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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.31.6
Title
Boulloterion (Sealing Device): Obv: Inscription with Invocation and Owner's Name and Title; Rev: Bust of Saint Nicholas
Classification
Artists' Tools
Work Type
bulloterion
Date
850-1100
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey), Istanbul?
Period
Byzantine period, Middle
Culture
Byzantine
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291105

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Iron
Dimensions
greatest dimen.: 21.4 cm (8 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Thomas Whittemore, Cambridge, MA (by 1951), gift: to the Fogg Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.31.6
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marcin Wołoszyn and Aleksandr Musin, ed., The Sphinx of Slavic Sigillography - Small Lead Seals of "Drohiczyn Type" from Czermno in their East European Context (Leipzig, 2019), p. 67, fig. 7

Exhibition History

  • Security in Byzantium: Locking, Sealing and Weighing, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington
  • Lasting Impressions: People, Power, and Piety, Dumbarton Oaks Museum, 11/19/2021 - 12/04/2022

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