Michael Lizix asekretis and judge of Iberia (eleventh century)
Obverse
Bust of St. Michael holding a scepter in his right hand. Remains of an inscription on left: χ|α. : [ὁ Μι]χα(ήλ). Border of dots.
Obverse
Bust of St. Michael holding a scepter in his right hand. Remains of an inscription on left: χ|α. : [ὁ Μι]χα(ήλ). Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.
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Κ(ύρι)ε [β(οή)θ(ει) τ]ῷ σῷ δ(ούλῳ) Μι[χ(αὴλ)] ἀσηκρῆτ(ις) (καὶ) κριτ(ῇ) Ἰβηρίας τῷ Λί[ζ]ικι
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.865 |
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Diameter | 26.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 4, no. 75.4. |
Translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Μιχαὴλ ἀσηκρῆτις καὶ κριτῇ Ἰβηρίας τῷ Λίζικι.
Lord, help your servant Michael Lizix, asekretis and judge of Iberia.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 4: The East (Open in Zotero)
- Michaelis Attaliotae Historia (Open in Zotero)
- Ioannis Scylitzae Synopsis historiarum (Open in Zotero)
- Die byzantinische Armee im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Organisation der Tagmata (Open in Zotero)
- Studies in Byzantine Sigillography (Open in Zotero)
- L’administration byzantine en Arménie aux Xe–XIe siècles (Open in Zotero)
- K diskussii o date obrazovanija femy Iverija (Open in Zotero)
- Γιὰ Τὸν Ἰβηρικὸ Στρατὸ Καὶ Τὸ Βυζαντινὸ Θέμα Ἰβηρία (Open in Zotero)
- On the Location of the Iberian Theme (Open in Zotero)
- Sceaux de plomb du Musée d’Hatay (Antioche) (Open in Zotero)
- Pečati s toponimičeskimi ukazanijami (Open in Zotero)
- Armjane Halkidonity na vostčnych granicach Vizantijskoj imperii (XIV.) (Open in Zotero)
- Eastern Turkey: An Architectural and Archaeological Survey (Open in Zotero)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Monodies inédites de Michel Psellos (Open in Zotero)
- Versi di Basilio Cecaumeno in morte di Anastasio Lizix (Open in Zotero)
- Μεσαιωνικὴ βιβλιοθήκη (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Lizix is attested as a first name in the VIIIth c. (Laurent, Corpus II, no. 691) and as a family name in the XIth-XIIth (S. G. Mercati, “Versi di Basilio Cecaumeno in morte di Anastasio Lizix,” SBN 1 [1925] 149-166; cf. P. Gautier, “Monodies inédites de Michel Psellos,” REB 36 [1978] 86-91). A Michael Lizix is attested in the twelfth century, while Psellos a century earlier mentions an Anastasios Lizix and another one whose first name is not known and who must have been an asekretis, since Psellos dictated a pittakion to him (Sathas, MB V, 241). No secure identification is possible.