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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Byzantine Seals| > BB53492
Byzantine Empire, Lead Bulla Seal, c. 5th - 12th Century
|Byzantine| |Seals|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Lead| |Bulla| |Seal,| |c.| |5th| |-| |12th| |Century|, During the Byzantine period, lead bullae (singular, Bulla) were widely used to seal and identify the sender of correspondence and containers in shipment. An iron, pliers-shaped instrument, a boulloterion, was used to impress the designs on a lead bulla seal. After the cord was wrapped around the package or document and the ends inserted in a channel in the blank seal, the seal was placed between the disk shaped engraved dies on the jaws of a boulloterion. The boulloterion had a projection above the jaws, which was struck with a hammer to impress the design on the seal and close the channel around the two ends of the cord. With a bulla in place a container cannot be violated without visible damage to either the bulla or the cord, ensuring the contents remain tamper-proof until they reach their destination.
BB53492. Lead bulla (tag seal), very large, weight 40.994g, maximum diameter 39.7mm, SOLD










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