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Gert:
Your reading makes sense in itself, it is just that the grammatical cases of typos and sphragis are not clear on the seal. If anything, it reads 'sphragis', not 'sphragidos', which is a problem.

On a positive note, looking in Wassiliou-Seibt's corpus of metric seals, I could find contemporary parallels where the seal's owner is designated 'despotes' (nos 1772 and 2700). So we know the term was used this way at this time. Also, the last line could well read Δ,ΠO, with a superscript T.

A parallel for the usage of 'typos sphragidos' for this purpose (as referring to the name of seal's owner) would also be welcome, but this I couldn't find.

Regards
Gert

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