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Offline Justinian

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Can you help Identify this Byzantine Seal?
« on: March 28, 2013, 05:48:37 pm »
I found this lead seal in Turkey, in the area of Anazarbus.  Can anyone help ID it?

Thanks!

Peter


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Re: Can you help Identify this Byzantine Seal?
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2013, 07:01:25 am »
Hi Peter,
Welcome to FAC with your first post. First of all, in the future, please add diameter to your id requests. It's impossible to see from a photo and it can be important to find an answer to your question.

Your seal is relatively well published. It belongs to a person named Apnelgaripes, who held the high rank of 'magistros'. The obv. shows a standing saint George, the reverse reads "Lord aid your servant Apnelgaripes magistros" in Greek. Published in Zacos II  no. 362 (a-c), Seyrig coll. 40. Apnelgaripes is originally an Arab name. Can be dated last third of the 11th century.
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Re: Can you help Identify this Byzantine Seal?
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2013, 08:09:38 am »
That's fantastic!   Thanks for the detailed answer!

Peter

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Re: Can you help Identify this Byzantine Seal?
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2013, 01:57:49 pm »
The personal name  "Apnelgaripes" reads in Arabic "Ibn al-Gharib"
which means " son of the stranger".

Just an addition.

Bakkar

 

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