v20_0140 - BYZANTIUM - SIGILLOGRAPHY Sceau en plomb

BYZANTIUM - SIGILLOGRAPHY Sceau en plomb XF

MONNAIES 20 (2004)
Starting price : 130.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Sceau en plomb

Date: c. VIIIe siècle

Metal : lead

Diameter : 33 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 26,76 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire de très bonne conservation pour ce type avec des échancrures aux orifices du canal

Catalogue references :

Seyrig- cf. 189

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Delorme

Obverse

Obverse description : Monogramme invocatif au type de Laurent V cantonné par le tétrasyllabe habituel, croiseté aux extrémités cantonnées de lettres.

Obverse legend : QEOTOKE BOHQH/ TW/ Cg/ Dg/ Lw

Obverse translation : (Seigneur, protège ton serviteur).

Reverse

Reverse description : Légende en cinq lignes.

Reverse legend : MARI / ANw PA/ TRIKIw S/ CTRAT/ Gg

Reverse translation : (Marianos - ou Marin - patrice et stratège).

Commentary

Sceau semblant inédit et non répertorié. Manque aux principaux ouvrages consultés.
Seal appears to be unpublished and unlisted. Missing from the main works consulted

Historical background

BYZANTIUM - SIGILLOGRAPHY

(8th century)

The Klétorologion of Philothée Atriklinos informs us about the hierarchy of high Byzantine officials around the year 900. The title of patrician (created by Constantine the Great) comes in seventh position in the list of precedence comprising eighteen levels for sixty high officials administration, military, civil and aulic. There were at that time twenty-five theme strategists (territorial subdivisions of the empire), heads of administration and local troops. In the 11th century, the redesign of the titulature by Alexis I Comnenus (1081-1118) will lead to an inflation of titles: that of patrice will no longer mean much and that of strategist will disappear..

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