bby_218916 - BYZANTIUM - SIGILLOGRAPHY Sceau en plomb
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Sceau en plomb
Date: c. VIIIe siècle
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : lead
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 26,76 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de très bonne conservation pour ce type avec des échancrures aux orifices du canal
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XX, n° 140 et de la collection Delorme
Obverse
Obverse description : Monogramme invocatif au type de Laurent V cantonné par le tétrasyllabe habituel, croiseté aux extrémités cantonnées de lettres.
Obverse legend : QEOTOKE BOHQH/ TW/ Cg/ Dg/ Lw .
Obverse translation : (Seigneur, protège ton serviteur).
Reverse
Reverse description : Légende en cinq lignes.
Reverse legend : MARI / ANw PA/ TRIKIw S/ CTRAT/ Gg.
Reverse translation : (Marianos - ou Marin - patrice et stratège).
Commentary
Sceau semblant inédit et non répertorié. Manque aux principaux ouvrages consultés.
Historical background
BYZANTIUM - SIGILLOGRAPHY
(8th century)
The Klétorologion of Philothée Atriklinos informs us about the hierarchy of high Byzantine officials around the year 900. The title of patrician (created by Constantine the Great) comes in seventh position in the list of precedence comprising eighteen levels for sixty high officials administration, military, civil and aulic. There were at that time twenty-five theme strategists (territorial subdivisions of the empire), heads of administration and local troops. In the 11th century, the redesign of the titulature by Alexis I Comnenus (1081-1118) will lead to an inflation of titles: that of patrice will no longer mean much and that of strategist will disappear..
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