1951.31.6: Boulloterion (Sealing Device): Obv: Inscription with Invocation and Owner's Name and Title; Rev: Bust of Saint Nicholas

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

Permissions

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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

Related Media

• 3D Model: Boulloterion (Sealing Device)

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