The imperial kommerkia of Thrace (787/8)
Obverse
Two imperial busts: Constantine VI (left), beardless, wearing chlamys and crown with a cross, and his mother Irene, wearing crown with a cross and four triangular projections (details of dress indistinct). Between the figures, in the upper field, a cross. Wreath border.
Ἰνδικτιὼν ιαˊ
Obverse
Two imperial busts: Constantine VI (left), beardless, wearing chlamys and crown with a cross, and his mother Irene, wearing crown with a cross and four triangular projections (details of dress indistinct). Between the figures, in the upper field, a cross. Wreath border.
Ἰνδικτιὼν ιαˊ
Reverse
Three imperial busts above an exergual line: Constantine V (left), Leo III (center), and Leo IV; all wear a chlamys and crown with a cross. At right, an indiction sign: ΙΑ. Below the exergual line, inscription of three lines. Wreath border.
Β/ΚΟΜΜΕΡ
ΤΗΣΘΡ
Σ
Τῶν βασιλικῶν κομμερκίων τῆς Θρᾴκης
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.674 |
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Diameter | 31.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 1, no. 71.19. |
Translation
Ἰνδικτιὼν ιαˊ. Τῶν βασιλικῶν κομμερκίων τῆς Θρᾴκης.
Indiction 11. (Seal of) the imperial kommerkia 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)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (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)
- Constantini Porphyrogeniti De cerimoniis aulae byzantinae (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
On the reverse, outside the field at right, the letters Α, then a straight line, then ΕΡ, can be seen. These are remnants of a previous strike with the same matrices: end of the indiction sign, exergual line, end of line (rev.).