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Paul judge of the Aegean fleet (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Panteleimon, beardless. Vertical inscription: Π|.|.Τ|Ε|Λ|ΕΙ|Μ: Ὁ ἅγιος Παντελεΐμων. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines between two ornaments. Border of dots.


ΠΑΥΛ
ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣ
ΚΡΙΝΟΝΤ
ΑΙΓΑΙΟ.
.ΛΟΟ.


Πάυλου σφραγὶς κρίνοντος Αἰγαῖον πλόον

Obverse

Bust of St. Panteleimon, beardless. Vertical inscription: Π|.|.Τ|Ε|Λ|ΕΙ|Μ: Ὁ ἅγιος Παντελεΐμων. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines between two ornaments. Border of dots.


ΠΑΥΛ
ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣ
ΚΡΙΝΟΝΤ
ΑΙΓΑΙΟ.
.ΛΟΟ.


Πάυλου σφραγὶς κρίνοντος Αἰγαῖον πλόον

Accession number BZS.1958.106.3148
Diameter 27.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 40.19b.
Cf. similar specimen published (without illustration) in RA 1877/2, 58 (=Sig., 195 = Bulles métriques, no. 301).

Translation

Πάυλου σφραγὶς κρίνοντος Αἰγαῖον πλόον

The seal of Paul who acts as judge for the Aegaean fleet.

Commentary

See the commentary to the parallel specimen, BZS 1955.1.3698.

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)
  • Methodii Patriarchae Constantinopolitani Vita S. Theophanis Confessoris: e codice mosquensi no. 159 (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
  • Sigillographie de l’Empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • Les bulles métriques dans la sigillographie byzantine (Open in Zotero)