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AnTard Antiquit tardive. Turnhout.
APF Archiv fr Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete. Mnchen leipzig.
BAH Bibliothque archologique et historique. Beyrouth.
BASOR Bulletin of the American schools of oriental research. Atlanta.
BCH Bulletin de correspondance hellnique. Paris.
BEFAR Bibliothque des coles franaises dAthnes et de Rome. Paris Rome.
BGU Aegyptische Urkunden aus den Kniglichen (Staatlichen) Museen zu Berlin, Griechische
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BMGS Byzantine and modern Greek studies. leeds.
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BZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift. Berlin.
CArch Cahiers archologiques. Paris.
CCsg Corpus christianorum. series graeca. Turnhout.
CCsl Corpus christianorum. series latina. Turnhout.
CEFR Collection de lcole franaise de Rome. Rome.
CFHB Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae.
CIL Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum. Berlin 1963-.
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CJ Corpus iuris ciuilis. 2, Codex Justinianus, rec. P. Krger, Berlin 1877.
CNI Corpus nummorum Italicorum. Roma 1910-.
CPG Clavis patrum Graecorum. Turnhout 1974-2003.
CPR Corpus Papyrorum Raineri. Wien 1895-.
CR Classical Review. Oxford.
CRAI Comptes rendus. Acadmie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Paris.
CRIPEL Cahiers de recherches de lInstitut de papyrologie et dgyptologie de Lille. Villeneuve-
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CsCO Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium. louvain.
CsHB Corpus scriptorum historiae Byzantinae. Bonn.
DChAE . Athnes.
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in the Whittemore collection. 4, Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261. 1, Alexius I to
Alexius V (1081-1204) ; 2, The emperors of Nicaea and their contemporaries (1204-
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DOC V Ph. grierson, Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks collection
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Washington DC 1999.
DOP Dumbarton Oaks papers. Washington
DOs Dumbarton Oaks studies. Cambridge Mass.
DOSeals 1-6 Catalogue of Byzantine seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art.
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DTC Dictionnaire de thologie catholique : contenant lexpos des doctrines de la thologie
catholique, leurs preuves et leur histoire, commenc sous la dir. de A. Vacant,
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EEBS . Athnes.
EHB The economic history of Byzantium : from the seventh through the fifteenth century,
A. E. laiou, ed.-in-chief (DOs 39), Washington DC 2002.
EKEE . Nicosie.
EO chos dOrient : revue dhistoire, de gographie et de liturgie orientales. Bucarest.
FHG Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum, Paris 1841-1872.
GRBS Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies. Durham.
HBN Hamburger Beitrge zur Numismatik. Hamburg.
IG Inscriptiones Graecae. Berlin 1903-.
IGLS Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, Beyrouth Paris 1929-.
ILS H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae selectae, Berlin 1892-1916.
IRAIK Izvestija Russkogo arheologieskogo instituta v Konstantinopole. sofija.
JESHO Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient. leiden.
JHS The Journal of Hellenic studies. london.
JNG Jahrbuch fr Numismatik und Geldgeschichte. Mnchen.
JB Jahrbuch der sterreichischen Byzantinistik. Wien.
JRA Journal of Roman archaeology : an international journal. Portsmouth.
JRS The Journal of Roman studies. london.
MEC Ph. grierson and M. Blackburn, Medieval European coinage : with a catalogue
of the coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 1, The early Middle Ages
(5
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centuries), Cambridge 1986. Ph. grierson, l. Travaini, Medieval
European coinage. 14, Italy. 3, South Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, Cambridge 1998.
MEFRA Mlanges de lcole franaise de Rome. Antiquit. Rome Paris.
MEFRM Mlanges de lcole franaise de Rome. Moyen ge. Rome Paris.
MgH Monumenta germaniae historica. Berlin.
MIB I W. Hahn, Moneta Imperii Byzantini. 1, Von Anastasius I. bis Justinianus I.
(491-565) : einschliesslich der ostgotischen und vandalischen Prgungen (Verffent-
lichungen der numismatischen Kommission 1), Wien 1973.
