Gabriel Tzirithon, judge of Thrace (eleventh century)
Obverse
St. George standing, holding spear, his left hand set on shield resting on the ground. Vertical inscription: Ο|Α|Γ|Ι|Ο|ΣΓ|Ε|Ρ|ΓΙ|Ο,: Ὁ ἅγιος Γεώργιος. Border of dots.
Obverse
St. George standing, holding spear, his left hand set on shield resting on the ground. Vertical inscription: Ο|Α|Γ|Ι|Ο|ΣΓ|Ε|Ρ|ΓΙ|Ο,: Ὁ ἅγιος Γεώργιος. Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.
ΤΟΥ...
ΡΙΘΝ..
ΓΑΡΙΗ.
ΚΡΙΤΟ.
ΘΡΑΚ..
Τοῦ Τζιρίθωνος Γαβριὴλ κριτοῦ Θρᾴκης
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.1514 |
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Diameter | 23.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 1, no. 71.11b. |
Translation
Τοῦ Τζιρίθωνος Γαβριὴλ κριτοῦ Θρᾴκης.
(Seal of) Gabriel Tzirithon, judge of Thrace.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 1: Italy, North of the Balkans, North of the Black Sea (Open in Zotero)
- De Thematibus (Open in Zotero)
- “Thrakien” und “Thrakesion” (Open in Zotero)
- Die zweihundertjährige Reform (Zu den Anfängen der Themenorganisation im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert) (Open in Zotero)
- Ανίχνευση τοπογραφική της ανατολικής Θράκης (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
- La Thrace Orientale et La Mer Noire: Géographie Ecclésiastique et Prosopographie (VIIIe-XIIe Siècles) (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
- Constantini Porphyrogeniti De cerimoniis aulae byzantinae (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
This is one of two specimens from the same boulloterion and so it has been edited jointly: see also BZS 1958.106.4243.
The inscription is a twelve-syllable verse. Laurent, Bulles métriques, no. 530, republished, with corrections, a seal previously edited by Schlumberger: τοῦ Τζιρίθωνος Γαβριὴλ κριτοῦ σφραγίς. One suspects that the reading of the final word should be emended to Θρᾴκης. Gabriel Tzirithon, a dishypatos, was judge of Thrace shortly before 1075: Catalogue des mss. alchimiques grecs 6 (1928) 196. Members of this family are listed by Laurent in EO 30 (1931) 476-77; cf. Hellenika 9 (1936) 21-25.