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E. Laflı/W. Seibt/D. Çağlayan, Seven lead seals from northwestern Turkey, Βυζαντιακά – Byzantiaka, 2020
Söz konusu eserler, ilgili iki Müze Müdürlüğü'nün Doğukan Çağlayan'a 09/01/2019 tarihinde verdiği... more Söz konusu eserler, ilgili iki Müze Müdürlüğü'nün Doğukan Çağlayan'a 09/01/2019 tarihinde verdiği 80728313-155.01-E.24938 sayılı ve 04/02/2019 tarihinde verdiği 81526617.155.99/102920 sayılı izinleri ile yayımlanmıştır.
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In this paper seven lead seals from northwestern Turkey have been presented which stretch a time period between the late seventh and early 13th centuries A.D. Thus, it offers a descriptive listing of the Byzantine seals contained in northwestern Turkish museums. In the introduction part region and some museums have been presented briefly. Owners of these seven seals were primarily ecclesiastical, juristic or military dignitaries who were probably active in these regions. Their catalogue ends with a substantial contextualisation and discussion. By this way this article does not only give readers an argument of sigilliographic results for northwestern Turkey, but also leads to new conclusions about the less-known Byzantine history and dignitaries of this part of northwestern Asia Minor as well as Byzantine sigillography in general.
Keywords: Lead seals, northwestern Turkey, sigillography, Early Byzantine period, Middle Byzantine period, Late Byzantine period.
E. Laflı and W. Seibt, Seven Byzantine lead seals from the museum of Ödemiş in western Anatolia, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2020
Söz konusu eserler, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün 22 Eylül 2011 tarih ve B16.0.KVM.4.35.74.00-155.01/... more Söz konusu eserler, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün 22 Eylül 2011 tarih ve B16.0.KVM.4.35.74.00-155.01/555 sayılı yazılı izni ile çalışılmıştır.
The full form of this article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2023, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its journal. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2023: elafli@yahoo.ca
This short essay presents seven Byzantine lead seals, all of which originate from the local museum in Ödemiş in the province of Izmir in western Turkey. Almost all of them came as acquisition to Ödemiş by local antique dealers. All the pieces have been treated and interpreted here sigillographically for the first time. This small collection of seals is important regarding the administration of the theme of Thrakesion, especially about the offices of the seal owners, and the society of Cayster valley during the Byzantine period. At the end of the article two casting mould plates for a magical amulet and some further sigillographical material are presented preliminarily.
Keywords: Lead seals; steatite casting mould plates; magical amulet; the museum of Ödemiş; Cayster valley; Izmir; western Asia Minor; Thrakesion; sigillography; Early Byzantine period; Middle Byzantine period; Late Byzantine period.
E. Laflı, W. Seibt and D. Çağlayan, Early Byzantine sigillographic evidence from western Anatolia: sixth- and seventh-century lead seals, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2021
The full form of this brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2024,... more The full form of this brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2024, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its journal. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2024: elafli@yahoo.ca
Bu makalede konu edilen objeler ilgili müzenin Doğukan Çağlayan'a verdiği 27 Haziran 2019 tarih ve 75845132-154.01-E.529808 numaralı yazılı izin ile çalışılmıştır.
This article presents twelve lead seals from western Turkey, dating from the late sixth to the early eighth century. We offer a descriptive catalogue of these early Byzantine seals preserved in a western Turkish museum. The owners of the twelve seals in the museum were primarily ecclesiastical or legal dignitaries who were probably active in southwestern Mysia, in Aeolis or in Lydia.
Keywords: lead seals; western Asia Minor; sigillography.
The volume was created on the basis of selected contributions to an international symposium that ... more The volume was created on the basis of selected contributions to an international symposium that was held in 2005 on the occasion of the 1600-year anniversary of the creation of the Armenian alphabet in Vienna at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In order to view this major event of cultural history in a larger context, the conception of the symposium was widened in order to include not only the other two South Caucasian alphabets, the Georgian and Albanian, but also the Coptic one and the conditions in the Iranian empire of those centuries. Some well-datable, relatively clear research results are often in strong contrast to the more legendary traditions, which science has not resolved sufficiently until now. That the blessed Maštoc‘, which in the later tradition is rather called Mesrop, in 405/406 created the Armenian alphabet is beyond discussion. But the Armenian tradition ascribes to Maštoc‘ also to the creation of the Albanian and the oldest Georgian alphabet. For the former, there existed until recently only vague theories; only after the decoding and decryption of palimpsests discovered in the St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, to which a contribution in this volume is dedicated, founded statements are possible. For the Georgian alphabet a completely new approach is presented in a paper (creation in the Syrian-Palestinian region, just after the creation of the Armenian alphabet). On the basis of these alphabets emerged a rich literature, which reached very quickly high bloom, especially in Armenia. Thus, the volume is not only of interest for specialists in the areas of the Caucasus, but also for all researchers concerned with the development of Christian cultures in the late antique and early medieval centuries.