MIB II W. Hahn, Moneta Imperii Byzantini. 2, Von Justinus II bis Phocas (565-610) :
einschliesslich der Prgungen der Heraclius-Revolte und mit Nachtrgen zum 1. Band
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MIB III W. Hahn, Moneta Imperii Byzantini. 3, Von Heraclius bis Leo III./ Alleinregierung
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MIBE II W. Hahn et M. A. Metlich, Money of the incipient Byzantine Empire. Justin II
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MM Acta et diplomata Graeca Medii Aevi sacra et profana collecta, ed. F. Miklosich et
J. Mller, Athnes Wien 1860-1867.
MUSJ Mlanges de lUniversit Saint-Joseph. Beyrouth.
NAC Quaderni ticinesi di numismatica e antichit classiche. lugano.
NC The Numismatic chronicle. london.
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NCirc Numismatic circular. london.
Nos Hell. . Athnes.
Nov. Corpus iuris civilis. 3, Novellae, rec. R. schoell, absolvit g. Kroll, Berlin 1895.
NSA Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Notizie degli scavi di antichit. Roma.
OCA Orientalia Christiana analecta. Roma.
OCP Orientalia Christiana periodica : commentarii de re orientali aetatis christianae sacra
et profana. Roma.
ODB Oxford dictionary of Byzantium, A. P. Kazhdan ed. in chief, New York 1991.
PBE Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire. 1, 614867, ed. by J. R. Martindale,
Aldershot 2001.
Pg Patrologiae cursus completus. series graeca, accur. J.-P. Migne, Paris 1856-1866.
PLP Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit, erstellt von E. Trapp, unter Mitarbeit
von R. Walther und H.-V. Beyer ; mit einem Vorwort von H. Hunger. Wien
1976-.
PLRE The Prosopography of the later Roman Empire, by A. H. M. Jones, J. R. Martindale
& J. Morris, Cambridge 1971-1992.
PmbZ Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit. Berlin 1998-.
PO Patrologia Orientalis. Paris.
RA Revue archologique. Paris.
Ralls-Potls , d. g. A. Ralls & M. Potls, Athnes
1852-1859.
RBN Revue belge de numismatique. Bruxelles.
RE Paulys Realencyclopdie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, stuttgart Mnchen
1894-1997.
REA Revue des tudes anciennes. Bordeaux.
REB Revue des tudes byzantines. Paris.
RIN Rivista italiana di numismatica e scienze affini. Milano.
RN Revue numismatique. Paris.
ROC Revue de lOrient chrtien. Paris.
SBS Studies in Byzantine sigillography.
sC sources chrtiennes. Paris.
SEG Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum.
stT studi e testi. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Citt del Vaticano.
Syn. CP Synaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae e codice Sirmondiano nunc Berolinensi,
adiectis synaxariis selectis, Propylaeum ad Acta Sanctorum Novembris, d.
H. Delehaye, Bruxelles 1902.
TIB Tabula Imperii Byzantini. Wien.
Tll Thesaurus linguae latinae.
TM Travaux et mmoires. Paris.
VTIB Verffentlichungen der Kommission fr die Tabula Imperii Byzantini. Wien.
VV Vizantijskij Vremennik. Moscou.
Zepos Jus Graecoromanum, cur. J. et P. Zepos, Athnes 1931.
ZPE Zeitschrift fr Papyrologie und Epigraphik. Bonn.
ZRVI Zbornik radova Vizantolokog Instituta. Beograd.
Mlanges Ccile Morrisson, Travaux et Mmoires 16, Paris 2010, p. 117-122.
A NEW GOLD SEAL OF ALEXIOS I KOMNENOS
FROM THE UPPER CASTLE AT ATTIMIS UDINE, ITALY)
*
by Maurizio Buora and John Nesbitt
The recent excavations (1998-2009)
At Attimis, a village situated to the northeast of Udine, close to the border of Italy
and Slovenia (fig. 1), there stand two castles at a distance of 160 meters from each other.
