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Peter asekretis and judge of the Thrakesioi (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin with her hands open before her. Sigla: ..-θ̅υ : [Μ(ήτη)ρ] Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

θ̅κ̅εRˋθ
τσˋ
πετρ,αΣη
κρητ,Sκρ
τ,τνθρ,
κησ,

Θ(εοτό)κε β(οή)θ(ει) τῶ σῷ δού(λῳ) Πέτρ(ῳ) ἀσηκρῆτ(ις) (καὶ) κρ[ι]τ(ῇ) τῶν Θρ(ᾳ)κησ(ίων).

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin with her hands open before her. Sigla: ..-θ̅υ : [Μ(ήτη)ρ] Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

θ̅κ̅εRˋθ
τσˋ
πετρ,αΣη
κρητ,Sκρ
τ,τνθρ,
κησ,

Θ(εοτό)κε β(οή)θ(ει) τῶ σῷ δού(λῳ) Πέτρ(ῳ) ἀσηκρῆτ(ις) (καὶ) κρ[ι]τ(ῇ) τῶν Θρ(ᾳ)κησ(ίων).

Accession number BZS.1955.1.2618
Diameter 24.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 2.25a.

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῶ σῷ δούλῳ Πέτρῳ ἀσηκρῆτις καὶ κριτῇ τῶν Θρᾳκησίων.

Mother of God, help your servant Peter, asekretis and judge of the Thrakesioi.

Commentary

This seal and BZS.1958.106.1139 come from the same boulloterion.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Open in Zotero)
  • Constantini Porphyrogeniti De cerimoniis aulae byzantinae (Open in Zotero)
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  • L’histoire et la géographie de la région de Smyrne entre les deux occupations turques (1081-1317), particulièrement au XIIIe siècle (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • “Thrakien” und “Thrakesion” (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)