CONTENTS:
Vorwort
Sen AREVŠATYAN, Mesrop Maštoc‘ and the Beginning of Armenian Philosophy
Vladimir BARKHUDARYAN, The Creation of the Armenian Alphabet and the Armenian Identity
Armenuhi DROST-ABGARJAN,
Das armenische Alphabet im Kontext der autochthonen Schriftsysteme des Christlichen Orients
Hans FÖRSTER, Koptisches Alphabet und koptische Identität
Jost GIPPERT, The script of the Caucasian Albanians in the light of the Sinai palimpsests
Vakhtang IMNAISHVILI, Die Folgen der Entstehung des georgischen Alphabets in den ersten Jahrhunderten
Zurab KANANCHEV, Die albanische Schrift – zum Problem „Mesrop Maštoc‛“
Mesrob K. KRIKORIAN, Das Datum der Entstehung des armenischen Alphabets
Jean-Pierre MAHÉ, Systèmes d’écriture et historiographie de la christianisation du Caucase
Werner SEIBT, Wo, wann und zu welchem Zweck wurde das georgische Alphabet geschaffen?
Xavier TREMBLAY, Das Christentum im iranischen Kulturraum bis zum 13. Jahrhundert anhand der syrischen Quellen und der Schriftdenkmäler im Iran
Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren
Index
TRAVAUX ET MÉMOIRES by Seibt Werner
by Vujadin M Ivanišević, Seibt Werner, Vasiliki (Vasso) Penna, Pagona Papadopoulou, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance ACHCByz, Michel Kaplan, Thierry Ganchou, Marie-Helene Congourdeau, Béatrice Caseau, and Julian Baker
Le volume des Mélanges dédié à Cécile Morrisson, correspondante de l’Institut, pour son 70e anniv... more Le volume des Mélanges dédié à Cécile Morrisson, correspondante de l’Institut, pour son 70e anniversaire, comporte quarante-huit contributions portant sur la numismatique, la sigillographie, l’archéologie et l’histoire économique et sociale tant de l’Empire d’Orient de l’Antiquité tardive à la fin de la période byzantine que du haut Moyen Âge occidental.
ISBN : 978-2-916716-28-2
Papers by Seibt Werner
Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu
Vor einigen Jahren gelang es der kroatischen Polizei, einenSchmuggeltransport kleinformatiger Ant... more Vor einigen Jahren gelang es der kroatischen Polizei, einenSchmuggeltransport kleinformatiger Antiquitäten zu stoppen,worauf die Objekte dem Archäologischen Museum Zagreb zurfachmännischen Aufbewahrung überantwortet wurden. Da dieObjekte möglicherweise aus der Türkei stammen, wurden sieEnde 2021 der türkischen Botschaft in Kroatien übergeben, umins Museum für anatolische Zivilisationen überstellt zu werden.Dazu zählt auch eine interessante Sammlung byzantinischerBleisiegel, die im Folgenden publiziert wird. Hier finden sich dreiKaisersiegel des 7. Jahrhunderts (bekannte Typen), sechs Siegelvon Militärkommandanten des späten 7. bis späten 11. Jahrhunderts(darunter Strategen der Bukellarier und der Thrakesier,sowie die Typen eines Strategen namens Apokarpis und des Tautukas,proedros und katepano von Samosata), acht Bullen vonzivilen Beamten (darunter ein kommerkiarios von Armenia II ausder Zeit 659 – ca. 667, Richter von Seleukeia und Tarsos sowie derArmenika Themata, und ein neuer Ty...
The paper deals especially with monograms on Byzantine lead seals. The early form was the block m... more The paper deals especially with monograms on Byzantine lead seals. The early form was the block monogram , a type used already in Classical times, which came into fashion in the Byzantine world in the 6th or already in the 5th century and remained important till the early 7th century. Such monograms hide normally a name, a title or an office, the Greek ones in genitive, the Latin ones in nominative or genitive. Many of them can be read in different ways. For the double using of parts of letters for other ones the well-known Latin monogram of Theoderich is explained in detail. But the “typical Byzantine monogram” became the cross monogram , with letters more or less affixed on the arms of a Greek cross. The earliest example stems from a coin of Justinus I, starting 522, quite earlier than Theodora’s monograms on capitals in the Hagia Sophia. These cruciform monograms presented in the beginning also a name, a title or an office, but in the 8th century already often a combination of t...
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2020
This short essay presents seven Byzantine lead seals, all of which originate from the local museu... more This short essay presents seven Byzantine lead seals, all of which originate from the local museum in Ödemiş in the province of Izmir in western Turkey. Almost all of them came as acquisition to Ödemiş by local antique dealers. All the pieces have been treated and interpreted here sigillographically for the first time. This small collection of seals is important regarding the administration of the theme of Thrakesion, especially about the offices of the seal owners, and the society of Cayster valley during the Byzantine period.