The upper one is at 411 meters above sea level (fig. 2) and the lower one is at a height of
380 meters above sea level. Only small ruins remain of each structure.
The first mention of the castle of Attimis
The marquisate of Attimis is mentioned in a document written in the year 1105 by
Patriarch John of Aquileia. On 8
th
November 1106 Berthold of Moosburg, counter-
archbishop of Salzburg (1085-1106), gave the castle of Attimis to his niece Matilde and
her husband Conrad. This development occurred during the Investiture Controversy, a
struggle between Emperor and Pope.
The story of Berthold is typical of that tormented period. At barely 25 years of age
Berthold was appointed by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV (1084-1105), whose
follower he remained, to the episcopal throne of Salzburg as counter-archbishop. This was
the result of the following circumstance: the bishop then in office, Gebhard of Helfenstein
(1060-1088), had joined at the Council of Quedlinburg (1085) all the followers of
the recently deceased Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) in calling for the banishment of
Henry IV, who in turn was a supporter of the counter-pope Clement III (1085-1100).
Clement, nominated by Emperor Henry, obtained recognition of his papal title only
within territories directly controlled by the emperor.
When in 1086 Bavaria and Swabia under Archduke Welf (died in 1101) rose against
Emperor Henry, Berthold had to flee and Archbishop Gebhard re-entered Salzburg.
After the death of Gebhard in 1088, Berthold again took possession of Salzburg, this
time until 1090. On 25
th
April of that year, the Benedictine Thiemo was elected bishop
* Prof. Ccile Morrisson has long been interested in gold Byzantine seals and it is with great
pleasure that Dr. Buora and I add a new specimen to her list of such objects. We are pleased to make
this new gold seal known because it is a rare example of an excavated specimen and in addition the
obverse is of exceptional quality.
MAURIzIO BUORA JOHN NESBITT
118
Fig. 1 Localisation of the site of Attimis.
Fig. 2 View of the upper castle of Attimis.
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119
of Salzburg; he received the pallium from Pope Urban II (1088-1099). In 1097 Berthold
won the battle of Saaldorf and was once again proclaimed archbishop. Thiemo was put
in prison for many years until a monk helped him to escape. Later the same Thiemo
took part in the Crusade of 1101 and according to tradition suffered martyrdom in 1101
near khorosan (Turkey) or at Ascalon in 1102, in the course of which his intestines were
torn from his body. Nonetheless he was never proclaimed a saint, although his memory
is revered in Salzburg.
In 1106, however, Berthold was chased out of Salzburg by the forces of Conrad of
Abensberg. Conrad, educated at the court of Henry IV was chaplain to the court and
canon at Hildesheim. On 7
th
January 1106 Emperor Henry V nominated him archbishop
of Salzburg, where the counter-archbishop Berthold of Moosburg was still in place.
Thanks to the support of his older brothers, Otto and Wolfram, Conrad (who would
become Conrad I) was able to force Berthold to resign. On 21
st
October Pope Pascal II
(1099-1118) nominated him archbishop and bestowed on him the pallium.
The father of Berthold, Burkhard of Moosburg, belonged to a noble family of Carinthia
and from 1093 to 1101 was marquis of Istria and advocatus of the church of Aquileia
(1101). The following year Matildes husband, Conrad (from Attimis or Attems), was
active as advocatus of the church of Aquileia in Cividale del Friuli. Evidently Conrad came
to inherit or acquire not only the property but also the offices of his wife's family.
Events at the castle
The castle therefore, existed at least from the end of the 11
th
century and was probably
abandoned, like others on the eastern flank of the region, in the 15
th
centurythat is,
when the Patriarchate of Aquileia, to which they belonged, become part of the Republic
of Venice. Already in 1380 the family that maintained the property had moved to Udine,
although there may have remained here, perhaps only occasionally, a few family members
until 1511, when a disastrous earthquake ruined many castles and other properties in
Friuli.
