Seal of Sergios patrikios
source date: 7th/8th c. 7./8. Jh. 7ος/8ος αι.
edition published: 2023-07-24
availability: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International - CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Θεοτόκεβοήθη

Σεργίῳ πατρικίω

+θΕ οτοκε .βοηθη

+σερ γιωπα τρικι ω̣

Θεοτόκε βοήθη/ Σεργίῳ πατρικίω.

Mother of God, help Sergios patrikios.

Muttergottes, hilf dem patrikios Sergios.

Θεοτόκε βοήθησε τον Σέργιο πατρίκιο.

Many similar seals without iconography show an inscription in which the patrikios Sergios [1], invokes for help the Mother of God. They can be all dated to the 7th or 7th/8th c. Most of them differ from our specimen due to the different line breaks. The parallel seals (1) (2) are from a different boulloterion than our seal, but the line breaks are the same; the other seals show different line breaks than ours.

[your commentary here]

[1]. [...] 6566, 6567, 6591.

[your footnotes here]

(1) [...], BZS.1951.31.5.121; (2) [...], BZS.1958.106.5316; (3) Private collection, Germany − [...], no. 451; (4) [...], BZS.1958.106.4318, (5) [...], BZS.1955.1.2102, (6) [...], BZS.1958.106.3947 − [...], nos. 994 and 995a-b; (7) [...], BZS.1951.31.5.2564; (8) [...], BZS.1951.31.5.1110; (9) [...], BZS.1947.2.800; (10) [...], BZS.1947.2.801.