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2021
The Collection of Tunay Demran, officially registered in the Manisa Archaeological Museum, contai... more The Collection of Tunay Demran, officially registered in the Manisa Archaeological Museum, contains seven seals, six of lead and one of silver, and one blank. Manisa, the Byzantine Magnesia Anelios on Mount Sipylos, with its fertile lowland and strategic location in Western Anatolia, has been home to different civilizations over the centuries, including the Lydian Kingdom, one of the most important ancient civilizations. In the 13th century, it became one of the more important cities of the Nicene Empire (established after the Latin invasion in 1204) and the seat of Ioannes III Doukas Vatatzes, who located an actively working mint there. Later on, the city and its environs came under the rule of the Beylik of Saruhan and the Ottoman Empire. There is a rich archaeological record of civil and religious architecture in Manisa and its surroundings, still awaiting full investigation. The article presents Demran’s collection of seals and explores potential ties with the archaeological rem...
This article presents twelve lead seals from the Museum of Bergama (ancient Pergamon), dating fro... more This article presents twelve lead seals from the Museum of Bergama (ancient Pergamon), dating from the late sixth to the early eighth century. We offer a descriptive catalogue of these early Byzantine seals preserved in a western Turkish museum. In the introduction, seals excavated in Pergamon as well as seals referring to Pergamon are briefly discussed. The owners of the twelve seals in the museum were primarily ecclesiastical or legal dignitaries who were probably active in Pergamon, in southwestern Mysia, in Aeolis or in Lydia.
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
This article presents 19 lead seals from the Museum of Bergama (ancient Pergamon), dating from th... more This article presents 19 lead seals from the Museum of Bergama (ancient Pergamon), dating from the early eighth to the early twelfth century. We offer a descriptive catalogue of these Middle and Late Byzantine seals preserved in a western Turkish museum. The owners of these seals were primarily ecclesiastical, legal or military dignitaries who were probably active in Pergamon, in southwestern Mysia, Aeolis or Lydia. The catalogue is followed by an appendix on a Byzantine magical amulet.
E. Laflı, W. Seibt and D. Çağlayan, Early Byzantine sigillographic evidence from western Anatolia: sixth- and seventh-century lead seals, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2021
The full form of this brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2024,... more The full form of this brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2024, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its journal. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2024: elafli@yahoo.ca Bu makalede konu edilen objeler ilgili müzenin Doğukan Çağlayan'a verdiği 27 Haziran 2019 tarih ve 75845132-154.01-E.529808 numaralı yazılı izin ile çalışılmıştır. This article presents twelve lead seals from western Turkey, dating from the late sixth to the early eighth century. We offer a descriptive catalogue of these early Byzantine seals preserved in a western Turkish museum. The owners of the twelve seals in the museum were primarily ecclesiastical or legal dignitaries who were probably active in southwestern Mysia, in Aeolis or in Lydia. Keywords: lead seals; western Asia Minor; sigillography.
Parekbolai 6 (2016): https://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/parekbolai/article/view/5082 The paper deals e... more Parekbolai 6 (2016): https://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/parekbolai/article/view/5082 The paper deals especially with monograms on Byzantine lead seals. The early form was the block monogram, a type used already in Classical times, which came into fashion in the Byzantine world in the 6th or already in the 5th century and remained important till the early 7th century. Such monograms hide normally a name, a title or an office, the Greek ones in genitive, the Latin ones in nominative or genitive. Many of them can be read in different ways. For the double using of parts of letters for other ones the well-known Latin monogram of Theoderich is explained in detail. But the “typical Byzantine monogram” became the cross monogram, with letters more or less affixed on the arms of a Greek cross. The earliest example stems from a coin of Justinus I, starting 522, quite earlier than Theodora’s monograms on capitals in the Hagia Sophia. These cruciform monograms presented in the beginning also a name, ...
E. Laflı and W. Seibt, Seven Byzantine lead seals from the museum of Ödemiş in western Anatolia, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 44/1, 2020, 21-39
Bu eserler Ödemiş Müze Müdürlüğü'nün 22/09/2011 tarih ve B16.0.KVM.4.35.74.00-155.01/555. say... more Bu eserler Ödemiş Müze Müdürlüğü'nün 22/09/2011 tarih ve B16.0.KVM.4.35.74.00-155.01/555. sayılı izni ile yayımlanmıştır. This brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2022, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its journal. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2022: elafli@yahoo.ca Please note that Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies is retrievable in: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/byzantine-and-modern-greek-studies Abstract: This short essay presents seven Byzantine lead seals, all of which originate from the local museum in Ödemiş in the province of Izmir in western Turkey. Almost all of them came as acquisition to Ödemiş by local antique dealers. All the pieces have been treated and interpreted here sigillographically for the first time. This small collection of seals is important regarding the administration of the theme of Thrakesion, especially about t...