Until the 1970s the remains of the castle thus became progressively covered with
vegetation and earth until, in 1973/1974, the proprietress had all the area cleared. She
than decided to remove the upper layers of earth which until than had protected the
site, to reinforce certain walls, substituting modern cement for the original mortar, and
constructing others ex novo. Many materials dating from the mid-thirteen century to
the early years of the fifteenth were at this time recovered here. At the end of the 1990s
it was entrusted to the Societ friuliana di archeologia, which carried out a campaign of
excavations in collaboration with the Civici Musei of Udine, that continues until today.
These have allowed excavators to gain a better knowledge of the plan of the complex
and phases of construction. So far there have been recognised two phases: a later phase
with walls constructed in stone, which probably replaced here, as in almost all the Friuli
castles, earlier constructions in wood. This occurred during the course of the thirteenth
century.
The moment of its greatest flourishing proves to be the 14
th
century, but, in digging
deeper trenches, there were recovered materials from the thirteenth and the twelfth
century. What has proved particularly interesting is Wing A (fig. 3) where since 1999 work
MAURIzIO BUORA JOHN NESBITT
120
has gone far beyond the level existing before the
first excavations. Since this first campaign there
have been brought to the surface iron objects
and crossbow points. This has generated the
notion that here perhaps, at least temporarily,
there was an area for the repair of tools/arms. It
has been noted that the external wall had been
reconstructed, evidently because the slope here
is very steep. In the room below there have also
been found fragments of Hispanic-Moorish
ceramics.
In Wing D there were two basements with
pillars over which lay a wooden roof, perhaps
also supported by poles, the post-holes of which
have come to light. Or perhaps these were the
poles supporting the upper floor. Here much
work was undertaken to reduce the steepness
of the slope (towards the north with a drop of
3.10m). In this process, perhaps as a result of
later constructions or earthquakes or wartime
events there were found not only pieces of
dressed stones but also numerous ceramics (now
being studied).
The shapes of the ceramic finds suggest a date
in the late twelfth century and the beginning of
the thirteenth.
At various levels of occupation were found also many fireplaces, a sign that this space
had been inhabited. In 1998 there came to light a Friesacher Pfennig coin of Eberhard I
(1147-1164). Then in 2003 was found a cup-shaped Venetian coin of Sebastiano ziani
(1172-1178) and another of Orio Malipiero (1178-1192), together with a small thirteenth
century coin from Padova. From the same Wing came fragments of glass, metal and
ceramics, among which stood out a piece of archaic Majolica of the mid-fourteenth
century.
The seal of Alexios I Komnenos
In the course of the summer campaign of 2008 there came to light in Wing A the
rough cover of a drain which ran towards the exterior, where a basin had been constructed
on the inside of the sustaining wall on this side of the castle. This was discovered in
2006; it was destined perhaps to collect the organic and liquid waste of the inhabited
portion. It is guessed that through this drain there also ran water used in the working of
iron, which must have taken place here. Inside this drain, in the course of cleaning, were
found metallic and ceramic fragments. Among these, partly reconstructible were pieces of
a jar in rough pottery with external decorations of a form datable to the twelfth century.
Among these stood out the seal of Alexios I komnenos, perhaps thrown out when it
Fig. 3 Map of the upper castle of
Attimis.
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121
become separated from the vellum to which it had been attached. Its whitish appearance
cannot have aroused suspicion that it was made of precious material.
Maurizio Buora
1
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1. With thanks to Prof. Gerald Moore for the translation.
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122
A gold seal of Alexios I komnenos from Attimis castle (Udine)
During recent excavations in northeast Italy a gold seal of the Byzantine emperor
Alexios I komnenos (10811118) was found at Attimis castle. A description of the
object follows:
Diameter: 2325mm
Weight: 8.45g
Obverse: A nimbate Christ, with
short beard, wearing a tunic and
kolobion, seated upon a throne
with square back. He holds a Gospel
book in the left hand. Each arm of
his cross nimbus is decorated with
a pellet. His feet rest on a dais. In
the feld, at left and right, the usual
sigla: 6I6C6x6C.
