International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

Esra Güzel Erdoğan
Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece / Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey; 
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A Selection of Unpublished Lead Seals 
from the Antep Archeological Museum: Seals Issued by State Officials
Gaziantep Archeology Museum collection contains almost 140 unpublished lead seals. The 
collection partially has been seen by several scholars but remained unpublished entirely. Gaziantep 
lies at the south east border of Turkey and it is quite near to Syria. It is surrounded by Maras, 

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Adıyaman, Urfa and Antakya. Most of the outstanding discovery of the present study is a group 
of seals that exactly have same inscription and belong to the same person. Ten seals that belong to 
Gregory Doukas or Doux are dated to 11
th
or 12
th
century and they were found in the necropolis area 
called Kurt Ini. It can be suggested that this small group can be a sign of an archieve that scholars 
still not aware of. Besides this group the collection contains several provincial administrator seals 
such as Michael Marachas, Basileios Apokapes and Christophoros Mytilenaios.
This study was conducted by the financial support of Onassis Foundation and collaboration of 
Gaziantep Archeological Museum. This is also continuation of the project that aimed to collect the 
Byzantine lead seals from South and South East Anatolia.

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BYZANTINE ARTISTIC TRADITION AND THE WESTERN WORLD. 
MEDITERRANEAN DOMAIN ‒ PART 2
Chairs:
 Chryssoula Ranoutsaki, Valentina 
Živković
Theodora Konstantellou
, 
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Fani Drosogianni
,
 
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