Brief notes by Seibt Werner
E. Laflı/W. Seibt, Byzantine lead seals of the seventh century A.D. from southwestern Turkey, in: Zh. Zhekova/T. Todorov (eds.), Αντιχάρισματος ἐπισφράγισις. Юбилеен сборник в чест на 70-годишнината на проф. д.и.н. Иван Йорданов (Shumen), 2019
Bu makalede konu edilen eserler ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün yazılı izni ile çalışılmıştır. The full... more Bu makalede konu edilen eserler ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün yazılı izni ile çalışılmıştır.
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In a museum in southwestern Anatolia some Early Byzantine lead seals are exhibited, all of them originate probably from Turkey. In this brief article all these five seals were presented in detail. In the appendices two further seals of eighth and eleventh centuries were described. The sealing persons include an apo eparchon, a stratelates, a patrikios, and a hypatos. Here is the list of seals: Seal of Konstantinos apo eparchon; seal of Gabrielios (?); seal of Georgios; seal of Georgios stratelates; seal of Herakleios patrikios; seal of Georgios hypatos; and seal of Theodoulos.
W. Seibt and E. Laflı, Στρατηγός Δεκαπόλεως, Revue des études byzantines, 2020
Res. 1a-b'deki söz konusu eser, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün Doğukan Çağlayan'a 26 Kasım 2018 tarihi... more Res. 1a-b'deki söz konusu eser, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün Doğukan Çağlayan'a 26 Kasım 2018 tarihinde verdiği 72006722-155.03-E.960655 sayılı yazılı izni ile yayınlanmıştır.
In a local museum west of Izmir, facing the coast of Chios there is a very interesting lead seal mentioning for the first time a strategos of the Isaurian Decapolis. In this brief paper we discuss about this military post in south-central Anatolia in the tenth-11th centuries A.D.
Journal articles by Seibt Werner
E. Laflı, W. Seibt and D. Çağlayan, Middle and Late Byzantine sigilliographic evidence from western Anatolia: eighth- to early twelfth-century lead seals from Bergama (ancient Pergamon), Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2022
Söz konusu eserler, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün Doğukan Çağlayan'a 27/06/2019 tarihinde verdiği 758... more Söz konusu eserler, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün Doğukan Çağlayan'a 27/06/2019 tarihinde verdiği 75845132-154.01-E.529808 sayılı izni ile yayımlanmıştır.
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This article presents 19 lead seals from the Museum of Bergama (ancient Pergamon), dating from the early eighth to the early twelfth century. We offer a descriptive catalogue of these Middle and Late Byzantine seals preserved in a western Turkish museum. The owners of these seals were primarily ecclesiastical, legal or military dignitaries who were probably active in Pergamon, in southwestern Mysia, Aeolis or
Lydia. The catalogue is followed by an appendix on a Byzantine magical amulet.
Keywords: lead seals; magical amulet; Museum of Bergama; Pergamon; western Asia Minor; sigillography.
Annual Archaeological Symposia on Western Anatolia by Seibt Werner
E. Laflı (ed.), Archaeology of western Anatolia 1: proceedings of the first international symposium. Archaeology of Izmir and its close environs during the Middle Ages. November 18, 2022 / Izmir, Turkey., 2022
The purpose of this first international video conference was to create an analytical framework fo... more The purpose of this first international video conference was to create an analytical framework for understanding the archaeology of Izmir and its environs in western Anatolia during the Middle Ages, i.e. a period between the fifth and fifteenth centuries AD, with its social and material contexts. We intended thus to bring together researchers who can present especially new syntheses of archaeological, historical, numismatic and sigillographic data concerning Medieval Smyrna and its environs. In this online conference we have also included three papers on the archaeology of Smyrna in the ancient Greek and Roman periods which composed our first session.
This video conference took place on November 18, 2022 in Izmir, Turkey with an archaeological excursion to the sites and museums within the city of Izmir on November 19. All the lectures and discussions in our e-conference were on Zoom and in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube for participants who were unable to attend the live performance presentation. The symposium was first announced in May 2022. Between May and September 2022 there were more than ten paper applications from six countries, including – in alphabetical order – Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, Russia, Turkey and U.S.A., ten of which were accepted. Three speakers held their lectures both physically in Izmir and virtually on Zoom; the rest of the papers were presented on Zoom. Session 1 was organized in the Main Conference Hall of the Faculty of Letters in Tınaztepe Campus (in Block C), and Session 2 was organized in the office of Professor Laflı. This book was arranged mainly in November 2022 where papers were placed in order by speakers’ turns at the conference. It was constantly being updated in its online version on our Academia account. It is also published by the Press House of the Dokuz Eylül University in December 2022.
This first symposium on the archaeology of western Anatolia is dedicated to the 20th death anniversary of Professor Ekrem Akurgal, founder of modern Turkish archaeology, who passed away on November 1st, 2002.