Reverse: Emperor Alexios I komnenos standing to front. He wears a crown with pendilia (a single
strand on either side). Specifcs of dress are obscure. He holds a labarum in the right hand and a
globus cruciger in the left hand. He is identifed by a circular inscription, beginning on the left at
7 oclock. It commences with a cross and then continues in the dative case with six letters spelling
out the name Alexi. After the name appears a delta, the frst letter in his title. Te lettering
ends and then reappears at 12:30 with the continuation of his title and specifcation of his family
name (all in the dative case): pi, omicron, double tau, omega, kappa, omicron: ()()
().
Commentary: Philip Grierson has published from the Dumbarton Oaks collection a
gold seal of Alexios I komnenos of approximately the same weight (8.38g), fabric (base
gold), and design. Like the specimen from Attimis castle, the obverse is decorated with
an enthroned Christ holding a Gospel book in the left hand. The emperor appears on the
reverse full length, holding a labarum in the right hand and a globus cruciger in the left
hand. The main difference is that on the Dumbarton Oaks seal the emperors name and
title are, for the most part, written out in full. See P. Grierson, Byzantine gold bullae,
with a catalogue of those at Dumbarton Oaks, DOP 20, 1966, p. 251, no. 7.
1
The gold seal from Attimis castle can only be assigned a general date: 10811118.
John Nesbitt
1. Grierson, footnote 62, observes that three similar gold seals are published in Actes de Lavra. 1,
(897-1178), d. diplomatique et critique par G. Rouillard and P. Collomp (Archives de lAthos 1),
Paris 1937, pl. xxx, nos. 2, 5, and 6. Two are reproduced in an enlarged format in F. Dlger, Aus
den Schatzkammern des Heiligen Berges, Mnchen 1948, pl. 116, nos. 2 and 3. For readers interested in
comparing our gold seal with lead seals of Alexios komnenos, we note that an extensive group of lead
seals of this emperor may be found in the recently published Catalogue of Byzantine seals at Dumbarton
Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art. 6, Emperors, patriarchs of Constantinople, addenda, ed. by J. Nesbitt
with the assistance of C. Morrisson, Washington DC 2009, nos. 88.1-38.
Fig. 4 Te gold seal of Alexios I komnenos.
Mlanges Ccile Morrisson, Travaux et Mmoires 16, Paris 2010, p. 891-893.
TABLE DES MATIRES
Hommage Ccile Morrisson ............................................................................................... V
Tabula gratulatoria .............................................................................................................. VII
Abrviations .......................................................................................................................... XI
Bibliographie des travaux de Ccile Morrisson de 1966 2011 ........................................... XV
Ermanno Arslan, Produzione e circolazione dei nominali inferiori in rame nel VI secolo
in Italia, tra Longobardi e Bizantini : il complesso di Brescello (RE) .................................. 1
Julian Baker, Un trsor mdival de Corinthe la Bibliothque nationale ........................... 35
Simon Bendall, Some graffiti on eleventh century histamena of Michael VII (10711078) 51
Gabriela Bijovsky, A single die solidi hoard of Heraclius from Jerusalem ............................. 55
Pierre-Marie Blanc cf. Jean-Pierre Sodini
Marc Bompaire, Le mythe du besant ? ................................................................................. 93
Maurizio Buora and John Nesbitt, A new gold seal of Alexios I Komnenos from
the upper castle at Attimis (Udine, Italy) ....................................................................... 117
Bruno Callegher, Annotazioni su folles bizantini siracusani (ca. 641/842-845) :
da un probabile ripostiglio della Sicilia orientale ............................................................ 123
Batrice Caseau, La marque de proprit dun commerciaire du vi
e
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John Casey, A lead sealing of the joint reign of Constantine and Licinius .......................... 151
Daniele Castrizio, Emissioni monetali in oro e bronzo della zecca di Reggio
sotto Basilio I e Leone VI ............................................................................................... 157
Jean-Claude Cheynet, Les gestionnaires des biens impriaux : tude sociale (x
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Marie-Hlne Congourdeau et Olivier Delouis, La Supplique la trs pieuse augusta
sur lintrt de Nicolas Cabasilas ..................................................................................... 205
Gilbert Dagron, Quelques remarques sur le crmonial des ftes profanes
