The 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography is delighted to welcome speakers and guests from around the world to this event! On this page, you will find the final programme and the abstracts of the symposium. The presented topics cover a wide range of subjects within the field of Byzantine sigillography, showing the diversity and depth of this fascinating discipline.

We hope you enjoy the presentations and find the discussions both engaging and informative!

 

 

9:00     Registration

9:30     Welcome Addresses and Opening Remarks

10:00-11:00    Central Administration (Chair: Andreas Gkoutzioukostas)

10:00   Jean-Claude Cheynet (Sorbonne University): Le comte de l’Etable

10:30   Martina Filosa (University of Cologne): The Administrative Personnel of the Charitable Institutions in Byzantium in the Light of Lead Seals

11:00-11:30    Coffee break

11:30-12:30    Linguistic Features on Seals (Chair: Nilgün Elam)

11:30   Maria Campagnolo-Pothitou (Museum of Art and History, Geneva): À qui la faute? L’usage de l’accusatif dans les légendes des sceaux byzantins

12:00   Maria Teresa Catalano (University of Cologne): The Usage of Participles on Byzantine Lead Seals

12:30-14:00    Lunch break

14:00-15:00    Seals in Late Byzantium (Chair: Christos Stavrakos)

14:00   Thanasis Sotiriou (Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH): Exploring the Seals of Late Byzantine Sebastoi, 1204-1350

14:30   Nathan DC Websdale (University of Oxford): The Problem With ‘Being’ King David: Reassessing the Seals and Letters of David Grand Komnenos of Paphlagonia (1204-c.1212)

15:00-16:00    Unpublished Seals from Greece and Turkey (I) (Chair: Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt)

15:00   Nikolaos Mastrochristos (Independent Researcher): Byzantine Lead Seals from Rhodes, Greece. New Data from Old and Recent Finds

15:30   Nilgün Elam (Anadolu University) and Christos Malatras (Sorbonne University): Lead Seals from the Collection of the Museum of Antiocheia of Pisidia (Yalvaç)

16:00-16:30    Coffee break

16:30-18:00    Thematic Officials in Asia Minor: New Lead IDs and Digital CVs (TAKTIKON Online) (Chair: Jean-Claude Cheynet)

16:30   Olga Karagiorgou (Academy of Athens): Byzantine Thematic Officials in the WWW: The TAKTIKON online

17:00   Pantelis Charalampakis (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Olga Karagiorgou (Academy of Athens), and Christos Malatras (Sorbonne University): Addenda and Corrigenda in the TAKTIKON (2021)

17:30   Nilgün Elam (Anadolu University) and Olga Karagiorgou (Academy of Athens): New Molybdoboulla from Turkish Museums Issued by Thematic Officials in Asia Minor                    

19:00   Social dinner for the speakers

 

 

10:00-11:00      The Praetorian Prefecture of Africa and Italy at the Twilight of the Ancient World: Some Insights from Sigillography (Chair: Vivien Prigent)

10:00   Margherita Elena Pomero (University of Bologna): From Prefect to Exarch of Italy: The Seals of Theodore Calliopa

10:30   Tommaso Giuliodoro (Durham University): The Praetorian Prefecture of North Africa in the Mid-7th Century: The Case of Marinus, praefectus et commerciarius

11:00-11:30    Coffee break

11:30-13:00    Sealing in a Broader Context (Chair: Zhenya Zhekova)

11:30   Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Austrian Academy of Sciences): Χρυσὸς κοσμεῖ δάκτυλον... Neue Aspekte zu Inhalt und Funktion vier spätbyzantinischer Goldringe

12:00   Max Ritter (University of Silesia): The Seal of Patronage: Monograms in the Architectural Sculpture of Sixth- to Tenth-Century Constantinople

12:30   Lucia Maria Orlandi (École française de Rome): Signacula-Markers: The “Poor Relation” of Seals?

13:00-14:30    Lunch break and official picture

14:30-16:30    Connecting Peripheries (Chair: Christos Malatras)

14:30   Eugen Paraschiv-Grigore and Ioana Paraschiv-Grigore (The National History Museum of Romania): Commercial Links between the Western Black Sea and Western Asia Minor 4th - 6th Centuries AD

15:00   Andreas Gkoutzioukostas, Dimitris Drakoulis, Dimitris Sidiropoulos, Konstantinos Diados (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), and Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Austrian Academy of Sciences): The Distribution of Seals in Early Byzantine Thrace (6th-8th c.): An Interdisciplinary Approach

15:30   Marco Muresu (University of Cagliari): Framing Byzantine Culture in Medieval Sardinia Between Continuity and Storytelling. The Seals of the ‘Carte Volgari’

16:00   Andreas Gkoutzioukostas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Austrian Academy of Sciences): Remarks on Seals Found Along the Danube (7th-9th c.)

16:30-17:00    Coffee break

17:00-18:00    Byzantine Sigillography and Digital Humanities (Chair: Olga Karagiorgou)

17:00   Pantelis Charalampakis, Nikolay Dimitrov, Metodi Zlatkov, Georgi Sengalevich (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), and Zhenya Zhekova (Regional Historical Museum Shumen): Towards a Digital Sigillographic Corpus of Bulgaria

17:30   Jan Bigalke, Jonathan Blumtritt, Sviatoslav Drach, Benedikte Löbbert, Claes Neuefeind, and Marcel Schaeben (University of Cologne): The DigiByzSeal Project: A Digital Infrastructure for Seals

18:00   DigiByzSeal portal launch with wine reception

 

 

10:00-11:30    Unpublished Seals from Greece and Turkey (II) (Chair: Maria Campagnolo-Pothitou)

10:00   Christos Stavrakos (University of Ioannina): The Byzantine Lead Seals from the Acropolis of Athens

10:30   Eugenia Gerousi-Bendermacher (Hellenic Ministry of Culture): The Lead Seals of the Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum in Athens

11:00   Ioanna Koukouni (Independent Researcher): Two New Byzantine Lead Bullae from the Island of Chios

11:30   Closing remarks

12:00-13:30    Lunch

14:00-18:00    Visit of the churches of Saint Severin and Saint Heribert and their Byzantine textiles