ISBN for this book: 978-625-00-1043-3.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1o__WLJLyM
Research Projects by Seibt Werner
E. Laflı/W. Seibt/D. Çağlayan, Seven lead seals from northwestern Turkey, Βυζαντιακά – Byzantiaka, 2020
Söz konusu eserler, ilgili iki Müze Müdürlüğü'nün Doğukan Çağlayan'a 09/01/2019 tarihinde verdiği... more Söz konusu eserler, ilgili iki Müze Müdürlüğü'nün Doğukan Çağlayan'a 09/01/2019 tarihinde verdiği 80728313-155.01-E.24938 sayılı ve 04/02/2019 tarihinde verdiği 81526617.155.99/102920 sayılı izinleri ile yayımlanmıştır.
The full form of this brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2023, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its journal. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2023: elafli@yahoo.ca
In this paper seven lead seals from northwestern Turkey have been presented which stretch a time period between the late seventh and early 13th centuries A.D. Thus, it offers a descriptive listing of the Byzantine seals contained in northwestern Turkish museums. In the introduction part region and some museums have been presented briefly. Owners of these seven seals were primarily ecclesiastical, juristic or military dignitaries who were probably active in these regions. Their catalogue ends with a substantial contextualisation and discussion. By this way this article does not only give readers an argument of sigilliographic results for northwestern Turkey, but also leads to new conclusions about the less-known Byzantine history and dignitaries of this part of northwestern Asia Minor as well as Byzantine sigillography in general.
Keywords: Lead seals, northwestern Turkey, sigillography, Early Byzantine period, Middle Byzantine period, Late Byzantine period.
E. Laflı and W. Seibt, Seven Byzantine lead seals from the museum of Ödemiş in western Anatolia, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2020
Söz konusu eserler, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün 22 Eylül 2011 tarih ve B16.0.KVM.4.35.74.00-155.01/... more Söz konusu eserler, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün 22 Eylül 2011 tarih ve B16.0.KVM.4.35.74.00-155.01/555 sayılı yazılı izni ile çalışılmıştır.
The full form of this article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2023, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its journal. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2023: elafli@yahoo.ca
This short essay presents seven Byzantine lead seals, all of which originate from the local museum in Ödemiş in the province of Izmir in western Turkey. Almost all of them came as acquisition to Ödemiş by local antique dealers. All the pieces have been treated and interpreted here sigillographically for the first time. This small collection of seals is important regarding the administration of the theme of Thrakesion, especially about the offices of the seal owners, and the society of Cayster valley during the Byzantine period. At the end of the article two casting mould plates for a magical amulet and some further sigillographical material are presented preliminarily.
Keywords: Lead seals; steatite casting mould plates; magical amulet; the museum of Ödemiş; Cayster valley; Izmir; western Asia Minor; Thrakesion; sigillography; Early Byzantine period; Middle Byzantine period; Late Byzantine period.
E. Laflı, W. Seibt and D. Çağlayan, Early Byzantine sigillographic evidence from western Anatolia: sixth- and seventh-century lead seals, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2021
The full form of this brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2024,... more The full form of this brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2024, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its journal. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2024: elafli@yahoo.ca
Bu makalede konu edilen objeler ilgili müzenin Doğukan Çağlayan'a verdiği 27 Haziran 2019 tarih ve 75845132-154.01-E.529808 numaralı yazılı izin ile çalışılmıştır.
This article presents twelve lead seals from western Turkey, dating from the late sixth to the early eighth century. We offer a descriptive catalogue of these early Byzantine seals preserved in a western Turkish museum. The owners of the twelve seals in the museum were primarily ecclesiastical or legal dignitaries who were probably active in southwestern Mysia, in Aeolis or in Lydia.
Keywords: lead seals; western Asia Minor; sigillography.
The volume was created on the basis of selected contributions to an international symposium that ... more The volume was created on the basis of selected contributions to an international symposium that was held in 2005 on the occasion of the 1600-year anniversary of the creation of the Armenian alphabet in Vienna at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In order to view this major event of cultural history in a larger context, the conception of the symposium was widened in order to include not only the other two South Caucasian alphabets, the Georgian and Albanian, but also the Coptic one and the conditions in the Iranian empire of those centuries. Some well-datable, relatively clear research results are often in strong contrast to the more legendary traditions, which science has not resolved sufficiently until now. That the blessed Maštoc‘, which in the later tradition is rather called Mesrop, in 405/406 created the Armenian alphabet is beyond discussion. But the Armenian tradition ascribes to Maštoc‘ also to the creation of the Albanian and the oldest Georgian alphabet. For the former, there existed until recently only vague theories; only after the decoding and decryption of palimpsests discovered in the St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, to which a contribution in this volume is dedicated, founded statements are possible. For the Georgian alphabet a completely new approach is presented in a paper (creation in the Syrian-Palestinian region, just after the creation of the Armenian alphabet). On the basis of these alphabets emerged a rich literature, which reached very quickly high bloom, especially in Armenia. Thus, the volume is not only of interest for specialists in the areas of the Caucasus, but also for all researchers concerned with the development of Christian cultures in the late antique and early medieval centuries.
