3.50 FC – Byzantine Sigillography

Legends on Byzantine seals provide researchers with invaluable information for studying imperial institutions and the prosopography of Byzantine society, as witnessed by the rich bibliography of a discipline that is still flourishing. Nevertheless, these short texts, written in a variety of formulations by the owners of the seals or approved by them, are much more…

This paper aims to present the results of the DigiByzSeal project (ANR-DFG 2022–2025 – UMR 8167 ‘Monde byzantin’, Paris, and the University of Cologne) and its subsequent developments. The objective of the project is to create and maintain a digital, accessible, and sustainable environment for Byzantine sigillography. To this end, the project has developed SigiDoc…