dans le De cerimoniis ...................................................................................................... 237
Olivier Delouis cf. Marie-Hlne Congourdeau
Vincent Droche, Thsaurisation et circulation montaire chez les moines daprs la
littrature difiante de lAntiquit tardive ....................................................................... 245
Denis Feissel, Trois notes sur lempereur Maurice ............................................................ 253
Franz Feg, The beginning of the concavely struck histamena ........................................... 273
TABLE DES MATIRES
892
Thierry Ganchou, Lultime testament de Grgios Goudls,
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Jean Gascou, Ostraca byzantins dEdfou et dautres provenances ...................................... 359
Maria Gerolymatou, propos des origines des monastres de la Vierge de lAlsos
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Vera Guruleva, Trebizond coins in Crimea ...................................................................... 401
Robert Halleux, Nouveaux textes sur la mtallurgie du zinc et du laiton
dans lAntiquit et le haut Moyen ge ........................................................................... 413
Vujadin Ivanievi, La monnaie palobyzantine dans lIllyricum du nord ......................... 441
Michel Kaplan, Lconomie du monastre de la Kosmosteira fond par Isaac Comnne
daprs le typikon (1152) ................................................................................................ 455
Stavros Lazaris, Des chevaux, des textes et des images dans lAntiquit tardive
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Chris Lightfoot, Coinage of the Amorian dynasty found at Amorium ............................. 503
Giacomo Manganaro, Fontane ed edifici termali nella Catina bilingue tardo-antica e
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D. Michael Metcalf, First to land, then to Gotland : the arrival and dispersal of
late Roman and Byzantine solidi in Sweden and Denmark ............................................ 561
Sophie Mtivier et Vivien Prigent, La circulation montaire dans la Cappadoce
byzantine daprs les collections des muses de Kayseri et de Nide ............................... 577
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Catherine Otten-Froux, Les droits du consul des Vnitiens Famagouste au xv
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Arietta Papaconstantinou, A preliminary prosopography of moneylenders
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Pagona Papadopoulou, Le chichaton et les noms de monnaies la fin du xi
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Vasiliki Penna, Reassessing the gold coinage of Basil I :
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Brigitte Pitarakis, La cruche en cuivre du trsor montaire de Kocamustafapaa
Istanbul (xi
e
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Henri Pottier, Lempereur Justinien survivant la peste bubonique (542) ....................... 685
Vivien Prigent cf. Sophie Mtivier
Alessia Rovelli, Naples, ville et atelier montaire de lEmpire byzantin :
lapport des fouilles rcentes ........................................................................................... 693
Guillaume Saint-Guillain, Comment les Vnitiens nont pas acquis la Crte : note
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Werner Seibt, Der byzantinische Rangtitel Sebastos in vorkomnenischer Zeit ................... 759
TABLE DES MATIRES
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Jonathan Shepard, Hard on heretics, light on Latins : the balancing-act of Alexios I
Komnenos ..................................................................................................................... 765
Kostis Smyrlis, Our lord and father : peasants and monks in mid-fourteenth-century
Macedonia ..................................................................................................................... 779
Jean-Pierre Sodini, Pierre-Marie Blanc, Dominique Pieri, Nouvelles eulogies de
Qalat Seman (fouilles 2007-2010) ............................................................................... 793
Alan M. Stahl, Bowls and cups : concave coins in medieval Italy and in Byzantium ......... 813
Stanisaw Suchodolski, Le type byzantin aux origines du monnayage en Pologne ............ 821
Alice-Mary Talbot, Personal poverty in Byzantine monasticism : ideals and reality ........... 829
Lucia Travaini, Some thoughts on mints from unpublished notes by Philip Grierson ....... 843
Alicia Walker, Numismatic and metrological parallels for the iconography
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Constantin Zuckerman, On the titles and office of the Byzantine ..................... 865
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