See also the commentary to that entry.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (Open in Zotero)
  • Βυζαντιακὰ μολυβδόβουλλα τοῦ ἐν ἈΘήναις Ἐθνικοῦ Νομισματικοῦ Μουσείου (Open in Zotero)
  • Istoriceskoe znacenie italo-greceskoj ikonopisi: Izobra zenija Bogomatera v prozvedenijah italo-greceskih ikonopiscev i ih vlijanie na kompozicii nekotoryh proslavlennyh russkih ikon (Open in Zotero)
  • Die Skleroi: Eine prosopographisch-sigillographische Studie (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • L’évolution de l’organisation administrative de l’empire byzantin au XIe siècle (1025–1118) (Open in Zotero)
  • Methodii Patriarchae Constantinopolitani Vita S. Theophanis Confessoris: e codice mosquensi no. 159 (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)

Parallel Seals