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The Pantepoptes monastery (eleventh/twelfth century)

 
 

Obverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.


παν
τεπο
πτα

ὦ Παντέποπτα

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.

σ
ετσ
σ
σοι
κετ
ˊ

σῷζε τοὺς σοῦς [οἰ]κέτ(ας)

Obverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.


παν
τεπο
πτα

ὦ Παντέποπτα

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.

σ
ετσ
σ
σοι
κετ
ˊ

σῷζε τοὺς σοῦς [οἰ]κέτ(ας)

Accession number BZS.1958.106.237
Diameter 20.0 mm; field: 12.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 5 no. 53.1a; Laurent, Corpus 5.2: no. 1171 (tenth/eleventh centuries). Laurent misidentified the accession number as 1958.106.240, and illustrated the specimen as no. 1172 on pl. 149. A similar specimen is published in Seyrig, no. 281.

Translation

ὦ Παντέποπτα σῷζε τοὺς σοῦς οἰκέτας.

O Pantepoptes, save your servants.

Commentary

Twelve-syllable verse. The reading is combined with its parallel from the same boulloterion: BZS 1958.106.5250. Note the ligature of Π and Τ in the fourth line of the obverse.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 5: The East (continued), Constantinople and Environs, Unknown Locations, Addenda, Uncertain Readings (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • Les sceaux byzantins de la Collection Henri Seyrig (Open in Zotero)