At the northern
border of the Exarcate of
Ravenna we have recently found in open land this lead seal (1). We tried to find it in the
Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Seals Online
Catalogue but we don’t find it even if, asking for
seals with
eagle, we have seen a lot of very similar
seals. So we ask you if you could
help us in
his identification/classification/datation. And more can you tell us about the meaning of the
eagle and the
star in the
byzantine sigillography.
In the same open land we fund also more recently an other poorly preserved small
anepigraphic seal (2) but we are uncertain about its
byzantine nature, don’t be it for the
star, as we are about an other strange lead object with an
eagle in the center (3) that we was unable to
catalogue as a pilgrim badge. We wonder whether it is connected to
seals.
Thank you in advance,
Alessandro