CONTENTS:
Vorwort
Sen AREVŠATYAN, Mesrop Maštoc‘ and the Beginning of Armenian Philosophy
Vladimir BARKHUDARYAN, The Creation of the Armenian Alphabet and the Armenian Identity
Armenuhi DROST-ABGARJAN,
Das armenische Alphabet im Kontext der autochthonen Schriftsysteme des Christlichen Orients
Hans FÖRSTER, Koptisches Alphabet und koptische Identität
Jost GIPPERT, The script of the Caucasian Albanians in the light of the Sinai palimpsests
Vakhtang IMNAISHVILI, Die Folgen der Entstehung des georgischen Alphabets in den ersten Jahrhunderten
Zurab KANANCHEV, Die albanische Schrift – zum Problem „Mesrop Maštoc‛“
Mesrob K. KRIKORIAN, Das Datum der Entstehung des armenischen Alphabets
Jean-Pierre MAHÉ, Systèmes d’écriture et historiographie de la christianisation du Caucase
Werner SEIBT, Wo, wann und zu welchem Zweck wurde das georgische Alphabet geschaffen?
Xavier TREMBLAY, Das Christentum im iranischen Kulturraum bis zum 13. Jahrhundert anhand der syrischen Quellen und der Schriftdenkmäler im Iran
Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren
Index
by Vujadin M Ivanišević, Seibt Werner, Vasiliki (Vasso) Penna, Pagona Papadopoulou, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance ACHCByz, Michel Kaplan, Thierry Ganchou, Marie-Helene Congourdeau, Béatrice Caseau, and Julian Baker
Le volume des Mélanges dédié à Cécile Morrisson, correspondante de l’Institut, pour son 70e anniv... more Le volume des Mélanges dédié à Cécile Morrisson, correspondante de l’Institut, pour son 70e anniversaire, comporte quarante-huit contributions portant sur la numismatique, la sigillographie, l’archéologie et l’histoire économique et sociale tant de l’Empire d’Orient de l’Antiquité tardive à la fin de la période byzantine que du haut Moyen Âge occidental.
ISBN : 978-2-916716-28-2
Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu
Vor einigen Jahren gelang es der kroatischen Polizei, einenSchmuggeltransport kleinformatiger Ant... more Vor einigen Jahren gelang es der kroatischen Polizei, einenSchmuggeltransport kleinformatiger Antiquitäten zu stoppen,worauf die Objekte dem Archäologischen Museum Zagreb zurfachmännischen Aufbewahrung überantwortet wurden. Da dieObjekte möglicherweise aus der Türkei stammen, wurden sieEnde 2021 der türkischen Botschaft in Kroatien übergeben, umins Museum für anatolische Zivilisationen überstellt zu werden.Dazu zählt auch eine interessante Sammlung byzantinischerBleisiegel, die im Folgenden publiziert wird. Hier finden sich dreiKaisersiegel des 7. Jahrhunderts (bekannte Typen), sechs Siegelvon Militärkommandanten des späten 7. bis späten 11. Jahrhunderts(darunter Strategen der Bukellarier und der Thrakesier,sowie die Typen eines Strategen namens Apokarpis und des Tautukas,proedros und katepano von Samosata), acht Bullen vonzivilen Beamten (darunter ein kommerkiarios von Armenia II ausder Zeit 659 – ca. 667, Richter von Seleukeia und Tarsos sowie derArmenika Themata, und ein neuer Ty...
The paper deals especially with monograms on Byzantine lead seals. The early form was the block m... more The paper deals especially with monograms on Byzantine lead seals. The early form was the block monogram , a type used already in Classical times, which came into fashion in the Byzantine world in the 6th or already in the 5th century and remained important till the early 7th century. Such monograms hide normally a name, a title or an office, the Greek ones in genitive, the Latin ones in nominative or genitive. Many of them can be read in different ways. For the double using of parts of letters for other ones the well-known Latin monogram of Theoderich is explained in detail. But the “typical Byzantine monogram” became the cross monogram , with letters more or less affixed on the arms of a Greek cross. The earliest example stems from a coin of Justinus I, starting 522, quite earlier than Theodora’s monograms on capitals in the Hagia Sophia. These cruciform monograms presented in the beginning also a name, a title or an office, but in the 8th century already often a combination of t...
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2020
This short essay presents seven Byzantine lead seals, all of which originate from the local museu... more This short essay presents seven Byzantine lead seals, all of which originate from the local museum in Ödemiş in the province of Izmir in western Turkey. Almost all of them came as acquisition to Ödemiş by local antique dealers. All the pieces have been treated and interpreted here sigillographically for the first time. This small collection of seals is important regarding the administration of the theme of Thrakesion, especially about the offices of the seal owners, and the society of Cayster valley during the Byzantine period.
