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Title: Help ID Byzantine
Post by: vanter on October 14, 2012, 10:36:25 am

Help to ID this BYzantine Seal, I know the Bizantne Seal can be ID, but I m not expert, so I need help to ID the Byzantine Ruler

Title: Re: Help ID Byzantine
Post by: Gert on February 09, 2013, 08:17:09 am

Reference is Berlin II, 470 (monogram read as 'eparchos?'). Here's the description I wrote up for this type from my database:

Anonymous epistates (overseer). This monogram is also read as the names of Pelagios (Cheynet, Antioche, 141, 142), Apelates, Apellios, Paeitos (Seyrig 359). The relatively large number of seals with this monogram perhaps indicates that an office was meant, not an individual. C. Sode, following N.P. Lichacev, offers the reading 'eparchos' or 'tou eparchou' for the seal, which is problematic because the letters P and X are missing. Followed here is W. Weiser's reading of the monogram as 'epistatou' (MZ 151, 886) - 'seal of the overseer'.

Regards
Gert