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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
κετˊ

σῷζε τοὺς [σ]οὺς οἰκέτ(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
κετˊ

σῷζε τοὺς [σ]οὺς οἰκέτ(ας)

Accession number BZS.1958.106.5250
Diameter 15.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 5 no. 53.1b; Laurent, Corpus 5.2: no. 1171 (tenth/eleventh century). A similar specimen is published in Seyrig, no. 281. The reading of this specimen has been combined with the parallel from the same boulloterion noted below.

Translation

ὦ Παντέποπτα σῷζε τοὺς σοὺς οἰκέτας.

O Pantepoptes, save your servants.

Commentary

The monastery was founded by Anna Dalassena in 1087 and appears to have functioned until the close of the Byzantine era: Janin, Églises, 513–15.

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)
  • La géographie ecclésiastique de l’empire byzantin, Vol. 1, Le siège de Constantinople et le patriarcat oecuménique, Pt. 3, Les églises et les monastères (Open in Zotero)