SigiDoc: Seal of Georgios Glavas, sebastos

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Artifact

Type: Seal
General layout: Iconography and legend
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Physical description

Medium: Original impression
Material: Lead
Shape: Round
Dimensions (mm): Diam. 31.1
Weight (g): 20.86
Channel orientation (clock): ―
Axis (clock): ―
Overstrike orientation (clock): ―
Execution: Struck
Countermark: ―
Condition: Weak imprint along the channel on the reverse.

Dating

Date: 1176-1200
Internal date: ―
Dating criteria: Epigraphy, Onomastics, Terminology
Alternative dating: ―

History

Category: ―
Issuer: Georgios Glabas
Issuer's milieu: ―
Place of origin: Veliko Tarnovo
Find place: Veliko Tarnovo
Find date
Find circumstances: Excavations
Modern location: Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria)
Institution and repository: Regional Historical Museum – Veliko Tarnovo
Collection and inventory: KVP 13 S/TOM
Acquisition: ―
Previous locations: ―
Modern observations: Discovered during excavations led by J. Aleksiev at Tsarevets, site 13, near the Eastern fortress wall, in 1978.

Obverse

Language(s): Byzantine Greek
Layout of field
Field's dimensions (mm): ―
Matrix: Epigraphy, Onomastics, Terminology
Iconography: Half-figure of Mother of God, type Episkepsis; sigla
Decoration: ―
Epigraphy: ―

Reverse

Language(s): Byzantine Greek
Layout of field
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Iconography: ―
Decoration: ―
Epigraphy: ―

Images

Edition

Interpretive

obv

1 Μή(τη)ρ Θ(εο)ῦ

rev

1 Μ(ήτη)[ρ] Θ(εο)ῦ

2 σκέπ[ε] τὸν

3 σὸν δ[οῦ]λον

4 σεβα[σ]τὸν

5 τὸν Γλαβᾶν

6 Γεώργι{.}

7 ον: –

Diplomatic

obv

1̅ ΘΥ̅

rev

1Μ̅.Θ̣̅Υ

2ΣΚΕΠ.ΤΟ

3ΣΟ.ΛΟ

4ΣΕRΑ̣.ΤΟ

5ΤΟΓΛ̣Α̣RΑ

6ΓΕΡ̣γι

7Ο̣

Apparatus

L. 6: at the end, letter deleted by the craftsman

Legend and Translation

Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Μήτηρ Θεοῦ σκέπε τὸν σὸν δοῦλον σεβαστὸν τὸν Γλαβᾶν Γεώργιον

Mother of God. Mother of God, aid your servant Georgios Glabas, sebastos

References

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Parallel(s): No parallels known
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Commentary

At the end of the sixth row on the reverse, the craftsman intended to put a letter after the iota, but reconsidered, probably because he could still not end the text there, and deleted it; its traces, however, are visible. At the end of the seventh row, the craftsman was perhaps confused with the ending of the inscription, probably because of the deleted letter above, and ended it with a colon followed by a dash; there is nothing to the left of the omicron though.

Footnotes

On the excavation, see AOR 1978 (1979), p. 152-153.

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