Onomastics, gender, office and images on Byzantine lead seals: a means of investigating personal piety.
Based upon a database of 7,390 lead seals that bear religious figural imagery in conjunction with the names and official titles of their owners, this paper investigates the contribution of lead seals to our understanding of the choice of various religious images as an expression of personal piety. T...
| Publicado en: | Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 1 - 38 |
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Cambridge University Press
2008
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