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This volume contains primarily papers of the 11th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography held in Istanbul (May 2014) and of the last Congress of Byzantine Studies in Belgrade (August 2016). There are papers about the seals as historical source and archaeological finding presenting their role in the Byzantine prosopography, administration, historical geography and art history.

Seals (Numismatics)

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Seals (Numismatics) --- Byzantine antiquities --- Boersema, Gert --- Numismatic collections

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For several years now, sigillography as an independent subarea in the field of Byzantine studies has received increasing attention from both Byzantine studies and related disciplines, as it is the only area still able to provide academia with large amounts of material not previously analysed. The articles of Studies in Byzantine Sigillography deal with all aspects of Byzantine sigillography: presentation of new finds, discussion of new methods, questions of the political and ecclesiastical administration of Byzantium, prosopography, historical geography, and art-historical and iconographical p

Seals (Numismatics) --- Numismatics --- Sigillography --- Signets --- Sphragistics --- Diplomatics --- Glyptics --- Heraldry --- History --- Inscriptions --- Intaglios --- Emblems, National --- Signatures (Writing) --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Byzantine Empire. --- Sigillography.

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"This volume was published in the framework of the research project: "Lead Seals in Byzantine Thrace (LSByT): Re-examination of data, mapping the distribution of findings and tracing the communication networks (6th-12th c.)" funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) for three and a half years. The host institution of the project was the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the collaborating institutions were the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen (Bulgaria). The project focuses on Byzantine lead seals, or molybdoboulla, a primary source of Byzantine history, which enrich our knowledge of Byzantine administration and social structures, as well as the prosopography and historical geography of the empire. Although seals can be used to trace communication networks and the circulation of written information in the medieval period, until now this aspect of the material has not been systematically studied. The project examines 2.909 Byzantine lead seals found in Bulgarian and Romanian areas that correspond mainly to the Early Byzantine Thracian provinces of Rhodope, Thrace, Haemimontus, Moesia Secunda and Scythia Minor and the Middle Byzantine themata of Thrace, Macedonia and Paradounavon. The first part of the book contains the papers presented at the International Conference: "Lead Seals in Byzantine Thrace. Sigillography meets Historical Geography" co-organised with the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna on 19 April 2023. The second part includes some of the results of the LSByT research programme: firstly, certain highlights of the systematic revision of the sigillary material from the 6th to the 12th century as regards its dating and reading and secondly, a set of thematic maps, which depict the geographical distribution of lead seals in Byzantine Thrace, accompanied by the corresponding tables of seal data. The main results of the research project are also disseminated in the website http://www.lsbyt.web.auth.gr/ "-- Back cover.

Seals (Numismatics) --- Thrace --- Antiquities --- Congresses. --- History