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2021
The Collection of Tunay Demran, officially registered in the Manisa Archaeological Museum, contai... more The Collection of Tunay Demran, officially registered in the Manisa Archaeological Museum, contains seven seals, six of lead and one of silver, and one blank. Manisa, the Byzantine Magnesia Anelios on Mount Sipylos, with its fertile lowland and strategic location in Western Anatolia, has been home to different civilizations over the centuries, including the Lydian Kingdom, one of the most important ancient civilizations. In the 13th century, it became one of the more important cities of the Nicene Empire (established after the Latin invasion in 1204) and the seat of Ioannes III Doukas Vatatzes, who located an actively working mint there. Later on, the city and its environs came under the rule of the Beylik of Saruhan and the Ottoman Empire. There is a rich archaeological record of civil and religious architecture in Manisa and its surroundings, still awaiting full investigation. The article presents Demran’s collection of seals and explores potential ties with the archaeological rem...
This article presents twelve lead seals from the Museum of Bergama (ancient Pergamon), dating fro... more This article presents twelve lead seals from the Museum of Bergama (ancient Pergamon), dating from the late sixth to the early eighth century. We offer a descriptive catalogue of these early Byzantine seals preserved in a western Turkish museum. In the introduction, seals excavated in Pergamon as well as seals referring to Pergamon are briefly discussed. The owners of the twelve seals in the museum were primarily ecclesiastical or legal dignitaries who were probably active in Pergamon, in southwestern Mysia, in Aeolis or in Lydia.
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
This article presents 19 lead seals from the Museum of Bergama (ancient Pergamon), dating from th... more This article presents 19 lead seals from the Museum of Bergama (ancient Pergamon), dating from the early eighth to the early twelfth century. We offer a descriptive catalogue of these Middle and Late Byzantine seals preserved in a western Turkish museum. The owners of these seals were primarily ecclesiastical, legal or military dignitaries who were probably active in Pergamon, in southwestern Mysia, Aeolis or Lydia. The catalogue is followed by an appendix on a Byzantine magical amulet.
E. Laflı, W. Seibt and D. Çağlayan, Early Byzantine sigillographic evidence from western Anatolia: sixth- and seventh-century lead seals, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2021
The full form of this brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2024,... more The full form of this brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2024, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its journal. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2024: elafli@yahoo.ca Bu makalede konu edilen objeler ilgili müzenin Doğukan Çağlayan'a verdiği 27 Haziran 2019 tarih ve 75845132-154.01-E.529808 numaralı yazılı izin ile çalışılmıştır. This article presents twelve lead seals from western Turkey, dating from the late sixth to the early eighth century. We offer a descriptive catalogue of these early Byzantine seals preserved in a western Turkish museum. The owners of the twelve seals in the museum were primarily ecclesiastical or legal dignitaries who were probably active in southwestern Mysia, in Aeolis or in Lydia. Keywords: lead seals; western Asia Minor; sigillography.
Parekbolai 6 (2016): https://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/parekbolai/article/view/5082 The paper deals e... more Parekbolai 6 (2016): https://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/parekbolai/article/view/5082 The paper deals especially with monograms on Byzantine lead seals. The early form was the block monogram, a type used already in Classical times, which came into fashion in the Byzantine world in the 6th or already in the 5th century and remained important till the early 7th century. Such monograms hide normally a name, a title or an office, the Greek ones in genitive, the Latin ones in nominative or genitive. Many of them can be read in different ways. For the double using of parts of letters for other ones the well-known Latin monogram of Theoderich is explained in detail. But the “typical Byzantine monogram” became the cross monogram, with letters more or less affixed on the arms of a Greek cross. The earliest example stems from a coin of Justinus I, starting 522, quite earlier than Theodora’s monograms on capitals in the Hagia Sophia. These cruciform monograms presented in the beginning also a name, ...
E. Laflı and W. Seibt, Seven Byzantine lead seals from the museum of Ödemiş in western Anatolia, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 44/1, 2020, 21-39
Bu eserler Ödemiş Müze Müdürlüğü'nün 22/09/2011 tarih ve B16.0.KVM.4.35.74.00-155.01/555. say... more Bu eserler Ödemiş Müze Müdürlüğü'nün 22/09/2011 tarih ve B16.0.KVM.4.35.74.00-155.01/555. sayılı izni ile yayımlanmıştır. This brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2022, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its journal. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2022: elafli@yahoo.ca Please note that Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies is retrievable in: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/byzantine-and-modern-greek-studies Abstract: This short essay presents seven Byzantine lead seals, all of which originate from the local museum in Ödemiş in the province of Izmir in western Turkey. Almost all of them came as acquisition to Ödemiş by local antique dealers. All the pieces have been treated and interpreted here sigillographically for the first time. This small collection of seals is important regarding the administration of the theme of Thrakesion, especially about t...
