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Offline NIKSOL

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Lead Seal ID Β'
« on: January 04, 2018, 03:08:13 pm »
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Re: Lead Seal ID Β'
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2018, 03:30:59 pm »
An interesting seal showing on the obv. (your 2nd photo) an invocative monogram for 'Theotoke boethei' - "god-bearer (=the Virgin) help". The rev. shows a legend naming the seal's owner Oulid and his dignity of hypatos, consul. A seal with the same monogram and legend is published by Zacos & Veglery, no. 1566. but their ex. is in a crude, provincial style. Their no. 1567 of Oulith, hypatos belongs probably to the same individual, but spells the name with theta, not delta. Zacos/Veglery date 650-750.

Now, what makes this seal more interesting than the typical Byzantine seal is that the name is Arabic, Walid, who must have converted to serve the Byzantine emperor. A small number of Arabic names can be found on early Byzantine seals.
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Re: Lead Seal ID Β'
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2018, 06:03:51 pm »
thank you my friend for valuable help +++

 

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