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Demetrios Aelgazes (thirteenth/fourteenth century)

 
 

Obverse

St. Demetrios mounted on a horse, carrying a spear over his right shoulder. On either side, the sigla: |ηι|τριο. : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Δημίτριο[ς]. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of four lines, a cross above. Border of dots.

 hh
ρiσφρ
σ̣τ̣ου
̣ηλγΖ̣η̣

Δημητρίου σφράγισμα τοῦ Ἀηλγάζη

Obverse

St. Demetrios mounted on a horse, carrying a spear over his right shoulder. On either side, the sigla: |ηι|τριο. : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Δημίτριο[ς]. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of four lines, a cross above. Border of dots.

 hh
ρiσφρ
σ̣τ̣ου
̣ηλγΖ̣η̣

Δημητρίου σφράγισμα τοῦ Ἀηλγάζη

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.2602
Diameter 28.0 mm
Previous Editions

Cf. Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden I, no. 641.

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Δημητρίου σφράγισμα τοῦ Ἀηλγάζη.

Seal of Demetrios Aelgazes.

Bibliography

  • Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden, Vol. 1, Siegellegenden von Alpha bis inclusive My (Open in Zotero)