E. Laflı/W. Seibt, Byzantine lead seals of the seventh century A.D. from southwestern Turkey, in: Zh. Zhekova/T. Todorov (eds.), Αντιχάρισματος ἐπισφράγισις. Юбилеен сборник в чест на 70-годишнината на проф. д.и.н. Иван Йорданов (Shumen), 2019
Bu makalede konu edilen eserler ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün yazılı izni ile çalışılmıştır. The full... more Bu makalede konu edilen eserler ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün yazılı izni ile çalışılmıştır.
The full form of this brief paper will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2023, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its book. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2023: elafli@yahoo.ca
In a museum in southwestern Anatolia some Early Byzantine lead seals are exhibited, all of them originate probably from Turkey. In this brief article all these five seals were presented in detail. In the appendices two further seals of eighth and eleventh centuries were described. The sealing persons include an apo eparchon, a stratelates, a patrikios, and a hypatos. Here is the list of seals: Seal of Konstantinos apo eparchon; seal of Gabrielios (?); seal of Georgios; seal of Georgios stratelates; seal of Herakleios patrikios; seal of Georgios hypatos; and seal of Theodoulos.
W. Seibt and E. Laflı, Στρατηγός Δεκαπόλεως, Revue des études byzantines, 2020
Res. 1a-b'deki söz konusu eser, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün Doğukan Çağlayan'a 26 Kasım 2018 tarihi... more Res. 1a-b'deki söz konusu eser, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün Doğukan Çağlayan'a 26 Kasım 2018 tarihinde verdiği 72006722-155.03-E.960655 sayılı yazılı izni ile yayınlanmıştır.
In a local museum west of Izmir, facing the coast of Chios there is a very interesting lead seal mentioning for the first time a strategos of the Isaurian Decapolis. In this brief paper we discuss about this military post in south-central Anatolia in the tenth-11th centuries A.D.
E. Laflı, W. Seibt and D. Çağlayan, Middle and Late Byzantine sigilliographic evidence from western Anatolia: eighth- to early twelfth-century lead seals from Bergama (ancient Pergamon), Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2022
Söz konusu eserler, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün Doğukan Çağlayan'a 27/06/2019 tarihinde verdiği 758... more Söz konusu eserler, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü'nün Doğukan Çağlayan'a 27/06/2019 tarihinde verdiği 75845132-154.01-E.529808 sayılı izni ile yayımlanmıştır.
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This article presents 19 lead seals from the Museum of Bergama (ancient Pergamon), dating from the early eighth to the early twelfth century. We offer a descriptive catalogue of these Middle and Late Byzantine seals preserved in a western Turkish museum. The owners of these seals were primarily ecclesiastical, legal or military dignitaries who were probably active in Pergamon, in southwestern Mysia, Aeolis or
Lydia. The catalogue is followed by an appendix on a Byzantine magical amulet.
Keywords: lead seals; magical amulet; Museum of Bergama; Pergamon; western Asia Minor; sigillography.
E. Laflı (ed.), Archaeology of western Anatolia 1: proceedings of the first international symposium. Archaeology of Izmir and its close environs during the Middle Ages. November 18, 2022 / Izmir, Turkey., 2022
The purpose of this first international video conference was to create an analytical framework fo... more The purpose of this first international video conference was to create an analytical framework for understanding the archaeology of Izmir and its environs in western Anatolia during the Middle Ages, i.e. a period between the fifth and fifteenth centuries AD, with its social and material contexts. We intended thus to bring together researchers who can present especially new syntheses of archaeological, historical, numismatic and sigillographic data concerning Medieval Smyrna and its environs. In this online conference we have also included three papers on the archaeology of Smyrna in the ancient Greek and Roman periods which composed our first session.
This video conference took place on November 18, 2022 in Izmir, Turkey with an archaeological excursion to the sites and museums within the city of Izmir on November 19. All the lectures and discussions in our e-conference were on Zoom and in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube for participants who were unable to attend the live performance presentation. The symposium was first announced in May 2022. Between May and September 2022 there were more than ten paper applications from six countries, including – in alphabetical order – Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, Russia, Turkey and U.S.A., ten of which were accepted. Three speakers held their lectures both physically in Izmir and virtually on Zoom; the rest of the papers were presented on Zoom. Session 1 was organized in the Main Conference Hall of the Faculty of Letters in Tınaztepe Campus (in Block C), and Session 2 was organized in the office of Professor Laflı. This book was arranged mainly in November 2022 where papers were placed in order by speakers’ turns at the conference. It was constantly being updated in its online version on our Academia account. It is also published by the Press House of the Dokuz Eylül University in December 2022.
This first symposium on the archaeology of western Anatolia is dedicated to the 20th death anniversary of Professor Ekrem Akurgal, founder of modern Turkish archaeology, who passed away on November 1st, 2002.
ISBN for this book: 978-625-00-1043-3.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1o__WLJLyM