Epiphanios Kamateros (eleventh/twelfth century)
Obverse
Bust of the Mother of God orans holding the medallion of the Christ Child before her. Sigla: μρ̅Θ̅Υ: Μ(ήτη)ρ Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.
Obverse
Bust of the Mother of God orans holding the medallion of the Christ Child before her. Sigla: μρ̅Θ̅Υ: Μ(ήτη)ρ Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription in four lines. Border of dots.
ΠΙ
ΦΙΟΣ
ΚΜΤ,Ρ,
ΟΓΡΑΦ,
Ἐπιφάνιος Καματ(η)ρ(ὸς) ὁ γράφ(ων)
Accession number | BZS.1951.31.5.428 |
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Diameter | 18.0 mm |
Previous Editions | Cf. Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden I, no. 792. |
Credit Line | Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore. |
Translation
Ἐπιφάνιος Καματηρὸς ὁ γράφων.
Epiphanios Kamateros is the one who wrote this.
Bibliography
- Les bulles métriques dans la sigillographie byzantine (Open in Zotero)
- Mélanges d’épigraphie grecque et de sigillographie byzantine (Open in Zotero)
- Vizantijski olovni pečati ot sbirkata na Narodnija Muzej (Open in Zotero)
- Corpus of Byzantine Seals from Bulgaria (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine seals: from the collection of George Zacos (Open in Zotero)
- Sigillographie de l’Empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Die byzantinischen Bleisiegel mit Familiennamen aus der Sammlung des Numismatischen Museums Athen (Open in Zotero)
- Corinth, Vol. 12, The Minor Objects (Open in Zotero)
- Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden, Vol. 1, Siegellegenden von Alpha bis inclusive My (Open in Zotero)
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Commentary
Dodecasyllabic. See PBW : Epiphanios 20107 for a list of other seals attributed to the same owner.
The abbreviation mark following letter "A" in the third line of the inscription on the reverse appears to be superfluous. The fact that this mark appears consistently on several seals produced with different boulloteria makes it difficult to explain its presence by engraving error.