Peter asekretis and judge of the Thrakesioi (eleventh century)
Obverse
Bust of the Virgin with her hands open before her. Sigla: ..-θ̅υ : [Μ(ήτη)ρ] Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.
Obverse
Bust of the Virgin with her hands open before her. Sigla: ..-θ̅υ : [Μ(ήτη)ρ] Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.
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πετρ,αΣη
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κησ,
Θ(εοτό)κε β(οή)θ(ει) τῶ σῷ δού(λῳ) Πέτρ(ῳ) ἀσηκρῆτ(ις) (καὶ) κ[ριτ(ῇ)] τῶν Θρ(ᾳ)κησ(ίων).
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.1139 |
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Diameter | 25.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 3, no. 2.25b. |
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῶ σῷ δούλῳ Πέτρῳ ἀσηκρῆτις καὶ κριτῇ τῶν Θρᾳκησίων.
Mother of God, help your servant Peter, asekretis and judge of the Thrakesioi.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Open in Zotero)
- Constantini Porphyrogeniti De cerimoniis aulae byzantinae (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Praetorians: An Administrative, Institutional, and Social Survey of the Opsikion and Tagmata, c. 580-900 (Open in Zotero)
- Theophanis Chronographia (Open in Zotero)
- L’histoire et la géographie de la région de Smyrne entre les deux occupations turques (1081-1317), particulièrement au XIIIe siècle (Open in Zotero)
- Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
- “Thrakien” und “Thrakesion” (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
This seal and BZS.1955.1.2618 come from the same boulloterion.