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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ignoramus Maximus, post: 7752304, member: 104741&quot;]Thank you for the interesting post, [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER]. And nice seals you have!</p><p>The protospatharios Euphemios one is just lovely.</p><p><br /></p><p>To answer your question: I don&#039;t collect Byzantine seals.</p><p>I do have one, though. Or rather, I&#039;m awaiting its arrival. I got it partly because I&nbsp; wanted an example in my collection, (I have one or two provincial Greek/Roman seals), partly because I found the withered lettering on its reverse fascinating.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1327576[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Being cheap, it came totally undescribed and unattributed. Not surprisingly, I&#039;m still working on its deciphering it. Most of the obverse is readable, the first line of the reverse as well, the rest is, very fittingly, all Greek to me.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The fact that (partial) abbreviations are common on them doesn&#039;t help. Add a lack of fixed literation conventions, my lack of knowledge of Byzantine culture and medieval Greek, and you&#039;re left with an interesting riddle.</p><p>By comparing it to other seals this is how far I got:</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: Saint Georgios, nimbate, facing, holding spear and shield.</p><p>ΘΑ----&nbsp; ΓƐωΡΓΙΟ[Σ/S]</p><p>Rev: 1.+KƐRO&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2. ΝΘƐΙΤω,&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Cω/ΔOVΛω,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 4.(ΘƐΟΔω ???)</p><p><br /></p><p>Does this make any sense? </p><p>Or do you think I should stick to the anepigraphic ones in the future?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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