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Anonymous (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.

ΟΥ
ΣΦΡΑ
ΓΗΣΗ
ΜΗ 

οὗ σφραγής ἤμη

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΤΗΝ
ΓΡΑΦΗ,
ΛΕΠ,
ΓΝ
Θ,

τὴν γραφὴ(ν) βλέπ(ων) γνῶθ(ι)

Obverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.

ΟΥ
ΣΦΡΑ
ΓΗΣΗ
ΜΗ 

οὗ σφραγής ἤμη

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΤΗΝ
ΓΡΑΦΗ,
ΛΕΠ,
ΓΝ
Θ,

τὴν γραφὴ(ν) βλέπ(ων) γνῶθ(ι)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.435
Diameter 17.0 mm; field: 12.0 mm
Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

οὗ σφραγής ἤμη τὴν γραφὴ(ν) βλέπ(ων) γνῶθ(ι).

Find out whose seal I am by looking at the letter. 

Commentary

This formulaic anonymous metrical verse should be added to the ones collected by Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden II, no. 1705.